Monroe County woman pleads guilty after faking cancer
Ashley Lively entered a guilty plea for theft over $1,000 in Monroe County court Monday morning. She waved her right to a jury.
View ArticleFour New Firemen for Sweetwater
Four new firemen have been hired on at Sweetwater Fire Department and have hit the ground running and are already at work. They are David Gray, 28, Dylan Mauzey, 25, Eric Medina, 25, and Jaylin...
View ArticleSEED Executive Director to speak at TSTC Commencement
Ken Becker, executive director of the Sweetwater Enterprise for EconomicDevelopment , will speak at the Texas State Technical College spring commencement ceremony, which begins at 7 p.m. Friday, April...
View ArticleSweetwater cops pummeled, water-boarded suspects for years, prosecutors allege
On one occasion, a group of Sweetwater cops ransacked a man's home, stealing computers, iPads, TVs and even the man's truck. Another day, the cops badly beat a suspected thief for hours inside the...
View ArticleAbuse by officers was "a complete breakdown in policy," Sweetwater police...
Sweetwater Police Chief Placido Diaz said Wednesday that the arrest of two former employees revealed the need for reform within the police department. Local LGBTQ group Pridelines partnered with the...
View ArticlePrivate Robert Thomas Hohman, Sweetwater resident, graduates basic training
Private Robert Thomas Hohman, 22, of Sweetwater, TX graduated from Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri on June 22, 2017. Private Hohman successfully completed nine week of intensive basic training as well as...
View ArticleWomen dance and strip at nightclub to win tickets for concert
A dance competition at the nightclub La Covacha in Sweetwater in which several women stripped in hopes of winning concert tickets has led to a scandal. The club was temporarily shut down on Wednesday.
View ArticleMiami-Area Club Temporarily Shut Down for Holding Illegal Topless Dance-Off
A mere 24 hours after prominent Miami nightclub La Covacha - a staple of the Latin-American music scene in Miami for decades - posted a video of multiple women stripping nude to try to win some concert...
View ArticleChef Ralph Pagano released from burn unit
Three people viciously attack a man on a Little Havana street, beating him with a steel pipe and using pepper spray, then stealing $150, police said. Surveillance video shows a woman with a child in...
View ArticleAnyone can buy one of these condos, but only FIU students, staff can live there
University Developments, a partnership between Miami-Based Global City Development and two Toronto firms, will build a new 20-story condo tower on a 1.7-acre lot at 740 SW 109th Avenue in Sweetwater....
View ArticleFlorida International University plans hotel and conference center
Construction of a hotel and conference at Florida International University is scheduled to begin in March on the northwest corner of FIU's main campus near Sweetwater. Construction of a hotel and...
View ArticleEclipse brings travelers from alla
The town of 6,500 is expected to welcome 50,000. Many of those visitors are from beyond state lines.
View ArticleThere wasna t a shooter, but security experts say the Dolphin Mall had to be...
It was 9:07 p.m. when radio transmissions from Sweetwater police crackled warnings of a possible shooter at Dolphin Mall, one of the largest and busiest weekend family gathering spots in South Florida....
View ArticleMiami-Dade finds $2 million, halts plans to close clerks offices countywide.
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, left, and Harvey Ruvin, clerk of the courts, talk during a February meeting of the Miami-Dade County Commission. The two on Wednesday announced the discovery of $2...
View ArticleHurricane Irma rips roofs from mobile homes
Bruce Groene, 80, shows a 150-year old desk that once belonged to his mother. 'It's beautiful, but what can I do with it? Absolutely nothing,' Groene said before leaving to a shelter Friday.
View ArticleIrma's roar gives way to grinding chorus of saws, generators
11. Inland communities like Sweetwater were spared the storm surge from Hurricane Irma, but streets were swamped, fences an... A grinding chorus of chain saws and generators has replaced Irma's roar in...
View ArticleIrma's roar gives way to grinding chorus of saws, generators
A grinding chorus of chain saws and generators kicked in quickly after Hurricane Irma's roar left Sweetwater, a small, mostly Spanish-speaking town west of Miami where streets were swamped, fences and...
View ArticleThe Latest: Americans mark 9/11 with volunteer projects
8, 2017 photo, One World Trade Center overlooks the north reflecting pool of the National September 11 Memorial in New York. Monday will mark the sixteenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
View ArticleSenate GOP looking for budget deal to open way to tax redo
Congressional Republicans are scrambling to come up with a budget deal to clear the way for the first ... The Senate Republican leader and members of the Budget Committee are scrambling to come up with...
View ArticleMobile home residents fear they will be the forgotten victims of Hurricane Irma
The huge pine tree that tumbled from Hurricane Irma's strong gusts and crushed part of a mobile home in Sweetwater, landed above the room where four little sisters sleep. Fortunately, the family...
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