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Carey Haughwout has served as Palm Beach County's public defender since 2001.

PEACE pressed local officials for specific answers to problems of affordable housing, juvenile arrests, mental illness and addiction.

PEACE pressed local officials for specific answers to problems of affordable housing, juvenile arrests, mental illness and addiction.

It wasn’t long after Matthew Reed shoplifted a $63 set of sheets from a Target in upstate New York that the coronavirus pandemic brought the world to a standstill. Instead of serving a jail sentence, he stayed at home, his case deferred more than a year, as&...

By WEIHUA LI, BETH SCHWARTZAPFEL and MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press It wasn’t long after Matthew Reed shoplifted a $63 set of sheets from a Target in upstate New York that the coronavirus pandemic brought the world to a standstill. Instead of serving a jail sentence, he stayed at home, his case deferred more than a year, as courts closed and jails nationwide dramatically reduced their populations to stop the spread of COVID-19. But the numbers have begun creeping up again as courts are ba...

For years, Linda Tomlinson has insisted that the man convicted in her son’s 2005 death doesn’t deserve to spend the rest of his life in prison. While the retired Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy returned to court on Friday and tearfully made the same plea, her cries for justice for her 25-year-old son, Eric Flint, were ignored. Christopher Dean, who watched as another man drove his SUV into Flint, for the fourth time was handed a life sentence.  Given Palm Beach County State Attorney D...