Belle Glade News

A local man donates most of his life savings to students at the Belle Glade campus of PBCC.

Randy Virgil, 44, of Pahokee, owner of Deals on Wheels car wash and detail, drys off a car in a vacant lot next to what use to be a Ketucky Fried Chicken in Pahokee Wednesday.

Palm Beach County school employees rang up personal charges on the public dime, lost records documenting more than $220,000 worth of transactions and might even have broken the law, internal auditors say in a new report.

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said Thursday the economic recovery has already begun, although Florida is feeling a lag because of the staggering unemployment numbers in the state.

The first set of triplets was born at Lakeside Medical Center when Charity Wilson gave birth to identical twin daughters -- NeKeela and NeKayla Legros -- and a baby boy -- Necler Legros IV.

Last year, Javoski Harvey was earning $27 an hour as a heavy-equipment operator building an $800 million reservoir near South Bay.

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

In the cool, buggy shade of a huge royal poinciana, archaeologist Michael Wylde dragged his trowel 1,200 years into the past.

It pays $10 to $13 an hour and Wilner Jacquet wants every penny of that paycheck.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office booked Lester Sanders on charges of operating a chop shop, grand theft auto, grand theft, and offenses involving vehicle identification numbers and altered property, a sheriff's report said.

Today, as Palm Beach County residents prepare to send their kids out trick-or-treating, the sheriff's office announces a partnership with CrimeReports, creators of the National Crime Map, to give parents and members of the public a comprehensive map of crime in their communities.

Teachers and parents turned to the Palm Beach County school board for the first time Wednesday, hoping for help as they fight controversial curriculum changes in the classroom.

County/Region: Palm Beach County FL / Palm Beach Year built: 1979 Builder: N/A Square footage: 100 sq.

Changes in the classroom have brought parental protests. High school students have even dressed in blue to echo their mood.

An 83-year-old man suffering from dementia was found in Belle Glade. Jesus Fernandez, of 2941 Cherokee Avenue in West Palm Beach, was discovered roughly an hour from his home behind the wheel of his 2005 Gray Ford Focus.

A Rhode Island man was talking online about child pornography and said he was in his red boxer shorts, but the chat "came to an abrupt halt when he answered his front door," a report says.

The Port of Palm Beach is going to make a decision Wednesday that has no credibility.

The lawyer for a 19-year-old Wellington man charged with setting a fire on his stove urged a judge this morning to reduce the charges.

Caption: White Male Found in Belle Glade Tuesday, October 26, 1976 Approximate Age - 27 years old This unidentified white male was 5'8" tall, weighed approx.

A 3-year-old Belle Glade girl suffered a skull fracture and concussion when she accidentally slipped through a broken balcony railing in her second-story apartment and fell to the ground around 11 a.m. Sunday, authorities said.