South Bay News

Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies have arrested a South Bay man accused of shooting a woman's dogs with a BB gun.

Palm Beach County Commissioners have approved a $5.8 million construction management services agreement with Moss & Associates, LLC for the West County Palm Tran maintenance facility and Palm Tran bus station adjacent to the West County Detention Facility.

A South Bay man shot two dogs several times with a BB gun after getting in an argument with the owner of the dogs, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

A convicted murderer was rushed to a local hospital after being found in his cell with his neck slashed in a state prison in western Palm Beach County this afternoon.

Last Thursday, June 25th, a woman called Animal Care & Control Officers after she noticed that her dogs had blood on them, and one appeared to be paralyzed.

An occupancy report released Wednesday, commissioned by the Miami Downtown Development Authority, found that 62% of the new condos built since 2003 are, in fact, inhabited by humans.

Palm Beach County will not be getting a planned $20 million cellulosic ethanol research and demonstration plant slated to be built next to Florida Crystal Corp.'s Okeelanta facility south of South Bay, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences officials said today.

Juan Cervante sums up every convict's nightmare. "You come in here sentenced to a year, you get into it with some guy, and the next thing you know that year turns into a life sentence," he says.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA.

Palm Beach and St. Lucie County third graders lagged behind their peers statewide on the reading FCAT, the test that determines whether they must repeat third-grade. But Martin County students bested the state average.

Escaping serious crop damage, Southeastern sweet corn growers expect a smooth transition from Florida to Georgia production areas that were soaked with torrential spring rains.

Before he was arrested on charges of molesting students, administrators at H.L. Watkins Middle were building a case against Heath Miller for misconduct.

Belle Glade and South Bay may add a twist to the maxim of robbing Peter to pay Paul.

It didn't take long for the board of directors of Florida's Heartland Rural Economic Development Initiative to want Lynn Topel to return to the job she previously held with the organization.

Cash-strapped Belle Glade, Pahokee and South Bay must agree by May 15 to an independent water and waste-water utility authority or risk further financial difficulty and deterioration of their water and wastewater systems.

County commissioners this afternoon gave initial approval to a land-use change that could allow for an industrial complex to be built near the southern end of Lake Okeechobee.

Sugar grower Florida Crystals wants to diversify. The company argues that land next to its mill south of Lake Okeechobee is the best place to build an inland port to serve the three South Florida seaports.

Two 18-year-old South Bay men have been arrested on charges of killing 15-year-old Belle Glade boy last week in what authorities say was a gang-related retaliation shooting.

Two suspects from have been booked on charges they killed a fellow teenager in Belle Glade two weeks ago.

Two Clewiston men were injured this afternoon when the jeep they were in flipped in western Palm Beach County.