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‘Heard and helped’

There’s someone walking with new credibility in the fight against child sexual abuse: Lauren Book appears in the Epstein files as an advocate for bringing the notorious abuser to justice and still sees a long way to go. The former state senator, who is...

THE GREAT

Hundreds of riders roam Florida's grasslands and prairies in a reenactment cattle drive that traces its roots back more than 500 years

Fuel on the rise in Florida

On Day 17 of the Iran war, Florida gas prices on Monday morning held steady, with the average price of regular gasoline selling for $3.729 per gallon, up just 1.3 cents over the weekend. That holding pattern may not last long. The continued military...

Trump urges nations to join Iran war effort

President Donald Trump on March 16 “strongly urged” nations who rely on the Strait of Hormuz for oil shipments to “get involved with us” quickly and “with great enthusiasm” to guard the waterway as oil prices stayed at $100 a barrel amid the ongoing...

Thomson wins mayor recount in Boca Raton

Andy Thomson is the new mayor of Boca Raton, the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections office determined March 13. The result may face a legal challenge from the candidate who finished 5 votes behind. The six-year member of the City Council...

GROCERY WARS

See how the grocers compare. At least a dozen grocery chains are planning new stores in the Sunshine State in 2026. They include Trader Joe’s, Sprouts Farmers Market, Whole Foods Market, Harris Teeter, Costco, Walmart, BJ’s Wholesale, Publix,...

6 U.S. service members killed in aircraft crash

Six more U.S. service members were killed when their refueling aircraft crashed after a midair collision over western Iraq, officials said March 13, as the joint U.S.-Israeli war on Iran reached the two-week mark with few signs of slowing down. The...

Iran’s new leader vows to avenge dead in war

In a defiant first message to Iranians as the country’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei promised revenge for Iran’s “martyrs,” including the many children killed in an apparent U.S. strike on a school, and said the critical Strait of Hormuz would...

Voters nix One Boca redevelopment plan

Residents delivered a resounding “no” to Boca Raton’s downtown redevelopment plans March 10 with nearly 75% of voters rejecting the One Boca 99-year land lease, according to unofficial results from the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Office....

Trump disses mail-in voting popular in FL

DORAL — President Donald Trump concluded a four-day South Florida stay on Monday, March 9, with two hours of public statements to congressional Republicans and the media, largely focused on the conflict in Iran and stalled voting legislation on Capitol...

OIL PRICES SOAR AS IRAN NAMES LEADER

As the U.S.-Israel war with Iran entered its 10th day on March 9, oil prices soared over fears of a prolonged conflict, President Donald Trump demanded “unconditional surrender” and the Pentagon made public the name of the seventh U.S. service member...

A PIECE OF THE MARINA

A member of embattled U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick’s staff is part of a team vying to land Riviera Beach’s massive marina project, raising questions about whether that team will have an unfair advantage in the city’s selection...

F-BOMBS. PROFANITY. POLITICS.

WASHINGTON – Most of this story isn’t fit for a family newspaper. The country’s political discourse has deteriorated to the point – or become so robust – that the president can drop an f-bomb and get one lobbed back in return. Of course, caustic...

Trump demands Iran’s full surrender

President Donald Trump demanded Iran’s “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” in a social media post the morning of March 6, insisting “there will be no deal” to end his 7-day-old war with the battered Persian Gulf power. The president added in a social media post...

Trump says he’ll help pick Iran’s next leader

President Donald Trump spoke in favor of a boots-onthe-ground attack on Iran by regional Kurdish forces and said he would take a role in choosing Iran’s next leader. “We want to be involved in the process of choosing the person who is going to lead...

For one day anyway, baseball was respite

Editor’s note: The U.S. has been involved in international military actions this year in Venezuela and in the Middle East with Israel. March 3 brought baseball teams from both those nations to Palm Beach County for exhibitions prior to the start of the...

Trump criticizes top U.S. allies over war

President Donald Trump slammed top U.S. allies, including the United Kingdom, as the war with Iran expands and warned Americans that they may have to deal with “a little high” oil prices as crude costs soared and the stock market tumbled. “If we have...

U.S. FIGHTER JETS CRASH IN KUWAIT

The Trump administration’s war with Iran will not be “endless,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on March 2, as the United States and Israel’s joint air strikes against Iran expand, the death toll rises and a congressional debate over President...

Tehran retaliates after leader killed in strikes

Three American service members were killed in action amid the ongoing conflict with Iran, U.S. military officials confirmed, one day after the United States and Israel launched strikes against the country and Tehran quickly hit back. Five others were...

