Lantana News

Ranjit M. Mirchandani and his wife, Maya, has listed for sale a five-bedroom, 5.5-bath home at 350 E. Ocean Ave.

Coconuts helped save one Florida town's post office. Updated 3:46 p.m. ET Among the post offices saved in the latest round of cutbacks announced Friday is the one in coconut-rich Lantana, Fla.

The Barefoot Mailman, who in real life is Town Manager, Mike Bornstein, kneels in front of local officials after a "Save the Lantana Post Office Rally" Wednesday afternoon.

Lantana Town Manager Mike Bornstein says he got a pretty good laugh when he found out the hundreds of coconuts he'd mailed to Postmaster General John E. Potter had been given away to homeless shelters.

The placement of boulders to shore up the Imperial House condominium is under way and should be done by the end of the week.

Published: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 12:35 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 12:35 a.m. Jurors have convicted a Lantana man of a fatal Christmas Eve shooting inside the Boynton Beach mall.

About three weeks ago, Superintendent Art Johnson delivered what briefly felt like a victory to parents and teachers who had led the boldest campaign against a Palm Beach County School District program in two decades.

Jurors are deliberating the fate of a man accused in a fatal Christmas Eve shooting inside the Boynton Beach mall.

RIVIERA BEACH, LANTANA, FL - So far local erosion problem spots seem to be weathering several days of rough surf pretty well.

City commissioners took the following action tonight: * Approved a short-term agreement with Sun Recycling to dispose of vegetation and bulk waste at 790 Hilbrath Drive in Lantana.

Shops and restaurants on this seaside town's historic avenue will come together this weekend for a collective grand opening/grand reopening celebration aimed to draw customers.

A suburban Lantana man with some two dozen arrests in the last seven years is charged with torching a 43-year-old Lincoln Continental, valued at $20,000, early Wednesday behind a convenience store west of Lantana.

Tucking her 10-year-old son Noah into bed was the first thing Lori Frye wanted to do after more than three months in hospitals battling the H1N1 flu.

A judge who was ready to give a Lantana woman a break on bond changed his mind when he got to the end of the police report.

Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office detectives said an argument led to a shooting that injured two people Sunday afternoon.

What appeared to be a drive-by shooting west of Lantana on Glenwood Drive injured two men about 4:40 p.m. today, a Palm Beach County Sheriff's spokeswoman said.

Authorities said they are trying to figure out what led a Lantana woman to stab her boyfriend multiple times.

It's not just UK post offices that are at risk of closure and taking steps to campaign to keep themselves open, as this story from Florida reveals : Residents of a Florida town are sending coconuts to the U.S. postmaster general as postcards asking him to reconsider the closing of their post office.

Federal prosecutors have added murder charges against two men allegedly involved in an extensive drug-and-arms trafficking operation by the Krazy Locos gang in a quiet neighborhood west of Lantana.

Officials from Palm Beach County and several smaller communities gather at the post office in Lantana, Fla., to mail coconuts to the U.S. Postal Service headquarters in Washington.