WEST PALM BEACH

A Florida woman won $1 million playing the 500X The Cash scratch-off game, Florida Lottery officials confirmed Thursday.

Federal prosecutors accused a 53-year-old South Florida attorney who represents victims of child sexual abuse of possessing child sexual abuse material himself.

Major league pitchers and batters aren’t the only ones going on the clock this season.

The Manhattan grand jury that has been hearing testimony about hush money paid on Donald Trump’s behalf will not take up that inquiry again this week, further delaying a potential vote on an indictment until next week at the earliest.

A man is $1 million richer after playing the $20 Monopoly Doubler scratch-off game, the Florida Lottery announced Monday.

A woman suffering an apparent psychotic episode was arrested Sunday morning after she was found running naked in a West Palm Beach neighborhood and a dead body was found in her home, a probable cause affidavit said.

A 56-year-old Florida man is $4 million richer after playing the Mega Millions draw game, the Florida Lottery announced Tuesday.

The 41st Palm Beach International Boat Show opens Thursday with several superyacht debuts and a trip down memory lane with the appearance of a restored Honey Fitz, the yacht that served presidents including John F. Kennedy.

A family is grieving the death of a 22-year-old man from Broward County on Monday after he died in a crash in Palm Beach County.

Houston Astros star Jose Altuve has a broken right thumb and needs surgery after getting hurt in Venezuela’s 9-7 quarterfinal loss to the United States at the World Baseball Classic. The Astros said Sunday they will announce a prognosis for the second baseman after the operation. The ight-time All-Star and the 2017 American League MVP fell after he was struck by a 95.9 mph sinker from Colorado reliever Daniel Bard in the fifth inning Saturday night.

Police said that three men, from Miami-Dade County, rang up hundreds of dollars in charges, including a $75 round of shots.

A longtime professor at a private South Florida university says he was fired for “indoctrinating students” by including a racial justice unit in his syllabus.

The Brightline train service recently tested its train to hit a top speed of 130 mph in Central Florida, and it’s putting the quick travel on full display with video.

Brightline launches updated Bridge Schedule App to give boaters real-time information about bridge openings and closures in Fort Lauderdale.

It took 2 hours, 19 minutes for the Miami Marlins to beat the Houston Astros 4-3 in a spring training game Monday — a game so fast that Ryan Murphy, a lifelong Houston fan, found himself lingering in the ballpark for a while afterward. “I’m a baseball fan,” said Murphy, wearing 2022 Astros World Series gear, “so if I stay here for four hours, for two hours, it doesn’t matter to me.” Faced with criticism of dwindling cultural relevance and a laggardly product compared to other major sports, Major League Baseball introduced a set of new rules this year to speed up games and attract younger fans.

A Boynton Beach teen was shot to death Tuesday night after meeting two men in a West Palm Beach park. The attack was “not random,” according to West Palm Beach police.

The Florida Dental Association Foundation will offer 2,000 people free dental care in South Florida this weekend. The catch: it's first come, first served.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a news conference at Palm Beach Atlantic University Wednesday afternoon.

How a terrible freeze in Central Florida 129 years ago prompted development in warmer South Florida

Dr. Monty Alexander, is set to bring a Valentine’s Day performance of Love Notes to West Palm Beach, Florida this February 14th

Several neighborhoods in West Palm Beach were hit by hate over the weekend.

Motorists and pedestrians are urged to prepare for daily tests of its Brightline's high-speed trains in northern Palm Beach County beginning as early as Feb. 11. Brightline's commuter trains will be run up to 110 mph during the tests, which will take place daily at crossings north of the current West Palm Beach terminus. Testing will take place daily between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m.

An appliance delivery man from Hialeah was convicted Wednesday of beating a 75-year-old woman to death and setting her on fire at her Florida home.

A Frontier passenger is facing criminal charges after deputies say he claimed he had a bomb in his bag while boarding a flight in West Palm Beach on Tuesday.

