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QUESTION: Can City Of Boca Raton Approve Construction That Causes Problems In Unincorporated Palm Beach County? UPDATE: SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE DURING MONDAY STORM… UPDATE 5:21 p.m: Tipsters tell BocaNewsNow.com that the construction area and temporary fencing along Clint Moore Road s...
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BOYNTON BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A 38-year-old Boynton Beach woman is facing DUI and resisting arrest charges after police say she ran a red light, made a U-turn, and then refused a battery of field sobriety and breath tests. Megan Ann...
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BOCA RATON, FL — A Boca Raton nursing home and the company a new lawsuit describes as its management firm are facing wrongful death claims brought by the son of a longtime resident who, according to the complaint, died weeks after falling from her bed and breaking her hip. The co...
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BOCA RATON, FL — A construction company is facing a civil negligence lawsuit in Palm Beach County after a scooter rider alleged that debris left on a Boca Raton roadway near a work site caused him to lose control and crash, according to a complaint filed in circuit court. Jose Ro...
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Boca Raton. Boynton Beach. Delray Beach. And Why Woodfield Country Club Is Causing Problems For So Many People… (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Palm Beach County drivers get 186 fresh reasons to leave early this week, courtesy of the Florida Department...
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BOYNTON BEACH, FL — The owner of a Boynton Beach apartment complex is facing a negligence lawsuit in Palm Beach County Circuit Court after a woman alleged she slipped and fell in the parking lot when a broken front gate forced her to walk around it, according to a complaint filed...
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BOCA RATON, FL — A shopper is asking a Palm Beach County judge to order Costco to hand over surveillance video and the name of the member she says ran into her with a motorized shopping cart at the warehouse store on Congress Avenue in Boca Raton. Laura Sanchez filed a petition f...
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WEST PALM BEACH, FL — A West Palm Beach Walmart is facing a negligence lawsuit in Palm Beach County Circuit Court after a shopper alleged a store employee ran a heavily loaded stocking cart into her right foot while she was shopping, according to a newly filed complaint. The comp...
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BOYNTON BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A Boynton Beach man is facing a prostitution solicitation charge after West Palm Beach police say he agreed to pay an undercover officer $40 for oral sex. Nicholas Rigazio Digilio, 34, was arrested afte...
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — J. Alexander’s restaurant at 1400 Glades Road received 11 health code violations over two separate inspections. Ten violations were logged on August 31st. Then another violation was logged during a re-insp...
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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 — Boca Raton Police issued a non-emergency traffic advisory at 7:23 p.m. Saturday telling drivers to avoid two intersections along...
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DELRAY BEACH, FL — Delray Beach has hired an outside firm to review how it runs its municipal cemetery, weeks after residents and funeral directors told city commissioners that Memorial Gardens had run out of burial plots and that families were being turned away. The Office of th...
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DELRAY BEACH, FL — The shovels were painted in August. On Sept. 10 they finally go into the ground. The City of Delray Beach and the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency have scheduled a groundbreaking ceremony for the Pompey Park revitalization on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026...
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WEST PALM BEACH, FL — The most detailed case made for the Boca Raton Achievement Center at the Sept. 1 Palm Beach County Commission meeting did not come from a commissioner. It came from a family that had been through three schools in three years. Commissioners proclaimed Septemb...
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DELRAY BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A construction worker who allegedly suffered catastrophic brain and facial injuries on a Delray Beach job site is suing the property’s developer, contractors and site managers, claiming they let an excav...
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BOCA RATON, FL — Boca Raton's Planning and Zoning Board voted 7-0 Thursday to approve a skate park and pump track at North Park, rejecting calls from Boca Teeca condominium leaders to delay the decision for a noise and traffic study. The vote was final action by the board on a si...
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UPDATE: The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has canceled this Silver Alert. You can view the FDLE cancellation notice here . FLORIDA — BOYNTON BEACH — A Florida Silver Alert has been issued for an 87-year-old man last known to be in Boynton Beach, according to the Florida D...
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WEST PALM BEACH, FL — Palm Beach County commissioners voted 5-2 Thursday to advance a countywide property tax rate of 4.5000 mills for the coming budget year, keeping the rate unchanged from the current year while raising an estimated $85.3 million more than the rolled-back rate ...
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DELRAY BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Delray Beach Saturday says it is now retaining a consultant to review how the city runs its 120-year-old municipal cemetery, part of a broader push to fix operations while honoring the site’s history. Ci...
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BOCA RATON, FL — All five Beach and Park District commissioners put shovels in the dirt Thursday morning at the corner of NW 2nd Ave. and Jeffrey St. The 70 acres behind them are now officially under construction. The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District held its groundbrea...
