Rockledge News

Each spring, the Cape Coast Conference honors one male and one female high school athlete for the outstanding academic careers they've had while also playing multiple sports and staying active in community service.

Cocoa Beach detectives are interviewing potential witnesses to investigate a stabbing that left a 24-year-old man with serious injuries.

At least they got the Harley-Davidson out. That was on Kurt Gregory's mind as he stood outside his burned home on Matthew Drive in Rockledge.

Rockledge home cook Lynda Loose received an early Mother's Day gift when she heard that her "Mom's Shrimp Creole" had been awarded a blue ribbon at Just a Pinch Recipes.

Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center hired Pat Torrico as the hospital's Chief Nursing Officer, an administrator who brings experience and leadership to the Saint Mary's administrative staff.

NASA has awarded a contract to J.P. Donovan Construction Inc. of Rockledge, FL, to modify the mobile launcher that will enable the agency's Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket to send humans on deep-space missions.

Happy Mother's Day! Here are your entertainment best bets: Mother's Day brunch: The event will be hosted by the Benevolent Patriotic Order of the Does from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday at Titusville Elks Lodge 2113, 2155 Columbia Blvd.

There were two people, outside of my mother, who had a profound influence on me when I was a teen.

She is worth far more than jewels, cites the Bible's Proverbs 31 - among many other praises - about wives, mothers and women who do it all.

Here are your entertainment best bets for Friday, May 10, 2013: Comedy, magic and a ribbon-cutting: Titusville Chamber of Commerce will host a ribbon-cutting for the Comedy & Magic show presented by Todd Bogue at 7p.m. Friday at River Lane Family Entertainment Center, 800 SR 50, Titusville.

Investigators from the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights will examine allegations of race-based discrimination in Brevard Public Schools.

NASA has awarded a contract to J.P. Donovan Construction Inc. of Rockledge, Fla., to modify the mobile launcher that will enable the agency's Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket to send humans to an asteroid, Mars and other new destinations in the solar system.

The Florida Highway Patrol is blaming a sleepy driver for an early morning crash that briefly blocked parts of Interstate-95 and almost ruining Mother's Day for many.

R Several times a week, Ernso Auguste sends text messages or calls Brian Laughlin seeking advice or wanting to discuss an idea or issue.

Biologists removed three more dead bottlenose dolphins in the Indian River Lagoon Monday, bringing this year's total lagoon bottlenose body count to at least 30.

Under Dr. Robert Lamb's direction, 180 members of the Brevard Community Chorus, Brevard Choral and the Brevard Community College Concert Choir join forces in "Elijah," the Mendelssohn oratorio about the Old Testament prophet.

Thumbs up to the Rockledge City Council for having the courage and vision to enact a fertilizer management ordinance that has been proven on Florida's west coast to help reduce nutrient pollution and restore the sea grass.

Dicksy Hansen moved to Brevard County in 1990, when she started her career with NASA as a cooperative education student with the University of Central Florida.

When Bobbie Dyer of Dyer Mortgage Group was able to secure a loan for first-time home buyer Emelee Arbuckle, the latter started crying.

Some students at Kennedy Middle School and Rockledge High School have spent the year learning Mandarin Chinese and studying Chinese culture.