Port Saint Lucie FL

Two high-profile animal hoarding cases in Martin County this summer — and a third in Palm Beach County — have prompted questions about whether more can be done to prevent animal neglect.

A Florida father who displayed a pistol while confronting bullies who attacked his son over a pizza will not face charges, local media reported.

A failed prison drop of a large amount of contraband ended in a particularly weird way. The Florida woman who tried to deliver it ended up on the other side of the fence. The Martin ... Read more

DEKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA – Two former Fort Pierce youngsters were fatally shot on Sept. 20 in unincorporated Stone Mountain, Georgia in DeKalb County, according to the DeKalb County Police. On Sept. 22, DeKalb County Police arrested Julian Ellis, 18, for allegedly fatally shooting Jamarion Rolle, 11, and Ja’khi Clark,...

MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — A Florida woman may be trading freedom for a jail cell after deputies say she tried to make what they called a “bountiful” contraband drop at Martin Correctional Institution. According to the Martin County Sheriff's Office, Makia Lashay Rivers was arrested outside...

As of late September 2026, the refrigerator is the one appliance nobody in Port St. Lucie thinks about once it's plugged in. Here in Florida it runs around the clock, and my neighbors treat it like a rock that hums: it's cold inside, so whatever is on the back must be fine too. Nobody pulls it out to look at the coils

As of late September 2026, the windows in my Port St. Lucie house have been shut for the AC since spring, and by now a couple of rooms smell like it: stale, a little close. The reflex here in Florida, and mine for years, is a candle on the counter or a plug-in freshener in the hallway outlet. The room smells like vanil

As of late September 2026, my rat-proofing routine in Port St. Lucie has always been a ground-level job: a new sweep under the garage door, a look along the slab for gaps, a screen over the low vents. It's the instinct I brought down from Jersey. Rats come from the ground, like ants or roaches, so you seal the ground a

A man in the middle of a mental health crisis jumped off the west bridge into the low-tide waters of the St. Lucie River near Southwest Martin Downs Boulevard on Wednesday night, setting off a rapid, multi-agency rescue that ended with him airlifted to a hospital with traumatic injuries. Martin County Fire Rescue, the

The East Stuart Skatepark Project in Martin County, Florida, is facing an uncertain future after city commissioners called for funding for the planned facility at Guy Davis Park to be removed. The project has been in the works for several years and has already reached 100 percent design completion. Skateboarders...