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BOCA RATON, FL — The breach letters are going out. Here's what they say, who should expect one, and how to spot a fake. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said Oct. 16 that its September data breach may have exposed driver license and motor vehicle data, ...
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BOCA RATON, FL — Boca Raton is going to need a new city manager. City Manager Mark Sohaney has resigned to take a new job that will return him to serving the military community, the City of Boca Raton announced Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. The city's announcement did not name his new e...
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UPDATE FROM DELRAY BEACH PD AT 4:30 p.m. — “At 2:52 PM Delray Beach police and Delray Beach Fire Rescue responded to a crash by a construction site on E. Atlantic Avenue and NE 7th Avenue. A commercial truck struck a construction worker who was operating an 80-foot boom lift. The...
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A 21-year-old Boca Raton woman is facing charges after police say she knocked down a city road sign with her white Porsche early Sunday and drove off, leaving a trail of car parts behind her. Officers on p...
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) (Local Journalism Supporter Content) — EOD Properties has acquired a freestanding commercial building at 3500 N. Federal Highway in Boca Raton, Florida, for $5.25 million, with plans to renovate and repositi...
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — The City of Boca Raton Friday announced the resignation of City Manager Mark Sohaney. Sohaney started at the end of September, 2025. Here is the official statement: >> City Manager Mark Sohaney has announc...
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Palm Beach County voters can now carry the elections office in their pocket. Supervisor of Elections Wendy Sartory Link has launched Vote Palm Beach, a free mobile app available in the Apple App Store and ...
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PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL — Boca Post reviewed new Palm Beach County Circuit Civil filings recorded on October 15, 2026 . These cases include auto negligence claims, medical malpractice actions, premises liability incidents, insurance disputes, business litigation, foreclosure action...
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UPDATE: Boca Raton PD shared this with BocaNewsNow.com, “Following an auto burglary in another jurisdiction, three subjects bailed from a vehicle in the area of Glades and Dixie. All three subjects have been taken into custody.” The scene is clear as of 9a. BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNe...
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BY: ANDREW COLTON | Editor and Publisher | BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Boca Raton’s Woodfield Country Club apparently has no sense of humor. In fact, it appears the Woodfield HOA is just as annoyed with BocaNewsNow.com’s reporting on...
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BY: ANDREW COLTON | Editor and Publisher | DELRAY BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed to BocaNewsNow.com Thursday that agents did take part in an operation in the West Delray Beach community of Seven ...
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DELRAY BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A 22-year-old Boca Raton woman is facing two counts of battery after police say she punched, bit and swung at a group of people inside a car on East Atlantic Avenue early Sunday morning. Jessica Ann Sumn...
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Early Voting in the 2026 General Election runs October 19 through November 1 at 28 Palm Beach County locations, open daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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UPDATE AT 11:50 a.m. — Palm Beach County Fire Rescue just issued this official statement to BocaNewsNow.com — “At approximately 8:30 this morning, PBCFR was dispatched to a multi-vehicle crash on Florida’s Turnpike, southbound at Atlantic Avenue. Units arrived to find a 6-vehicle...
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BOCA RATON, FL — Residents came to Mayor Andy Thomson's town hall asking how to stop new development. He told them the city likely can't. Speaking to residents Wednesday, Oct. 14, at the Spanish River Library, Thomson said a citywide ban on new residential construction would almo...
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PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL — Boca Post reviewed new Palm Beach County Circuit Civil filings recorded on October 14, 2026 . These cases include auto negligence claims, medical malpractice actions, premises liability incidents, insurance disputes, business litigation, foreclosure action...
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DELRAY BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted what are believed multiple operations Wednesday in the West Delray Beach community of Seven Bridges. Agents and Deputies from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s...
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — The Florida Department of Education has named 45 Palm Beach County public schools to its 2026 “School of Excellence” list, a designation reserved for schools that stay near the top of the state year after ...
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Developing story: This report may be updated as additional information is confirmed. Updates will appear at the bottom of the article. BOCA RATON, FL — A stretch of NW 7th St was closed Wednesday afternoon after a vehicle accident, according to a traffic advisory from the Boca Ra...
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BOCA RATON, FL — Boca Raton City Council members voted 4-1 Tuesday to repeal the city's ban on feeding pigeons, iguanas, rats and mice, less than two months after the council adopted it, and approved an eight-story, 97-unit apartment building in the Park at Broken Sound. Both vot...
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BOYNTON BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — The man shot and killed by a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Tuesday afternoon in West Boynton Beach is now identified as as Gregory Dobkins. We are publishing an arrest photo of Dobkins from ...
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Developing story: This report may be updated as additional information is confirmed. Updates will appear at the bottom of the article. BOCA RATON, FL — Drivers in central Boca Raton are being told to avoid left turns at Yamato Road and T-Rex Avenue after traffic signals at the in...
