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Florida Atlantic guard Alijah Martin (15) dunks during the first half of the team's NCAA...

Owls to open AAC schedule at home against East Carolina

Updated: 1 hour ago
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By WPTV - Staff
Florida Atlantic will begin its inaugural season in the American Athletic Conference with an 18-game league slate.

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Police search for missing 11-year-old girl

Updated: 2 hours ago
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By WPTV - Staff
Police in West Palm Beach are searching for a missing 11-year-old girl who didn't go to school Friday.

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Construction to begin on new Wellington sports facility

Updated: 4 hours ago
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By WPTV - Staff
A large proposed equestrian development is still seeking approval in Wellington. However, another project in the same part of town is now ready for construction.

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Is it cheaper for family of 4 to drive or take Brightline to Orlando?

Updated: 5 hours ago
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By WPTV - Staff
With Brightline beginning its trips from South Florida to Orlando on Friday, WPTV wanted to compare the prices and times if someone decided to drive instead of taking the train.

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Trump bashed on abortion comments while DeSantis struggles in latest polling

Updated: 6 hours ago
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By WPTV - Staff
Florida's governor says he can deliver $2 gas. The former president gets hit for comments on abortion. Plus, debate prep is underway with the stakes even higher than last month.

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Man shot to death at Phil Foster Park

Updated: 6 hours ago
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By WPTV - Staff
Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office detectives are investigating after a shooting left one man dead at Phil Foster Park in Riviera Beach.

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Brightline begins passing through 'Confusion Corner' in downtown Stuart

Updated: 6 hours ago
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By WPTV - Staff
As Brightline took its initial passenger runs Friday to Orlando, it traveled through some spots of the Treasure Coast.

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Worker shortages, produce supply concerns grow due to immigration law

Updated: 8 hours ago
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By WPTV - Staff
It's been almost four months since Gov. Ron Desantis, R-Fla., signed a new immigration law that has caused a lot of pushback from the state's farming communities.

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Tropical Storm Ophelia forms off Carolina coast with 60 mph winds

Updated: 9 hours ago
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By WPTV - Staff
A new tropical storm formed Friday afternoon off the coast of the Carolinas, according to the National Hurricane Center.

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Suspect, 60, accused of robbing Palm Beach Gardens bank

Updated: 10 hours ago
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By WPTV - Staff
A 60-year-old man was arrested in Palm Beach Gardens after a bank was robbed Thursday afternoon, police said.
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Lower rain chances this weekend

Updated: 11 hours ago
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By WPTV - Staff
Plenty of sunshine on Friday with high temperatures in the mid to upper 80s. Rain chances remain low at 20% for our viewing area on Friday.

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Person killed in west Boca Raton apartment fire

Updated: 11 hours ago
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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.

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Motorcycle rider killed in crash on Interstate 95 in Port St. Lucie

Updated: 14 hours ago
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By WPTV - Staff
A 41-year-old man riding a motorcycle was killed in a crash on Interstate 95 in Port St. Lucie overnight Friday, authorities said.

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Brightline train hits and kills person in Delray Beach, police say

Updated: 16 hours ago
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By Matt Papaycik
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.

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Brightline service begins from South Florida to Orlando

Updated: 16 hours ago
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By WPTV - Staff
The first Brightline train traveling from South Florida to Orlando rolled out Friday morning, completing a massive expansion project that cost the company $6 billion and took four years to complete.

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Florida leads nation in school book bans, free speech organization says

Updated: 17 hours ago
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By WPTV - Staff
What your kids read in school is top of mind for any parent. A new report from free speech organization PEN America shows Florida now leads the country in school book bans.

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Tropical Storm Ophelia expected to form off southeast coast

Updated: 17 hours ago
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By WPTV - Staff
Tropical Storm Ophelia is expected to form Friday off the southeastern U.S. coast and bring heavy rainfall and dangerous storm surge to the mid-Atlantic states.

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New Florida law could revive defeated Jupiter housing development

Updated: 22 hours ago
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By WPTV - Staff
A plan to create 520 apartments in Jupiter was rejected by the Town Council, but a recently passed Florida law could revive the plan.

