South Bay 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.

Defending the pride of the Miami Dolphins to the death is something the current roster hardly seems interested in, but one fan is accused of killing a Dolphins detractor.

Firefighters were investigating the cause of a blaze at a South Bay home Tuesday.

When state prisoner Willie L. Smith "dissed" the Miami Dolphins, authorities say, it might have cost him his life.

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.

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

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

A Riviera Beach man who accused a childhood acquaintance of stealing his wallet while the two fought went to the man's South Bay apartment Monday night and gunned him down, paralyzing him, authorities said.

Authorities said a man was shot while sitting in his car in South Bay. The shooting occurred at about 5:30 p.m. Monday in the 1100 block of Virginia Avenue.

Terrell M. Edwards told his grandmother that he was walking up the road to shoot some pool on Sunday night at one of his favorite hangouts, Happy's Club.

A school police officer had to resort to pepper spray to break up a fight this afternoon among Glades Central High School students, sending the four students and a staff member to the hospital to recover from the spray's effects, school district officials report.

They come at dusk mostly, emerging from the sugar cane and plodding toward the homes in small packs.

Those working in or involved in starting or growing an attraction, event, place to stay, place to eat or activity to do in South Central Florida - Highlands, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, and Okeechobee counties, and the communities of Pahokee, Belle Glade, South Bay and Immokalee - are invited to participate in a professional development tourism ...

Palm Beach County Commissioners have approved a $550,366 work authorization in an optimization and improvements design/build services contract with Globaltech, Inc.

A special election will be held Tuesday to select a replacement for former state Rep.

You can excuse Mack Bernard and Cedrick Thomas for not knowing much about state issues even though they're running for the Legislature.

Joblessness soared this summer in Glades communities that already were suffering from double-digit unemployment rates, according to information circulated today by Palm Beach County managers.

A 62-year-old man knocked his wife unconscious after she tried to check his blood sugar and then got in a gun battle with deputies in western Palm Beach County Wednesday night, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

A 62-year-old man knocked his wife unconscious after she tried to check his blood sugar and then got in a gun battle with deputies in western Palm Beach County Wednesday night, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.