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Dozens of tires cut at homes.

Police have searched on foot and by contacting people who knew her.

Follow TCPalm's live coverage of the penalty phase for Eriese Tisdale.

Gannett Co. Inc. said Wednesday it plans to buy Journal Media Group, parent company of Treasure Coast Newspapers and newspapers in 13 other markets, for about $280 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2016 if it receives regulatory and shareholder approval.

FORT PIERCE — Choking back sobs and cloaked in sorrow, Candy Morales faced a jury Wednesday and said her murdered son, since age 4, wanted to be “a cop, like my dad.”

ST. LUCIE COUNTY — All five nominees who were passed over earlier this year for a vacancy on the St. Lucie County bench are among the dozen applicants seeking the appointment to replace County Judge Cliff Barnes.

If all 3,436 Treasure Coast home-schooled students went to public schools, they would fill two average size elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. At the rate their numbers have been increasing — 25 percent over the past five years — they could fill yet another school by next year.

Donald Lesko, 24, first block of Harbour Isle Drive, Fort Pierce; warrants for giving false information to a pawnbroker, dealing in stolen property.

Kimberly Coleman, 40, 300 block of Moonstone Drive, Jensen Beach; warrants for giving false statement of public aid, grand theft.

Nicholas Witt, 34, Titusville; warrant for grand theft.