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How will Brightline impact Treasure Coast residents?

Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 10:40 PM EDT
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By WPTV - Staff
Brightline is taking South Florida passengers north to Orlando starting Friday morning, and Stuart residents are sounding off.

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Former head of Florida domestic abuse agency charged with fraud, grand theft

Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 9:00 PM EDT
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By WPTV - Staff
The former head of a nonprofit domestic violence agency is charged with fraud and grand theft two years after she and the agency agreed to pay Florida $5 million to settle a civil lawsuit.

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Brightline ready to roll to Orlando amid Treasure Coast concerns

Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 7:35 PM EDT
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By WPTV - Staff
The first Brightline trains begin traveling Friday morning with passengers from South Florida to Orlando, completing a massive expansion project.

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Growth in Fort Pierce causing strain on police department

Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 6:40 PM EDT
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By WPTV - Staff
Growth on the Treasure Coast is putting strain on the Fort Pierce Police Department as the agency tries to keep up.

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New regional park to be constructed in Port St. Lucie

Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 6:30 PM EDT
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By WPTV - Staff
There's a lush green field of dreams in Port St. Lucie and imagination will turn it into a regional park.

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Check washing victims want USPS to change locks on cluster mailboxes

Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 6:20 PM EDT
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By WPTV - Staff
With mailbox thefts more common than ever and stolen master keys in the wrong hands, businesses continue to fear they will lose incoming checks, eventually losing clients and money.

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Could Florida become next state to loosen child labor laws?

Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 5:46 PM EDT
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By WPTV - Staff
Should Florida loosen its child labor laws? A Florida lawmaker says absolutely — and is touting a bill to do just that.

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Technicians found not guilty in Palm Beach video voyeurism case

Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 5:11 PM EDT
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By WPTV - Staff
Two technicians accused in a Palm Beach video voyeurism case were both found not guilty by a jury Thursday.

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St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office searches for answers in Fort Pierce homicide

Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 4:35 PM EDT
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By WPTV - Staff
The St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office is investigating after an employee found his employer dead at an apartment in Fort Pierce.

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Lake Worth man wins $1 million playing scratch-off game

Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 4:25 PM EDT
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By WPTV - Staff
A Lake Worth man's bank account just got a whole lot bigger, claimed a $1 million prize from the $1,000,000 A Year For Life Spectacular scratch-off game.

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Greenacres man convicted in fentanyl trafficking conspiracy

Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 4:15 PM EDT
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By WPTV - Staff
A Greenacres man faces up to life in a federal prison after he was found guilty of a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy.

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Fort Pierce man sentenced to 2 life sentences for double murder at Madison Cay

Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 3:41 PM EDT
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By WPTV - Staff
Tyriek Jacari Ganious, 22 of Fort Pierce, was sentenced to two life sentences, and an additional 30 years in prison, after being convicted in the shooting deaths of man and woman in 2020.

Education

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School building to be demolished next summer

Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 3:20 PM EDT
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By Peter Burke
The building where 14 students and three faculty members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were murdered in 2018 will be demolished next year.

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PBIA named one of most 'satisfying' airports, according to study

Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 2:35 PM EDT
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By WPTV - Staff
If you're catching a flight out of Florida, there's a good chance you'll be flying out of one of the most satisfying airports in the country, according to a study.

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Fort Lauderdale loses $1.2 million in phishing scam

Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 2:10 PM EDT
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By Peter Burke
Police are investigating after the city of Fort Lauderdale lost $1.2 million in a phishing scam, believing it to be a payment to a legitimate construction company.

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Kids to audition to be in professional theater show in Jupiter

Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 10:55 AM EDT
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By WPTV - Staff
Kids ages 7 to 13 will have a chance to be in a Broadway-scale professional production of Charles Dickens's holiday classic "A Christmas Carol" at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre.

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System in Atlantic could become tropical storm, impact North Carolina

Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 10:31 AM EDT
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By WPTV - Staff
The WPTV First Alert Weather team is watching two areas that could develop into our next tropical system, one of which could actually bring drier air to South Florida.

MLB

Marlins single-A affiliate Hammerheads win first league title

Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 10:20 AM EDT
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By Peter Burke
The Jupiter Hammerheads are Florida State League champions for the first time. The single-A affiliate of the Marlins beat the Clearwater Threshers 7-4 in the championship game.

