Matt Papaycik
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Updated: Sep. 22, 2023 at 12:21 PM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
One person is dead following an apartment fire in west Boca Raton on Friday morning. It happened at a quad-plex apartment building in the 9600 block of Boca Gardens Circle North.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2023 at 7:20 AM EDT
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On the same day Brightline started service from South Florida to Orlando, one of the company's trains fatally struck a person in Delray Beach on Friday morning, authorities said.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2023 at 10:05 AM EDT
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A 21-year-old Amazon driver is in critical but stable condition after she was bitten by a "highly venomous" rattlesnake in Palm City on Monday.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2023 at 9:15 AM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
Two men are dead following a murder-suicide in Fort Pierce over the weekend. It happened at a home in the 200 block of North Eighth Street.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2023 at 12:05 PM EDT
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A night of drinking ended with a deadly shooting inside a beachfront apartment in Delray Beach, according to a newly released arrest report.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2023 at 8:20 AM EDT
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State investigators said it was unfortunate fate that led to the "cold and senseless" murder of a Palm Beach Gardens Lyft driver whose body was discovered in Okeechobee County earlier this year.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2023 at 11:05 AM EDT
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A former math teacher at Wellington Community High School is under arrest after Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office investigators said he had a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2023 at 9:35 AM EDT
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In the hours before Hurricane Idalia is expected to make landfall in Florida's Big Bend as a major Category 3 storm, the state is ramping up its efforts to protect residents.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2023 at 7:16 AM EDT
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Two people were hit by cars and one of them was killed in separate crashes in Palm Beach County early Tuesday morning.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2023 at 6:00 AM EDT
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For those evacuating from Hurricane Idalia, U-Haul is giving you a place to put your stuff. The company is offering 30 days of free self-storage or container use.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2023 at 5:25 AM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
Idalia strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane on Tuesday morning and is expected to rapidly intensify into a dangerous major hurricane before making landfall on Florida's west coast on Wednesday.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2023 at 4:26 PM EDT
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Tropical Storm Idalia is forecast to become a Category 2 hurricane by Wednesday morning as it lifts north into the Gulf of Mexico.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2023 at 4:26 PM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
Forty-nine Florida counties are now under a state of emergency as Hurricane Idalia, which is expected to rapidly strengthen into a major Category 3 hurricane, approaches the Sunshine State.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2023 at 11:25 AM EDT
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Five staff members from Palm Beach Central High School pleaded not guilty after authorities said the educators failed to report the suspected sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2023 at 6:50 AM EDT
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10 people, including four children, were impacted by a house fire in Port St. Lucie overnight Thursday, the American Red Cross said.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2023 at 6:05 AM EDT
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Tropical Storm Harold formed overnight Tuesday and made landfall in southern Texas as a weak tropical storm.
Updated: Aug. 21, 2023 at 6:30 AM EDT
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One tropical storm remains in the Atlantic basin while two others dissipated Monday and a depression in the Gulf of Mexico may intensify.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2023 at 11:01 AM EDT
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A west Boca Raton man is under arrest after Palm Beach County school police said he threatened to shoot six students at Loggers Run Middle School.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2023 at 11:01 AM EDT
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A Palm Beach County teacher will be suspended for 10 days after a school district investigation found she said the "n-word" around students in a seventh grade physical education class.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2023 at 6:11 AM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
A pair of tropical depressions could form in the Atlantic Ocean over the coming days, and a third area of disturbed weather is expected to bring stormy conditions to parts of the Gulf of Mexico.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2023 at 12:01 PM EDT
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Aldi is planning to buy all Winn-Dixie grocery stores, including approximately 400 locations in the southern United States.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2023 at 6:21 AM EDT
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The WPTV First Alert Weather team is keeping watch on three areas of disturbed weather that could develop into tropical systems over the coming days.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2023 at 9:20 AM EDT
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A 59-year-old man is facing four felony charges after a woman was taken to a hospital Tuesday morning following a shooting inside an apartment near Jupiter, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2023 at 12:00 PM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
Boca Raton police said Friday authorities are investigating the discovery of a woman's body in the ocean roughly one mile offshore.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2023 at 9:11 AM EDT
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday suspended State Attorney Monique Worrell of the 9th Judicial Circuit for what he called "neglect of duty and incompetence."
