Mims News

Weather ripped through Central Florida on Tuesday night, prompting tornado warnings and severe thunderstorm warnings throughout Brevard and Volusia counties.

Roxie White Diesterheft, 91, of Mims, Florida, passed away peacefully, April 12, 2012, at Plantation Bay Rehab Center in St.

At about 7:40 Friday night, Brevard County Sheriff's deputies said a man and a woman were found with gunshot wounds in the 5100 block of Goldenshores Boulevard in Mims.

Editor's note: Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson is the author of " The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration ." One of the migrants documented in the book, George Swanson Starling, fled Florida for New York in 1945 after a standoff in the citrus groves, where he sought fairer wages for black pickers from the grove ... (more)

Recently in Tallahassee Mary McLeod Bethune - who fought tirelessly to educate black people and for whom Bethune-Cookman University is named - became one of the first inductees into the Florida Civil Rights Hall of Fame.