Contestant Madison Wahler, a junior at South Fork High School, celebrates after winning 2nd Runner-up during the 2024 Miss Martin County Fair Scholarship Pageant
Evelyn Krupinski, 7, of Melbourne, screams at the sight of a frog during day three of the 33rd annual Fellsmere Frog Leg Festival on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024.
U.S. Rep. Brian Mast (right) competes in the 1K swim event during the 10th annual Aaron Vaughn Memorial Frogman Swim and Run on Saturday, June 26, 2021, at Jensen Beach Park.
Jesse Eugene Parker's HBS Glass co-workers and work trucks are seen in the reflection on the glass case carrying Parker's casket during his ceremony of life service on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, at Gifford cemetery in Indian River County. Parker, 53, recently died from COVID-19 after a three-week battle at the hospital.
"We're supposed to be Americans, and this isn't very American of us to strip us of our freedoms and treat us like second class citizens," said Amanda Conticello, of Jensen Beach, who joins about a couple hundred people in the "We Dissent" protest on the Roosevelt Bridge on Sunday, June 26, 2022, in Stuart. The United States Supreme Court reversed its landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which established a constitutional right to abortion, on Friday, June 24, 2022, leaving responsibility for the procedure's legality to the states.
The 2024 Martin County Fair in Stuart.
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene holds a "Impeach Biden" mask to her face before speaking to a crowd of about 400 people gathered at the Indian River County Fairgrounds for the “America First Rally” Saturday, April 24, 2021, in Indian River County.
"I'm happy to be here for his family and honor his service," said Danny Vinson, of Vero Beach, who pays his respects as the funeral procession of Kyle Patterson passes the Oslo Road I-95 overpass Friday, June 17, 2022, in Indian River County. Patterson, a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission senior investigator, died June 9 after a traffic crash in which a wrong way driver struck his unmarked FWC vehicle on Okeechobee Road in the area of South Header Canal Road.
Homes and businesses are devastated after Hurricane Ian on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, on Fort Myers Beach, Fla.
Brynna Stepp, left, is comforted by a friend during a candlelight vigil at Sparkman Park in Hartselle, Alabama. The vigil honored several Morgan County teenagers who died over the span of a few months.
Lake Okeechobee water coated in cyanobacteria, or "blue-green algae", gathers around the Port Mayaca Lock and Dam, the structure that moves water from the lake into the C-44 Canal and the St. Lucie River on Friday, June 30, 2023, in Martin County.
Dozens of people gather at Waveland Beach as Tropical Storm Isaias nears the Treasure Coast Sunday, August 2, 2020 in St. Lucie County.
The A.A. Hendry artificial reef sinks at the Fort Pierce Sportfishing Club Reef permitted artificial reef site about 15 miles southeast of the Fort Pierce Inlet on Saturday, July 15, 2023, in the Atlantic Ocean.
Homeowner Michael Schell walks into his destroyed home with his sister, Theresa Wagoner, just after a EF1 tornado touched down on Gatlin Road in Ardmore, Ala., on Monday March 19, 2018. Schell and his wife were not home at the time and were not injured.
Gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist speaks to a crowd of over 75 people during a town hall meeting, Thursday, April 14, 2022, at River Walk Center in Fort Pierce. Crist, former Republican governor of Florida, is running again this year as a Democrat.
A couple sits separated from other spectators during the Fort Pierce Westwood Academy commencement ceremony at Lawnwood Stadium on Wednesday, July 1, 2020 in Fort Pierce. As a precaution to stop the spread of COVID-19, graduates did not collect diplomas or sit near each other during the ceremony.
Jeanie Phelps puts sister Carol Ann Cole to rest at Maple Grove Cementery in Kalamazoo, Michigan. More than 34 years after Carol Ann's disappearance, family and friends say goodbye. In March, investigators announced that a body found in the northern Louisiana woods in 1981, known for years only as "Bossier Doe," was identified as Carol Ann.
Monty Hutchinson, left, and Benjamin David Hutchison, right, wed at the County Courthouse in Cassopolis, Michigan. Benjamin David Hutchison, an openly gay Southwest Michigan pastor, was forced to resign from the United Methodist Church because he had a partner.
A scene of yellow during autumn in Decatur, Ala.
Angelene Dodd comforts her son Noel during Nehemiah Dodd's balloon release. Two days after a jury found Brian Keith Roberts, 41, guilty of felony murder, second-degree murder and first-degree child abuse in the killing of Nehemiah Dodd, Nehemiah's family and friends gather to celebrate his memory at Riverside Cemetery in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
A pocket of blue sky appears above a cornfield as a storm lingers in Decatur, Ala.