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A Florida county is urging residents to call 911 sparingly as hospitals experience an influx of COVID-19 patients. Brevard County Fire Chief Mark Schollmeyer said residents should consider other options such as contacting a primary care physician before calling ambulance services, CBS reported. “Leave emergency room and ambulance trips for those with life-threatening or serious emergencies,” Schollmeyer told the outlet. Schollmeyer said emergency rooms have been inundated amid the recent surges of coronavirus infections. “There is a capacity issue at our local hospitals dealing with this new surge in COVID-19,” Schollmeyer told the outlet. “Crowding in the ERs has caused...

Inmates took part in a major cleanup in Brevard County. The sheriff's office's "chain gang' pitched in to clean up a homeless camp and dumping ground under the Sykes Creek Parkway Bridge. They removed 22,600 pounds of garbage under the bridge. All that filled 16 trucks. The trucks hauled the trash to the landfill.

It’s no secret that from the day after the 2016 election, Democrats had their sights set on impeaching President Trump, even objecting on January 6, 2017 to the electoral votes starting with the State of Alabama, which President Trump won by 28 points, alleging “Russia Collusion.” When the Russian collusion conspiracy was proven to be make believe, they moved on to impeaching him over allegations made by an “anonymous whistleblower” who we later found out worked with Joe Biden when he was vice president. We may never know all the facts about those allegations because House Democrats denied President Trump...

BREVARD HISTORY: Last Naval Battle of American Revolution Fought Near Cape Canaveral March 10, 1783BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – On March 10, 1783, the last naval battle of the American Revolution was fought off Cape Canaveral, as Captains John Barry and John Green tried to deliver a shipload of Spanish silver to the Continental Congress. Barry, captain of the Alliance, the Continental Navy’s 36-gun sailing frigate, arrived in Martinique from France in January 1783 and found orders from Robert Morris of the Continental Congress to sail to Havana, Cuba to pick up 72,000 Spanish silver dollars that were to be used...

The mother of a Florida teenager who was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy this month was wounded at his burial service Saturday. Quasheda Pierce, 39, was hit when a shot rang out at Riverview Memorial Gardens in Cocoa, where 18-year-old Sincere Pierce was being laid to rest just over two weeks after he and another teen were shot dead by a Brevard County Sheriff’s deputy. Police said the wounded woman and a 16-year-old boy were both struck when a gun the teen was carrying at the burial “experienced an accidental discharge” and struck both of them, WOFL-TV reported...

LOUISVILLE, Ky—At the Express Consignment Operations hubs in Louisville U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized a shipment from China that contained over 10,000 Assault Weapons parts being smuggled into the country.

Brevard County Emergency Management wants to remind residents and visitors to think safety first and foremost as you make plans for watching the return to human spaceflight with Wednesday’s historic SpaceX Crew Dragon rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center. The launch is scheduled for Wednesday at 4:33 p.m., Brevard County officials caution motorists that traffic will generate a variety of potential safety obstacles for those who want to venture out for the launch. As with the Space Shuttle program, Brevard County beaches and parks are prime viewing areas. Officials are asking people protect themselves and others by following the CDC...

A few days ago, on 15 April, 2020, the Florida 5th District Court of Appeals dismissed charges against retired General Motors worker John DeRossett, who wounded a deputy in a gunfight at his home in 2015. It was at night. The officer at the door was in plain clothes at the time, had no warrant, and was developing a case of solicitation for prostitution on DeRossett's niece, Mary Ellis. The other two officers were in plain clothes and hid in the dark outside the house.  The officers attempted to take Mary Ellis into custody, at DeRossett's home.  The officers never...

Deputies found a 25-year-old Florida woman hiding in a hotel bed box spring after she had violated her probation, according to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office. Acasia Fuscaldo, 25, of Cocoa, was arrested on three felony charges of violating her probation, according to the sheriff’s office. Fuscaldo has been arrested six times before on multiple charges of theft, burglary and grand theft, according to the sheriff’s office. Deputies received a tip Saturday saying Fuscaldo could be found in a hotel. When deputies entered her hotel room, they saw no one was inside but K-9 officer Kyra alerted deputies of Fuscaldo’s...

