Palm Bay News

MAE GAMMINO/SPECIAL TO TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS "I grew up fishing these waters.

WE'RE GOING TO BRING YOU MUCH MORE HERE THIS AFTERNOON. A BREVARD COUNTY FATHER IS IN JAIL ACCUSED OF HOLDING FOUR CHILDREN HOSTAGE.

The robbery was reported about 6:40 p.m. Pinewood Drive is a residential street northeast of the intersection of Palm Bay Road and Babcock Street, just east of the Florida Tech Greek Village.

After Saturday's "Snow at the Park" bombed as a snow-free fiasco, thousands of shrieking Floridians experienced wintry snowball fights, icy inner-tube slides and manmade blizzards Sunday.

Palm Bay overtook Eau Gallie in the final round of the Barbara Pill Memorial Tournament to claim first-place Saturday at Bayside High.

Count me among those skeptical that nearly 60 percent of Brevard teachers are "highly effective," as portrayed by a new evaluation system meant to guide merit pay.

The newest Bass Pro Shop, Stick Marsh Outlet, opened in Palm Bay this week and did so to thousands of outdoors enthusiasts.

Nearing the end of a long dark hallway, Cpl. Quincy Hines becomes an easy target for an assailant who has slipped behind the sheriff's deputy.

Here are your entertainment best bets for Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013: Want to be in this calendar? Submit events at least two weeks in advance to tgif@floridatoday.com.

After hearing opinions from 23 turf and landscape professionals, politicians, Sierra Club members, environmental advocates and even an elementary school science club, Palm Bay City Council members took turns late Thursday sharing their thoughts on the future of fertilizers in their city.

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.

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