Free Republic

RIVIERA BEACH — A phosphorus grenade and a 55-gallon drum of hydrogen fluoride washed ashore on Singer Island Wednesday, Riviera Beach Fire Rescue reports. A beachgoer found the material along the shore in Singer Island at about 11 a.m. The area has since been cleared and blocked off by city police and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office’s hazardous material unit, said fire rescue spokesman Dwayne Watson. The drum of hydrogen fluoride was open, but investigators are unsure if it leaked into the water, Watson said.

A 42-year-old Wellington man is in the county jail today after his wife told police that he beat her with a television remote and a cable, and that she hadn’t been allowed out of their home in three years. Qasem Alabed faces charges of aggravated battery-causing bodily harm or disability and aggravated battery on a pregnant woman. He was arrested Wednesday around 11:30 p.m. The 30-year-old victim met with Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies at Wellington’s City Hall at 12300 Forest Hill Blvd. Wednesday to report that her husband beat her with the remote control and the cable, according to...

LOXAHATCHEE GROVES, Fla. -- A man is dead after a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office deputy shot him during an altercation, according to PBSO spokesperson Teri Barbera. Seth Adams, 24, was shot by the deputy near the One Stop Garden Shop on 1950 A Road and Okeechobee Boulevard in Loxahatchee Groves and was pronounced dead at St. Mary's Medical Center Thursday morning. A family spokesperson is calling his death senseless. Robert Saylor, a family friend speaking on behalf of the family, said Adams was shot four times in the torso in the parking lot of the shop and was unarmed....

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - "He ran over my son. He hit him and then he said he felt the impact and he ran over my son. He didn't even stop,” cried Tricia Perez just after the man accused in the hit and run accident that claimed her son’s life stood before a judge. Sergio Herrera Pena pleaded guilty to driving without a license and leaving the scene of a fatal accident. Investigators say he was in the U.S. illegally when he hit, then ran over 28-year-old Iraq War veteran Joseph Williams on Boynton Beach Road. in February of 2010....

Excellent video of Allen West as he is confronted by a CAIR member.