Merritt Island News

Ralph and Robert Brown plan to cross the Atlantic Ocean in their flats boat to raise money for wounded soldiers and their families.

MERRITT ISLAND, FL: Guy Weatherby Snyder passed away on June 18, 2009. He was born January 2, 1920.

Nature's Table, the restaurant chain that for more than 25 years has billed itself as a healthier alternative to normal fast-food fare, has quietly been expanding its waistline, so to speak.

Community Based Care of Brevard hosted its fourth annual Provider Network Banquet recently.

Dan Kovalchik is living his childhood dream. The 58-year-old Merritt Island resident was 12 in 1962, the year John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit Earth, when Telstar 1 made the first trans-Atlantic telecast and when Mariner 2 became the first robotic explorer to fly by another planet, Venus.

A Merritt Island woman drove nearly two miles in Brevard County before realizing her toddler had fallen out of her car.

I want to mention a vegetarian restaurant that is wowing patrons. Reader Terry Haugen first alerted me to the wonders of Healthy Garden at the Post Common Shopping Center on Wickham Road.

A state senator from Merritt Island says he'll help a man convicted of murder get a payout from the state.

A Merritt Island mother was arrested Wednesday after her 2-year-old fell out of her car as she was driving -- and didn't know it, deputies said.

Aleksander Bologna has a bright future ahead, but he always will carry with him the distinction of Eagle Scout.

When "Della" was brought into Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo, her outlook was bleak. A boat had blasted across her back.

The scene last week at the new retail operation here from Goodwill Industries of Central Florida Inc.

No arrests have reported in robberies this week at Brevard County banks and a check-cashing business.

Brevard County Sheriffa s agents are investigating the armed robbery of the Advanced America Cash Advance on Merritt Island Thursday morning.

A pregnant woman who was in her car at a 7-Eleven gas station on Merritt Island was struck by lightning during this afternoon's thunderstorms, the Brevard County Sheriff's Office said.

A local woman is recovering from a lightning strike on Friday. Ashley Pickering was riding in a truck during a storm on Merritt Island on Friday, when a lightning strike knocked her out.

A 41-year-old Merritt Island attorney was arrested Thursday for keeping a $100,000 settlement that was supposed to be given to the son of an Iowa resident who died in a car crash in 2006.

A huge alligator had to be euthanized after it was hit by a truck while crossing a Merritt Island road.

So Palm Bay has appointed a committee to explore building a minor-league baseball stadium for $3 million or more.

Space Coast residents today could get a close-up view of NASA's four-winged wonder: a space shuttle orbiter flying piggyback on a Boeing 747.