http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/florida/big-pine-key/ Big Pine Key, FL News http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/florida/big-pine-key/content/165622429863fccadaa8ec11ed3f9e06.html Wednesday was the opening day of the regularcommercial lobster season in Florida waters The season runs until March 31 2009 http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/florida/big-pine-key/content/b469af70f75723b9c223348db46a2fca.html Three freed Colombian hostages are back home http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/florida/big-pine-key/content/6e6c5ee9ea4f6e368030eff7e626719b.html Divers dressed as presidential candidates displayed campaign placards and waved American flags underwater Saturday in the Underwater Music Festival in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Hillary Clinton Barack Obama and John McCain impersonators were among the crowd of about 500 divers and snorkelers at Looe Key Reef about 6 miles south of Big Pine Key http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/florida/big-pine-key/content/27bb8e451b84c68e210ceaf7c3cca426.html After more than five years at gunpoint Keith Stansell can begin the life that was stunted when his plane went down in a Colombian jungle http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/florida/big-pine-key/content/01950e8ea478626e3427bd1b714098da.html After more than five years at gunpoint Keith Stansell can begin the life that was stunted when his plane went down in a Colombian jungle including helping to plan his wedding http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/florida/big-pine-key/content/3ff45a0a50557ee7e20ffba4df889a34.html Three Florida men rescued from the jungles of Columbia are celebrating Independence Day one day early They were freed Wednesday after years of being held hostage RAW INTERVIEW: Hostage's Neighbor Talks About News Of Rescue VIDEO: 3 Fla Men Among 15 Rescued From Columbian Hostage Camp http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/florida/big-pine-key/content/18f7971c6f6a54b93d0e3080bcd9d96a.html The family of former hostage Thomas Randy Howes of Merritt Island was elated Wednesday to learn Howes is on his way home after more than five years in captivity in Colombia http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/florida/big-pine-key/content/1076ac44327dcabcfeb1349b4693c4e0.html In a daring rescue Wednesday the Colombian military freed 15 hostages held for years by leftist guerrillas including Ingrid Betancourt the former Colombian presidential candidate three Floridians working under a US Defense Department contract and 11 Colombian military and police