St. Lucie News

A twin-engine airplane crashed after take-off at the St. Lucie County International Airport Thursday afternoon, though the people on board were not thought to have sustained serious injuries, officials said.

St. Lucie County's fifth swine flu-related death - and the sixth on the Treasure Coast - was a 53-year-old man who died Monday, St.

A Port St. Lucie kindergarten teacher is accused of asking a 6-year-old girl to clean up another student's urine and then rewarding the girl with play money.

A 53-year-old St. Lucie County man has died from the H1N1 flu, and clinics throughout the Palm beaches and on the Treasure Coast are administering vaccines.

His last day is Dec. 1. Richard Kozek PORT ST. LUCIE - Former attorney Richard T. Kozek might have skated for nearly five years, but the dozens of marijuana plants found at his Port St.

Bears took to the air above South Florida Friday. Not the furry kind of bears, more like the traffic enforcement breed.

In Florida, a wildfire is as close as the next dry spell. Even though the dry season started just days ago, an index that measures the dryness of soil, and thus the potential for fires, already shows all of Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast is in the range of concern.

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

Whenever City Manager Don Cooper interviewed for a job elsewhere in the 1990s, he always used long-time Mayor Bob Minsky as a reference.

Three winners of the "Fantasy 5" game will collect $67,712.88 each, the Florida Lottery said Wednesday.

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.

Crowds lined streets in St. Lucie County on Saturday afternoon to get the flu vaccine.

Lucie. Nicole Navas, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said it's a federal crime for someone to transport Cubans from their communist island nation to the United States in return for cash - even though Cubans who make it here on their own don't break any law.

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.

Injuries were reported as minor, an emergency official said. Two vehicles were involved in the crash, which happened just before 7 a.m., though only one rolled over.

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.