10 things you may have missed this weekend…
Here are 10 stories that you may have missed this weekend:
A 79-year-old Palm Beach woman on Thursday didn’t just avoid a prison term for evading taxes on $43 million in foreign accounts. A federal judge said Mary Estelle Curran deserves a presidential pardon.
Will ‘Rental Nation’ plague your property?
The fragile sense of community in homeowner Bryan Melzard’s neighborhood — the impromptu chats on the sidewalk, shared gripes about overzealous condo commandos — is fading.
Feds: West Palm man organized kids’ birthday parties, ran in violent gang
A man who allegedly spends his time running children’s birthday parties while also participating in a violent Central American gang is in the custody of federal authorities after they found he is in the country illegally.
Overnight car crash pins man, kills him in Greenacres
Victor Aguiar, 56, of Homestead, died after a car headed northbound on the road pinned him and Oscar Cristo Gomez to the broken down Dodge Magnum they were pushing eastbound across Haverhill, then north.
Court: Jupiter can’t collect $1.6 million fine for mangrove removal
Roger and Myrna Byrd, fined $1.6 million by the town two years ago for illegally removing mangroves, do not have to pay the penalty, according to a Palm Beach County Circuit Court ruling.
Diamond in the roughage: Woman, 80, swallows diamond at charity event
The idea behind the Tampa Woman’s Club charity event was simple. For $20, you could buy a flute of champagne and a chance to win a one-carat, $5,000 diamond.
14-year-old arrested in connection with Okeeheelee Park brush fire
A 14-year-old Okeeheelee Middle School student was arrested today on allegations that he started a brush fire that burned 15 acres Thursday in Greenacres.
Man charged with battery, attempt to elude police, and stealing Playstation 2 from mom’s home
As Doyle Washburn Jr. paid a visit to his mother’s home Wednesday, he stayed briefly.
Moments later, his mother told authorities, Washburn crawled out a window with stolen items.
On a break shortly before jurors began deciding his third-degree murder case Thursday, Niklas Prokopishen sat on a concrete bench outside the Palm Beach County courthouse next to his mother, his head buried in his hands.
Family, friends gather to remember three who died in Riviera Beach car crash
Grief came in all colors, in whispers and sometimes, even in song.
Stark against the Spartan black-and-white auditorium stage at Riviera Beach’s Inlet Grove High School were a pair of open caskets, one silver, one bronze, where lay the bodies of two young men dressed in white, indistinct wailing echoing through the room.
