Police say Ashley Spivey gave the stolen credit-card numbers to someone in Miami.

A Marathon woman working for a travel business in Tavernier stole credit-card information from five customers, a Monroe County Sheriff's Office report says.

Ashley N. Spivey, 24, was charged Tuesday with five counts of credit-card fraud. Spivey remained jailed Friday in lieu of $12,500 bond.

Posted - Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:20 AM EDT

Richard Wiggins told police he was despondent after learning his job would be gone in October.

The supervisor of the Key West Ferry Terminal resigned from his job Friday morning following his arrest Wednesday night for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol.

According to Monroe County Sheriff's Office booking information, this is the third DUI arrest for Richard Wiggins, 60.

Wiggins supervised the terminal since May 2005 and earned $35,454 annually, according to city spokeswoman Alyson Crean.

Posted - Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:45 AM EDT

After months of uncertainty, the U.S. Navy said Thursday that it will start "exclusive negotiations" with the city of Key West for use of the military-owned Outer Mole Pier, a primary cruise-ship berth.

Posted - Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:10 AM EDT

The students try unsuccessfully to tag the great white shark.

Students nearly tag a great white

A shark-tagging expedition Monday off the Middle Keys provided a toothy surprise for Coral Shores High School students when a great white shark took the bait.

"I got to cross 'seeing a great white shark' off of my bucket list without leaving my hometown," said Coral Shores senior Mallory Wiecjorek, who helped bring the shark close to the RV Endsley, a boat run by Curt-A-Sea Adventures of Islamorada.

It also was an Atlantic Ocean first for Capt. Curt Slonim, running the boat trip in 130 feet of water off Duck Key for the R.J. Dunlap Marine Conservation program, based at the University of Miami.

Posted - Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:45 AM EDT

Lots of planning and fundraising were done in advance of the Marathon Dog Park opening in January 2010.

More than three years later, the park at U.S. 1 and 75th Street has lost some of its luster due to a combination of dogs running and digging, and lack of sunlight because of trees, killing grass in several large areas. All that remains is soil.

Posted - Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:30 AM EDT

Kristen Rivera

Kristen Rivera and Didier Miles were two young Miami-Dade County waiters who came to Islamorada for the annual end-of-season bash for South Florida restaurant industry workers.

But Rivera, 22, never made it out of the Keys alive, and Miles, 24, was flown to Ryder Trauma Center in Miami-Dade in serious condition after they got into a head-on collision with a taxi early Monday evening.

Posted - Saturday, May 18, 2013 12:00 PM EDT

The Marathon City Council on Tuesday approved taxi regulation that is less onerous than originally presented and should help ensure cab customers are hitching rides with reputable companies.

Posted - Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:10 AM EDT

A kennel-cough outbreak that's kept the Marathon animal shelter under quarantine for almost a month is on the verge of being lifted, interim Director Cora Baggs says.

Posted - Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:30 AM EDT

National Hurricane Center Director Rick Knabb will talk about new forecasting tools.

National Hurricane Center Director Rick Knabb is the scheduled keynote speaker at an annual Keys hurricane preparedness workshop for the tourism industry set to begin at 1 p.m. May 21 at the Doubletree Grand Key Resort in Key West.

Entering his second tropical cyclone season as the nation's top hurricane warning official, Knabb plans to provide the hurricane center's 2013 forecast overview.

Posted - Thursday, May 16, 2013 01:35 PM EDT

A female crocodile that set up house in front of a Lower Matecumbe Key home last month was found dead in the mangroves near where she was removed by state wildlife officers.

Posted - Wednesday, May 15, 2013 01:07 PM EDT