Palm Bay News

Nearly 25 years ago, Janna Hogan Forschino found herself stuck in Palm Bay traffic, watching as festive floats with dangling lights rolled by serenaded by marching bands playing Christmas music.

Palm Bay is the most recent of Brevard County's cities to consider a fertilizer ordinance and tonight the council will discuss how strict such restrictions -- if any are implemented -- should be.

On a recent morning at Florida Air Academy, a private day and boarding school near downtown Melbourne, students weren't using papers and pencils in their Algebra I class.

Albert Henry Haas, 64, loved his job as a civilian aircraft mechanic at Bagram Air Base, near the Afghanistan capital of Kabul.

Two men are dead following an overnight shooting at a Palm Bay home and detectives are reviewing the claims that the slayings were the result of self-defense.

A motorcyclist was killed in a crash Monday night on Interstate 95 in Palm Bay, Florida Highway Patrol Sgt.

The U.S. Air Force recently awarded AAR Airlift Group Inc., Palm Bay, a $22.7 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for dedicated fixed wing services in the Central Africa regions of Uganda, Central Africa Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan.

A handful of parents and retired teachers are attending this morning's workshop.

Here are your entertainment best bets for Monday, Dec. 2, 2013: Happy Cyber Monday, Brevard! Want to be in this calendar? Submit events at least two weeks in advance to tgif@floridatoday.com.

Owners: David and Adam Avchen Address: 195 Malabar Road NW, Palm Bay Phone: 321-727-3473 Website: firedupcop.com Hours: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

I do not know what type of material it is; it resembles plastic plastic did not exist at that time.

The Gulf Coast closure, which includes Monroe County and the Everglades National Park, will reopen on March 1, 2014.

Ask Infantini what she's doing for District 3 -- which includes Melbourne Beach and parts of Melbourne and Palm Bay -- and she'll tell you she's focused instead on watchdogging the whole county.

Ribbon cuttings, hand shaking, public speeches, keys to the city. Throwing fish into a new tank.

Palm Bay officials anticipate heavy traffic congestion on Palm Bay Road and Interstate 95 for several days after Bass Pro Shops opens Wednesday.

Palm Bay firefighters believe a heater sparked a Thanksgiving fire that caused about $10,000 in damage to a manufactured home on the city's northeast side.

An arrest was made in connection with the death of Efrain Santiago, 38, who was found dead in May in his home on Shwonda Avenue in Palm Bay.

Here are your entertainment best bets for Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013: Happy Black Wednesday, Brevard! Want to be in this calendar? Submit events at least two weeks in advance to tgif@floridatoday.com.

A single-car wreck caused by a tire failure ended in the death of a 49-year-old Fort Pierce man south of Palm Bay at 5:45 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 95, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

A WABC TV framegrab of Al Circelli, 70, of Yonkers, and Yuliana Avalos, a Florida model, whose photo was allegedly posted without her authorization on Match.com as part of a scam that led to Circelli's suicide.