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At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by a sniper. On the 45th anniversary of his death, our sister newspaper The Memphis Commercial Appeal looks at King’s final 32 hours in Memphis.

Marco Island has been setting its alarm clocks early on Easter morning for a quarter century. Sunday morning, thousands thronged the beach behind the Madeira condominium and the Marriott hotel for the 25th Anniversary Easter Sunrise Service, trooping down

Both the "egg roll" and the "roll away the stone" aspects of Easter brought thousands of Marco Islanders out for large scale get-togethers over the weekend. The Easter Bunny went to bat first, with the annual Spring Jubilee "eggs-travaganza" held ...

In a week when the world celebrated the coming of spring, a team of doctors and nurses "sewed" seeds of hope into the hearts of 10 Haitian children. During a medical mission last week, parents of children ages two to ...

Easter is here and along with it our flora on Marco is providing us with spring color. Unfortunately, this recent cold weather is damaging some of our budding beauties but they should soon recover. In sub-tropical Florida we have shrubs ...

Marco Island and the surrounding mangroves may be one of the best bird watching regions in Southwest Florida, but the old and battered briefcase found by Ian Martin and Stewart Harris of Great Brittan was holding much more than the ...

Church Lady talks to Marco Island houses of worship.

Everybody got into the act. It took three civic organizations, the Marco Kiwanis plus the Sunrise and Noontime Rotary Clubs, to provide the volunteers and organization for the 2013 Seafood and Music Festival, held on Saturday and Sunday at Veterans' ...

Everglades National Park is offering some hands-on history lessons this weekend

Surrounded by our creature comforts, it can be almost unfathomable just how rugged and isolated life was for the pioneers who lived in this area just 100 years ago. There is an excursion boat, though, that can give you a ...

As you ease away from the marina, you reach across the console and punch a series of numbers into an illuminated keyboard initiating your global positioning system. The attached computer screen kicks into life and in milliseconds you have exact ...

The dedication in Robin Cook's newest book reads, "Nano is dedicated both to the promise nanotechnology brings to medicine and to the hope that any downside will be minimal." So, even before one begins reading this exciting medical thriller, there ...

Some people know Darrell Loan as a fall and winter resident of Marco Island, an 83-year old whose body and brain are active and motivated to stay that way. Many people in Iowa know Darrell as a vigorous farmer who ...

Art was all over the place this weekend at the Marco Island Center for the Arts. The parking lot held a "Fine Crafts," or fine art and crafts show – "Fine crafts fits on the signs better," said organizer Pam ...

Pamplona may have the Running of the Bulls, but Marco Island has the Derby of the Ducks. Once again, Dottie's Duck Derby returned to the pool at the Greater Marco Family YMCA on Saturday, offering Islanders the chance to do ...