Lantana News

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.

The folks in Lantana, Fla. think the Postal Service would have to be nuts to close their post office and they're trying a coco-nutty way to prove it.

Palm Beach County Health Department is reporting the county's seventh swine flu-related death.

The "Withdrawal Bandit" was brazen enough to walk into the same Lantana bank Tuesday that he hit last month, with the intent of walking away with more money to fuel a drug addiction, police said.

It appears the "withdrawal bandit" may have made his first misstep this morning, approaching the front door of a Lantana bank branch he'd already hit once in September.

The family of an 18-year-old man from India who was killed in a 2007 airplane crash west of Boynton Beach has sued the now-defunct aviation company that he hoped would train him to be a commercial pilot.

Lona O'Connor writes in the The Palm Beach Post, that hundreds of coconuts with polite messages asking U.S. Postmaster John Potter to reconsider the proposed closing of Florida post office have been sent to USPS headquarters in Washington.

One only needs to observe government workers at work to see waste. Generous health plans, outrageous retirement plans that let old time croonies help themelves to make over $100,000 annual retire pay.

What are the latest hot topics in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast? You're looking at them.

A wreck has closed all eastbound lanes of Lantana Road near the interstate, Lantana dispatchers report.

Look out, Postmaster General John E. Potter: The coconuts are coming. Hundreds of them, properly stamped and addressed to your office on L'Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C. The heavy, brown oversized seeds, serving as postcards with about $4 worth of postage, were donated by post office fans from Lantana and nearby coastal communities.

Authorities have given a name to southern Palm Beach County's serial bank robber.