The gold bullion was lost beneath the sea for more than 350 years before being salvaged and displayed at Mel Fisher’s Maritime Heritage Museum in Key West. For more than 20 years it could be touched ...

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — One of two men accused of stealing a Key West museum's 17th-century gold bar in 2010 has pleaded guilty. Appearing Friday at Key West's federal courthouse, Richard Steven Johnson ...

KEY WEST, Fla. (CBS/AP) Two thieves didn't have to scour a deserted island or the depths of the sea to to nab a gold bar. According to police, they stole the bar - which was recovered from a shipwreck ...

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Two thieves await sentencing for stealing a 17th-century gold bar from a museum in Key West. Jarred Alexander Goldman of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, was found guilty Wednesday ...

For decades, one of the most popular exhibits at the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West was "lift a gold bar." Until eight years ago — when two men lifted it. As in stole it. The case was cold ...

National Maritime Day is celebrated on May 22 to commemorate the voyage of the American steamship Savannah from the U.S. to ...

Gov. Rick Scott visited a Key West museum Friday to select shipwreck artifacts to be displayed in the Governor’s Mansion this month, the Florida Keys News Bureau announced. The artifacts, currently ...

Existing for the purpose of accumulating and disseminating information; providing educational services to the public on maritime and colonial activity in the New World and preserving maritime culture ...

Richard Steven Johnson was captured on security video at the museum the day the gold bar was stolen. Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum A California man has admitted to stealing a 17th century gold ...

Two men teamed up to steal a 17th-century gold bar from a Key West museum on Aug. 18, 2010. Mel Fisher Maritime Museum A federal judge Monday will sentence the two men who teamed up to steal a ...

Corey Malcom, director of archaeology at the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum, recently played the boatswain's whistle from the Santa Margarita for the first time. Seven ships from the 1622 Spanish treasure ...