MLS

Lionel Messi will miss another game for Inter Miami after leaving Toronto match

Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 1:05 AM EDT
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By Tim Reynolds
Lionel Messi returned to Inter Miami's lineup in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday night. It was a short-lived comeback, and now he's sidelined again.

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Amazon prepares to hire more than 100 employees at new Riviera Beach warehouse

Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 1:05 AM EDT
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By WPTV - Staff
The new Amazon warehouse in Riviera Beach is expected to open in October. About 60 locals showed up to Amazon’s first hiring event in the city.

Crime

Police shift investigation of body found in West Palm Beach to Orlando area

Updated: Sep. 20, 2023 at 11:15 PM EDT
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By Allen Cone
The focus of a murder investigation of a man's body found along a road near Florida's Turnpike in West Palm Beach has shifted to the Orlando area, a police spokesman said in media briefing Wednesday.

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Man arrested 2 years after double fatality in hit-and-run crash

Updated: Sep. 20, 2023 at 10:35 PM EDT
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By WPTV - Staff
Jarnado Francois, 23, of Lauderdale Lakes, was arrested two years after a man and woman died from a hit-run crash just north of West Boca Medical Center.

Crime

Man sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2018 murder

Updated: Sep. 20, 2023 at 9:31 PM EDT
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By Allen Cone
Norman Pelt Jr., 31, of West Palm Beach was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole after jury convicted him of first-degree murder in a 2018 murder in West Palm Beach.

Republican

Trump launches fall push in Iowa to lock in lead before 1st Republican caucuses

Updated: Sep. 20, 2023 at 8:30 PM EDT
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By Thomas Beaumont
Donald Trump began a fall press to lock in thousands of Republican caucusgoers in early-voting Iowa, where the former president faces sky-high expectations in his campaign for a White House comeback.

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Patrons arrested during arcade raid: No idea gambling illegal

Updated: Sep. 20, 2023 at 7:45 PM EDT
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By Kate Hussey
A group of patrons arrested in a raid at Rio Arcade in St. Lucie County told WPTV they feel the situation is unfair, saying they didn't know the gambling was illegal.

Crime

2 teens arrested in shooting of 17-year-old in Stuart on Sept. 3

Updated: Sep. 20, 2023 at 6:50 PM EDT
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By Allen Cone
Two teens were arrested in the shooting of a 17-year-old shot while he was driving on Martin Luther King Boulevard and rode to the police department, nearly crashing through the entrance seeking help.

Real-estate

Florida’s CFO still confident property insurance situation will improve

Updated: Sep. 20, 2023 at 6:20 PM EDT
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By Matt Sczesny
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Petronis says he’s still confident the state’s insurance crisis will get better.

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West Palm Beach works to remedy growing homeless problem

Updated: Sep. 20, 2023 at 6:20 PM EDT
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By Chris Gilmore
Some residents and business owners in downtown West Palm Beach are speaking up about a homelessness issue they say is front and center.

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Dwindling FEMA funds already having impact on Florida recovery, officials say

Updated: Sep. 20, 2023 at 5:45 PM EDT
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By Forrest Saunders
The battle over a new spending plan in Washington, D.C., could hinder federal disaster relief in Florida. That's according to the state’s emergency management director.

Consumer

Gas prices on the rise as oil nears $100 a barrel

Updated: Sep. 20, 2023 at 5:35 PM EDT
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By Todd Wilson
Drivers are complaining about the increase in gas prices and say it is hitting them in the pocket hard.

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Amazon delivery driver awake, talking following snake bite

Updated: Sep. 20, 2023 at 5:25 PM EDT
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By Jon Shainman
A 21-year-old Amazon delivery driver, who was bitten by a rattlesnake in Palm City, is awake and talking.

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Florida parents face waitlists at day cares, high cost of child care

Updated: Sep. 20, 2023 at 4:51 PM EDT
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By Tory Dunnan
Families are struggling to find quality child care at an affordable rate in Florida and experts says the cost of child care currently exceeds state college tuition.
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