Port St. Lucie police said a driver crashed head-on into an SUV after speeding away during a traffic stop Thursday morning. The incident happened at around 9:20 a.m. in the 1600 block of Southeast Veterans Memorial Parkway. Police said they pulled over a man driving a white Chevrolet sedan, when the man took off. Police said the man drove southbound on Southeast Veterans Memorial Parkway, while the officer radioed that the man fled the traffic stop, but no pursuit was initiated. According to police, the man lost control of the car in the 2200 block of Southeast Veterans Memorial Parkway, cross ..read more

Port St. Lucie is earning a good grade with FEMA on flood mitigation and that means savings for homeowners with flood insurance policies. "If you live in the special flood hazard area, which is the flood zones, you get 25% now and if you live outside those zones, you get 10% now," Shane Ratliff, of Port St. Lucie's Emergency Operations, said about the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The discounts were locked in once the city dropped its ratings score from an 8 to a 5. Ratliff said they did that by meeting requirements on documenting drainage maintenance work, pubic outreach and flood mes ..read more

A 20-year-old undocumented immigrant is being held at St. Lucie County Jail after police said he participated in a Colombian theft ring that targeted Asian business owners. Port St. Lucie Police said they arrested Angel Alejandro Rojas-Morales on Dec. 26, 2023. He faces numerous charges, including burglary to a dwelling, criminal mischief, grand theft and tampering with a utility fixture. PSLPD said the investigation began on Nov. 27, 2023, when they received a report of a residential burglary in the 600 block of Southwest Addie Street, where a safe, $10,000, and several pieces of jewelry were ..read more

Officers are searching for a car involved in a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a pedestrian in Port St. Lucie on Tuesday night. At 9:43 pm, officers and the St. Lucie County Fire District responded to South Federal Highway (U.S. 1) and Southeast Jennings Road for a crash. The pedestrian was taken to HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital with serious head injuries, police posted on Facebook. The circumstances surrounding the hit-and-run crash are unknown, the agency said. Vehicle in the crash is believed to be a black four-door Honda Accord. Anyone with information on the crash should call Of ..read more

A landscape worker is recovering in the hospital after being struck by a car in Port St. Lucie Tuesday morning. The crash happened at around 10:28 a.m. at the intersection of Port St. Lucie Boulevard and Southwest Kail Street. Port St. Lucie police said a black Mercedes was traveling eastbound on the inside lane of Port St. Lucie Boulevard and struck a landscape worker in the blocked lane. The woman landscape worker was airlifted to Lawnwood Hospital. Police said her injuries are not life threatening. The man driving the Mercedes was uninjured. Port St. Lucie Boulevard was shut down in the 100 ..read more

What to know: Free festival A ton of kid-friendly interactive activities from over 70 vendors Hundreds of volunteers help put on the event What I like about St. Lucie County's 20th annual Earth Day celebration, besides that it's free, is that it is so interactive. Each of the 70 vendors has a cool activity that people can experience. One is a rickshaw from Fort Pierce that an artist has turned into a peacock, which will offer rides to guests. St. Lucie County Environmental Resources Department's brush fire truck will allow kids to put out imaginary fires by using a real firefighter hose. "Onc ..read more

Burnt out and twisted wreckage is all that remains of vehicles involved in a wrong-way crash in the early hours Monday, in the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 and Indrio Road in St. Lucie County. For Nelson Miranda, it is all difficult to process. He said he spotted the car going the wrong way. "In that moment, I was just shook, in shock," Miranda said. "You know, I was just like what's going on? So, then finally, when I got my senses together, I called FHP right away and then the 911 operator was as anxious as I was." Hours late, Miranda maintained he narrowly avoided tragedy just before su ..read more

Burnt out and twisted wreckage is all that remains of vehicles involved in a wrong-way crash in the early hours Monday, in the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 and Indrio Road in Port St. Lucie. For Nelson Miranda, it is all difficult to process. He said he spotted the car going the wrong way. "In that moment, I was just shook, in shock, Miranda said. "You know, I was just like what's going on. So, then finally, when I got my senses together, I called FHP right away and then the 911 operator was as anxious as I was. Hours late, Miranda maintained he narrowly avoided tragedy just before sunris ..read more

April 15, 1999, the city of Port St. Lucie was in flames. More than 40 homes were destroyed, but miraculously no one was killed. Inside Fire Station 15 in Fort Pierce, there is a picture of a moment frozen in time. It is of a raging inferno, where you can see a tunnel of smoke across a busy road. Lt. Chris Longo snapped the photo and not long after, had to escape the flames. We had to hide under our truck, because it advanced and went over the top of us," Longo said. "We hid under the truck and it literally caught some of the areas of the truck and fire we literally had to put our own truck ou ..read more

A deadly crash involving at least two vehicles has closed all southbound lanes of Interstate 95 in St. Lucie County on Monday morning. The Florida Highway Patrol said the wreck was reported just before 5 a.m. at mile marker 137, just south of Indrio Road, north of Fort Pierce. Aerial video from WPTV Chopper 5 showed a white vehicle split in half with one part smashed into a concrete median in the southbound lanes, and the second half in the grassy shoulder. WATCH: Chopper 5 video of deadly crash on I-95 in St. Lucie County Chopper 5 video of deadly crash on I-95 southbound in St. Lucie County ..read more