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Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey issued this statement about the incident at the Viera Courthouse on Friday, Feb. 28. http://spacecoastdaily.com/2014/03/viera-schools-are-lockedowned-due-to-man-with-gun/

Thumbs down: To four members of Brevard County's tourism and economic development agencies, who blew their $20,000 budget for a trip to Asia by …

BREVARD COUNTY • MELBOURNE, FLORIDA – Dr. Sangiv Patel, one of the leading dentists on the Space Coast and the founder of the “Innovative …

BREVARD COUNTY • PORT CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – For the 22nd consecutive year, the Canaveral Port Authority has been recognized with the …

Senior safety: Tim Eckner of the Brevard County Sheriff's Office will speak on senior safety at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Palm Bay Public Library, 1520 Port …

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA — No. 18 Florida Tech women's tennis (2-7) and No. 45 men's tennis (1-5) host Chestnut Hill College on Wednesday, …

Space Coast Office of Tourism launching $1 million tourism campaign BREVARD COUNTY — Brevard County tourism officials are making a new push to bring in money after a new report shows that last year’s federal sequestration cuts are still having an impact on the county. Hotel occupancy along Brevard County was down 2 to 3 percent last year, according to the ...

West Melbourne Police Seeks Identity of Robber West Melbourne Police Seeks Identity of Robber. By Space Coast Daily // February 27, 2014. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Delicious Digg This Stumble This … By SpaceCoastDaily.com on Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:45:00 -0800

The man shot and killed by deputies at a Viera courthouse on Friday was wielding a replica gun, according to Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey. The replica gun was discovered to be an airsoft pistol that fires 6mm plastic pellets. Robert Striffler was killed by deputies after a 3-hour standoff in the parking lot of the Viera courthouse. “The pistol ...

The county received more than 60 applications for the position. Officials decided to hire Paula Hunter from Brevard County who will replace former Bay …

PALM BAY — A man and woman are under arrest after police say a toddler in their care ate cocaine and then nearly drowned in a Brevard County swimming pool. Police said Jacob Ricketts and Leanna Olivo-Comer were getting high and didn’t notice the child fell in. The child survived. Police said subsequent tests showed cocaine in the child’s blood. ...

Brevard County Public Works Director John Denninghoff said the project to replace the drainage system is estimated to cost $750,000. The collapsed …

Four high-ranking Brevard County officials are drawing fire for a trip to Singapore that went $14,000 over budget.

From the outside, the half-dozen Internet gaming centers in southern Brevard County aren't much to look at. Mirrored glass, perhaps one neon “open” …

Four Brevard County leaders went way over budget on a planned trip to Asia, and now the county is footing the bill for the rest of the trip, Channel 9's …

BREVARD COUNTY • PALM BAY, FLORIDA – Designing and creating a waterfront village that could become Palm Bay's coveted downtown is the …

Brevard County commissioners this afternoon gave their initial support to proposed economic incentives that would help a Melbourne-based …

The number of sea-turtle nests in Florida this season, which began the first days of March, will equal those recorded in recent years and “will be a success,” the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, or FWC, said. Florida beaches host more sea-turtle nests than any other coastline in the United States, and this month the leatherback turtle is already ...

The Brevard County Commission this morning approved a budget change to help fund a recent $34,000 trip by four representatives of Brevard …

A 40-year-old man faces 108 charges of sexual abuse against a girl in her early teens, Brevard County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Rob Vitaliano said.