Palm Beach County News

The second-largest bank in Chile has an agreement to buy Miami-based City National Bank of Florida , one of the most attractive local institutions.

A 19-year-old man has been identified as a suspect in an attempted burglary at a home Tuesday afternoon in suburban Delray Beach.

But when Gov. Rick Scott issued $368 million in budget vetoes this week, he raised pointed questions about whether Florida taxpayers should pay for local projects - and what kind of return the state should get for its money.

Luna was 8-years-old when she went missing. She was last seen walking in her neighborhood near the Greenacres Grocery, now known as the Belk General Store, just hundreds of feet from her home in 1984.

A trip to the Town Center Mall in Boca Raton ended with a stay at the Palm Beach County jail for a Daytona Beach woman.

The executive summary released by the Palm Beach County School District for the most recently completed third grade FCATs says it all, and reveals what can only be interpreted as a very serious problem in the county-wide education of young children in the areas of math and reading.

Since 2006, attorney and courthouse muckraker William "Bill" Gelin has been shaking up the judiciary on his popular site, JAA Blog .

First there was the Boca squatter, the 20-something called Loki Boy who fancied himself the Norse god of mischief.

With over 10,000 arrests to his name, William "Cobra" Staubs is one of the most famous and successful bounty hunters in the world.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office says with the schools police department would bring additional costs they are not ready to absorb.

The Boca Raton-based bank plans to increase its lead as the largest bank based in Palm Beach County by purchasing the North Palm Beach-based bank.

It's the yucky part of high school science classes - dissecting frog organs or slicing open a stretched-out earthworm.

Jacqueline Fumero, 49, is accused of DUI and violating her probation. She remained at the Palm Beach County Jail late Wednesday in lieu of $15,000 bond.

Stormy conditions thwarted a robbery planned for rolling film cameras Tuesday at a Boca Raton jewelry shop, but the outlook for show business in Palm Beach and Broward counties has never been brighter.

There's just something in the summer air that makes celebrating our lady 'murica feel especially right.

Palm Beach Central High School physics teacher Stuart Greydanus earlier this month won the 2013 Inspirational Teacher of the Year Award from the weel-known Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the MIT Alumni Club of Palm Beach.

A man at the center of an adverse possession case has accused the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office of overreach after deputies ordered him away from the home and arrested him.

Allen says he declined the optional insurance and all the extras, but when he returned the car 9 days later he was taken for a spin when, he says, he was charged $215 for insurance and another $53 for roadside protection.

Three men have been arrested in connection with the theft of Jupiter police vehicles and firearms, according Sgt.

John Goodman won a new trial, but he didn't win his freedom. The polo magnate will mostly stay confined to his Wellington mansion after a judge Wednesday refused to end his house arrest and remove his ankle monitor.