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Cocoa, Florida is located in Brevard County. Zip codes in Cocoa, FL include 32922, 32927, and 32924. More Cocoa information.

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Saturday May 26 | Click Orlando

Firefighters battling brush fire in Brevard

Brevard County firefighters, along with Cocoa firefighters and Division of Forestry are working to stop a fast moving fire that is getting closer to homes.

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Fri May 25, 2012

Hometown News

Local students help four-legged friends find homes

With a pet rabbit and a 4-year-old beagle, named "Hank," at home, Cameron Rowell, 12, knows what responsible pet ownership is all about.

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Wed May 23, 2012

Examiner.com

Memorial Day 2012 on the Space Coast

The ' Dinosaurs: Dead or Alive ' exhibit at Brevard Zoo , which opened February 18, will be open through Monday, May 28.

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Sun May 20, 2012

The Leaf-Chronicle

Wedding: Amy Wright & Rick Hatcher

The future is always a dystopia and the past is always better than this mess we live in right now.

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Thu May 17, 2012

Lucianne.com

George Zimmerman's gun: Kel-Tec9 mm designed for self-defense

George Zimmerman's gun: Kel-Tec 9 mm designed for self-defense Orlando Sentinel, by Rene Stutzman and Henry Clarke ORLANDO, Fla.

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Wed May 16, 2012

Click Orlando

911 calls released in Port St. John's family shooting

Brevard County sheriff's deputies have released the 911 calls on Wednesday from neighbors moments after a mother of four shot and killed her children and then killed herself in her Port St.

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Tue May 15, 2012

The Florida Times-Union

Behind the handgun George Zimmerman used to kill Trayvon Martin

ORLANDO, Fla. - The handgun George Zimmerman used to kill Trayvon Martin is a lightweight, inexpensive 9 mm semiautomatic manufactured in Cocoa, Fla.

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WTLV

Library Ban on Best-Seller Sparks Florida Censorship Debate

MELBOURNE, Fla. -- Before the book ban that riled readers and put Brevard County at the heart of a steamy global debate over censorship, 76-year-old Ray Johnson had never heard of the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey .

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Wed May 09, 2012

MyFoxOrlando

'Fifty Shades of Grey' controversy grows

COCOA, Fla. - Brevard County's decision to remove erotic New York Times bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey A from its shelves is now being questioned by the American Library Association.

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Fri May 04, 2012

CNN

An Atlas V rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station today.

An Atlas V rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station today, carrying an advanced military communications satellite toward orbit.

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Click Orlando

Man shot in neck knocks on doors for help

Residents in a Cocoa neighborhood were awakened Friday morning to the sounds of a wounded man banging on doors and begging for help.

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Hometown News

Local animal shelter named finalist in national competition

Pet adoptions from the Central Brevard Humane Society can have an even larger impact in the coming months, as part of a national pet adoption competition.

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Thu May 03, 2012

Baker County Press

Refunds due for overpriced diesel

If you put diesel fuel in your vehicle at the BP station on US 90 in Macclenny within the last month or two, you could receive a refund check for being overcharged by 85 cents a gallon.

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Daily Mail

Corvette convertible taken on weekend joyride in Cocoa, Florida

The owner of a valet service has been caught red-handed driving a customer's expensive convertible which was paid to be entrusted to his care.

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Wed May 02, 2012

MyFoxOrlando

Wandering toddler found in Cocoa

COCOA, Fla. - Police said, thankfully, it was an kindhearted person who found a 2-year-old toddler wandering around the streets of Cocoa Wednesday morning near U.S. Hwy 1 and Donna Avenue around 8:30 a.m. The driver was on her way to work when she noticed the child, all by herself, with no adults around.

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ABC Action News

TGH participates in clinical trial

Dottie Flacco, 62, came all the way from Cocoa, Florida for a chance at getting her high blood pressure under control.

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Click Orlando

Police find toddler wandering alone

Cocoa police have arrested the father of a toddler they found wandering around a neighborhood on Wednesday in Brevard County.

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Tue May 01, 2012

Jalopnik

News Helicopter Catches Ferris Bueller-Wannabes Abusing Valet-Parked Corvette [Valets]

Once again proving that Florida is a terrible place to own a car , a local news crew busted a local parking lot owner who took a customer's Corvette and treated it like his own plaything for a couple of days.

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Autoblog

Parking lot owner's joyride in customer's car caught on film

There are plenty of reasons to steer clear of a cruise. We typically shy away from the idea of cramming ourselves onto a vessel filled to capacity with overweight American tourists, all waiting to descend on some unsuspecting port of call like a scourge of consumerist locusts.

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MyFoxOrlando

Fire destroys home in Cocoa

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. - Two people are homeless after a fire destroyed their mobile home early Tuesday morning.

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