Cocoa News

Ponds, like potato chips, are hard to resist. In their previous home, Ken and Louise DeTorres had a 2,500-gallon pond they liked so much that when the time came to build a new house, the Titusville couple wanted an even larger water feature.

Here are your entertainment best bets for Friday, May 24, 2013: To have your event listed, send a description of the event with time, day, location, cost and contact information to tgif@floridatoday.com at least two weeks before the event.

OMG, there's a new crime-fighting app in town. Flanked by several police chiefs Thursday, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey touted the new app iWatch, which can be used on smart phones, tablets and desktop computers, as part of a push to revamp longstanding crime prevention efforts by area law enforcement agencies.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of David Mclymont in the 2008 slaying of U.S. Coast Guardsman Carlos Buford, who was visiting a friend in Clarksdale.

Jeanine Taylor Folk Art in Sanford offers summer art classes in downtown Sanford.

17. Vendors will offer health screenings and information, including free cancer and HIV screenings.

Brevard Public Schools Superintendent Brian Binggeli testified today in a court case seeking to keep over three Brevard schools.

Brevard County government and school district officials hoped to begin smoothing out their differences about school closings and other issues at a "conflict assessment meeting" Tuesday.

A Cocoa couple has been charged after police said they found pipe bombs and a cache of weapons inside their central Florida home.

The Brevard County bomb squad detonated two pipe bombs that were found in a Cocoa rental home on Friday.

About a half-dozen homes have been evacuated in Cocoa, in Brevard County, after police found guns and pipe bombs in a home Friday morning, WPTV is reporting .

The second annual Brevard adaptation of Food Revolution Day is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Cocoa YMCA, 1519 Clearlake Road, on the Brevard Community College campus.

Thirty-six students from South Lake Elementary School marched with parents and community members to St.

A brushfire burning in the woods near Grissom Parkway in Cocoa had jumped the S.R. 528 Beachline and was in a neighborhood, Florida Forest Service said Monday night.

Here are your entertainment best bets for Tuesday, May 14, 2013: Estate planning seminar: Attorney William A. Johnson will discuss estate planning at One Senior Place, 8085 Spyglass Hill Road, Viera, at 10a.m. Tuesday.

Happy Mother's Day! Here are your entertainment best bets: Mother's Day brunch: The event will be hosted by the Benevolent Patriotic Order of the Does from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday at Titusville Elks Lodge 2113, 2155 Columbia Blvd.

Linda South's travels have taken her around the world, but the path eventually led her back home to Merritt Island, where she grew up.

Brevard Public Schools is in the process of closing three schools it says are underutilized in an effort to save money.

Here's what's coming up in TgIF next week. "The Heiress" opens at Melbourne Civic Theatre, 817 E. Strawbridge Ave., with performances at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 17 through June 23.

Venus is becoming visible again as the "Evening Star." It has been visible for a while now, but so close to the sun as to be impractical to view.