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BOCA RATON, FL — Boca Raton City Council members on Tuesday steered a proposed $125 million police headquarters bond toward ballot language that would include a dedicated downtown police facility, while leaving the location of a new headquarters to be settled after voters decide ...
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — The owner of a downtown Boca Raton e-moto shop is back in jail, and police say a rush-hour wheelie on Federal Highway is what put him there. Colton Tagle Ralston, 46, of Boca Raton, was arrested Saturday o...
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BOYNTON BEACH, FL — A pursuit that began with a pizza delivery robbery in Lake Worth Beach ended Tuesday with a Palm Beach County sheriff's deputy shooting and killing the suspect on Jog Road south of Woolbright Road, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. PBSO said...
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BOCA RATON, FL — Boca Raton's Community Redevelopment Agency voted 5-0 Tuesday to approve The Sanborn, an eight-story private members club planned across Northeast First Avenue from Sanborn Square, after residents raised concerns about traffic, parking and how much more developme...
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Boca Raton Mayor Andy Thomson holds a Town Hall meeting tonight, Wednesday, October 14, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Spanish River Library. Residents can hear directly from the mayor about what’s happening i...
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PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL — On October 13, 2026 , the Palm Beach County Circuit Civil docket reflected a mix of new filings, from auto negligence and personal injury lawsuits to medical malpractice claims, premises liability cases, insurance and property disputes, business litigation...
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BOYNTON BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office just after 7 p.m. Tuesday provided a full rundown of the events that led to the shooting of an unarmed convicted felon in West Boynton Beach — near Jog Road and Wo...
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BOYNTON BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A $10 scratch-off ticket just paid off big for a Boynton Beach woman. Karina Vail claimed a $2 million top prize from the $2,000,000 FORTUNE Scratch-Off game at the Florida Lottery’s West Palm Beach Dis...
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Developing story: This report may be updated as additional information is confirmed. Updates will appear at the bottom of the article. BOCA RATON, FL — Drivers on Glades Road should expect delays and plan for detours after a crash shut down lanes on a key east-west corridor in ce...
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UPDATE: 4:20 p.m. — Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw says this started when police were investigating an individual allegedly involved in the robbery of a pizza delivery person. They tracked the car to the Lake Park area and moved in. The driver fled down I-95 where FHP eng...
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Developing story: This report may be updated as additional information is confirmed. Updates will appear at the bottom of the article. BOCA RATON, FL — Northbound lanes on Military Trail at Town Center Road were closed Tuesday morning because of a crash, according to a traffic ad...
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PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A former Watson B. Duncan Middle School math teacher now serving prison time for sex crimes involving a child is about to be permanently barred from Florida classrooms. The School Board of Palm Beac...
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BOCA RATON, FL — State inspectors temporarily closed four Palm Beach and Broward restaurants during the week of Oct. 5, and every one of those closures came down to pests: live roaches, flies or rodent droppings, according to Florida Department of Business and Professional Regula...
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PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL — New civil lawsuits recorded in Palm Beach County Circuit Court on October 12, 2026 span a range of issues, including auto negligence, alleged medical malpractice, slip-and-fall and premises liability claims, insurance coverage disputes, contract and debt l...
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A 47-year-old Boca Raton woman faces felony charges after police say she cornered her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend in the women’s restroom at Cosmo’s Nightclub, tore a $2,600 necklace off her neck and bit her...
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — It’s nothing to lose sleep over at this point, but that system very far east of Florida continues to develop. That development may be short-lived, according to the National Hurricane Center in the Monday a...
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Ruth & Norman Rales Jewish Family Services has formed a Medical Advisory Committee, pulling together local physicians and health care experts to advise the Boca Raton agency on its programs and services. T...
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A Palm Beach County woman says an “extremely slippery and dangerous floor” at Boca Raton Regional Hospital left her permanently hurt, and now she’s suing. Rochelle Ackner just filed the negligence lawsuit ...
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A reminder to parents and guardians: there is no school today for students in the Palm Beach County School District. Public schools are closed for the Columbus Day holiday. It is technically being called a...
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Deputies say they found cocaine in a 23-year-old woman's purse during a 3:43 a.m. foot patrol at a plaza at State Road 7 and Sandalfoot Boulevard.
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No Amount Of Botox Will Smooth The Traffic Wrinkles Caused By Woodfield Country Club… Annoyed? Call Woodfield At 561-994-9989. BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Got somewhere to be this week? Leave yesterday. The Florida Department of Tran...
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — There is a new system forming very, very east of Florida. It is being monitored Sunday by the National Hurricane Center which says it has a small chance — for now — of developing into something of note. He...
