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A memorial with a cross, angel statue, shells and plastic flowers is located in the dune not far from the pumping station at the Boynton Inlet. Coastal Star photo
Related: Lantana news brief: Lifeguards rescue two swimmers from rip current May 5
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Rescue personnel from Palm Beach County and other local and federal agencies search for the 8-year-old boy along the north side of the Boynton Inlet. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Anne Geggis and Mary Kate Leming
Police are investigating how a fish
By Ron Hayes
Time may never bring true closure to parents who have lost a child, but sometimes it can bring confirmation.
For the Boynton Beach family of Rodelson Normil, confirmation came on July 23, more than six years after their son disappeared b
By Mary Hladky
The city has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it after Francis Roselin drowned during Boca Bash last year.
Before being reported missing, Roselin, 32, of West Palm Beach, was last seen swimming in Lake Boca on April 29,
By Mary Hladky
The failure of city and state officials to regulate or control the “wild and overcrowded” Boca Bash boating party last year caused the drowning of Francis Roselin, according to a lawsuit filed Jan. 25 against the city and the Florida F
By Steve Plunkett
Police are hamstrung by state rules that limit what they can do in Lake Boca, where a man drowned this April during the hugely popular Boca Bash.
City Attorney Diana Grub Frieser calls the state preemptions “just so surprisingly res
Boca Raton police are investigating the death of a man found at the bottom of the Intracoastal Waterway after he went missing from Boca Bash, according to a news release.
Police identified the dead man as Francis Roselin, 32, of West Palm Beach.
The
By Willie Howard
A Boynton Beach man snorkeling on the north side of Boynton Inlet died after he hit the jetty and was swept into the inlet by the tide on Oct. 16.
Paul Swingle, 67, went snorkeling from the beach in Manalapan.
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Delray Beach Ocean Rescue personnel searched for the 17-year-old who drowned recently at Gulfstream Park. From left: Ocean Rescue Officers Raphael Costa and Kyle Stewart, Superintendent James Scala, Ocean Rescue Officers Justin Walton and Justin Rumb
By Tim O’Meilia
Conflicting locations given by scores of 911 callers to emergency dispatchers sent rescuersto the wrong location, at first, of what became the accidental drowning of a Georgia couple in a strong rip current behind a South Palm Bea
By Tim O’Meilia
A week later, Harvey Kertzman is second-guessing himself.
“What if I had gone downstairs a minute earlier? What if I had turned her on herside? Should I have spun her around so her head was lower than her body? What should I hav
