Palm Bay News

A proposed minor league baseball park would not be paid for with city tax dollars, Mayor John Mazziotti said Thursday night.

About 65 percent of David Ayers' customers are referred to his business - Palm Bay Aluminum Corp.

A 22-year-old Augusta man wanted for kidnapping his ex-girlfriend at gunpoint was captured in Florida with the help of a newly enforced seat belt law.

The Roxy Cinema Grill 10 in Palm Bay opened this week after a two-month renovation that brought in new screens and seats, better sound and other improvements.

Last week, I mentioned that John Lenza, once in business with actor Chris Noth, had just opened Reflections in Palm Bay.

The city of Palm Bay found a new management company to help run Patriot Charter.

A 55-year-old bank robbery suspect is in jail this morning after West Melbourne police spotted the getaway car late Tuesday.

Police said a Brevard County couple lured a 17-year-old girl to their Palm Bay home for sex, but a man charged in the case claimed the girl is lying.

A key prosecution witness who prompted prosecutors to drop a manslaughter case because she failed to show up to testify during trial was ordered Monday to spend 60 days in jail and pay a $500 fine on a contempt charge.

A 62-year-old Palm Bay man pleaded not guilty this afternoon to a charge he falsely claimed to have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

On Friday, police arrested with a man they consider a MySpace menace for preying on teenage girls -- and police said they got a helping hand from a 13-year-old. Investigators said a Mims husband and father plotted to get naked pictures of teenage girls online by hiding behind a made-up MySpace profile.

The survivor of a single-vehicle rollover crash said his passenger, who died, reached over to him just before the crash, causing him to swerve and flip the car over on Interstate 95 this morning, police said.

A 14-year-old, who police said was spotted spray-painting gang-related graffiti at the city's skate park, faces felony criminal mischief charges.

Pizza connoisseurs will attest that pizza baked in a coal oven differs from conveyor belt counterparts.

After more than three months of repeated requests and failing to get an update on the city's many legal cases, Deputy Mayor Milo Zonka ran out of patience.

With the support of Palm Bay city officials, the management company for Patriot Charter resigned last night.

Palm Bay Hospital opened a new 127,000-square-foot, $75 million expansion on June 22 that doubles the size of the hospital.

The roof is fixed, the walls are painted, and the city's newest police substation is almost ready for business.

COCOA -- It began with a call from a worried husband and ended with his 33-year-old wife arrested on charges she took their 3-year-old daughter along on a crack-fueled, fast-food robbery that turned into a police chase.

A 19-year-old man will remain behind bars after a circuit court judge ruled against reducing a $750,000 bond in a drive-by shooting case, officials said.