Port St. Lucie

‘Bad neighbor’ unplugs bounce house at girl’s birthday party

Published on May 27, 2017 in Apolitical/Top Headlines by Associated Press

A Florida woman wants to know why someone unplugged a bounce house, causing it to deflate with nearly a dozen young children inside during her daughter’s first birthday party. CBS 12 reports two children suffered minor injuries after they were briefly trapped under the heavy plastic during the May 21 party in the backyard of a home in Port St. Lucie, about 114 miles north of Miami. The home’s surveillance video shows an older man briefly standing at the fence…

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Florida to get $5 million from failed visual effects studio

Published on May 31, 2016 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Gary Fineout

Florida will only get back a small portion of the millions it invested in a failed visual effects film studio whose high-profile bankruptcy was used in the contentious 2014 election between Gov. Rick Scott and Charlie Crist. State and local governments in April reached a settlement in a complicated legal battle that involved filings in bankruptcy court as a well as a civil lawsuit filed in St. Lucie County. A bankruptcy judge approved the settlement earlier this month and the…

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Visa fraud case rocks Florida city’s downtown dream

Published on January 15, 2016 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Associated Press

Port St. Lucie, a disparate series of residential developments and strip malls, had little to boast beyond its proximity to a nuclear plant and its fame as the spring training home of the New York Mets. Then Lily Zhong came to town, plunked down $500,000 for vacant land and promised to finally build a real downtown. She produced renderings, showing modern, multistory buildings rising along wide, pedestrian-friendly streets, where people would shop, do business, dine out and attend special events,…

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Which drivers in Florida suffer through the longest commute?

Published on June 28, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Mike Schneider

Surely it must be the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area, where the traffic jams are legendary. Or Orlando, where thousands of often lost and wandering tourists mix with residents to create a glacial sludge of cars. And if not those, it must be the Tampa Bay area, where many commuters contend with bridges and causeways as they go from one side of the water to the other. No, no and no. The longest average commute in Florida is found in the relatively…

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