ATTACK ON IRAN

The United States launched military strikes and “major combat operations” against Iran on Feb. 28, President Donald Trump said, targeting the country’s missile capabilities. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, was killed in the joint...

County studies options if property taxes nixed

Eliminating Palm Tran service on weekends, shuttering swimming pools at parks and reducing library hours are all under consideration as Palm Beach County braces for the possibility that its main source of revenue, property taxes, could...

‘Stop Project Tango’

ROYAL PALM BEACH — The developer seeking to build a 200-acre AI data center complex off Southern Boulevard plans to reduce the size of the project, dubbed Project Tango, significantly. Those gathered for a town hall meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 25,...

President’s speech touts ‘turnaround’

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump declared the country is booming, his opponents are “crazy” and his administration is engaged in unprecedented levels of “winning” in a marathon State of the Union address that comes as polls showed deep skepticism of...

FL citizenship bill on track for passage

While President Donald Trump is struggling to get the U.S. Senate to pass a measure requiring Americans to present a birth certificate or passport before registering to vote, Florida lawmakers look certain to enact such a state law. In a legislative...

Hispanic gala wears a red political shade

PALM BEACH — Organizers of a black-tie and glittering evening gown gala focused on Latino community success at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club offered a counterargument to a news cycle dominated by uproar over a deadly immigration siege in...

Officials: Six more people recorded in Epstein files

WASHINGTON – Two House members who led the effort to force the Justice Department to release more documents about accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein said they discovered at least six more suspected accomplices. The department began Feb. 9 allowing...

Hundreds protest against ICE near Super Bowl site

SANTA CLARA, CA – They came, they marched, they chanted − all under a close watch. But it wasn’t ICE agents who patrolled the streets on Super Bowl Sunday, as many had anticipated. Hundreds of people on Feb. 8 took over a main thoroughfare less than 2...

‘A loss for everyone’

WEST PALM BEACH — Bianca DeSouza gave birth to a boy with chubby arms and a cry that only she would hear. He was still warm by the time first responders filed into her bedroom but had gone quiet long before. Their attempts to resuscitate him...

BEAUTY, BOUNTY AND BIRTHDAY

UF reports 2 measles cases; officials begin contact tracing

With President Trump ramping up unfounded claims of elections fraud, lawmakers moved forward a measure that would require new voters to provide proof of U.S. citizenship. Dozens of opponents spoke out against the legislation (SB 1334), warning it...

World Cup fans cautioned

Civil leaders gathered outside FIFA headquarters Feb. 5 warning international travelers that “Florida is no longer safe” and calling on the sports organization to take action against recent immigration tactics prior to the World Cup. Groups such as...

Renaming airport could cost millions

It could cost nearly $6 million to rebrand Palm Beach International Airport in honor of President Donald Trump under legislation moving through the Florida Legislature. A Florida House panel approved the name change Jan. 28, a day after a similar bill...

Letter asks to halt contempt proceedings

WASHINGTON – Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have agreed to give depositions to a House committee about accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, defusing a potential showdown between the legislative and...

HISTORIC FREEZE: 30 DEGREES IN PBC

Residents across Palm Beach County woke up Feb. 2 to the aftermath of a historic arctic surge.• Over the weekend of Jan. 31 to Feb. 1, a powerful cold front turned the subtropics into a deep freeze, sending temperatures plummeting to levels not seen in...

Sky-high luxury

West Palm Beach’s downtown could see eight luxury condominium towers opening in the next couple of years. The downtown won’t quite become Miami, where high-rises mostly wall off the coast. But West Palm Beach’s surging wealth profile, combined with...

Opinion and letters

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People, pets, plants at risk as extreme cold threatens

Nearly all of Florida is facing an extreme cold watch or warning this weekend, a heightened alert used for the first time by many forecast offices in the Peninsula as brutal Arctic air strikes deep into the belly of the state. The forewarning, which...

Democrats demand DHS fixes to avoid shutdown

Less than three months after a record-breaking government shutdown, the country stood on the brink of a partial shutdown as the Senate failed to advance a massive spending package that must pass by Jan. 30. Just the week before, the six-measure bill...

Government shutdown looms after MN killing

WASHINGTON — Another government shutdown is on its way. ● Since the killing of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis sparked nationwide uproar, there’s little hope on Capitol Hill for an eleventh-hour miracle in the next few days to...

BUNDLE UP!

A leak at the top of the world is surging toward the tropics with the coldest air for South Florida since the brazen winter of 2010 when reptiles perished en masse, sugarcane fields withered and fish floated to the top of ponds rotten and milky...