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BOYNTON BEACH, FL — The tip came in July, and it was anonymous. Someone told Boynton Beach police that narcotics and sex acts were happening inside a suite on South Federal Highway. Two months later, an undercover officer knocked on the door of Suite 408. Boynton Beach police arr...
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LOXAHATCHEE, FL — The standoff at a downtown West Palm Beach hotel ended without a struggle. The charge that followed was first-degree premeditated murder. Todd Nathan Wegrich, 53, was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail at 4:22 a.m. Sept. 5 on a single homicide count, accordi...
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A motorcyclist died Friday afternoon after an SUV turned left across his path at State Road 7 west of Boca Raton. PBSO says the rider was ejected and came to rest in the SUV's back seat....
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BOCA RATON, FL — A motorcyclist was killed in a crash with an SUV at State Road 7 and EF Johns Parkway in Boca Raton on Friday, Sept. 4, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. PBSO's log entry lists the crash at 2:58 p.m. and the fatality at 3:06 p.m. The motorcycli...
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PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL — Boca Post reviewed new Palm Beach County Circuit Civil filings recorded on September 04, 2026 . These cases include auto negligence claims, medical malpractice actions, premises liability incidents, insurance disputes, business litigation, foreclosure acti...
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BOYNTON BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A massage operation allegedly offering more than just massages was just busted in Boynton Beach. Boynton Beach Police shared this announcement with BocaNewsNow.com: >> The Boynton Beach Police Departmen...
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Rain. Extreme heat. Oppressive humidity. Welcome to your Labor Day Weekend in South Florida. Here’s the BocaNewsNow.com/National Weather Service forecast for the next several days: Tonight: A slight chance...
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BOYNTON BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A Loxahatchee man was arrested on the southbound Florida Turnpike near Boynton Beach after a Florida Highway Patrol trooper clocked him at 117 miles per hour. Jefferey Loyd Boatwright Jr., 29, was taken...
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BOYNTON BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A Loxahatchee man was arrested on the southbound Florida Turnpike near Boynton Beach after a Florida Highway Patrol trooper clocked him at 117 miles per hour. Jefferey Loyd Boatwright Jr., 29, was taken...
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Porsche Leasing Ltd. says a Boynton Beach woman stopped paying on a 2020 Macan, ignored the lease's May expiration, and concealed the SUV. The company wants it back....
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LAKE WORTH, FL — The first estimate put him somewhere between 25 and 35 years old. He was 43. It took nearly 43 more years to learn his name. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office says forensic genetic genealogy has identified a man whose body was found in a waterway in unincorp...
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BOCA RATON, FL — The beaches and parks stay open. The garbage trucks do not. Boca Raton will close city offices and services on Monday, Sept. 7 for the Labor Day holiday, and sanitation collection will run a full day behind for the first half of the week, according to a notice th...
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PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL — The email knows your property address. It knows your permit number. It may even use the name of a real county official. That is the point. Palm Beach County's Planning, Zoning and Building Department renewed its warning on September 1, 2026, telling reside...
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COCONUT CREEK, FL — Boca Raton is taking 27 license plate readers down. Coconut Creek is taking none down. Police Chief Fred Hofer said in a video statement posted by the Coconut Creek Police Department that all 10 of the city's Flock license plate reader cameras sit outside the ...
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A woman allegedly driving with crack is facing DUI and hit-and-run charges after police say she plowed into the back of a Tesla on North Dixie Highway, threw her SUV in reverse and hit a second car, then d...
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DELRAY BEACH, FL — The award is not for a rescue. It is for the work that happens between the calls. Delray Beach Fire Rescue Captain Joseph Falcone has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Florida Fire Chiefs Association Safety and Health Award of Excellence, according to ...
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BOCA RATON, FL — Boca Raton council members introduced an ordinance Tuesday that would refund some city firefighters part of what they paid years ago to buy extra pension credit, after a cap on retirement benefits adopted in 2015 reduced what those purchases are worth. Ordinance ...
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BOCA RATON, FL — The Boca Raton City Council introduced an ordinance that would keep parking garages and other uninhabitable spaces inside the city's building recertification program, holding the local standard tighter than the one state lawmakers set in 2025. Council members too...
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BOYNTON BEACH, FL — A nursery worker came across the remains in a wooded area off South Military Trail more than three years ago. It took a partial DNA profile, a facial reconstruction, an outside genealogy lab and one more round of kinship testing before investigators could atta...
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A Palm Beach County man is suing Airbnb, claiming the company booked him into a vacation rental with dangerously defective stairs that sent him crashing to the ground and shattered his wrist. Ariel Ruiz fi...
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — City Hall is locking its doors for Labor Day. Boca Raton will close all city offices and services on Monday, September 7, 2026, in observance of the holiday, with normal operations resuming Tuesday, Septem...
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PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL — New civil lawsuits recorded in Palm Beach County Circuit Court on September 02, 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...
