A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student was put to death Wednesday evening at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.

A West Melbourne couple will be tried separately this summer for the murder of the mother’s 3-year-old. Police said Erica Dotson’s boyfriend Josh Manns beat Jameson Nance to death in 2021, but Dotson was aware of the abuse and didn’t stop it.

A month after a woman was sentenced to 30 years in prison over the abuse of a 12-year-old boy, court records show the boy's father will no longer be accepting a plea deal like his girlfriend did.

The girlfriend of a Brevard County father accused of beating his 12-year-old son to death was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

A man now in his 50s was found guilty Wednesday in Brevard County court of beating a woman to death in 2014 whose body was located in the Indian River, according to the State Attorney’s Office for Brevard and Seminole counties.

David Owens entered a Brevard County courtroom Wednesday, accused of killing an 88-year-old patient and her caregiver at Parrish Medical Center seven years ago.

A Cocoa police officer arrested in December after an hourslong standoff with Brevard County law enforcement at a Viera home was denied bond Thursday.

A judge sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for a 2018 shooting in Melbourne.

A former dog groomer who violently abused a service dog during a grooming appointment in 2019 was sentenced Monday to 180 days in jail and ordered to pay more than $5,000 in restitution.