A Palm Beach woman is facing child abuse charges on Tuesday after hitting her 6-month-old son several times in the head while recording the incident, authorities said.

United Airlines has reported a bigger fourth-quarter profit and higher revenue than Wall Street expected.

The coldest temperatures of the winter thus far arrived Saturday night and into Sunday morning in South Florida, dipping into the 30s in many areas with wind gusts that made it feel even colder.

An autistic Florida 6-year-old went missing outside her home and was found dead in a pond. The girl was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.

A drawbridge operator who killed a bicyclist last year when she raised the spans before making sure they were clear has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a deal that allows her to avoid prison time.

Artissua Paulk, 44, of Greenacres, pleaded guilty Tuesday to manslaughter in connection with the death of Carol Wright, 79, of West Palm Beach, who fell from the Royal Park Bridge when Paulk opened it with Wright on it in February 2022. She was sentenced to eight years of probation.

A 6-year old girl, who had autism disorder and was nonverbal, was found dead in a body of water behind her West Palm Beach home.

Carlos Molina was in intense pain and fought hard over the past two months in the hospital.

Brightline offered the public some preliminary views of its futuristic station at Orlando International Airport, the end point of its soon-to-open extension from West Palm Beach to Central Florida.

The 2nd Annual BlackLuxe Picnic Festival expands to a three-day weekend of activities in Palm Beach County, February 17-19, 2023.

Police arrested a South Florida substitute teacher Tuesday after accusing her of soliciting a teenage girl for sexual activity with her boyfriend.

A serial grifter who gained national infamy as a teenager when he impersonated a doctor to defraud a patient is heading back to prison after pleading guilty to stealing more than $10,000 from his employer.

A serial grifter who gained national infamy as a teenager when he impersonated a doctor to defraud a patient is heading back to prison after pleading guilty to stealing more than $10,000 from his employer. Malachi Love-Robinson, 25, received a sentence of over two years and four months last week after pleading guilty in Palm Beach County, Florida, to grand theft and organized scheme to defraud. Court documents show that in 2020, Robinson was working as a salesperson for a company that connects shippers with trucking companies.

A West Palm Beach man accused of the incestuous rape and impregnation of a 13-year-old child didn’t deny the charge, authorities say.

A 41-year-old man faces a host of felony charges after a 13-year-old girl’s visit to a South Florida hospital led police to accuse him of impregnating her.

South Floridians had a very chilly Christmas, with Sunday's overnight lows in the 40s. Miami hit just 48 degrees early Sunday, a record for the calendar 2022 year.

After a two-day delay, Brightline’s new station in Aventura has opened, and people can start to catch trains beginning Christmas Eve.

Dignitaries cut the ribbons for two brand new Brightline stations in South Florida on Tuesday, adding them to the growing rail network, which already stops in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.

Brightline is ready to throw open the doors of its new stations to upscale riders in Boca Raton and Aventura as stations in both cities became operational for paying passengers on Wednesday.

The FAMU NAA Broward County Chapter Christmas Celebration is happening this Sunday, December 18, 2022, and you are invited. Please join us as we celebrate and welcome our Special Guest and Mistress of Ceremony, Social Media Sensation Ms. Kitty Lundan from West Palm Beach Florida. Guests will have the pleasure of listening to great music, a silent auction with exciting specialty baskets and also an opportunity to win CASH $$ during the 50/50 Give-A-Way Drawing. Tickets for the event may be purchased thru Eventbrite (scan QR code below) , browardrattlers.com/event , ZELLE (via famubc1963@gmail) or Paypal. If you have any further questions, please contact Fundraising Chairperson Millicent Thorpe @ (954) 871-6727

Brightline’s new Boca Raton station will open for business in mere weeks and city officials are brimming with optimism, declaring it a “game-changer” that could transform the city into an attractive hub for new businesses and cultural attractions.

The nature of newly found material was not immediately clear, but Trump staffers used the storage unit in which they were found, according to WAPO.

There were two documents with classified markings inside a sealed box in a storage facility in West Palm Beach, a source confirmed.

