Rockledge News

Norman Isaac had dropped off his nephew, Albert Lee Baker, at the hospital after Baker complained of chest pains on a spring day in 1988.

Rockledge police investigators met with area pharmacy workers today to coach them on safety measures to help prevent robberies similar to one resolved with an arrest during the weekend.

Southbound lanes of Interstate 95 in Rockledge are partially reopened following a pair of fatal accidents that had the roadway closed for several hours.

It was a close call Monday for a tree trimmer in Rockledge when a limb came crashing down on a power line.

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

The Florida Highway Patrol says the first accident occurred in Rockledge, near Melbourne, on Friday just after 4 a.m. The second accident took place only a couple miles north after 5 a.m. It is unclear how many people were involved in the accidents.

Girls participating in a summer cheer camp at Freedom Athletics had one word to describe it: 'funtertaining.' 'Whenever you're here, it's awesome,' said Julia Wisdo, 9, of Rockledge.

Brevard County Sheriffa s Office West Precinct General Crimes Unit Agents have secured an arrest warrant for Ricky Lee Albury, 26, for a shooting which occurred in the area of West Lake Circle and Lakeview Boulevard in Cocoa, on June 21.

Investigators said a 7-acre brush fire that burned along several roadways early today appeared to have started at an abandoned vehicle.

Fire crews are awaiting word from the power company before removing a tree trimmer from a tree after he reported feeling tingling sensations near a power line.

I want to mention a vegetarian restaurant that is wowing patrons. Reader Terry Haugen first alerted me to the wonders of Healthy Garden at the Post Common Shopping Center on Wickham Road.

A woman is accused of using a handgun to rob a Wendy's restaurant in Cocoa while her child was in the back seat, then leading police on a high-speed chase early this morning.

Cocoa Police said a 3-year-old girl was located inside her mothera s car after the woman allegedly robbed a Wendya s and led police on a chase through Rockledge early Friday morning.

A mother was accused of robbing a fast-food restaurant in Brevard County after a wild chase.

Overhauling the nation's health care system draws little criticism from local physicians, but widespread disagreement over how best to do it.

The $60 Sam Volpe thought he had lost for good hardly rates among the biggest rip-offs we've covered.

Laura Reynolds teaches her students the three Rs - reduce, reuse and recycle. 'I want them to become lifelong recyclers,' said Reynolds, a first-grade teacher at Manatee Elementary in Viera.

A female motorcyclist died Wednesday afternoon after she was struck by a vehicle on southbound U.S. 1 in Rockledge near Gus Hipp Boulevard.

Five Brevard County schools are among Newsweek's 1,500 Best High Schools this year, according to a report released today.

Infantini's candid responses 'refreshing' I read County Commissioner Trudie Infantini's interview with watchdog columnist Matt Reed in Thursday's FLORIDA TODAY, and I was glad to see her candid responses to Reed's questions.