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Florida death row inmate William Reaves has asked the Florida Supreme Court to halt his scheduled execution, arguing that procedural failures and lethal injection concerns violate his constitutional rights. Reaves is slated to be put to death by lethal injection on October 20, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. for the 1986 fatal shoo

FORT PIERCE — It was not, in fact, a dark and stormy night despite all predictions to the contrary, and the Pursuit Boats Drone Show on Friday night was an incredible sight in a mostly clear sky over Marina Square. While October’s Friday Fest had been canceled due to...

Sireesha Rutter teaches journalism at Jupiter Middle School, and this week— she's headed to Salt Lake City to speak at a News Literacy Project conference.

Breeze Airways announced five additional Vero Beach routes, including three nonstop connections and two flights with a stop that require no aircraft change.

In my Port St. Lucie yard, the reflex is to treat exposed tree roots as a lawn problem: add topsoil until the mower has a smoother path. I have looked at roots that way myself. As of mid-September 2026, that neat patch of soil still sounds tempting. Here in Florida, though, a root showing at the surface is not a reques

MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — A five-year-old girl from Martin County recently found photos from the morning she was born and asked her mom about the firefighters who helped deliver her — leading to a reunion with the crew five years later. On April 6, 2020, Martin County...

Florida developers are racing to take advantage of a fast-track approval process for turning rural land into subdivisions, a process that state lawmakers expanded this year in their latest move to shift control over Florida's sprawling growth from local governments to Tallahassee. Since July, at least 17 landowners hav

JENSEN BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — A Jensen Beach man died Sunday night after his motorcycle crashed into the back of a van on Southern Boulevard in western Palm Beach County, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. The crash happened about 9:49 p.m. near D Road, in...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) — A St. Lucie District Schools bus carrying Centennial High School students veered off the roadway and struck a utility pole in Port St. Lucie. Officers with the Port St. Lucie Police Department said the bus was carrying several students when it left the roadway and hit the pole.

On Jan. 25, 2022, a Jacksonville-based tugboat crew returning from a job in Puerto Rico found an overturned 25-foot boat with a man sitting on the hull floating about 45 miles off Fort Pierce Inlet. The crew rescued 22-year-old Juan Esteban Montoya, who later told federal agents he and his...