St. Lucie News

Published: Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 4:01 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 3:00 a.m. PORT ST.

Police Chief Donald Shinnamon Sr. has decided not to make the parents of two boys who made a bogus report of a girl being abducted Wednesday morning pay the costs of the massive effort to find the nonexistent girl.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- A Treasure Coast woman who was traveling in a white van that matched the description of a vehicle involved in a phony child abduction said the children who made up the story ought to be punished.

Published: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 8:24 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 8:26 a.m. PORT ST.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has issued an Amber Alert for a girl believed to have been abducted by two Hispanic men Tuesday morning.

The winning tickets were bought in Port St. Lucie, Orlando, Deland and Crawfordville, lottery officials reported.

Lucie man was not injured in a Friday evening fatal double semi-tractor trailer crash on Florida's Turnpike, according to reports from the Florida Highway Patrol.

A 25-year-old Port St. Lucie man is behind bars after authorities said he attempted to rape two women in a three-day period.

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Two Port St. Lucie parents were charged with child neglect after shoppers noticed their 7-month-old girl had been left alone in an unlocked car for half an hour Monday, the Martin County Sheriff's Office said.

A St. Lucie County teacher who let her kindergartners decide whether an autistic child could remain in class is returning to the classroom.

Two men in "Jason" style hockey masks carried out a Monday night robbery at a fast food restaurant in which a shot was fired and three bank bags stolen, a St.

Greg Kellerman, 27, plays an X-Box game from inside his bedroom at his father's home on Idle Avenue in Port St.

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.