Cocoa News

A man was shot dead in the 1400 block of Paradise Lane near Cocoa shortly after 10 p.m. Friday night, Brevard County Sheriff's Office said.

Two years ago today, Tremaine Peek wrote song lyrics and planned to make a record with his brother.

Florida Gulf Coast University baseball head coach Dave Tollett announced Monday that his program has received National Letters of Intent from eight student-athletes, as well as a commitment from Adam Sargent of Palmetto Bay.

Piece by piece, the campaign to turn downtown Eau Gallie's historic district into an artist's colony is moving ahead with the growing potential for it to become a real plus for Brevard County.

Police said they have arrested two sisters in connection to a shooting incident in Brevard County.

Ten schools in the Cocoa-Rockledge area were placed in a temporary lockdown for about 20 minutes Friday afternoon between 3 and 3:30 p.m. after a drive-by shooting was reported in the area of Counts Street and South Carolina.

Two very different musicals open on local stages tonight. You can choose the sugary sweet "Annie" at Cocoa Village Playhouse or the cynical "Urinetown: The Musical" at Florida Tech.

More than a dozen Brevard County Sheriffs deputies began blocking roads around Fairbridge Street at about 11:30 a.m. today.A They were searching for Lemar Aaron Clark, who had an outstanding warrant for his arrest on charges of armed burglary and extortion.

The Cocoa Housing Authority could vote to pull out of the Brevard Family of Housing Authorities.

Christopher Vataj, owner of the Vault Martini Lounge and Restaurant in Cocoa Village, is banking on the place's unique atmosphere.

Energy Services of Pensacola customers can expect to see their rates drop as much as 10 percent this winter.

Detectives in two central Brevard County cities are investigating overnight shootings that left at least two people injured.

Fire officials in Brevard County are trying to figure out what sparked two suspicious wildfires in Palm Bay.

Separate but equal was inherently unequal and harmful to black students. That was the U.S. Supreme Court's finding in the watershed 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that mandated school integration and helped trigger the civil rights movement's crusade for racial equality in public schools in the 1950s and 1960s.

Sounds of kids screaming on thrill rides. The aroma of greasy funnel cakes. Giant stuffed animal prizes.

The Rockledge debate over a proposal to store treated wastewater underground for later irrigation use shows no signs of cooling.

The number of reported crimes increased in two Cocoa districts and dropped in two others, according to police department service calls for 2008 and 2009.

Rep. Grayson's 'behavior unseemly' We, the people of the great state of Florida, would like to apologize to the other 434 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and to the 100 members of the U.S. Senate for sending to Washington as a member of the House, the most unqualified, crude, rude and divisive individual.

After allegations from employees of substance abuse and mismanagement, the board for the Coalition for the Hungry and Homeless has suspended its executive director of nearly 20 years.

Officials with Cocoa's water department have issued a precautionary boil water notice for residents living in the area of Burnett Road and State Road 520 through Saturday.