Brevard County News Archives

Brevard County businesses investing in a new look are being honored for improving the scenery.

A woman stabbed repeatedly in an attack early this morning continues to recover.

Deputies with the Brevard County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday found a man hiding in the woods near where a witness said he was taken at knifepoint.

An unmanned NASA rocket designed to help develop a new space taxi service to the moon streaked through the sky on Wednesday on a successful two-minute test flight.

An adult was killed and a juvenile was airlifted in serious condition on Tuesday in a rollover crash on Interstate 95 in Brevard County.

Brevard County veterans are a step closer to better health care. Construction is under way on a 30,000-square-foot expansion of the Veterans Affairs Viera Outpatient Clinic and on the initial phase of the VA's 1.2 million-square-foot medical complex in Orlando.

Forget the bombs and bullets, and gear up for cyber war. It's a real and growing threat with the potential for hostile governments and terrorists to hack into the computer networks that power the U.S. economy and run the military, perhaps triggering a digital 9/11. The concern crystallized this summer when President Obama created the first cyber ...

A Floridian was among four soldiers killed when their vehicle was struck by a bomb in Kandahar province in Afghanistan on Thursday, the Defense Department said.

Christina McIntyre sobbed after a Brevard County judge ordered her held without bond Friday on four charges, including the attempted murder of her 11-month-old son.

Woman charged with attempted murder; police call case 'extremely disturbing' BY AMANDA STRATFORD * FLORIDA TODAY * October 23, 2009 A single mother who "thought her life would be easier" is accused by police of watching and doing nothing as her 2-year-old tried to suffocate her 11-month-old son.

Authorities are trying to put a name with a face of a woman seen on video in Brevard and Indian River counties using credit cards stolen from hospitals and medical offices.

A second suspect in a drug-related slaying of a South Florida man at a Palm Bay apartment complex has been arrested.

There may be a fire-bug on the loose in Brevard County. It's still months before the wildfire season starts, but there are already a series of wildfires burning across Brevard County.

Brevard County sheriff agents believe they have solved a 22-year-old murder case.

A house fire reported at 335 E. Hall Road on Merritt Island significantly damaged a 4,000 square foot house about 1:15 p.m. Monday, Brevard County Fire-Rescue said.

Brevard County firefighters responded to several fires - including a blaze that gutted a Merritt Island home - throughout the day, officials said.

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. -- Flames shot 40 feet in the air from a $400,000 house that caught fire on Merritt Island Monday afternoon.

BY KEYONNA SUMMERS FLORIDA TODAY Brevard County Judge Michelle Baker has agreed to a public reprimand and a $25,000 fine for including language in her campaign material last year that suggested her opponent and his contributors were corrupt.

The corpse came in as "Jane Doe," law enforcement moniker for a woman who has not been identified.

Rescuers worked for an hour to reach two kayakers in the Indian River Lagoon this evening after one of them capsized and could not get back into the boat.

T he daughter of Harry and Harriette Moore can soon go home again. A replica of Evangeline Moore's parents' Mims home -- destroyed in the Christmas night bombing that killed the Moores in 1951 -- will be finished this month, a due tribute to the heroic civil rights leaders whose murder has never been officially solved.

Problems with evidence and witness credibility led prosecutors to drop charges including drugs and sex with a minor against an Indialantic physician.

It was a Wednesday evening along Shenandoah Road when the 8-year-old girl said a bad word, Palm Bay Police said.

For months, Satellite Beach residents have been troubled by sightings of a UFO. Not the kind filled with little green men, but a true-to-life, unidentified "floating" object that's been seen bobbing just above the ocean waves 600 yards east of Hightower Beach Park.

Police on Tuesday arrested a 46-year-old woman they say stabbed and punched a man in order to keep him from leaving home during an argument.

The traditional punishment of washing out a child's mouth with soap led to charges against two people in Brevard County.

The Brevard County Health Department received 5,000 nasal swine-flu vaccines this morning in Rockledge.

A mother, father and 15-year-old son died Monday night after being electrocuted while putting up a ham radio antenna in Palm Bay, according to police.

Three people are dead after being electrocuted while trying to erect a ham radio antenna.

In the year before Marie Tatman crossed the path of "Eli" the Akita, court records indicate the dog had already sunk its teeth into at least three other unsuspecting victims.

After a four-month investigation into a grand theft auto ring where the identification numbers of stolen vehicles were switched out and then the vehicles were sold, Kissimmee detectives Thursday arrested a local business owner, his daughter and an employee.

A 22-year-old babysitter, arrested in July and charged with murder in the death of an 11-month-old infant in her care, has been cleared and released.

The Colorado Supreme Court's Attorney Regulation Counsel is petitioning for a lawyer charged with grand theft in Florida to be suspended from practicing law in Colorado, pending disciplinary proceedings.

Another Central Florida county is going after the online travel industry for taxes it says the companies aren't paying.

Under the blistering heat, people from all over Brevard County show up at the Melbourne International Airport to pay their respects to fallen soldier Sgt.

PORT ST. JOHN, Fla. -- A freight train hit a semi truck carrying 4,000 gallons of bleach in Port St.

One of Brevard County's most wanted fugitives is finally behind bars. 40-year-old Gerald Postell was arrested Wednesday afternoon after police got a tip that he was driving around the University Boulevard area of Melbourne.

A truck carrying 4,000 gallons of chlorine was struck by a southbound freight train Tuesday night after getting stuck at the Kings Highway crossing.

Three members of a Rockledge family were arrested Tuesday at a mobile home in the 1100 block of Luther Drive and face charges related to running a methamphetamine lab at the residence, police said.

Three people were taken to a hospital when a truck slammed into a deputy's patrol car on Monday.

Three people are hospitalized this morning after a pickup truck slammed into a Brevard County deputy's patrol car and another vehicle overnight in Mims.

An Army Ranger from Brevard County died Thursday from wounds received during combat operations in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense announce Sunday.

With so much focus on early diagnosis and intervention for kids with developmental delays, autistic teenagers and young adults are often lost in the mix.

Palm Bay detectives have one suspect in custody in the alleged slaying of a South Florida man and are searching for another, officials say.

Like craftsmen fabricating a custom motorcycle, workers in a nondescript hangar are hand-building a futuristic rocket airplane for a blazing-fast, science fiction-inspired sport.

But some officials warn customers that demand will be high. "We expect to run out soon," Melbourne environmental community outreach manager Jennifer Wilster said of the $6,000 the city has set aside for the program.

T he Brevard Art Museum in Melbourne is an active place. They find unique ways to create interest in the community about art and the museum, such as the recent "Take Out" exhibition - and its many related public events - for which artists were invited to create works of art from restaurant takeout containers.