Cocoa News

A 19-year-old Merritt Island man is being held in the Brevard County Detention Center on charges he attempted to run over Cocoa Police officers, touching off an early morning chase by police and sheriff's deputies.

After two years of restoration, a 119-year-old house that arrived in Cocoa Village via barge will open Friday as Parrish Grove Inn, a five-room bed-and-breakfast that is the first such establishment in Cocoa and its historic downtown.

Two men allegedly responsible for a shooting incident in Cocoa on Monday were arrested by Cocoa police today, officials said.

Irresponsible, free-spending, fat-cat lawmakers in Washington, D.C., pushing a socialist agenda: Organizers of an Independence Day "tea party" at Space Coast Stadium believe this is the political trend that is wrecking America.

S chool chief Richard DiPatri's last day of work is Tuesday, after an admirable 9-year tenure marked by steady and impassioned leadership.

Starting today, hungry families struggling to provide can go to the nearest Catholic Church for a week's supply of food.

Keiser University's Center for Culinary Arts will host a free Culinary Boot Camp in Melbourne this summer.

The Cocoa City Council will vote tonight on a site plan for a 181-acre conservation area.

Thanks to everyone who came to hear FLORIDA TODAY spirituality columnist Norris Burkes last week.

A woman is accused of using a handgun to rob a Wendy's restaurant in Cocoa while her child was in the back seat, then leading police on a high-speed chase early this morning.

A 24-year-old woman was in critical condition Friday night after being shot four times, twice in the head in an argument over gasoline money.

A 33-year-old mother whom police said was on a crack binge, faces charges she took her 3-year-old daughter along on an overnight fast-food robbery run that ended with a high speed police chase.

Cocoa Police said a 3-year-old girl was located inside her mothera s car after the woman allegedly robbed a Wendya s and led police on a chase through Rockledge early Friday morning.

A mother was accused of robbing a fast-food restaurant in Brevard County after a wild chase.

Sharks forced the closure of Cocoa Beach on Thursday. Lifeguards shut it down for about two hours Thursday morning after someone spotted the toothy fish.

More than $5 million in federal economic-stimulus money now is available to Palm Bay city officials to buy foreclosed homes.

Abbie Sweetwine, a young Air Force nurse, strode through the bloodied victims on a train platform in a London suburb, bandaging wounds, giving blood transfusions and marking the injured with her lipstick, "X" for treated or "M" for morphine, so doctors would know.

Adding mulch around the base of plants has many benefits. Mulch helps conserve water, suppress weeds and moderate soil temperatures.

Brevard County General Motors dealerships had a nervous week as the giant automobile manufacturer filed for bankruptcy and distributed the list of who would stay open and who would not keep their franchise.

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. - Police are looking for the man who shot a local business owner several times Sunday night According to Cocoa Police, an unknown black male entered the One Stop Mix Tapes on North Fiske Boulevard at about 8 p.m. The suspect bought some CDs and as he was leaving the store, he turned and fired five rounds at store owner Antjuan ...