Baltimore Woman’s Itchy Palm Brings $50K Lottery Windfall
Baltimore, MD – A Baltimore City employee took home the top prize of $50,000 from the Lots of Cash scratch-off game, the Maryland Lottery announced on Tuesday. The woman, who regularly purchases…
Palm Springs Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Criminal Charge for Distributing Sexually Explicit Videos of Children via Zoom
LOS ANGELES – A Riverside County man pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge for streaming sexually explicit videos of children – some of them toddlers – in a Zoom…
Indonesia to cut maximum palm oil export tax and levy to a combined $488/T – trade minister
By Stefanno Sulaiman JAKARTA – Indonesia Trade Minister Muhammad Lutfi said on Tuesday the government would bring down its combined maximum crude palm oil export and levy rate to $488 per tonne…
Palm Beach Art Dealer Charged With Carrying Out Art Fraud Scheme
Miami, Florida – Today, Palm Beach art dealer Daniel Elie Bouaziz made his initial appearance before a federal magistrate judge in West Palm Beach to face charges of mail fraud, wire fraud,…
Sanctuary Medicinals Opens Medical Dispensary in West Palm Beach, Florida, the Company’s Eighth Location in the State
Location is Sanctuary’s Third in Southeast Florida APOPKA, Fla., May 25, 2022 — Sanctuary Medicinals today announced the opening of its eighth medical cannabis dispensary in Florida. Situated right off Florida’s Turnpike…
Indonesia has no plan to reduce palm oil in biodiesel mix – minister
By Divya Chowdhury DAVOS, Switzerland – Indonesia has no plans to reduce the percentage of palm oil in biodiesel below its current level of 30% in order to ensure the country’s energy…
Indonesia to lift palm oil export ban from Monday -president
JAKARTA – Indonesia will lift its palm oil export ban from Monday, May 23, following improvements in the domestic cooking oil supply situation, President Joko Widodo said on Thursday. The decision to…
Why Indonesia’s palm oil export ban has not cooled cooking oil prices
By Bernadette Christina and Fransiska Nangoy (Reuters) – Indonesia, the world’s biggest palm oil exporter, has since April 28 halted shipments of the edible oil in a bid to flood the domestic…
Indonesia’s flip-flops give Malaysia edge in top palm oil market India
By Rajendra Jadhav and Mei Mei Chu MUMBAI/KUALA LUMPUR – Indonesia’s “unpredictable” palm oil export policies may help Malaysia emerge as the dominant supplier to India, the world’s top buyer of the…
Malaysia end-April palm oil stockpile seen up after five months of falls
By Mei Mei Chu KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s palm oil inventories at the end of April likely rose for the first time in six months as production and imports climbed, a Reuters…
West Palm Beach Investment Fraudster Sentenced to 42 Months in Federal Prison After Losing Investor Millions in Wire Fraud Scheme
Miami, Florida – Fifty-four-year-old West Palm Beach, Florida resident Salvatore Renaldi has been sentenced in South Florida federal district court to 42 months in federal prison for orchestrating and running two investment…
Indonesia export ban traps 290,000 T of palm oil shipments for India -trade
By Rajendra Jadhav MUMBAI – Indonesia’s wider palm oil export ban has trapped at least 290,000 tonnes of the edible oil meant to be headed to India at ports and oil mills…
Malaysia urges countries to prioritise food over fuel as Indonesia bans palm exports
By Mei Mei Chu KUALA LUMPUR – Countries should pause or slow use of edible oil as biofuel to ensure adequate supply for use in food, a state-backed Malaysian palm oil group…
Indonesia’s palm oil export ban leaves global buyers with no plan B
By Rajendra Jadhav MUMBAI – Global edible oil consumers have no option but to pay top dollar for supplies after Indonesia’s surprise palm oil export ban forced buyers to seek alternatives, already…
Soyoil surges to record high as Indonesia bans palm oil exports
By Nigel Hunt LONDON -Soybean oil prices soared to a record high on Friday as Indonesia’s decision to effectively ban exports of palm oil heightened concerns about already depleted global supplies of…
Indonesia hikes palm oil export levy to maximum $375 per tonne
By Bernadette Christina JAKARTA – Indonesia has significantly raised its maximum palm oil export levy, a new government regulation showed on Friday, part of efforts to control domestic cooking oil prices after…
Palm Beach County Armed Career Criminal and Fentanyl Peddler Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison
Miami, Florida – A federal district judge in West Palm Beach, Florida has sentenced 33-year-old Eric Leon Nelms to 180 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm and distributing fentanyl as…
TB12 Opens New On-Location Site in West Palm Beach at HSS Florida
TAMPA, Fla., March 8, 2022 — TB12, the health and wellness company co-founded by Tom Brady and Alex Guerrero specializing in performance and active recovery, announces a new location further extending the…
Palm oil prices set for new record highs in coming months – analyst James Fry
KUALA LUMPUR – Palm oil prices could hit a record 8,100 ringgit ($1,938) a tonne in coming months following a plunge in global edible oil stocks and a decline in export surpluses,…
Baltimore CBP Seizes $2.5 Million in Palm Oil Shipments Under Forced Labor Finding
BALTIMORE – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized four shipments of palm oil in Baltimore since February 11 due to information indicating that the palm oil was manufactured by forced…
Palm oil becomes costliest vegoil as Ukraine war halts sunoil supply
By Rajendra Jadhav MUMBAI – Palm oil has become the costliest among the four major edible oils for the first time as buyers rush to secure replacements for sunflower oil shipments from…
$1 Million Winning Powerball Ticket Sold in West Palm Beach
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA – The Florida Lottery (Lottery) announces that Evelyne Hamama, 53, of Ramat Hasharon, Israel, claimed a $1 million prize from the POWERBALL® Draw game at the Lottery’s West Palm Beach…
Malaysia keeps March crude palm oil export duty at 8%
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia has maintained its March export tax for crude palm oil at 8% and raised its reference price, a document on the Malaysian Palm Oil Board website showed on…
When she had the chance, she just did it, but prison escapee’s winter break ends with capture in Palm Coast
PALM COAST, FL – When Brittni Pozza had the chance to escape from custody back in December, she just did it. She jumped her way across the state of Florida from the…
Woman fell to her death as drawbridge in West Palm Beach opened
West Palm Beach – An unidentified woman was walking her bicycle off the Royal Park Bridge when it started to open. A man nearby was able to grab her as she fell,…
Palm Coast man facing drug charges after routine traffic stop
PALM COAST – A 37-year-old Palm Coast man is in the Flagler County Inmate Facility on a $147,500 bond after a weekend traffic stop results in seven different felony charges. Kevin Leeleon…
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