They’re invasive, destructive and now apparently responsible for a “large-scale” power outage in one South Florida city.

Donald Trump is under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice for his removal of government documents from the White House when he left office.

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump found at least two items marked as classified during a recent search of a storage unit in West Palm Beach, Florida, and have provided them to the FBI, according to a published report Wednesday. The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources, reported that the items were discovered by an outside team brought in by Trump's representatives to search his other properties for any additional classified materials. The nature of the classified materials was not immediately clear, but the storage unit in which they were found had been used to hold items from an office in northern Virginia used by Trump staffers after he left office, the newspaper said.

Trump insisted Mar-a-Lago has "strong security" despite reports that Kanye West and his entourage were able to easily enter the resort.

A 10-year-old Florida girl stunned everyone with her positive attitude after a shark took a bite out of her foot on Sunday afternoon.

The storm dropped upwards of a half-foot of rain over inland areas that experienced devastating floods a month ago.

With Tropical Storm Nicole expected to become a Category 1 hurricane before making landfall along the Treasure Coast or Palm Beach County Wednesday, flooding is already starting to become an issue.

Tropical Storm Nicole, located about 250 miles east of West Palm Beach at daybreak Wednesday, is expected to attain hurricane status later today before making landfall along Florida’s Treasure or Space Coast late Wednesday or during the overnight hours into Thursday.

View an interactive map of the areas in Palm Beach County that are under evacuation orders ahead of Hurricane Nicole, as well as locations of open hurricane shelters.

All of Palm Beach County, including West Palm Beach, is in the forecast cone of uncertainty for potential Hurricane Nicole, with landfall predicted somewhere between West Palm Beach and Port St. Lucie overnight Wednesday into Thursday. Here's the latest forecast track including the so-called "spaghetti models."

Tropical Storm Nicole is expected to approach the east coast of Florida overnight Wednesday into Thursday, though it is uncertain whether the storm will be a hurricane strength by the time it makes landfall somewhere between West Palm Beach and Port St. Lucie. Here's the latest forecast track including the so-called "spaghetti models."

The Palm Beach County School District announced on Tuesday that all schools and offices will be closed on Wednesday and Thursday due to Subtropical Storm Nicole.

Northern Palm Beach County, including West Palm Beach, is in the forecast cone of uncertainty for potential Hurricane Nicole. Southern Palm Beach County, including Delray Beach and Boca Raton, are just outside the cone. Here's the latest forecast track including the so-called "spaghetti models."

Palm Beach County, including West Palm Beach, Boca Raton and the rest of South Florida are in the forecast cone of uncertainty for expected Tropical Storm Nicole. Here's the latest forecast track including the so-called "spaghetti models."

A 30-year-old Greenacres man was killed early Sunday in a collision between a motorcycle and an SUV in West Palm Beach

A young Fort Lauderdale man who killed a family in a high-speed crash after ingesting household dust cleaner has been convicted of vehicular homicide.

A South Florida teen is suing the private company that runs a West Palm Beach juvenile detention center after one of the guards was convicted of having sex with her while she was in custody.

A South Florida podiatrist faces sexual battery charges.

In a matter of days, two people in two different states were dead, a woman was hospitalized after she was shot in the face and a man had his car stolen from him at gunpoint. Patrick Tirrell Brockman, 43, is the suspect in all of the crimes, according to West Palm Beach Police.

Florida will test out at least 10 “RISE Express” dispensaries at Circle K stores across the state in 2023.

The trial of a Florida woman accused of dressing up as clown in 1990 and fatally shooting the wife of a man she later married has been postponed for a seventh time following the disclosure of a law enforcement file containing information about other clown-sighting leads at the time.

A lawyer for former president Donald Trump who signed a letter stating that a “diligent search” for classified records had been conducted and that all such documents had been given back to the government has spoken with the FBI.

Famed South Florida rapper Kodak Black is giving back and helping make sure more than two dozen local families have a home for the holidays.

