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A woman with a history of fraud who passed herself off as a nurse six years ago in Boynton Beach has been arrested again for posing as a medical professional at a Broward County doctor's office, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

A woman walking along Dixie Highway at 18th Street last night told police she was forced into a van by a man who then sexually battered her and then forced her to retrieve money from an ATM before he dropped her off on the city streets.

West Palm Beach police are investigating a bank robbery at the Bank of America at 7320 S. Dixie Highway that happened shortly after 1:15 p.m.

Palm Beach County's November election results may be vulnerable to legal challenges because a county administrator has taken on the duties of missing-in-action Elections Supervisor Arthur Anderson, county commissioners warned today.

A man who'd been living in West Palm Beach recently was arrested last week for a murder in Fort Myers.

A Sewall's Point couple has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges for lying to investors across South Florida to get them to invest in foreign currency.

Palm Beach County commissioners formally voted this morning to kill a foundered, multimillion-dollar deal to build a hotel for the county's economically troubled convention center.

With more than 70 years of public service between them, Florida "political legends" Bob Graham and E. Clay Shaw - Democrat and Republican, respectively - have had ample opportunity to disagree.

The driver who died after police say he sped away from a West Palm Beach police cruiser, crashed into a car and then a tree has been identified as 20-year-old Germaine Burch.

Palm Beach residents think their drinking water tastes bad, costs too much and that new water sources should be explored.

Belvedere Road has reopened, almost three hours after an early-morning crash between a commuter train and a tractor-trailer shut down westbound lanes.

Expect some more rain today in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast. It's already falling in the north and there will be more this afternoon.

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Hundreds of people gathered Monday to pay tribute to Norman "Pooh" Griffith Jr., a great football player and a "tremendous human being."

Florida wildlife conservation officials ignored concerns of two state scientists who predicted a new power plant would harm animals in an environmentally sensitive area, the scientists testified Monday in federal court.

Attacking Barack Obama's personal associations is fair game, Sen. Joe Lieberman said as he campaigned for John McCain at Chabad of Boca Raton on Monday.

Some drivers race through the neighborhood near Parker Avenue and Summit Boulevard at 60 mph, a resident told the city commission.

For a girl who wasn't even supposed to be at the Maroon 5 concert Saturday, it turned out to be one special night for Kaela Henzel.