Belle Glade News

Keeping Palm Beach County's fraying health care safety net together is growing more costly.

AT 1:12 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BELLE GLADE TO ROTENBERGER WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

It's an urgent question, posed in disparate corners of Palm Beach County: Why are 16 of every 1,000 black babies dying before taking their first breath? See more photos A LOOK AT THE NUMBERS Using data from the state's 2007 Black Infant Health Practice Initiative and 2008 legislative funding, the Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County set ...

In a $1 billion, 20-year project, the Army Corps of Engineers is strengthening the levees along Lake Okeechobee in Florida.

Coral Gables-based Bauer Financial took stars, or half-stars, away from 17 financial institutions in South Florida, but gave higher rankings to four others, according to its review of first quarter financial data.

There were four shootings in four different neighborhoods in Palm Beach County all less than 24 hours apart this weekend.

The Palm Beach County Violent Crimes Task Force released a picture of a man it is looking to question in the June 7 shooting of a 17-year-old girl who was closing a Subway restaurant at Forest Hill Boulevard and Congress Avenue.

Bite by bite, a giant clam-shell-style scoop lowered by a crane chomps into the 30-foot-tall earthen mound that for seven decades has guarded South Florida against getting swamped by Lake Okeechobee.

Glades Central High in Belle Glade, Fla., is known as the "Home of Champions" and several of those "champions" landed here Sunday night and took in Monday morning's edition of the West Virginia individual football camp for underclassmen.

Three teenage siblings from North Palm Beach have been detained and quarantined by the Chinese government in Beijing over fear about swine flu contamination.

Randell Doane being tested for the H1N1 virus. 3 North Palm Beach teens among 9 quarantined in China More Health Help SWINE FLU: Latest news & updates How Flu Kills , interactive slideshow by The Palm Beach Post Uninsured people with flu symptoms can be treated for free at the health department's seven health centers throughout Palm Beach: C. L.

A Belle Glade man is charged with animal cruelty after authorities found nine starving and emaciated dogs standing in their own filth in April, according to reports.

Two young men who were sent to the hospital after being shot in Belle Glade earlier in the week have been identified, but investigators are still looking for those responsible.

Leslie London of Vero Beach and friends. Customers are searching out the Giant Javas placed throughout Palm Beach and the Treasure Coast before the crack of dawn Friday.

The parking lot of the driver's license bureau in Delray Beach was constantly jammed with van loads of people arriving daily.

Palm Beach County Commissioners have approved a $1.9 million contract with Delray Beach based Hardrives, Inc.

Flood in the Belle Glade area after the 1928 storm. When the hurricane roared ashore at Palm Beach September 16, 1928, many coastal residents were prepared.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS PALM BEACH COUNTY... AT 236 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ROYAL PALM BEACH TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF LION COUNTRY SAFARI TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LION COUNTRY SAFARI TO 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BELLE GLADE TO 5 MILES EAST OF BELLE GLADE...MOVING ...

Central began what seemingly will be an impressive season Friday, as it scored 27 second half points to defeat Belle Glade Glades Central 34-12 at Traz Powell Stadium.

Palm Beach County Commissioners have reached agreement with the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund of the State of Florida in locating a Palm Tran bus service facility at the Palm Beach Sheriff Office West County Jail expansion property in Belle Glade.