Pahokee 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.

A body found Wednesday by a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office helicopter in a canal behind Fremd Village has been identified as Tabias Felton and presumed an accidental drowning.

Scott McIntyre/Staff Community School of Naples' Megan Myers goes for a layup while Pahokee High School's Jamelia Burroughs tries to block her during the Class 3A regional quarterfinal at Community School on Thursday.

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.

The body of a black male was found in a Pahokee canal at 9:50 a.m. Thursday, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office reports.

Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputies are at the scene south of Muck City Road and east of Pope Court.

The guitarist/songwriter for the duo Sleigh Bells was taking time off during the holidays at his mom's home in Jupiter, when he and singer Alexis Krauss decided that they had the perfect location for a new music video: the old neighborhood.

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

While literally speaking, we CELEBRATED LITERACY in FLORIDA WEEK from January 23 to January 27--- the celebration was just the acknowledgement to foster reading daily as individuals, with our children and share with others the joy of reading which this year's theme embraced, "Take the Lead and Read". An outcome from the preparation for Literacy ... (more)

A woman, 35, reported that her son, 21, threatened to throw her down the stairs and kill her at the home they share in the 200 block of Southwest Avenue B in Belle Glade.

The pilot of a small plane walks away unharmed after making an emergency landing in a marshy area near the North Palm Beach County Airport, off the Beeline Highway.

Florida's sweetcorn harvest is done by hand in fields. Corn is planted and harvested in many of the fields that are also used for sugar cane and other plants once their season is over.

PAHOKEE, Fla. - Amid cries for stopping the violence in the Glades area, a North Carolina couple in their 80s was carjacked while visiting a park surrounding Lake Okeechobee.

South Bay leaders have turned down a deal to save the failing Glades Utility Authority from bankruptcy, a move that could halt Palm Beach County's plans to take over the 2-year-old venture and its crumbling network of pipes.