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Florida Today Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey’s signature social media program, “Wheel of Fugitive,” in which a “fugitive of the week” is selected in a mock game show every Tuesday, almost always includes people who are not on the run from the law because they are already in jail, out on bond, have served their time or have no active warrants for their arrest. On the show, Ivey spins a giant roulette wheel with up to 10 mugshots of “participants” who are supposedly wanted by l...

Florida sheriff who hosts Wheel of Fugitive show features people who are not fugitives Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon, Florida Today © MALCOLM DENEMARK/FLORIDA TODAY David Austin Gay has been shown on the "Wheel of Fugitives" show four times, but each time he wasnt a fugitive. Three times he was already in custody at the Brevard County Jail and the fourth time he was legally out of jail. BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – On four Tuesday nights between Jan. 26 and February 23, 2021, ri...

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Indictments were handed down Tuesday in the Christmas Eve killing of a Palm Bay man last year.  A Brevard County grand jury indicted Toby Gamble, 23, and Hunter Oswiecinski, 17, both of Melbourne, on charges of first-degree premeditated murder in the death of 33-year-old Tyler McCoullough.  Oswiecinski is being charged as an adult. Both were arrested in early February.  An investigation began Dec. 24 last year when Palm Bay police responded to Forest Knoll Drive where McCoullough was fou...

Backstreets back, alright. Well, almost. "Hopefully — God willing — once we get the vaccine out there and we can get back out to normal capacities, we’ll be back out on stage," Backstreet Boys singer Howie D said Monday. During a press conference in Cocoa Beach about his upcoming $35 million condominium project The Surf, Howie D, whose name is actually Howie Dorough, gave an update about the bands tour amid COVID-19. "Wow, this is actually the first time Ive been in front of an audience i...

Proposed Florida legislation eases derelict boat removal MERRITT ISLAND — All those gutted, rotting-out old sailboats, yachts and other defunct dream boats — and the fuel and sewage they leak — have got to go, Florida lawmakers say, to keep afloat the watery reasons so many chose to live and play here. But many times, no one steps up as the owner, leaving the "derelict," often sunken boats sitting in the Indian River Lagoon and other coastal waters for years, obstructing our waterw...

Its almost launch day!  SpaceX is on track to launch its Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Centers Pad 39A early Thursday.  Heres what you need to know for launch: Liftoff is scheduled for 3:24 a.m. Thursday with a backup time of 5:42 a.m.  Approximately eight minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9 rockets first-stage booster will target an automatic landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. This is the companys 20th Starlink mission. If successful, the company will have boosted more ...

ST. LUCIE COUNTY — A Port St. Lucie man was killed Saturday when his motorcycle was struck by a trailer that separated from a pickup truck on South Indian River Drive, the Florida Highway Patrol stated in a crash report. The crash happened about 4:15 p.m. Saturday in the 4200 block of South Indian River Drive when a trailer detached from a northbound pickup truck and collided with two Port St. Lucie men, both age 60, traveling south just north of Midway Road, the FHP reported. One of the tw...