Mangonia Park News

By Josh Hafenbrack, Tallahassee Bureau TALLAHASSEE - Orlando's $1.2 billion SunRail commuter train is grabbing headlines, but there might be another big winner as a special session on transportation issues becomes more likely: Tri-Rail, South Florida's 20-year-old train system.

Palm Beach County commissioners will decide today whether to move forward with the purchase land for a new landfill or wait and see if they can swap property they already own for the dump instead.

A kitten was killed when someone shot him with a BB gun in a Mangonia Park neighborhood.

Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control says someone is using kittens as target practice.

Authorities say one person was fatally shot and another was stabbed in separate incidents in West Palm Beach.

Authorities have charged a 24-year-old Riviera Beach man with murder in the shooting death of a man in Mangonia Park last November.

A coalition of black elected officials is using its political muscle to push a controversial plan to build an "inland port" in the Glades.

Palm Beach County Commissioners have received and filed five standard development agreements, three of which are in Commission District Five, as follows: Pine Ridge at Delray Beach Master Association, Inc.

A disproportionate number of black people in Palm Beach County have tested positive for HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS.

The city council sitting as the Utility District board approved a rate increase for water and sewer service tonight that will raise a typical residential bill by $10 a month.

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.

County water customers may notice a slight chlorine taste or odor when the water department flushes its pipes with the chemical for a month starting June 15, department officials said Monday.

It's going to cost you more to ride the train. Tri-Rail fares go up 25 percent today, the first hike since 1995.

May 31, 2009 10:12 pm US/Eastern Riding Tri-Rail will cost more beginning Monday.

Three teens arrested Wednesday night on murder charges in connection with the shooting death of a 23-year-old Guatemalan native appeared in court this morning briefly but their bond hearings were rescheduled.

Jermaine Donte Taylor, 19, of Mangonia Park has been charged with murder in the April 15 shooting of robbery victim Oliver Perez, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said.

Faced with drastically cutting service this fall and possibly shutting down for good in two years, Tri-Rail is in survival mode.