Lake Worth News

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office is seeking help in locating a Lake Worth woman who has been missing since this morning.

Four years after she was gunned down, a second person has been charged in the slaying of Boynton Beach High student Jasmine Walton.

This next homeowner is a force to be reckoned with. He's 91, he was buck naked, but he and his dog decided to go after a would be burglar.

Three men, including a registered sex offender, drive from Broward County to a Lake Worth amusement park for a robbery, according to authorities.

"I think Rene will be able to bring us together so we have less of an us-and-them attitude," supporter Herman Robinson said.

Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies have made an arrest in connection with Friday night's fatal shooting of a Lake Worth grocery store clerk.

Keith Byrd, 23, confessed that he and a friend were responsible for the killing of Miguel A. Gonzalez-Huicochea, 38, during an attempted robbery of the Los Cunaos Grocery at 819 N. Dixie Highway, according to an arrest report.

The man, a shop clerk whose name wasn't made public, was working in Los Cunaos Grocery on Dixie Highway just south of 10th Avenue North, when two apparently teenage gunmen walked into the store about 9:45 p.m. They were dressed in black and covered their faces in white clothing, according to a statement by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

Two tree trimmers from Lake Worth were shot, one fatally, by two armed robbers while trimming trees Monday afternoon in a back yard west of West Palm Beach.

Humphreys' employment contract includes a $500-a-month car allowance, a pension contribution equal to 10 percent of her salary and health benefits.

Filth, trash and urine: Those are the words used by Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control officers to describe a local house that was full of cats.

Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control said that Genneken, 50, was under investigation again as a result of the incident.

Donald and Monica Guzdziol sold a three-bath home at 9506 Campi Dr. in Unincorporated Lake Worth to Paul Carscadden for $300,000 on Sept.

City commissioners took the following action tonight: * Approved a short-term agreement with Sun Recycling to dispose of vegetation and bulk waste at 790 Hilbrath Drive in Lantana.

Immigration is a hot-button issue in tomorrow's Lake Worth City Commission elections, in part due to the large number of undocumented residents in the city but also because of the recent flap over candidate Scott Maxwell's alleged ties to anti-immigration hate groups .

As newly elected City Commissioner Scott Maxwell took the oath of office this afternoon, Ana Rodriguez jumped up and confronted him about his stance on immigration while the crowd at city hall booed.

Marine mammal veterinarian Rene Varela led the field of six mayoral candidates in today's election but did not win enough votes to avoid a runoff with retired restaurant owner Laurence McNamara.

A hush-hush lecture by a Holocaust-denying historian brought unwanted limelight to this town's elegant Ritz-Carlton hotel when two of the attendees -- including a local white supremacist -- got into a knife fight in the hallway.

Wayne Bergman, building official for Boynton Beach, will become Lake Worth's community development director later this month.

A Lake Worth man threatened an acquaintance with a knife, then snatched her 13-month-old son, Riviera Beach police say.