Volunteers needed for Dreher Park, Woodlawn cemetery
Volunteers interested in helping to clean up Palm Beach City parks and students in need of volunteer/community service hours can sign up to help the …
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Six months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico pleads for assistance
Puerto Rico remains consumed by devastation. PHOTO COURTESY OF BIG THINK By DANICA COTO Associated Press COROZAL, Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria shredded the electric poles …
Restaurants, groceries try harder to identify food sources
PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA By KYLE ARNOLD Orlando Sentinel ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – Red Lobster ran a 55-second commercial before the Super Bowl that was …
Dunkin’ Donuts to stop using foam cups by 2020
PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA By JOSEPH PISANI AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) – Foam cups at Dunkin’ Donuts will soon be history, removing what …
2017 in Florida: Hurricane, serial killer hunt, #metoo
Tiger Woods avoided potential DUI conviction. PHOTO COURTESY OF SPORTSKEEDA.COM By JASON DEAREN Associated Press GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) – Florida in 2017 was ravaged by …
SBA disaster loan outreach centers and hours of operation
Hurricane Irma aftermath PHOTO COURTESY OF YOUTUBE.COM Staff Report ATLANTA – The U.S. Small Business Administration has approved almost 30,000 disaster loans totaling over $1 …
State could spend $1 billion on Everglades reservoir. Will it work?
By JENNY STALETOVICH Miami Herald MIAMI (AP) – This spring, Florida lawmakers approved plans for a massive new reservoir near Lake Okeechobee, touting the billion-dollar project …
Disasters pound North America in 2017; overall down globally
PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) – North America couldn’t catch a break in 2017. Parts of the …
Oil and gas plumes found at site of 13-year-old leak in Gulf
Oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. – Federal regulators have found fresh …
Investors lead charge on global climate change
PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) – An international summit Tuesday to mark the second anniversary of the Paris climate …