Officials hope to lure prison to Santa Rosa (Pensacola News Journal)
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:46:49 GMT
Commissioners trying to bring 2,000-bed correctional facility to East Milton.
Candidates still await results in races for judge, School Board seat (Sun-Sentinel)
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:44:55 GMT
A day after only 17 percent of Palm Beach County's 809,000 registered voters went to the polls, a handful of lawyers and candidates on Wednesday stood inside a cavernous vote-counting center near West Palm Beach to watch an official review of provisional and absentee ballots.
Mob boss arrested in Florida (Boston Globe)
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:15:37 GMT
Francis P. (Cadillac Frank) Salemme, the reputed boss of the Mafia family that controls most of New England, was arrested late Friday in West Palm Beach, Fla., seven months after he fled in anticipation of his indictment for racketeering.
Hammer assault suspect's $100K cash bail may be forfeited (Portsmouth Herald)
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:12:12 GMT
PORTSMOUTH and#8212; A city man on bail for two felony charges alleging he twice hit a victim in the head with hammer should forfeit his $100,000 cash bail because he was summonsed for drug possession Friday night, say police.
Boynton Beach plastic surgeon sent to prison for practicing without a license (Sun-Sentinel)
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:14:54 GMT
Plastic surgeon must pay $60,000 and surrender license Cara Hart went to Boynton Beach plastic surgeon Mark Schreiber's office in September 2005 for a breast lift.
Police: Boca Raton man ran illegal dental office in Palm Springs storage unit (The Palm Beach Post)
Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:06:34 GMT
A man ran an illegal dentist office out of a Palm Springs storage unit, authorities said.
South Florida: Drug robbery ends in arrest (Sun-Sentinel)
Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:36:26 GMT
A man robbed a Boca Raton CVS on Saturday to get prescription drugs only to be tackled by a supervisor, arrested and sent off to county jail, police said.
Brazen Robber Caught On Camera (Local 10 Miami)
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:56:16 GMT
Boca Raton -- Police need your help finding a brazen thief who robbed a South Florida supermarket Saturday. The robbery happened at a Publix located on the 7400 block of North Federal Highway in Boca Raton.
FPL sued over green-energy payments (Miami Herald)
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:31:48 GMT
A Broward County man has filed a lawsuit against Florida Power & Light on behalf of about 38,000 customers who gave FPL $9.75 every month to help develop green energy -- only to learn most of the money was not used for that purpose.
FINRA bars brokers for misconduct in mortgage debt (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:58:04 GMT
NEW YORK, Sept 4 (Reuters) - The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said on Thursday it barred two brokers and suspended a third for misconduct in selling complex mortgage-backed securities to retail customers, its first penalties in an industrywide probe.
