Treasure Coast Newspapers: North Palm Beach

Toni Heartsong's murder mystery, eight years in the making, took jurors just three hours to deliberate Friday.

Christina Bury, 22, could relate as she listened to Liz Murray speak about her journey from homelessness to Harvard University.

Participants include executives from Piper Aircraft in Vero Beach

Palm Beach Kennel Club, Greyhound Pets of America, Greyhound Adoption League and Elite Greyhound Adoptions are offering the free adoptions as part of the state's declaration of October as "Greyhound Adoption Month."

Martin County Sheriff’s Office deputies are investigating a 68-year-old man’s claim that a couple he met at a bar and brought to his home stole several items from him, according to a report released Friday.

Lake Okeechobee will stop Sunday as planned, but that will not end the discharges for the 2008 rainy season, the Army Corps of Engineers announced Friday.On Monday, a low volume constant release will begin with no definitive timetable to conclude, said John Zediak, chief of the water management section for the Corps’ South Florida Operations Office in Jacksonville.

vU.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, D-California, will be the featured speaker at an Palm Beach Women for Obama event Monday at the Harriet Himmel Theatre, in City Place.

Human aerial art displays under the theme "Stop global warming" will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Carlin Park in Jupiter

More than 100 Jewish young adults from across the country, urged on by comedian Sarah Silverman, are expected to request a sit-down at the condo kitchen table to encourage their grandparents to vote for Barack Obama.

The year-round conservation measure would limit landscape irrigation to two days per week. The use of treated wastewater, or reclaimed water, and water from “rain-harvesting systems” such as rain barrels and cisterns would be permitted any day. All watering would be limited to before 10 a.m. or after 4 p.m.

Burt Reynolds & Friends Museum memorabilia could go into storage until it finds a new home within an ambitious $127 million Harbourside entertainment district in Jupiter’s waterfront area.

A 12-foot Burmese python snake and a vehicle driving along Indiantown Road intersected in front of Sierra Square in Jupiter Farms late Tuesday night.

Emergency crews were on high alert early Thursday at Palm Beach International Airport because of a big jet that reported a problem. The pilot of a US Airways 737 jet notified the tower that the jet had possible landing gear problems as flight 1801 was coming in from Charlotte.

You see them every time a hurricane hits, leaning into powerful gusts, gutting out driving rains - and seemingly defying death. These are the television reporters who venture outside at the height of a storm, yelling to be heard over the roaring winds. Many viewers cringe at this sight, wondering why anyone would submit to such climatic punishment. Some emergency managers and weather officials say the reporters might entice people to risk going outside while a storm is raging.

On Wednesday, Crist signed an order creating “Silver Alert,” which will help law enforcement agencies find missing elders with dementia or other cognitive impairments and return them home safely.

A radio talk show host and his wife, accused of bilking people through fraudulent real estate investment schemes, will remain in jail even though their $1.4 million bail bonds were reduced to $730,000 each following a two-and-one-half hour hearing Wednesday before Circuit Judge Sherwood Bauer.

Top Palm Beach County officials returned Friday from New York after meeting several days with bond-rating agencies amid the nation's money-lending crisis.

An Osceola County man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for a series of bank robberies, according to Attorney General Bill McCollum.

The new group would bring together city officials, county leaders, regional water managers, conservationists, farmers and others to study how water resources in Palm Beach County should be divided. The group is modeled after one in Broward County.