Before the biggest party-night of the year, Jacek Tomasik has had one of those realizations that would make even the most staggering New Year’s drunk stand up straight and come out of a near-midnight stupor: There’s no more beer. Well, technically speaking, there is beer. There’s Michelob, Miller, Budweiser beer…..

A pair of mangy dogs, too languid to bark, scratch and sniff themselves in front of a row of weathered wood houses set atop cinder blocks. A sign is tacked on the door of each of a dozen or so dwellings on this block in the northern section of West…

Some time ago the editors at Newsweek magazine saw fit to put a picture of Bob Isom Gibbs on the cover of their magazine. They became interested in Gibbs, a judge on the circuit court of Palm Beach County’s criminal division, because of the court’s war on drugs in general…

For Barbara Rolle the bus means freedom. Two months ago she had trouble finding a ride to take her son Ryan to a speech therapist. He needs to go three times a week because the two-year-old boy can’t yet form words as he’s supposed to. On other days it’s essential…

At 7:30 a.m. as school buses rattle down Palm Beach County roads carrying sleepy children to school each day, the work crew at the future home of the Morikami Elementary School has already arrived. Now a slate gray, two-story edifice on a dirt road west of Delray Beach, the county’s…