Port St. Lucie News

A 25-year-old Port St. Lucie man is behind bars after authorities said he attempted to rape two women in a three-day period.

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Two Port St. Lucie parents were charged with child neglect after shoppers noticed their 7-month-old girl had been left alone in an unlocked car for half an hour Monday, the Martin County Sheriff's Office said.

Greg Kellerman, 27, plays an X-Box game from inside his bedroom at his father's home on Idle Avenue in 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.

Gina M. Sanchez, of the 100 block of Everglades Boulevard in Stuart, met the informant about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 200 block of Southwest Port St.

Wendy Portillo, the teacher who led her kindergarten students to vote out classmate Alex Barton in May 2008, returns to the classroom later this month after a year on unpaid suspension.

Two men were arrested following a $900 drug deal on Southwest Port St. Lucie Boulevard that involved nearly 100 Ecstasy pills, according to recently released affidavits.

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

Sandy Broadstone, 44, of Tampa organizes her belongings Saturday night after she and hundreds of others completed the second day of the Breast Cancer 3-Day walk to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer. [LARA CERRI Times] Diana Rishell was prepared for the blisters, the soreness and the pain that comes from walking 20 miles a day.

His last day is Dec. 1. Richard Kozek PORT ST. LUCIE - Former attorney Richard T. Kozek might have skated for nearly five years, but the dozens of marijuana plants found at his Port St.

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

Whenever City Manager Don Cooper interviewed for a job elsewhere in the 1990s, he always used long-time Mayor Bob Minsky as a reference.

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.

Lucie. Nicole Navas, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said it's a federal crime for someone to transport Cubans from their communist island nation to the United States in return for cash - even though Cubans who make it here on their own don't break any law.

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.