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Palm Beach Post
April 28, 2018
BOCA RATON — Mayor Susan Haynie is expected in court Thursday, May 24 for her arraignment, a formal reading of the criminal charges in her public corruption case. The 8:30 a.m. hearing will at the West Palm Beach courthouse, at 205 N. Dixie Hwy, on the 11th floor, Courtroom F, according to courtÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
April 28, 2018
He then found out where she lived. She called the cops in a panic. A few hours later, Shandreka Wilkerson was lying in a pool of blood outside her West Palm Beach apartment. .... “Mr. Crawford should not be executed by the government.” Two years after Wilkerson's death, her mother, Yulander McNealy,Ãâà...
MyPalmBeachPost
April 28, 2018
The Susan B. Anthony List brought about 40 people Friday morning to protest in front of Nelson's office on Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach. ... “right to make decisions about her health with her doctor, without interference from the government” above his own personal opposition to abortion.
WPTV.com
April 27, 2018
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The Palm Beach County Sheriff's ... The Sun Sentinel reported Wednesday that the department received a similar amount from the federal government last year to cover increased overtime costs from January to September. The sheriff's office takes the lead in assisting theÃâà...
MyPalmBeachPost
April 26, 2018
Police overtime for West Palm Beach — mainly for anti-Trump protests — totaled about $68,500, police spokesman Dave LeFont said. Last year, the town of Palm Beach was reimbursed $71,270 by the federal government and West Palm Beach got $63,164 for police overtime during Trump's early-2017Ãâà...
Virginian-Pilot
April 20, 2018
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — For weeks, President Donald Trump had grown increasingly frustrated with the cable news chatter that he couldn't ... advised foreign political figures and worked for lobbying and security firms whose clients have had complicated relationships with the U.S. government.
The Real Deal
April 14, 2018
The Palm Beach Post reported that billionaire Jeff Greene is ready to hire a general contractor to build a 30-story office, hotel and apartment complex in West Palm Beach. The city government approved Greene's twin-tower development at 550 Quadrille Boulevard, called One West Palm, more than twoÃâà...
MyPalmBeachPost
April 4, 2018
The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) cited West Palm Beach and 22 other jurisdictions for allegedly adopting policies that hinder cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration officials. West Palm Beach responded with a lawsuit meant to force the federal government to acknowledgeÃâà...
Palm Beach Post
April 3, 2018
McCabe does not deserve his pension from the government. Whatever happened was egregiously bad, and they took immediate action. LANA COMPTON, WEST PALM BEACH. GOP administrations. demonstrably worse. The George W. Bush Administration suffered 16 criminal indictments and 16Ãâà...
CityLab
April 3, 2018
The federal government's attack on California's “sanctuary state” laws is growing angry, grassroots heads. ... They're the conservative mirror to the wave of liberal sanctuary cities like West Palm Beach, Fla., and Dallas County, Tex., that have pushed back against their conservative home state's strictÃâà...
MyPalmBeachPost
April 1, 2018
During a 12-minute Saturday morning ride from Mar-a-Lago to his golf club in unincorporated West Palm Beach, Trump fired off a pair of tweets escalating his criticism of Amazon.com ... Trump also called The Washington Post a “lobbyist” for Amazon and said it should register with the federal government.
Virginian-Pilot
April 1, 2018
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Spring break couldn't have come at a better time for Melania Trump. With fresh details spilling into the headlines daily about how Donald Trump allegedly cheated on her early in their marriage, the former model escaped the intense glare by spending the past week at theÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
March 31, 2018
Managing the Diabetic Patient for the Primary Care Practitioner, 7 a.m.-5 p.m., Hilton Hotel West Palm Beach, 600 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. Presented by the Palm Beach Diabetes & Endocrine Specialists, PA, in conjunction with the Palm Beach County Medical Society and the Palm BeachÃâà...
Law360
March 29, 2018
Specifically, the federal government had been investigating whether West Palm Beach's Resolution Number 112-17 and related policies comply with Section 1373 of the U.S. Code, a federal law blocking local governments from restricting the sharing of immigration information with federal immigration.
Sun Sentinel
March 23, 2018
A Palm Beach County advocacy group wants to offer identification cards that undocumented residents could use to access government services and avoid ... The Justice Department recently issued subpoenas to West Palm Beach after it adopted a “welcoming city” resolution that stated city employeesÃâà...
Palm Beach Post
March 15, 2018
... one of the Republicans who hopes to succeed him, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, will visit West Palm Beach to discuss the opioid crisis. ... Putnam will visit the Palm Beach County Robert Weisman Governmental Center for a 2:30 p.m. roundtable on the opioid crisis with representatives of lawÃâà...
