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Brevard County Republican Party Chair Jason Steele says he's no stranger to inner party battles.

No bars or razor wire hold former Florida inmate No. 082629. Instead, William Dillon sits on furniture the color of ripe lemons, surrounded by cheerful animal statues and blooming plants, a prisoner no longer after 27 years.He could get more than a million dollars in state compensation for his wrongful imprisonment, though how much he'll get - if ...

In a trial Thursday a jury found Brevard County's self-proclaimed "marijuana minister" guilty on all counts, which include manufacturing and possession of cannabis and larceny of utility service.

It was a would-be sex slave plot that police say involved a man kidnapping his long-time friend, taking nude photos of her and then blackmailing her into weekly sexual trysts.

The Brevard County Sheriff's Office says it will reopen a 1981 homicide case that previously left a central Florida man imprisoned for 27 years before he was cleared by DNA testing.

The fire is in southern Volusia just north of Mims in a heavily wooded area east of Interstate 95.

Firefighters in Brevard County are working to contain a brush fire near Mims on Tuesday.

A convicted felon wants payback and he wants it in the form of more than $1 million.

A trailer fire claimed the life of a woman in Brevard County. The woman was found dead Monday morning inside her trailer that was parked at the KOA campground on SR-46 just west of I-95 in Mims.

William Dillon will make his case today in Tallahassee that he should be compensated for 27 years of wrongful incarceration.

Local post offices are decked out in a plethora of pink this month as they vie to be the top-selling breast cancer awareness stamp location in the state and nation.

Orchids, those supermodels of the plant world, will take center stage this weekend as the Brevard County Orchid Society hosts its 49th Fall Orchid Fair at Melbourne Auditorium.

Brevard County businesses investing in a new look are being honored for improving the scenery.

A woman stabbed repeatedly in an attack early this morning continues to recover.

Deputies with the Brevard County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday found a man hiding in the woods near where a witness said he was taken at knifepoint.

An unmanned NASA rocket designed to help develop a new space taxi service to the moon streaked through the sky on Wednesday on a successful two-minute test flight.

An adult was killed and a juvenile was airlifted in serious condition on Tuesday in a rollover crash on Interstate 95 in Brevard County.

Brevard County veterans are a step closer to better health care. Construction is under way on a 30,000-square-foot expansion of the Veterans Affairs Viera Outpatient Clinic and on the initial phase of the VA's 1.2 million-square-foot medical complex in Orlando.

Forget the bombs and bullets, and gear up for cyber war. It's a real and growing threat with the potential for hostile governments and terrorists to hack into the computer networks that power the U.S. economy and run the military, perhaps triggering a digital 9/11. The concern crystallized this summer when President Obama created the first cyber ...