(CNN)A 2-year-old girl remains in the hospital a day after she was injured at a Florida zoo during a private rhino encounter experience, zoo officials and her family said. The toddler and her family were taking part Tuesday in a close-up experience with white rhinos at the Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, Florida, when the girl came into contact with the animals. The family of three was given access to feel and brush the rhinos while supervised by two zookeepers in an area of the zoo where they were separated from the animals only by steel posts. The toddler wedged through...

MELBOURNE, Fla. — A security breach at Orlando Melbourne International Airport prompted a lockdown early Thursday morning. According to an airport official, an unauthorized student pilot boarded a commercial jet. Advertisement The Melbourne Police Department tweeted Thursday morning that the airport is closed, and all flights have been suspended. The lockdown was put in place a little before 5 a.m. The airport is still closed at this time. The person of interest has been apprehended. The airport should re-open soon.

An armed bystander shot a man who opened fire at a Florida park filled with over 100 people -- including children -- for a Saturday back-to-school cookout, officials said. The Titusville Police Department said in a news release the man was involved in a fistfight with another person at the Issac Campbell Park and left around 5:20 p.m. -- only to return with a gun minutes later and start shooting. A bystander, who was lawfully licensed to carry a firearm, then shot the gunman.

An armed bystander shot a man who open-fired on a back to school event at a Titusville park following a fistfight, police said. The shooting occurred at Isaac Campbell Park on South Street shortly after 5:20 p.m. when the shooter, whom police have not identified, returned to the park after a fistfight and began firing. A bystander licensed to a carry a firearm then shot the shooter, who was flown to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said. The bystander who shot the suspect waited for officers and has been fully cooperative with the investigation, police said. After consulting...

March 23, 2018 The Obama administration placed a declared enemy of the United States (who was on U.S. Central Command’s Operation Iraqi Freedom “Blacklist”) inside the wire at Port Canaveral, Florida with a 35 year cargo container terminal lease. That lease bypassed the congressionally-mandated national security review by 16 intelligence agencies. In 2014 Obama and Clinton operatives positioned Gulftainer, a Middle Eastern ports company, only a few thousand feet from U.S. Navy Trident submarines at Port Canaveral and within sight of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Gulftainer is now embedded amidst America’s most sensitive space, naval submarine, and air force defense...

Students at Rockledge High School in central Florida staged a walkout Friday in response to the Parkland, Florida school shooting, but in contrast to a national walkout last month, this one was in support of gun rights. Students Chloe Deaton and Anna Delaney organized the event, and dozens of students turned out, WFTV Orlando reported. Two weeks ago, students at Rockledge and around the country walked out of schools during the National School Walkout, a movement organized by gun control activists. Some students who support gun rights said their voices were silenced. "I’m just saying that we should not let...

The group of teenagers who filmed and mocked a man as he was drowning in a Cocoa pond have been charged, according to police. Cocoa Police Chief Michael Cantaloupe said in a press conference that it is the duty of four people to report a death. While there is no requirement to report to officials that someone is dying, but once someone is dead, then people, according to the law, must report it to authorities, he explained. He said there is no "just outcome" for what happened in the drowning since Jamel Dunn died. "We don't want another family have...

In the video, which was published by the Florida Today newspaper Thursday, the teens can be heard laughing at Dunn as he splashes futilely in the water and screams for help. "Get out the water, you gonna die," yells one, while another yells, "ain’t nobody fixing to help you, you dumb (expletive)." As Dunn disappears under the water, one of the teens says, "Oh, he just died."

Posting this ahead of the storm so I can ping it out while I know I have connectivity. Keep track of the status of your loved ones and FRiends on America's Space Coast while we endure Hurricane Matthew. Hey, any county that can turn out that any folks for DJT the day after the debate is worth saving!

DEVELOPING: An elderly patient and an employee were shot and killed at a Florida hospital Sunday morning in what police are calling “an isolated incident.”

An accused burglar is dead after Brevard County deputies said he hid in a pond while on the run and was killed by an 11-foot-long alligator. Matthew Riggins, 22, of Palm Bay was reported missing Nov. 13. His body was found 10 days later floating in a pond near Latan Court and Barefoot Circle, in Barefoot Bay. Investigators said it had the makings of a gator attack. Shortly before Riggins was reported missing, he called his girlfriend and told her he'd be in the area breaking into homes, deputies said. "He was going to do burglaries in the Barefoot Bay...