Port Saint Lucie FL

The tension inside the chamber was palpable last week as County Commissioner Joe Earman sat on the dais and Sheriff Eric Flowers stood at the podium. Only hours earlier – at 5 p.m. the day before on the Sheriff’s Office campus – Flowers was conducting a press conference to announce the arrest of Earman’s son, Sam, on...

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VERO BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — The community is continuing to mourn the tragedy in Indian River County, with a care center in Vero Beach hosting a Dine and Dash fundraiser today for fallen Deputy Terri Sweeting-Mashkow. She was killed during an eviction call last week, sending shockwaves through the county and beyond....

A sharp decline in middle school enrollment over the past decade has spawned a bold plan to reconfigure the county’s public education infrastructure by expanding and combining several elementary and middle schools, while relocating others. The goal is to refill half-empty classrooms and save on operating expenses...

MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — The search is intensifying for a missing 46-year-old woman who is believed to be endangered. The Martin County Sheriff's Office has joined the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office (PBSO) in asking for assistance in locating Raymonde Duval, who was last seen on Monday. Deputies say Duval is...

More than 100 volunteers helped members of Mustard Seed Ministries in Fort Pierce on Thursday prepare nearly 1,500 Thanksgiving meals.

MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — Drone video captured the moment authorities located a missing woman with autism on Tuesday. In a dramatic nighttime rescue, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) Drone Unit located 55-year-old Michela Delrosa — an autistic, non-verbal woman — deep in dense brush near Sea Turtle Beach...

MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — A crash in Martin County on the Florida Turnpike has closed the right southbound lane on Thursday, according to Florida 511. Florida 511 reports the crash is just before mile marker 127 and had previously closed all southbound lanes. The Florida Highway Patrol says there are injuries...

STUART, Fla. (CBS12) — It's been six years since a one-year-old and a 28-year-old mother were killed in a boating accident in Martin County, but their memories still live on in the community today. You may remember the tragic October night in 2019. Kyle Barrett was driving a boat...

The Hospital District heard proposals from four suitors interested in operating the facility the trustees bought in 2024 with $3.8 million of taxpayer money to become a sober home, but after digging into the operational details, they voted to explore selling the property. “In light of the presentations yesterday, I...