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Mets infielder Wilmer Flores , who the club said earlier during spring training would get a "legitimate" look at shortstop, will make his first Grapefruit League start at the position Tuesday.

For 61-year-old Donna Street, walking from Fort Lauderdale to Washington, D.C., is a tough trek she's willing to take.

Hundreds of women converged on Saturday for the Brevard Women's Expo at the King Center in Melbourne.

Got culinary questions on how to prepare sugary sandesh sweets or potato-based aloo paneer tikki? Manikant Lodaya was your Indiafest information source at the Wickham Park Pavilion.

John Denninghoff jokingly refers to it as "Carmageddon." But Denninghoff, Brevard County's public works director, is serious when he says he wants to be sure drivers in South Brevard are aware of the implications of the temporary closing of a heavily traveled section of Palm Bay Road in the Palm Bay and West Melbourne area.

Here are your things to do in Brevard on Wednesday, March 5, 2014: Want to be in this calendar? Submit events at least two weeks in advance to tgif@floridatoday.com.

"A Gourmet's Kitchen Tour" takes visitors into seven of South and Central Brevard's top kitchens for a full day of inspiration and bonhomie.

Here are your things to do in Brevard on Wednesday, March 5, 2014: Want to be in this calendar? Submit events at least two weeks in advance to tgif@floridatoday.com.

Richard and Jeanne Beaudoin and Louella "Fergie" Dickey form the triumvirate that ascertains guests at Melbourne Beach's SeaGlass Inn are happy and well-fed.

On Hickory Street in Melbourne there's a school bus stop where children are picked up and dropped off for Harbor City Elementary School.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, Brevard! Here's a roundup of things to do and places to go to celebrate all things Irish.

The latest leak from from Edward Snowden suggests the NSA can crack the world's most commonly used cell phone encryption.

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.