Trump faces a criminal investigation by the Department of Justice over the removal of government records when he left the White House.

A Palm Beach County deputy accidentally shot and wounded another deputy who was being attacked by a pit bull Monday, officials said.

As South Florida continues to monitor Hurricane Ian’s trajectory this week, city and county offices, as well as schools and universities, have announced closures and cancellations. The state of Florida has activated its price-gouging hotline. This report will be updated constantly as new information becomes available.

The Miami Herald editorial said there was an overlap between white supremacy and Florida Gov. DeSantis' "Christian nationalist shtick."

Much of Florida, including West Palm Beach and nearly all of Palm Beach County, is in the forecast cone of uncertainty for Hurricane Ian. Here's the latest forecast map.

Much of Florida, including West Palm Beach and all of Palm Beach County, is in the forecast cone of uncertainty for Hurricane Hermine, which is expected to form out of Tropical Depression Nine in the southern Caribbean Sea. Here's the latest forecast map.

The special master reviewing the Mar-a-Lago documents is asking Trump's legal team to defend wild claims he makes in interviews and on social media.

A South Florida man faced a judge Tuesday after state wildlife officials arrested him, accusing him of abusing a bird on Florida’s threatened species list.

A debate between Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and his Democratic challenger, U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, is set for Oct. 12.

Investigators believe Dahud Jolicoeur, who has autism, may have drowned.

A 21-year-old man died Sunday night after crashing his pickup truck into a pig that had made its way onto a South Florida roadway.

The shooter who critically injured a 44-year-old Royal Palm Beach woman Sunday was arrested by police Wednesday afternoon at her job in Palm Beach Gardens, authorities said.

The chorus goes up every August — South Floridians moaning “It’s soooo hot out!” Well, this year you may have a point. This was the warmest August on record for West Palm Beach, with average temperatures reaching 85.6 degrees.

Police arrested a 21-year-old woman Wednesday on charges of attempted murder and shooting into an occupied vehicle following a road rage shooting that critically injured a South Florida woman Sunday morning.

An emaciated puppy was found Tuesday afternoon inside a dumpster in Plantation, authorities said.

A 25-year-old man was fatally shot by his longtime friend over the weekend in Palm Beach County, authorities said Monday.

A woman managed to drive all the way into Martin County after being shot and critically wounded in a West Palm Beach road rage incident, according to police.

Police in Palm Beach County are investigating a double shooting involving two teenagers.

West Palm Beach police spokesperson Mike Jachles said someone called 911 just before 8 p.m. to report that the boy had been pulled from the Springhill Suites hotel pool and wasn’t breathing.

Jennifer Flavin wants the court to give her exclusive use of the couple's Palm Beach lakefront estate while their divorce is pending.

A two-year-old police dog trained on sniffing out cash quickly caught a 33-year-old bank robbery suspect on Tuesday in West Palm Beach, police said.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Justice Department to put forward proposed redactions as he committed to making public at least part of the affidavit supporting the search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach estate.

The FBI seized several sets of top secret documents from former President Donald Trump's resort home when it was raided on Monday.

The West Palm Beach animal park announced the birth of the female Southern White Rhinoceros calf, which was welcomed to the world on Aug. 6.

When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wanted to appoint Renatha Francis for the position on the state's supreme court, he met with challenges. Two years later, he was able to make his appointment.

Rafaelle Sousa’s lawyer says she didn’t know she was pregnant until she went into labor, and thought the newborn was dead.

Families must be unemployed or underemployed and have "low or very low" income in order to qualify for the checks.

South Florida hasn’t experienced the searing, record-setting heat many other parts of the world have experienced this summer. But it’s still been oppressively hot and humid, especially last week when the “feels like” temperatures were between 105 and 110 degrees.

Plans to open a Brightline station at Disney Springs have been canceled, according to reports.

A West Palm Beach man searched a vacant lot Wednesday trying to find a chicken that escaped from his yard, but, in a shocking discovery, he instead found human remains.