Cocoa News

Submitted by Gator Trippin on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 18:24. BOB SELF/The Times-Union- Ashley Whitehead from Merritt Island photographs her friend, Sandy Zhu from Toronto, Canada at The Lone Cabbage restaurant out in ...

How time flies. FLORIDA TODAY's inaugural New Year's infant, Kerry McKinney, turns 40 today -- "shhhh!" she said, smiling.

A 45-year-old man who jumped in the Banana River after a deputy found him trying to break a newspaper box on Merritt Island was arrested shortly after 9 p.m. Wednesday, the Brevard County Sheriff's Office said.

In observance of the Christmas holidays, all municipal and county offices and the Clerk of the Court will be closed Christmas Day.

There still are plenty of fun opportunities to gather with others this New Year's Eve and greet the future with open arms.

Three men spotted in a stolen car were arrested Saturday evening after they abandoned the car and hid in a house in the 1000 block of Cocoa's Cypress Lane, the Brevard County Sheriff's Office said.

Pregnant and unemployed, U.S. Army veteran Natasha Reyes this summer lived inside the cramped confines of a white 1996 Chevrolet Cavalier with her boyfriend and two children.

One adult was reported dead at a fire at a manufactured home in Cocoa, according to the Cocoa police.

One person is dead after a fire Tuesday afternoon at a retirement community in Brevard County.

A woman who frantically called 9-1-1 this afternoon, saying a fire had engulfed her residence, died shortly afterward inside her double-wide manufactured home in the Lost Lakes neighborhood of west Cocoa.

The group is also still collecting unwrapped toys for the hundreds of children expected to attend.

The storm that dropped 2 feet to 3 feet of rain on Brevard County in August caused severe flooding problems in some areas because drainage systems couldn't handle the record deluge.

A Cocoa woman convicted of moving out of her home and leaving behind her dog to starve to death began serving an eight-month jail sentence today, jail officials said.

Remembering a pillar of the community for her dedication to family, church and social activism, hundreds of family members, friends and local elected officials celebrated the life of matriarch Rosa Lee Jones at ...

A gourmet market and caterer has fallen victim to the recession and the loss of its chef.

Mother Nature won't rain on Space Coast holiday parades today. Today's forecast from the National Weather Service calls for mostly sunny skies with a high near 69.

The Cocoa-Rockledge Holiday Parade defines the start of the Christmas season for Paul LaChance and his family.

Cocoa interim Police Chief Mark Klayman will become the city's police chief Jan.

The Aldi discount supermarket chain will open a store in Cocoa in 2009 after opening stores Palm Bay, Merritt Island, Rockledge and Titusville this year.

The first store I always look to for party supplies and festivities is the neighborhood Dollar Tree store.