Stet NewsTony Araujo, the new West Palm Beach police chief on loan from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office after the firing last week of Police Chief Frank Adderley, testified in June before an Apalachicola, Florida, judge who sentenced his daughter, Christina, to 25 years in prison for murder.
- “This by far was the most difficult and heartbreaking moment in my life,” Araujo said. “Although the information was preliminary, the reality of the moment was overwhelming and beyond the comprehension of a parent.”
- I have been “on the moral side of justice my entire life, as has my wife, and we do not waiver now. We did not, and will not abandon our daughter, as well as never abandoning the memory of the victim in this case. We will carry the burden this has brought to our graves, as I am certain Christina will.” (The (Apalachicola) Times)
F. Martin “Marty” Perry, whose work as a land-use attorney helped shape the county over the past 50 years, died Sunday at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center. He was 85.
The conviction of former state legislator Frank Artiles for paying thousands of dollars to a third-party sham candidate in a 2020 state Senate race is a smaller piece of a larger scandal: Florida Power & Light Co.’s support for no-show “ghost” candidates in key state Senate races. (Opinion piece by Florida Times-Union columnist Nate Monroe)
🥯 H&H Bagels, a franchise branch of the New York shop, is open in Boca Raton, part of a nationwide expansion that will include West Palm Beach next year. (Miami New Times)
