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In 1976, a Baltimore purse-snatcher got nabbed after crank-calling his victim. And that case laid the legal groundwork for today's worldwide government surveillance of telephone records in the name of protecting the U.S. from terrorists.

West Melbourne city council tonight will consider whether to give a ceremonial wrist-slap to one of its own members because of her "questionable behavior" trying to return an old, broken TV.

Albany, NY-based DELMONICO'S ITALIAN STEAKHOUSE has increased by 1 unit, from 5 to 6 .

Last week, the kids, their father and I headed over to school for my daughter's first chorus concert.

MC Assembly, one of Brevard County's largest manufacturing employers, is threatening to move 540 jobs from the Space Coast to Mexico if it doesn't get a big enough tax break from the state, county and city of Melbourne.

Construction will break ground next month on the new Public Safety Institute building at Eastern Florida State College's Melbourne Campus.

Friday marks the last day of school before winter break for most students in Brevard County, and with that the deadline for dropping off gifts to teachers.

West Melbourne resident James Malone, 58, claimed a $1 million prize in the 100X THE CASH Scratch-Off game at Florida Lottery headquarters in Tallahassee, lottery officials have announced.

Jeff and Carol Schiff volunteered for Brevard's Guardian Ad Litem program for seven years, so they know firsthand how tough life is for some children in Brevard.

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Is anyone buying me a $4,999 Christmas present? I'll take a Sea-Doo Spark, in bubble-gum pink, please.

Jill Bazeley hasn't been spied on Central Florida television screens for a couple of decades.

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A Florida man is accused of shooting and killing an unarmed African-American teenager in a case some say echoes the George Zimmerman trial.

For years, surprised Space Coast motorists have caught fleeting glimpses of a psychedelic Saturday-morning-cartoon van with eye-popping turquoise and lime-green paint, orange wheels and a yellow bumper sticker asking "W.W.S.D. - What Would Scooby Do?" Sonya Conway's Hanna-Barbera-ized 2001 Dodge Ram Van has drawn parking-lot gawkers across Brevard ... (more)

Among the 1,405 Florida Tech students graduating Saturday were a few strangers to Melbourne.

The Florida Department of Health's Board of Medicine is pushing to revoke the medical license of a Viera rehabilitative-medicine doctor who once practiced at the Back Center in Melbourne, in response to allegations of sexual misconduct.

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