Belle Glade News

From Boynton Beach to Jupiter to Pahokee and Belle Glade, doctors, nurses and other medical providers are participating in what the county is calling Medical Home Day 2012.

"You could see roofs and debris, washing machines.A I mean everything was all over the place," said Lillian Tomeu, the project manager for marina restoration.

It's because he helped save her mother's life, and, by extension, helped make it possible for little Li to exist.

Growing up in Pahokee in the 1970s, Jerry Shirley was a mischievous teenager, and he will be the first one to admit it.

A man was arrested and charged with possession of 5.6 grams of marijuana at Southeast Avenue G and South Main Street in Belle Glade.

Boca Raton February 9, 2012 - Loop the Lake for Literacy Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County Contact: Darlene Kostrub, 561-573-6384 Registration is open for the Second Annual Loop the Lake for Literacy to be held Saturday, February 25, around Lake Okeechobee.

Jefferson Correctional Institution near rural Monticello, was marked for closure by the Florida Corrections Department, one of 11 prisons and work camps targeted because of the state's declining inmate population.

With the Palm Beach County School Board only days away from possibly selecting the district's new leader, tough questions for the three people vying for the job came from parents and teachers on Monday night.

A Loxahatchee woman pleaded guilty Thursday to embezzling from the non-profit housing corporation in Belle Glade, where she worked as an assistant finance director.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office this morning is asking for the public's assistance in identifying this man.

Traffic homicide investigators are asking for the public's help identifying a man struck and killed by a car in Belle Glade last month.

A man was arrested in the 500 block of West Avenue A in Belle Glade and charged with assault on a law-enforcement officer; possession of two Xanax tablets, a Schedule IV controlled substance; possession of under 20 grams of marijuana; and resisting arrest without violence.

My first Neighborhood Post column about the good stuff of the Glades appeared on June 16, 2004 .

Old wounds have yet to heal for a Belle Glade mother who lost her son, a Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy,A after he was hit by another deputy during a high speed chase.

The excitement had died down a bit by 10 a.m. in the hallway and the coaches had dispersed for the time being to various offices at Bill Brown Alumni Football Center.

90 percent of the precincts now reporting. Voter turnout steady at about 33 percent.

It was just the start of lunchtime and already the 11 tables and half-dozen seats at the counter of the new Prado's Cuban Cafe in Belle Glade was packing in the customers.

Defense attorneys for the Army psychiatrist charged in the Fort Hood shooting rampage want to delay his March murder trial.

BELLE GLADE, Fla. - Rebounding from small early January freeze damage, Florida grower-shippers say buyers should expect strong spring volume on most vegetables.

In minutes, a 37-year-old businessman was in handcuffs, charged with DUI and carrying a concealed weapon.