Port St. Lucie News

THURSDAY: Fla. teacher removed after asking child to clean up urine Submitted by SHNS on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 18:32 Port St.

A Port St. Lucie elementary school teacher was removed from the classroom after she made one of her students wipe up the urine of another classmate.

Lisa Stukel was working at the Pelican Caf downtown Monday afternoon when she learned of a visitor in need.

Nine people have been arrested for operating a human smuggling ring from the Treasure Coast.

Nine people have been arrested for operating a human smuggling ring from the Treasure Coast.

The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation has placed Port St.

A West Palm Beach man is the latest of a group charged with participating in an illegal smuggling operation.

Police are searching for a 54-year-old man with schizophrenia who's been gone for more than a week.

Charges against a man authorities say controlled more than a dozen marijuana grow houses in St.

FORT PIERCE, Florida - Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say they have dismantled a Cuban smuggling ring operating on Florida's Atlantic coast.

A local man faces more than two dozen felony charges after his wife turned over inappropriate photos he allegedly took of a 12-year-old girl with a mental disability, according to arrest and court records released Thursday.

Tyrone R. Anderson, of the 1900 block of Southeast Hillmoor Drive in Port St. Lucie, faces a felony child neglect charge following the Tuesday afternoon incidents in the 10700 block of South U.S. 1. A witness reported seeing the vehicle about 4:30 p.m. with the baby inside.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Police said two men and a woman traveled to Port St. Lucie from Miami to cash counterfeit child support checks at area Walmart stores.

A Port St. Lucie man has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for collecting and trading more than half a million images of child pornography over the Internet, some involving infants.

Copper hit 13-month peaks on Tuesday as the weak US dollar propelled commodities higher, before a recovery in the currency led to profit-taking in a market that had risen 7 per cent this month alone.

Port St. Lucie, FL New information about a Treasure Coast teacher who ignited controversy nationwide when she let her kindergartners vote an autistic student out of class.

Lucie Boulevard and Southwest Paar Drive at about 6:26 a.m. Monday, according to Port St.

Last week, Port St. Lucie City Manager Don Cooper said he will resign, after watching the city triple in size over the two decades he has worked there.

Most great drama pivots around the role of the hearts and minds in people's lives, but thanks to modern medicine, another body part has spawned its own subset of reliably moving narrative: the kidney.

Police said a 77-year-old man caged in his own bedroom by his son and his son's girlfriend escaped from the Port St.