VERO BEACH — Police are investigating nude photos of underage girls found on a memory card in the lost-and-found at the Vero Beach Hotel and Club.

An employee at the hotel in the 3500 block of Ocean Drive told police she placed the memory card in the lost-and-found four months ago, according to the police report. The hotel’s policy is to allow employees to keep unclaimed items they have turned in after three months. When the employee saw the images of the young teenage girls on the card, she decided to contact police.
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VERO BEACH — High electric bills have provided the spark to this year’s election, with some candidates contending a contract with a new power provider will bring relief and others suggesting the city look at getting out of the electric business.

Incumbents Bill Fish and Debra Fromang are being challenged by five people looking to gain two-year terms on the five-member council.

The challengers include former City Council member Ken Daige; frequent council critic Brian Heady; retired National Geographic Society Chief Cartographer Jack Shupe; downtown businesswoman Susan Viviano; and local businessman and political commentator Charlie Wilson.
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FORT PIERCE — A 39-year-old Vero Beach man was arrested Saturday after being found with a short-barrel assault rifle outside a gun show at the Havert L. Fenn Center in Fort Pierce, according to a recently released arrest affidavit and a sheriff’s official.

James Mathew Kennedy, of the 1000 block of 27th Avenue Southwest, took the AR15-type rifle into the gun show, where he went to buy parts, officials said. They gave this account: The rifle had a barrel length about three inches shorter than is allowed without first going through a lengthy federal approval process.
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By ELLIOT JONES
Tcpalm.com

VERO BEACH — There are now 65 confirmed swine flu cases in Indian River County, the latest being an unidentified youth age 18 or younger, health officials said Friday.

The child is not among the four confirmed swine flu cases recently reported at the Life For Youth Camp, a day and residential youth camp attended by hundreds of youths each week, said Miranda Swanson, director, Indian River County Health Department. Three are from Indian River County. The fourth was confirmed to have the swine flu, also known as the H1N1 virus, on Friday but the person had returned to a home out of the county so the case isn’t included in the Indian River County total.

Health Department officials visited the camp, off 82nd Avenue, on Friday to ask for information on who has become sick and when. And the department provided a health advisory the camp is to hand out to campers, Swanson said. (more…)