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Nine people have been arrested for operating a human smuggling ring from the Treasure Coast.

The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation has placed Port St.

A West Palm Beach man is the latest of a group charged with participating in an illegal smuggling operation.

Police are searching for a 54-year-old man with schizophrenia who's been gone for more than a week.

Charges against a man authorities say controlled more than a dozen marijuana grow houses in St.

FORT PIERCE, Florida - Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say they have dismantled a Cuban smuggling ring operating on Florida's Atlantic coast.

A local man faces more than two dozen felony charges after his wife turned over inappropriate photos he allegedly took of a 12-year-old girl with a mental disability, according to arrest and court records released Thursday.

Tyrone R. Anderson, of the 1900 block of Southeast Hillmoor Drive in Port St. Lucie, faces a felony child neglect charge following the Tuesday afternoon incidents in the 10700 block of South U.S. 1. A witness reported seeing the vehicle about 4:30 p.m. with the baby inside.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Police said two men and a woman traveled to Port St. Lucie from Miami to cash counterfeit child support checks at area Walmart stores.

A Port St. Lucie man has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for collecting and trading more than half a million images of child pornography over the Internet, some involving infants.

Copper hit 13-month peaks on Tuesday as the weak US dollar propelled commodities higher, before a recovery in the currency led to profit-taking in a market that had risen 7 per cent this month alone.

Port St. Lucie, FL New information about a Treasure Coast teacher who ignited controversy nationwide when she let her kindergartners vote an autistic student out of class.

Lucie Boulevard and Southwest Paar Drive at about 6:26 a.m. Monday, according to Port St.

Last week, Port St. Lucie City Manager Don Cooper said he will resign, after watching the city triple in size over the two decades he has worked there.

Most great drama pivots around the role of the hearts and minds in people's lives, but thanks to modern medicine, another body part has spawned its own subset of reliably moving narrative: the kidney.

Police said a 77-year-old man caged in his own bedroom by his son and his son's girlfriend escaped from the Port St.

Authorities say a Port St. Lucie toddler was seriously injured after a television fell on him.

Lucie man about a mile away on South Dixie Highway, Sgt. Martin Jacobson of the Stuart Police Department said Wednesday morning.

Lucie home. Police found the man near the home Tuesday after someone called 911 to report the old man walking through the caller's backyard.

The stench of urine and body odor came from the room where police said the 77-year-old man had been "caged" by his son and his son's girlfriend.

Lucie County, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report. Juan Alberto Lopez was northbound on King's Highway just before 10 p.m. when he lost control of his vehicle about 500 feet south of Palomar Parkway and crossed into the southbound lane into the path of two vehicles, according to the report.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Police are trying to find a man who robbed the pharmacy at a Port St.

Federal authorities confirmed Thursday what South Florida's power elite has assumed for the past week: the public corruption investigation revolving around a well-connected Hollywood political fund raiser and power broker is far from over.

A 25-year-old Fort Pierce man was arrested Wednesday evening and charged in connection with the Sept.

Police said Thursday a man arrested in connection with an armed robbery at a Circle K in Port St.

Port St. Lucie - The serene Buddhas at Robinson's Prime Steakhouse & Sushi Bar attached to Club La Zen nightclub aren't helping a dispute between the owners of the entertainment venue and its general contractor.

A former Port St. Lucie physician once convicted of recklessly prescribing prescription drugs and manslaughter in the death of a patient will go on trial for the third time in the spring, a judge announced Monday.

A 3-year-old girl - covered in blood but asleep and unharmed - was found amid the bodies of a man and woman after what authorities described as a drug-related assault by five or six men in a house at 619 Dunlin Lane.

Two people are dead, the victims of execution-style shootings during an apparent drug-related home invasion early Sunday morning in Poinciana, the Polk County Sheriff's Office reported.

A 4-year-old girl was nearly abducted in front of her own home, police in Port St.

Lucie County organizations are being recognized today as Best Places to Work in 2009 by the St.