Author: Malcolm Denemark, FLORIDA TODAY

Hundreds lined the streets of downtown Cocoa Beach for the Cocoa Beach Christmas Parade kicking off a day of holiday celebrations.

The 156-foot-tall booster from the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was towed into Port Canaveral shortly after 11:00 a.m. Friday morning by the tugboat Eagle.

80 Health First associates descended on the Viera Walmart to buy toys for 600 needy children, teaming up with the South Brevard Sharing Center.

Law enforcement went around the county collecting toys for needy children with a Reverse Christmas Parade on Thursday.

The Reverse Christmas Parade made its way through Brevard Thursday with businesses and residents donating toys.

Forty-seven children had a shopping spree Monday at a makeshift toy store organized by the Ohr Meir Foundation and former Toys R Us employees.

Forty-seven children had the shopping spree Monday at a makeshift toy store organized by the Ohr Meir Foundation and former Toys R Us employees.

Great weather, great art and great music brought out thousands to downtown Cocoa Beach fort the Cocoa Beach Art Show on Saturday.

Shoppers were out in force looking for Black Friday deals and door busters at shops, stores and malls around the Space Coast.

More than 2.600 people, many in costumes, showed up for the 20th annual Cocoa Beach Turkey Trot 5K Thanksgiving morning.

House of Hope on Merritt Island handed out more than 2,200 Thanksgiving dinners Nov. 19, 2018. The program is a community outreach between 3 churches

Workers and law enforcement work to secure the scene and remove damaged vehicles at the scene of a major crash on I-95 near Rockledge.

About 1,600 volunteers met at Satellite High Sunday morning to assemble 3,200 Thanksgiving baskets of food for families for thanksgiving dinners.

Brevard County Supervisor of Elections Lori Scott explains the manual recount.

For the last 18 years, Dorothy Linson, better known as Miss Dot has put on a Thanksgiving dinner for hundreds the week before Thanksgiving.

Dorothy Linson, better known as Miss Dot, cooks dinner for hundreds every year the Thursday before Thanksgiving at Lipscomb Community Center.

Photos from the FLORIDA TODAY VRA awards Wednesday night at Eastern Florida State College.

Amendment 4 passed, felons’ right to vote restored: Cecilia Thompson, Orlando Torrence talk about the importance of their right to vote

       

Waste Management Recycling Brevard employees conduct a recycling audit in Cocoa.

Brevard County Canvassing Board checks over provisional ballots the Friday after Election Day at the Government Center in Viera.