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U. S. astronaut Steven Swanson, left, joins hands with Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov, center, and Oleg Artemyev in front of a mock-up of a Soyuz TMA spacecraft before their final preflight exam in Star City outside of Moscow on Wednesday.

Health First oncologist/hematologist Simon Vinarsky can't help but be concerned about the recent upheaval in Ukraine.

Meteorologist John Pendergast with the National Weather Service in Melbourne said the "bulk of the activity is still west of us, moving toward the Space Coast.

Kypros Markou, former music director and maestro of the Brevard Symphony Orchestra, returns to the area to conduct three master classes for students of violin and viola.

In a relatively small room of the Eye Clinic and Laser Institute, 74-year-old Tanveer Hashmi is helped onto the area where she will lie to have the cataracts in her right eye treated.

When you're a child suddenly pulled from your family because of abuse or neglect, chances are you don't leave with the comforts from home.

Traffic nightmares could begin soon for drivers in the Palm Bay and West Melbourne area.

A Melbourne police sergeant has been placed on paid leave after the Florida Department of Law Enforcement named him in a criminal investigation.

Nothing fascinates the living more than the dead, so it's not surprising that people often flock to Melbourne professional medium John Rogers' lectures to discover the state of things in the Great Beyond.

The Melbourne man who was shot to death by deputies after a 3-hour standoff outside the Brevard County courthouse was armed with an airsoft pistol, Sheriff Wayne Ivey said in a press briefing.

The next time you speak critically of Parrish Medical Center in Titusville, please choose your words carefully.

Brevard County commissioners this afternoon gave their initial support to proposed economic incentives that would help a Melbourne-based subsidiary of Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer expand by providing more than $5 million in grants and property tax breaks.

The rest of the country can only dream about the abundance of sunshine and fresh strawberries in Central Florida this month.

There are no indications of foul play. Police found his body in a canal near the 700 block of Magnolia Avenue, just south of a Bright House Networks building.

Traffic is moving normally past the scenes of several rush-hour accidents this morning, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Kissimmee, Fla. Kissimmee police detectives are seeking the public's help to identify an armed robbery suspect.

At 8:30 a.m. Monday, a worried stranger dropped by Dave Robertson's oceanfront home on State Road A1A asking an unusual question: "Have you seen any sign of my brother, Art Stroud?" Robertson got a nagging feeling.

Marcia Weinstein will take to the stage this week to offer an acoustic tribute to Debbie Friedman, one of the soul-stirring giants of Jewish, folk-infused music that helped inspire the sounds of modern worship for many American Jews.

A pedestrian walking along Magnolia Avenue in Melbourne spotted a body floating in a canal Monday morning, and detectives are trying to determine the dead person's identity.

Some drivers on Wickham Road and U.S. 192 in West Melbourne got to see some famous faces and funny characters at Famous Faces and Funnies on Saturday.