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Palm Beach County may tack on another new fee, this time for draining away stormwater, to try to head off budget troubles and address pollution concerns.

The Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office has issued an arrest warrant for Paul Michael Merhige for 4 counts of First Degree Murder and 2 counts of Attempted First Degree Murder.

A Palm Beach County school bus driver is accused of inciting a fight between two groups of students on his bus and covering the on-board video camera with a hat so the attack would not be recorded, school district police reported.

Two years ago, twin sisters Carla Merhige and Lisa Knight volunteered at Miami's juvenile lockup, singing as a duet in front of dozens of troubled girls during Christmas.

Four people, including a 6-year-old girl, are dead and two others are in the hospital after police say a man opened fire on his relatives as they gathered for a Thanskgiving Day feast in Jupiter Thursday night.

A 22-year-old is in a coma at a local hospital with swine flu and her prematurely born baby is dead.

Thanksgiving night turned deadly in Jupiter just after 10p.m. According to Palm Beach County Fire Rescue someone opened fire on Via Veracruz near Pennock Lane killing 3 people and injuring 2 others.

A Palm Beach County school bus driver is accused of inciting a fight between two groups of students on his bus and covering the on-board video camera with a hat so the attack would not be recorded, school district police reported.

A monthlong federal investigation into a drug ring that stretched from Alabama to Palm Beach ended with the arrest of four people.

Police arrested a man Tuesday afternoon after a chase that began in Miami-Dade, continued through Broward and finally ended in Palm Beach County.

NEAR LAKE WORTH,, Fla. -- Police have arrested a driver accused of striking a police cruiser and leading them on a chase across three counties.

Long after his third felony conviction, a onetime drug smuggler and gun-toting outlaw from Florida's cocaine cowboy days walked into a Delray Beach permitting office and made himself a bona fide pain manager.

Veronica Jackson pored over a training notebook as she sat in a Tri-Rail commuter train one day last week.

You do the crime, you do the time - even if you're a dog owned by football legend Joe Namath.

28. The Bounty is a replica of the British ship sailed to the South Pacific to gather breadfruit in 1789 resulting in a mutiny which became the story Mutiny on the Bounty.

Federal authorities broke up a Palm Beach County trafficking ring that piped more than 175,000 oxycodone tablets from South Florida pain clinics to the Appalachian Mountains.

Published: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 7:49 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 7:52 a.m. GREENACRES Authorities say Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies fatally shot a man in his home after he stabbed a deputy during an altercation.

Palm Beach County school officials said an audit conducted over the summer reveals that school dollars may have been misused.

Cyclists ride along Glades Road west of U.S. 441 on Saturday morning. Cycling groups are on a mission to end confrontations with motorists.

For the first time in two years, there's a West Nile Virus outbreak in Palm Beach County.

The dash cam video was damning, yet a Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy has beaten DUI charges.

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.

A man accused of holding his wife hostage was shot and killed after he stabbed a deputy, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said.

A guest at a high end Palm Beach resort wound up behind bars, charged with cruelty to his puppies-- and police say it was caught on video.

A 39-year-old Boca Raton man was arrested and charged with killing his ex-girlfriend, police said on Wednesday.

FL SCHOOL FUNDING LAWSUIT, 1ST LD-WRITETHRU TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - State officials are facing a second lawsuit filed in as many weeks accusing them of shortchanging public schools in violation of a state constitutional provision requiring a "high quality" education for Florida's children.

An appeal court Tuesday rejected another challenge to state constitutional amendments that give property tax breaks to Florida's primary homeowners, but not to owners of second homes.

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.

A Palm Beach County jury has found a man guilty of a killing in a crowded mall on Christmas Eve.

A 37-year-old farm worker was killed when her tractor rolled into a canal Monday morning on U.S. Sugar Corp.

Mayor Lois Frankel has announced that she won't run in the special congressional election to replace U.S. Rep.

Winds of change - Gore gets booed - maybe they shouldn't have billed him as "president of the planet" 15 11 2009 Confused Palm Beach County voters helped thwart Al Gore's 2000 bid to become president of the United States, but he was introduced as "president of the planet" when he returned here Saturday night to deliver an environmental lecture.

