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BRIEF: Former cruise line dishwasher hid $100K in his luggage, allegedly from coke dealing in Bahamas
The Palm Beach PostA man who worked as a dishwasher on board the Bahamas Celebration cruise ship allegedly used his position to transport cocaine from the Bahamas to Palm Beach County. Randy Crosby Downs was nabbed by federal agents on Friday after he tried to sneak in...Tags: Bahamas, Cruise Line Ports, Palm Beach County, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida)
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Democrats, Republicans join forces to advocate for Florida ports
A bipartisan team from the Florida congressional delegation is banding together to form a "ports caucus" to push the interests of the state's seaports in the nation's capital. Florida's 15 ports are "huge economic generators — folks here are...
Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Patrick Murphy, Natural Resource Industry, U.S. Congress
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Ferry service coming to downtown West Palm
When your business is a boat, it's easy to relocate. Easy, unless you are your boat is in Rhode Island and your new job is in West Palm Beach. Then it becomes a voyage of 1,000-plus miles, which captain Addison Closson has just accomplished. On May 8,...
Tags: Peanuts, Intracoastal Waterway, Tourism and Leisure, Museums, Lake Worth
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BRIEF: Port of Palm Beach packs a lot of action into its 162 acres
The Palm Beach PostA Mack truck bearing 25 tons of sugar from Belle Glade pulls up to the Enrique Arias Sugar Terminal at the Port of Palm Beach. The light brown raw sugar is weighed and then dumped through a metal grate, where it goes underground. The sugar then...Tags: West Palm Beach, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida)
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BRIEF: New operator takes over casino cruise ship at the Port of Palm Beach
The Palm Beach PostIsland Breeze International is taking over the Black Diamond gambling cruise ship at the Port of Palm Beach and expects to be sailing by Aug. 1. The port commission approved a 10-year lease and day cruise operating agreement Thursday with the Bellmawr,...Tags: Cruise Line Ports, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida)
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Obama hails Miami tunnel as a way to rebuild economy
President Obama swooped into South Florida for a couple of hours on Friday to tout a tunnel project at PortMiami as a great example of how to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure, create jobs and boost the economy. Port officials from around the...
Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of the Treasury, White House
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Black Diamond closed for now
Officials at the Port of Palm Beach were informed last week that operations of the Black Diamond casino ship were temporarily suspended until further notice, port spokeswoman Julie Houston Trieste said. The ship's operator, Jupiter-based Black Diamond...
Tags: Jupiter
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Black Diamond Casino ship temporarily halts service
Sun SentinelOfficials at the Port of Palm Beach were informed Tuesday that operations of the Black Diamond casino ship were temporarily suspended until further notice, port spokeswoman Julie Houston Trieste said. The ship's operator, Jupiter-based Black Diamond...Tags: Marketing, Riviera Beach, Jupiter
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If you go
The Black Diamond offers day cruises that depart 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and 11 a.m. Sundays, and evening cruises that begin 7 p.m. Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Cruises last about five hours, and...
Tags: Riviera Beach
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New cruise ships headed to South Florida ports
Several new cruise ships will call South Florida ports home in the 2012-13 cruise season, and they're sporting many bells and whistles for local cruisers to experience.
Other not so new ships will also make a first appearance, including Celebrity...Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Cruise Line Ports, Port Everglades, Tour Operations Industry, Royal Caribbean International
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Sun Sentinel Election Results
Get the latest results for today's federal, state and county races.
President
5852 of 6088 precincts reporting
Barack Obama 49.9% 3,977,167
Mitt Romney 49.2% 3,924,092
Gary Johnson 0.5% 42,123
Jill Stein 0.1% 8,382
Roseanne Barr 0.1% 7,708...Tags: Accounting and Auditing, Coral Springs, Scott Watkins, Ellyn Bogdanoff, Dania Beach
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Breakers' historian, 95, transports guests to the past
To hear historian James Ponce tell it, you'd think you were back in Old Florida — when Henry Flagler built the luxury Breakers hotel in an area known for farmhouses, when a fire burned the hotel down likely from "a newfangled curling iron" left...
Tags: Key West, Florida East Coast Railway, NBC (tv network), Today (tv program), Palm Beach County
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