Carson opens school reading rooms
ALAN LUBY/ FOR SOUTH FLORIDA TIMES West Palm Beach, Fla. — Dr. Ben Carson may be making waves on the campaign trail, but he and …
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Davis fights to run as a Democrat again
By KIM CHANDLER MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – For Artur Davis, it hasn’t been an easy path to try to come home again. The former Democratic …
Bernie Sanders points to Clinton’s shifts on issues
By KEN THOMAS and CATHERINE LUCEY DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bernie Sanders dueled for support among thousands of Iowa Democrats …
All state senators must run in 2016
TALLAHASSEE – A Florida Senate panel is endorsing a new proposal that will require voters in 2016 to pick senators for all forty of the …
Black drummer shot 3 times, never fired his gun
By CURT ANDERSON and MATT SEDENSKY PALM BEACH GARDENS – A black man who was a public housing inspector and part-time drummer was shot three …
Disparity study underway for Palm Beach Solid Waste
Photo by Alan Luby/ For South Florida Times The Solid Waste Authority (SWA), which disposes of two million tons of solid waste in Palm Beach …
Candidates acknowledge ‘Black Lives Matter’
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidates gave a meaningful public nod to the Black Lives Matter movement in their first televised debate, fully adopting its slogan …
Death of a drummer
Sanford, Florida, Ferguson, Missouri, Baltimore, Maryland and now, after many others, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The police killings of black men continued Sunday morning with …
King Memorial at Stone Mountain, inconceivable
A monument to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. must not be installed among the sculpted figures of Confederate leaders at Georgia’s Stone Mountain, a …
Around South Florida
State COLLEGE CONTROVERSIES Fresh off of the controversy over Bethune Cookman University honoring Gov. Rick Scott with the school’s highest recognition award, another controversy is …