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WEST MELBOURNE, Fla. — A Brevard County man blasted away with an assault rifle at a SWAT robot while wearing nothing but his birthday suit. The suspect's dog was the only onlooker as the robot approached the door at the West Melbourne home on Del Mar Circle. Authorities said a man with several guns was suicidal and threatening authorities. "He said he'd shoot anyone he could," said Lt. Bruce Barnett with the Brevard County Sheriff's Office. Instead of risking any lives, deputies sent the $65,000 robot into the home. The robot has cameras, which record all of its actions. The...

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (CNN) - The search continues for a bobcat that attacked a Florida woman this week. A man on Friday spotted an animal, believed to be the same bobcat the bit the woman in the leg. The woman was attacked at her home on Thursday, and her husband came to the rescue. "It came from the neighbor, jumped his fence, came across the road, bit my wife by the mailbox, jumped my fence, came under here, got my puppy, came in my garage, and attacked my puppy again. I hit it with a four-by-four, and then a...

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. -- The Beachline Expressway has been shut down in Brevard County. The crash happened in Merritt Island at SR 528 and SR 3 around 3:30 p.m. SR 528 is closed in both directions. SR 3 (Courtenay Parkway) is closed as well. A WESH 2 News crew on the scene said a tanker collided with a pickup truck. The tanker exploded after gasoline spilled onto the roadway. The spokeswoman said the Florida Highway Patrol believes two people have died, one person in the tanker and one from the pickup.

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - A man is sitting in the Brevard County jail mostly because won't say who he is, or what he was doing when he beached a boat north of Port Canaveral. He's been given the name "John Doe" after he gave several name that couldn't be verified. The man also couldn't prove he owned the boat and wouldn't tell authorities where he was going.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Forty years of space history is being demolished at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral as crews worked to begin dismantling historic launch pad 39-B. It is not yet clear when launch pad 39-B will make history again. The pad is one of two used for both the Apollo and Shuttle programs. Shuttle Discovery is prepared for its next flight on the only remaining pad, 39-A, where it is set to launch Monday. The last time pad 30-B was used it launched an Aries 1X, which was to be the rocket to launch astronauts to...

Posted: 5:54 pm EST November 11, 2009 Updated: 6:53 pm EST November 11, 2009 BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- Fishermen say an effort to protect the red snapper could kill Brevard County's fishing industry. They're gathered in Cape Canaveral to fight a ban on "bottom fishing."

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- The debate over health care reform got rowdy again Tuesday, this time in Brevard County. The legislation in front of Congress right now has led to a lot of angry debates across the country. Tuesday, the AARP tried to answer questions from some angry residents there. They all came here to be heard and, with no other public forum offered by congressional leaders in Brevard County, they turned to the AARP to demand answers. "Why wouldn't AARP insist the government fix Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security before we discuss anything?" one attendee asked. More than...

MELBOURNE BEACH, Fla. -- The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says officers caught suspected wildlife cop shooter, Christopher Eddy, Friday evening in Melbourne Beach. Eddy, 23, is suspected of shooting veteran Fish and Wildlife Officer Vann Streety at least six times, during a traffic stop in a rural area in west Cocoa. Investigators tracked Eddy down in a wooded area on A1A, in Melbourne Beach after he tried to steal a car. Eddy admitted his crime to Eyewitness News as he was being handcuffed. “It was just unjust the way they treated me, because they pulled me over and they...

Above linked radar pic might update and change by time you see it, but now it is deep purple with "tornado hooks" directly over launch pads and VAB.

MELBOURNE, Florida (Reuters) - Republican Rudy Giuliani, who regularly touts his leadership of New York City during the September 11 attacks, saw his plan to jump-start his presidential campaign tripped up by a bomb threat in Florida on Wednesday. The threat threw off his schedule and reduced the turnout for the former New York mayor's speech in Melbourne from what his campaign manager Bill McCollum said was initially expected to be "several hundred" people to about 50. The anonymous threat was called into the headquarters of communications equipment maker Harris Corp at about the same time Giuliani's plane landed at...

Three witnesses told police they saw a man and two women in a four-door white vehicle approach the Murphy USA gas station in the southwest corner of the Wal-Mart parking lot...The man then threw a package of red tubes wrapped with electrical tape. They were made to resemble dynamite, and also attached was something made to resemble a fuse, police said.

PALM BAY, Fla. -- A Palm Bay girl was attacked on her way to school Friday morning. She told police a man with a knife chased her into some woods and tried to assault her. That man is still on the run. Police said the 13-year-old girl was walking to her middle school when she noticed a man in a truck was following her and pulled off of the road. She turned onto a side street and she said he actually jumped out and chased her into nearby woods. That's where, she said, the man pulled a knife and tried...

(pics on the thread) [...]The president was finishing his speech, and Sarah tells me, "I need some water. I'm blacking out." We had spent four hours standing in the sun, and despite her regularly drinking the water that was passed out throughout the event, the sun took its toll. Sarah was wedged into a narrow angle where two fences meet, and the place was packed. Now that the president was leaving the stage, the people handing out the water were gone. I felt kind of useless as a husband. There was no room to sit her down. There was no...

The Kerry Campaign came to Florida’s Space Coast on Monday, July 26,2004 to make a campaign speech at the Kennedy Space Center’s visitors complex. Bush supporters and Vietnam Veterans were out in force to greet Kerry’s motorcade as it left the hotel and to show to the motorists on the heavily traveled highway A-1-A that Brevard County is Bush Country as a prominent banner proclaimed. The turnout was great with the crowd estimates ranging from 60 to 125 (as reported in Florida Today).  There were two lone Kerry supporters later joined by three others wearing identical SEIU (Service Employees International...

A few days ago my daughter related how she took my ten-year-old Grandson to the Eau Gallie, FL (near Melbourne) public library to check out some books. She turned him loose in the kids' section while she looked for some books for herself. A while later, they each took their stack of books to the counter, checked them out, and went home. My daughter didn't inspect his choices any farther than the covers - big mistake. This is one of the books he chose (cool cover, right?): Gunsmith Cats: Bonnie & Clyde by Kenichi Sonoda Published by Dark Horse Comics"Meet...

<p>Campaign signs at the Best Western Harbor View in Melbourne Friday read "Jackie Colon for County Commission District 5." Voters first saw those signs in 2000 when Colon initially won the seat.</p> <p>But in the fine print at the bottom of the signs, the "D" that followed Colon's name was taped over and replaced with an "R."</p>