MyPalmBeachPost
March 12, 2018
Weisman retired in 2015 after 24 years as county administrator. The county government center was re-named in honor of Weisman, who also had a street named after him. The two roads intersect in unincorporated Palm Beach County west of West Palm Beach. Sansbury has lived on the road named forÃâà...
MyPalmBeachPost
March 9, 2018
Rick Roth, R-Loxahatchee, and Sen. Bobby Powell, D-West Palm Beach. Neither returned phone calls or ... “I think it's a question of whether the federal government will approve having essentially a 5th continental time zone,” Downing said. “Most of the semi-serious proposals at the federal level have beenÃâà...
MyPalmBeachPost
March 9, 2018
Government agencies, political parties and Trump's own campaign have paid Trump's companies to golf at his private courses, party at Mar-a-Lago and ... The move placed the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach and golf clubs in suburban West Palm Beach and Jupiter under the control of Donald Trump Jr.,Ãâà...
wflx
March 9, 2018
A special Stuart City Commission meeting scheduled for 4 p.m. has been canceled after commissioner Tom Campenni resigned his position, according to an email from the city. In a letter Campenni sent to the city attorney he said, "I was discouraged and appalled at the wasted $20,000 the CommissionÃâà...
KHOU
March 8, 2018
Claiming it had become too costly to maintain as a National Historic Landmark, the government gave the property back to Post heirs who, in turn, sold it to Trump. ... An added perk for club members and area visitors is a 62-acre, 27-hole golf course and clubhouse Trump built in nearby West Palm Beach.
Palm Beach Daily News
March 8, 2018
The piece is one of 44 works that will be shown Friday and Saturday during the Outside the Box installation art show at Whitespace The Mordes Collection in West Palm Beach. Courtesy of Agata Ren ... Several works address the environment, race relations and governmental policies. Fort Lauderdale artistÃâà...
Palm Beach Post
March 7, 2018
“To date, over 80 governmental entities nationwide have filed suit against opioid manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies, and/or doctors in both state and federal courts,” the report states. “Currently, no Florida government entities have filed suit and, to the best of our knowledge, the City of Delray is the onlyÃâà...
WPTV.com
March 7, 2018
In West Palm Beach, the city is continuing to increase safety measures at nearly all crossings in order to meet quiet zone requirements. But what about the crossings ... The federal government does not require these upgrades but the city believes the $25,000 cost is worth it. "It's a low cost that yields highÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
February 22, 2018
In return, they said, Menendez interceded with Medicare officials investigating his practice, obtained visas for Melgen's foreign mistresses, and pressured the State Department to intervene in a business dispute he had with the Dominican government. Menendez and Melgen denied wrongdoing, saying theÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
February 7, 2018
West Palm Beach pledged to cooperate with the federal government, and now the Trump administration is being sued “for attempting to determine if the city has honored its promise to uphold the rule of law and protect its citizens by sharing information with federal immigration authorities about illegal aliensÃâà...
WPTV.com
December 31, 1999
Palm Beach County is celebrating the success of programs that help more than 1,000 prisoners get back on their feet after their release from custody. National Re-entry Week is April 23-29. Each year, the re-entry program helps people transition back into the community by offering temporary housing, jobÃâà...
The News Tribune
December 31, 1999
West Palm Beach's mayor on Tuesday accused the Trump administration of lying about an agreement sealed with her city after Justice Department officials used the agreement in their effort to turn up the heat on California jurisdictions that refuse to comply with federal sanctuary city policy. The charge cameÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
December 31, 1999
As part of the settlement, the federal government deemed the city to be in compliance, meaning it would not risk losing federal grant dollars. Last year, West Palm Beach adopted a “welcoming city” resolution that instructed city employees not to inquire about a person's immigration status or share it withÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
December 31, 1999
West Palm Beach and the federal government have agreed to settle their legal fight over immigration, according to court documents. The city was one of 23 jurisdictions targeted by the Justice Department in January as part of its efforts to withhold funding from “sanctuary” cities and counties that haveÃâà...
WPEC
December 31, 1999
The mayor of West Palm Beach says the city has settled its legal dispute with the federal government. The feds targeted a number of cities across the country, including West Palm Beach, that it felt had policies that protect illegal immigrants. But now the dispute is over, and the mayor says it's time to move forward. “We haveÃâà...
Route Fifty
December 31, 1999
Here's a roundup of state and local government news that caught Route Fifty's attention. LAW ENFORCEMENT | The Justice Department and local officials in West Palm Beach, Florida announced Tuesday that they reached an agreement regarding the city's Resolution No. 112-17—known locally as itsÃâà...
Palm Beach Post
December 31, 1999
Narrowing wide multilane streets seems to be the latest wrinkle politicians and their consultants can point at to say, “Look what I have done for you.” A while back, North Palm Beach decided to develop a master plan. They hired a consulting firm funded by local governments, no less. One of their ideas wasÃâà...
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