Pahokee News

Residents of the struggling cities around Lake Okeechobee are charged some of the highest tax rates in Palm Beach County, yet there are fewer and fewer municipal services that the three cities provide.

If Palm Beach County school board members thought the last meeting was bad, the rematch was longer, uglier and more divisive.

A woman died this morning after the tractor she was riding tipped over an embankment and rolled into a canal.

A few months after Hurricane Wilma pummeled South Florida in 2005, a manager of the Glades-area housing agency praised the $1.2 million federal grant that helped about 40 area families.

Supporters and opponents of Palm Beach County's controversial academic program are speaking their minds tonight in front of the school board and an overflow crowd in the 800-seat Santaluces High auditorium.

The plane, a Mooney M20J aircraft, was about 10 miles south of Pahokee when it reported engine trouble, said FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen of the Southern Region office in Atlanta.

The thrill a minute Lane Kiffin reign in Knoxville just got the kind of headlines no fan wants to read about.

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.

Family members of a 23-year-old man who died after he was shot last week at a Pahokee Save-a-Lot said they had recently moved to escape the violence.

Three freshmen Tennessee football players, including highly touted wide receiver recruit Nu'Keese Richardson and starting safety Janzen Jackson, were charged with attempted armed robbery Thursday morning.

5 when he was shot in the back inside a Pahokee business. Michael T. Moore was shot inside the Save-A-Lot store, 600 E. Main St., the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said Moore was flown by Trauma Hawk to St.

"They said their intentions were they were going to rape her, duct tape her, and leave her in the woods," said Detective Ted Van Deman.

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.