Fort Pierce News

For years, the biggest amateur boxing event in the state took place during the Sunshine State Games.

I have been following the case of the Fort Pierce man who claims he is too fat to kill.

Rufus Alexander, left, reacts to finding he is the winner of District 1 Fort Pierce City Commission race.

Lataurus Conley was boating near the Fort Pierce Inlet about 1 p.m. Tuesday and was swimming with friends in the inlet, DEP public information officer Amy Graham said in an e-mail. The outgoing tide swept Conley into the channel, and a fisherman helped in rescuing Conley.

Coke to face Perona in runoff. FORT PIERCE - Incumbent City Commissioner Christine Coke is slated for a Nov.

Fort Pierce police said a man was beaten up while riding his bicycle Monday. A bloody Antonio Perez had his bicycle stolen after a group of people beat him up Monday on Mayflower Road.

Moyea J. Kennedy, of the 100 block of Hialeah Avenue, was in the St. Lucie County Jail on Sunday on $250,000 bond on a charge of home invasion robbery with a firearm.

Edward Ates is shown in this undated photo provided by his attorney and released by the Trenton, NJ prosecutor's office, Wednesday Oct.

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A 48-year-old man faces kidnapping and sexual battery charges after a woman told police he raped her as she tried to retrieve a stolen computer, according to a recently released arrest affidavit.

Prosecutors cross-examining a Florida man who claims he was too fat to have killed his former son-in-law tried to portray the defendant as a skilled marksman and attempted to undercut his alibi.

A Florida man accused of killing his son-in-law in New Jersey is arguing that he was unable to commit the crime because he was too fat.

The City Council voted 4-1 at its Monday night meeting to move forward with making Midway Road the dividing line between the city and Fort Pierce.

Digg it FORT PIERCE, Fla. A A A' Two soldiers making a surprise visit to their families in Florida before deployment to Iraq were struck by a car and killed after getting into a fight.

James Mathew Kennedy, of the 1000 block of 27th Avenue Southwest, took the AR15-type rifle into the gun show, where he went to buy parts, officials said.

Two men who died in a weekend crash in Fort Pierce were soldiers traveling to Southwest Florida to surprise their families before being deployed by the U.S. Army to Iraq, the Fort Myers News-Press is reporting.

Crowds lined streets in St. Lucie County on Saturday afternoon to get the flu vaccine.

Thousands of people line up in our area to get the H1N1 vaccine shot. In fact, so many people turned out for free shots in St.

Four people died when a small plane bound for Florida crashed shortly after take-off, FAA officials say.