Cocoa News

A Cocoa couple has been charged after police said they found pipe bombs and a cache of weapons inside their central Florida home.

The Brevard County bomb squad detonated two pipe bombs that were found in a Cocoa rental home on Friday.

About a half-dozen homes have been evacuated in Cocoa, in Brevard County, after police found guns and pipe bombs in a home Friday morning, WPTV is reporting .

The second annual Brevard adaptation of Food Revolution Day is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Cocoa YMCA, 1519 Clearlake Road, on the Brevard Community College campus.

Thirty-six students from South Lake Elementary School marched with parents and community members to St.

A brushfire burning in the woods near Grissom Parkway in Cocoa had jumped the S.R. 528 Beachline and was in a neighborhood, Florida Forest Service said Monday night.

Here are your entertainment best bets for Tuesday, May 14, 2013: Estate planning seminar: Attorney William A. Johnson will discuss estate planning at One Senior Place, 8085 Spyglass Hill Road, Viera, at 10a.m. Tuesday.

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.

Linda South's travels have taken her around the world, but the path eventually led her back home to Merritt Island, where she grew up.

Brevard Public Schools is in the process of closing three schools it says are underutilized in an effort to save money.

Here's what's coming up in TgIF next week. "The Heiress" opens at Melbourne Civic Theatre, 817 E. Strawbridge Ave., with performances at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 17 through June 23.

Venus is becoming visible again as the "Evening Star." It has been visible for a while now, but so close to the sun as to be impractical to view.

One day in 2011, 10-year-old Sarah Robbins woke as usual to go to school, an accomplishment in its own right for a girl who was born with disabilities that resulted in her not learning to walk until she was 38 months old.

Fans of the fields-to-forks concept will lose a favorite hangout when Laura Farrelly and Chris Bolton pack up Merritt's Table on May 18 after more than two years in the Merritt Island location.

A Cocoa man faces multiple charges after police say he fraudulently received about $15,000 in public assistance benefits since 2011.

Here are your entertainment best bets for Tuesday, May 7, 2013: To have your event listed, send a description of the event with time, day, location, cost and contact information to tgif@floridatoday.com at least two weeks before the event.

A sedan hit and killed two people trying to cross a Cocoa-area street late Sunday, Florida Highway Patrol officials said.

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.

A fund-raising project for a solar-powered safety light at the Leroy Wright Park boat ramp on the St.

Sandra Stafford-Chester finds it difficult to believe that the thrift store she and her husband, Michael Chester, started 25 years ago is still operating and supporting their Northwind Ministry in Cocoa.