🌱 What deputies say happened inside this Fort Pierce-area home before sunrise
Fort Pierce, Florida Patch AM: a 5 min readGood morning Fort Pierce! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- What deputies say happened inside this Fort Pierce-area home before sunrise
- How Fort Pierce became the heart of the Florida Highwaymen legacy
- What new safety steps follow a Fort Pierce toddler’s tragic pool drowning?
Today's riddle: What do sweet potatoes wear to bed? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Friday: Humid; an afternoon t-storm, with a high of 89 and low of 72 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Saturday: A shower and t-storm; humid, temps: high: 89, low: 74.
- Sunday: Humid with a stray t-storm, with a high of 91 and low of 73 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
1. Fort Pierce man charged after armed burglary, battery in Indian River Estates (wqcs.org) — A 19-year-old Fort Pierce man was arrested after deputies say he forced his way into an Indian River Estates home, assaulted a woman, and fled, triggering a K-9 and drone search. St. Lucie County deputies later found him at a nearby business, recovered a shotgun, and booked him into jail on multiple serious felony charges, stressing there’s no ongoing threat. 
2. Florida Highwaymen leave lasting legacy of paintings by Black artists (news-press.com) — Fort Pierce’s role in the Florida Highwaymen legacy is front and center, with a new city museum on Avenue D and local festivals and cemetery tributes honoring the artists. The story traces how largely Fort Pierce-based Black painters built a nationally recognized art movement despite segregation, and how their work is now celebrated from Tallahassee to the Smithsonian.
3. Florida child drownings have spurred new laws, but can they help? (tcpalm.com) — A recent drowning of a 2-year-old boy in a Fort Pierce backyard pool is one of several tragedies prompting Florida to toughen water-safety laws and expand free swim lessons. Lawmakers and pediatric experts stress constant supervision, pool barriers, and new hospital-based education as key tools to prevent more local and statewide child drownings.
4. Suit filed on behalf of Haitian woman killed in Turnpike crash, cites Supreme Court (miamiherald.com) — A wrongful-death lawsuit has been filed over a fatal Florida Turnpike crash that happened about 19 miles north of Fort Pierce in St. Lucie County, killing three Haitian immigrants. The suit targets the truck driver, his employer, and a major freight broker, using a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling to argue they negligently put an unsafe driver on the road.
5. Knight Institute Urges Eleventh Circuit to Reverse District Court Order Barring Release of Special Counsel Jack Smith's Report (knightcolumbia.org) — From a courthouse in Fort Pierce, a First Amendment group is asking a federal appeals court to overturn Judge Aileen Cannon’s order blocking release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on classified documents tied to Donald Trump. The group argues the public has a right to see the report under the Constitution, common law, and federal transparency rules.
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Gardening Advice @ Morningside Library
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- Happy Wednesday neighbors!
I just wanted to post the link to the gardening/growing group for those who may have seen my posts but aren’t familiar with it. The group is for… (Nextdoor Maravilla Estates) - I have had unexpected hatch of adorable silkie chicks- and I am beyond comfy capacity!
If anyone looking for silkies- they are healthy, sweet, and I MUST rehome asap!! They are approx 6-7 weeks old- healthy and happy! Please! Only FREE… (Nextdoor West Edwards Road)
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- Waste Management posted a job opening for Experience Heavy Equipment Operator: Transfer Stations in Fort Pierce. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Fort Pierce here.
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