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.

Fire Rescue Capt. Edwin O'Berry receives the Combat Cross from Sheriff Ric Bradshaw during the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office annual award ceremony at the Kravis Center on Friday.

Urgo Hotels, a major developer, owner and operator of upscale hotels, today announced the acquisition of the luxury Resort at Singer Island from WCI Communities for $7.1 million.

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.

Friends and family will gather tonight to begin saying their farewells to a 15-year-old Wellington boy who died in a car crash last weekend.

One of NFL legend Joe Namath's dogs has been declared "dangerous" by a special magistrate this afternoon, but another of his dogs escaped the leashing and muzzling requirement.

Roy Foster was called a lot of names in his former life - bum, crackhead, drunk.

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.

Two years before he was hired to create a program to improve test scores in Palm Beach County, Chief Academic Officer Jeffrey Hernandez was accused and cleared of FCAT tampering as a principal in Miami-Dade County.

Looking to make some extra money? Now, you can get rid of your old prescriptions in exchange for some cash.

A new $5.2 million federal grant will allow a local housing company to administer free weatherization services to almost 1,000 financially strained residents on the Treasure Coast and in Palm Beach County over the next three years.

Palm Beach County's Democratic Party has dumped moderate Louisiana Democratic Sen.

A 15-year-old Wellington boy died early this morning in a car crash after hitting a bump and losing control of the car, authorities said.

With a lightning-rod trial days away, prosecutors and top-dollar defense attorneys negotiated frenetically in 2004 to work out a plea deal for Jay Levin, who fatally shot a 16-year-old neighbor outside Levin's suburban Boca Raton home.

I mentioned yesterday that Mary Landrieu had been dumped by the Palm Beach County Democrats for her refusal to promise to vote for cloture on health care.

Two men who pleaded guilty earlier this year to smuggling drugs into South Florida from the Bahamas have been sentenced.

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A 49-year-old man was critically injured in a hit-and-run crash Wednesday night.

Nov. 3--WEST PALM BEACH -- SunPass customers in January can start using their transponders to pay for parking at Palm Beach International Airport.

Palm Beach Fire-Rescue will administer H1N1 vaccinations in November at the South End fire station and at the Palm Beach Civic Association.

Authorities on Monday released the identity of a 48-year-old Lake Park woman whose body was found wrapped in plastic and floating amid mangroves off Key Largo last week.

A Boynton Beach man was arrested Monday on charges of possessing photos of child pornography.

A scandal involving a well-connected Ft. Lauderdale law firm has reached into Palm Beach County.

An 18-year-old student was caught with a .25 caliber Beretta handgun in class, police say.

A steady stream of South Florida high school seniors walked into a college recruiting event last week at the Deerfield Beach Hilton, eager to get accepted into what many considered their first choice of schools.

An abandoned older model Lincoln Town Car with some old printers and computer gear inside went up in flames early this morning behind Mr.

Before authorities could catch a man accused of trying to murder his former girlfriend, the man caught his ex.

Authorities have arrested yet another of the six people authorities say paid off at least seven examiners from the state license bureau in Delray Beach to get drivers licenses to more than 1,500 illegal immigrants.

What was at first thought to be a drive-by shooting that injured two on one street Sunday, turns out to be an argument that ended in gunfire on a different street as investigators take a closer look.

In Florida, a wildfire is as close as the next dry spell. Even though the dry season started just days ago, an index that measures the dryness of soil, and thus the potential for fires, already shows all of Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast is in the range of concern.

Two people have been shot during a drive-by shooting in Boynton Beach. It happened on Willow Spring Circle West at 4:50 Sunday afternoon.

The body of a 48-year-old Palm Beach County woman has been found in Key Largo, according to Monroe County Sheriff's deputies.

Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies have released a sketch of a man who robbed a Metro PCS store in Lake Worth.

AS IT PASSED THROUGH THE INTERSECTION OF LEGENDS WAY AND ATLANTIC AVENUE, IT COLLIDED WITH TWO CARS.