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By Rich Pollack

With local towns and cities struggling to one-up each other in the effort to hire qualified police officers, Highland Beach is raising the ante by buying 11 new vehicles and offering take-home police cars to its officers. 

“This is go

Mayor against staffers handling code enforcement — Ocean Ridge Mayor Geoff Pugh warned that the town does not want unauthorized staffers acting like code enforcement officers — especially when it comes to ticky-tacky potential violations like a littl

The Cops Caring for Cops Fundraiser has started.

The Palm Beach County Association of Chiefs of Police is “adopting” or supporting 20 police officers who were significantly impacted by Hurricane Milton, which made landfall Oct. 9. The affected office

By Mary Hladky

Fed up with car thefts in their neighborhoods and what they claim is insufficient police action to stop them, Golden Triangle and Golden Harbour residents have mounted a campaign to press the Boca Raton Police Department to ramp up enf

By Rich Pollack

Delray Beach police on Monday sought assistance from the community in their efforts to learn more about how parts of a woman’s body stuffed into three suitcases ended up in the Intracoastal Waterway between Monday, July 17 and early T

Delray Beach police closed the bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway at the George Bush Boulevard as they investigate a homicide. Multiple road patrol officers and members of the crime scene investigations team and the medical examiner's office were

By Joe Capozzi

Ocean Ridge police are investigating the death of a young woman whose body was found Aug. 12 in a vacant lot just east of the Ocean Avenue bridge leading to Boynton Beach.

Although police have identified the body, they are not rele

By Tao Woolfe

Boynton Beach has broken off negotiations with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office to take over city policing, according to a statement issued Aug. 15, by Sheriff Ric L. Bradshaw.

The Palm Beach County sheriff said the city cited “a

By Larry Barszewski

Briny Breezes officials are considering a citation system to enforce applicable town codes, but they have to decide if some of the infractions should even be on the town’s books in the first place.
“Something as simple as spitting

By Rich Pollack

Highland Beach now has a new incoming fire chief, one with extensive experience in south Palm Beach County, who was chosen last month to lead the town’s effort to get its new fire department up and running.
Glenn Joseph, a veteran of

By Steve Plunkett

Often-litigious Gulf Stream resident Martin O’Boyle has another legal feather in his cap: The 4th District Court of Appeal affirmed a lower-court decision that acquitted him of misdemeanor resisting a police officer.
A three-judge pa

By Joe Capozzi

Residents in Briny Breezes and Ocean Ridge can expect to see more police activity this year — and a greater chance police will stop them — because of a new program aimed at deterring potential criminals from “casing” those towns. 
“We

Police officer Nathania Lai and Lt. Michael Oh hop aboard as Highland Beach launches its new marine patrol vessel on March 1. The 28-foot boat cost the town $164,000 and will patrol mainly the Intracoastal Waterway. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

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By Mary Hladky

The Boca Raton Police Department has increased its starting salary for officers to $75,216.
That amount is the highest of any police department in the state, according to the most recent salary data available from the Florida Department

By Steve Plunkett

A woman from Boca Raton has been charged with pilfering $650,000 in high-value handbags, jewelry and furs from a home in Gulf Stream.
Liliana Vargas, 31, received only $100,000 for the goods via a Delray Beach consignment shop, she

By Rich Pollack

For more than a decade, Highland Beach residents living near the Intracoastal Waterway have been battling to slow down boaters only to be frustrated by state rules and regulations that make it difficult to reduce waterway speed limits

By Mary Hladky

Boca Raton City Manager Leif Ahnell has warned council members that the city faces a potential $20 million budget deficit in two years.
Of most concern is that revenue the city gets annually from the Community Redevelopment Agency is ab

Police Chief Hal Hutchins plans to retire in 2022, and Lt. Richard Jones will take over. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

By Dan Moffett

Ocean Ridge commissioners have endorsed a succession plan that calls for police Lt. Richard Jones to take over as c