Belle Glade News

In the cool, buggy shade of a huge royal poinciana, archaeologist Michael Wylde dragged his trowel 1,200 years into the past.

It pays $10 to $13 an hour and Wilner Jacquet wants every penny of that paycheck.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office booked Lester Sanders on charges of operating a chop shop, grand theft auto, grand theft, and offenses involving vehicle identification numbers and altered property, a sheriff's report said.

Today, as Palm Beach County residents prepare to send their kids out trick-or-treating, the sheriff's office announces a partnership with CrimeReports, creators of the National Crime Map, to give parents and members of the public a comprehensive map of crime in their communities.

Teachers and parents turned to the Palm Beach County school board for the first time Wednesday, hoping for help as they fight controversial curriculum changes in the classroom.

County/Region: Palm Beach County FL / Palm Beach Year built: 1979 Builder: N/A Square footage: 100 sq.

Changes in the classroom have brought parental protests. High school students have even dressed in blue to echo their mood.

An 83-year-old man suffering from dementia was found in Belle Glade. Jesus Fernandez, of 2941 Cherokee Avenue in West Palm Beach, was discovered roughly an hour from his home behind the wheel of his 2005 Gray Ford Focus.

A Rhode Island man was talking online about child pornography and said he was in his red boxer shorts, but the chat "came to an abrupt halt when he answered his front door," a report says.

The Port of Palm Beach is going to make a decision Wednesday that has no credibility.

The lawyer for a 19-year-old Wellington man charged with setting a fire on his stove urged a judge this morning to reduce the charges.

Caption: White Male Found in Belle Glade Tuesday, October 26, 1976 Approximate Age - 27 years old This unidentified white male was 5'8" tall, weighed approx.

A 3-year-old Belle Glade girl suffered a skull fracture and concussion when she accidentally slipped through a broken balcony railing in her second-story apartment and fell to the ground around 11 a.m. Sunday, authorities said.

The immediate reaction to the fact that Willie Felton won't be charged with murder in the death of popular Belle Glade football player Norman "Pooh" Griffith Jr.

Along State Road 80 in Belle Glade, rows of black soil seem to go on for miles. Here, local farmers have had black soil stuck on their boots for decades.

Glades residents are getting a major upgrade in their regional hospital. Community leaders and officials with the Health Care District of Palm Beach County held a ribbon-cutting ceremony this morning to dedicate the Lakeside Medical Center, on the corner of U.S. 441 and State Road 80 between Belle Glade and Pahokee.

Police said a teenager was shot in the head in Belle Glade Wednesday night. Police said the shooting happened in the area of Southwest Sixth Street and Southwest Avenue A at about 7:20 p.m. According to Belle Glade police, the teenager and another man were approached by a group of men who fired shots.

Just released 9-1-1 tapes tell us what happened moments after a two and three year old watched their father shot their mother and then kill himself.

Two Belle Glade-based farm labor contractors are among seven farms and eight farm labor contractors fined for federal labor law violations in Atlantic County, N.J., the U.S. Department of Labor's said today.

They could not stop their father from shooting their mother, but a 3-year-old boy and his 1-year-old brother, may have saved her life by running to a neighbor's and having someone call 911.