Pahokee News

Palm Beach County's economic development chief will resign his post in January to take a job in Texas.

Police said they are investigating a shooting at the Pahokee Save-A-Lot. The incident took place on Thursday just after 8 p.m. Investigators said that when they arrived at the site at 600 E. Main St., they found a male victim shot in the back just inside the business.

The start time for the Muck Bowl has been moved. The annual clash between Glades Central and Pahokee will kick off at 6pm on Saturday November 14th.

He made international headlines after interviewing President Obama. He's appeared on CNN, MSNBC and has been a YouTube sensation.

Authorities announced Thursday that they have found the body of seven-year-old Somer Thompson in a Georgia landfill 50 miles from her home. She was abducted Monday as she was walking home from school in Orange Park, Fla.

Police have said it was a homicide but have not reported any motives for the crime. They are interviewing convicted sex offenders living in Somer's community.

Florida's sexual offenders and predators registry, which is updated daily, shows 88 registered offenders live in Orange Park, and 161 offenders live within a five-mile radius of her home.

A school bus driver's efforts to conceal her son's arrest record resulted in charges of violating the federal housing assistance rules, authorities say.

Fewer than a quarter of the nearly 80 nursing homes in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast are licensed to nonprofit groups, but most pay executives well within national and state norms - and often earn top ratings from regulators.

Where to put a new landfill in Western Palm Beach County has been the subject of debate for years.

Jon Lovitz's Tommy Flanagan must be doing PR for the Palm Beach County School District.

A controversial school program in Pahokee quickly shuts down! Students were being suspended for a day if they were late showing up for class.

Four days after Pahokee administrators began suspending middle and high school students who showed up even one minute late to class, the school has reversed course.

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.

A fire broke out aboard a small plane before it crashed into the Everglades last month, killing four people, according to a preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board.

The 24-year old daughter of powerful lobbyist Ron Book talks about her fight against sexual predators after being abused by her nanny as a child.

It sounds like the beginning of a joke. "So Mel Tillis gets booked for this public speaking engagement and ..." But by the time the Country Music Hall of Famer finished a rollicking 45-minute set of home-spun humor at the Wiregrass 50+ Senior Expo, the overflow crowd was clamoring for more.

The Rev. Richard Witherow, who runs Matthew 25 Ministries, discusses the Miracle Park housing complex near Pahokee, Fla.

At a time when sex offenders are getting squeezed out of almost every community in South Florida, it is a miracle that one community is welcoming them with open arms.

A Belle Glade man shot the mother of his children in the head, then killed himself while their two boys ages 1 and 3 were inside the couple's apartment Wednesday night, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

Near Pahokee, Fla., a pastor has turned a former camp for migrant workers into an apartment complex for registered sex offenders .

A suspect in the shooting death of a Pahokee High School football star last year won't be charged.