Updated: Aug. 9, 2023 at 8:06 AM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
Palm Beach County education leaders on Wednesday talked about South Florida's oppressive heat, enhanced school security, and the latest political controversy surrounding Advanced Placement Psychology.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2023 at 2:33 PM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik and Kate Hussey
Palm Beach County detectives are investigating a deadly double shooting in the 16300 block of 134th Terrace North of Jupiter Farms.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2023 at 9:41 AM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared in an exclusive interview with NBC News that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2023 at 6:10 AM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said a man is dead following a shooting in Lake Park on Sunday evening.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2023 at 11:06 AM EDT
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A local couple is turning their tragedy into saving lives. Guardian Angel Inspections was founded after the couple's son drowned in 2004.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2023 at 10:40 AM EDT
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Riviera Beach police said Friday a 17-year-old boy is under arrest for first-degree murder in homicide case dating back more than a year.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2023 at 3:30 PM EDT
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A Palm Beach Central High School leader said he didn't report the suspected sex assault of a teen girl because he didn't believe the suspect, his son, had committed a crime, a court filing shows.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2023 at 11:55 AM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
U.S. Sen. Rick Scott is demanding that Superintendent Mike Burke fire five Palm Beach Central High School employees who authorities said failed to report the suspected sexual assault of a girl.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2023 at 10:35 AM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
The mother of a newborn baby found floating in the Boynton Beach Inlet more than five years ago will spend the next 14 years behind bars after pleading guilty on Wednesday.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2023 at 8:46 AM EDT
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The Palm Beach County School Board on Wednesday approved an interim principal for Palm Beach Central High School after five staff members, including the principal, were arrested.
Updated: Aug. 1, 2023 at 12:06 PM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
For the first time, the superintendent of the School District of Palm Beach County has addressed the fallout after five staff members at Palm Beach Central High School were arrested.
Updated: Aug. 1, 2023 at 10:30 AM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
Gov. Ron DeSantis has invited Vice President Kamala Harris back to Florida "to set the record straight" on the state's new Black history curriculum.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2023 at 5:00 PM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
Documents appear to show that some staff members at Palm Beach Central High School may have known about the alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old student months before her own parents did.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2023 at 9:55 AM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
A West Palm Beach police vehicle was involved in a fiery and deadly crash early Friday in Boynton Beach, police say.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2023 at 6:31 AM EDT
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A 59-year-old Port St. Lucie man was hit and killed on Interstate 95 in Palm Beach Gardens on Friday morning while checking on the driver of an overturned vehicle, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
Updated: Jul. 25, 2023 at 9:35 AM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
High-ranking officials at Palm Beach Central High School in Wellington, including the principal, are under arrest after investigators said they failed to report an alleged sexual assault.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2023 at 10:41 AM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
A federal judge on Friday set a jury trial date of May 20, 2024 for former President Donald Trump in a case charging him with illegally retaining hundreds of classified documents.
Updated: Jul. 19, 2023 at 6:05 AM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
Boynton Beach police said two people were shot and a woman was killed inside a home early Wednesday morning.
Updated: Jul. 12, 2023 at 10:05 AM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
A 17-year-old boy is in critical condition after Port St. Lucie police said he hit a car while riding his motorcycle.
Updated: Jul. 11, 2023 at 9:41 AM EDT
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Private patient information was exposed in a security breach targeting HCA Healthcare, which operates multiple hospitals in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast.
Updated: Jul. 10, 2023 at 12:01 PM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
Former President Donald Trump has a big lead over Gov. Ron DeSantis among Republican primary voters in the Sunshine State in a newly released Florida Atlantic University Mainstreet PolCom Lab poll.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2023 at 10:16 AM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
A Florida Highway Patrol trooper was taken to the hospital Thursday morning after rear-ending a pickup truck on Interstate 95 in Lantana, authorities said.
Updated: Jun. 21, 2023 at 12:25 PM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
Three people were shot Wednesday in Boynton Beach, including one victim who sustained life-threatening injuries, police said.
Updated: Jun. 21, 2023 at 8:56 AM EDT
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A South Florida bishop who was severely injured in a hit-and-run crash during a vigil for Boynton Beach teenager last December has passed away, his family said Wednesday.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2023 at 8:37 AM EDT
|By Matt Papaycik
A 13-year-old west Boynton Beach boy is dead after the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said he was hit by a car while riding his bicycle on Wednesday evening.