Coconut Creek Top Stories
By JEFF YASTINE
October 7, 2025
BOCA RATON — The remains of Steven MacKrell, a South Florida man missing since 2015, have been recovered from a Boca Raton lake, more than 10 years after he disappeared.According to Sunshine State Sonar, a nonprofit group specializing in underwater search and recovery, the discovery was made ...
BOCA RATON, FL – For attorney Joseph Abdin, the courtroom isn’t the only place where he’s made his mark. The 28-year-old lawyer with Brotman, Nusbaum, Ibrahim & Adelman in Boca Raton gained national recognition after appearing on the hit reality competition shows “Big Brother” and “The Amazing ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - A new Indian restaurant is on its way to Coral Springs.The business will open at 1142 University Drive, in the plaza at University and Ramblewood drives. The location, next to Dunkin’, previously housed a Venezuelan restaurant and, before that, a pizza shop.The restaurant’s ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – Coconut Creek is heating things up for a good cause. The Women’s Club of Coconut Creek has teamed up with the Coconut Creek Benevolent Firefighters & Paramedics Association to create the city’s first-ever Firefighter Calendar, a lighthearted, homegrown project that will help ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Coconut Creek police want to buy a drone and robot, so the city’s SWAT team can use those technologies to enter and clear structures instead of sending in its members and potentially putting them in danger. The city commission is scheduled to consider the request on Thursday to ...
POMPANO BEACH — The City of Pompano Beach spent $38,000 on a series of geometric asphalt art street murals that were recently painted over by the Florida Department of Transportation, Mayor Rex Hardin confirmed in recent days.On the night of September 23rd, FDOT crews worked through the evening and ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A 32-year-old Coral Springs man is accused of hitting his father during a violent argument that began when the father asked a prostitute — whom his son had brought home — to leave, according to police.At around 9:13 pm. on Sept. 27, the victim told police that earlier in the ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Broward County Public School officials are considering closing Forest Glen Middle School and sending some of its students to Lyons Creek Middle in Coconut Creek, as it continues to grapple with dwindling enrollment. As part of its “Redefining Our Schools” initiative, the ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – What began as one Coconut Creek’s mother’s mission to help her son heal from unimaginable loss has become a place for thousands of grieving children and families across South Florida. This weekend, Tomorrow’s Rainbow will celebrate its 20th anniversary with the “Pony Jail ‘n ...
MARGATE, FL - La Bamba Mexican & Spanish Restaurants are celebrating National Taco Day this Tuesday, Oct. 7, by offering free tacos with any dine-in purchase between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. at all its South Florida locations, including Margate. The long-running, family-owned restaurant group — ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – A Coconut Creek woman is accused of creating sexually explicit videos of her 5-year-old daughter and sharing them with a man she fantasized sexually abusing the child with, according to a police report.Police received a CyberTip, which originated from the messaging app KIK, on ...
POMPANO BEACH — One man was killed and another injured in a shooting Saturday afternoon in Pompano Beach, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.Deputies said the incident occurred shortly before 2 p.m. in the 1600 block of Northwest 10th Circle. Responding deputies and Pompano Beach Fire Rescue ...
POMPANO BEACH — It was a little less than two years ago that Mote, a retired U.S. Air Force officer, and his wife, moved from Charleston to build their business in Pompano. Now they've officially celebrated the grand opening of their Scramblers Golf Club with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its new ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — The starting salary for a Coconut Creek police officer is set to jump 5.5 % to $75,217 from $71,286 under a new three-year contract the city commission is set to review at its next meeting, according to city documents. New sergeants will see a 3% raise to $119,705, and ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Police said they found more than 28 grams of fentanyl in the car of a Fort Lauderdale man who was pulled over in Coral Springs last week.According to a police report, Ryan Eugene Cohee, 42, was arrested Sept. 25 on a charge of trafficking fentanyl, along with possession of ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - A boy riding a bicycle suffered minor injuries this week after being struck by a car near Country Hills Elementary School in Coral Springs, police said.The crash happened on Wednesday morning around 7:07 a.m. at Westview Drive and Coral Springs Drive, police said.The boy rode ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Coconut Creek city leaders expected to have cameras ready to spot school-zone speeders at the start of the new school year, but things haven’t gone according to plan. There have been delays in obtaining the needed permits from Broward County to install the poles for the cameras, ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — The Centerpointe Condominium Association in Coconut Creek had a contractor start work rebuilding a deck three years ago that was not completed, and then the city code violation fines started racking up. A condo official told the city that the contractor skipped out with $35,000, ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A Maryland woman visiting Coral Springs is accused of repeatedly hitting an elderly woman — the mother of her friend — and blocking her from calling 911 during a heated altercation, according to police records.The confrontation began the night of Sept. 18 when Kayla Triplett, ...
BOCA RATON, FL — Boca Raton police have arrested a 21-year-old Pembroke Pines man in connection with a 2024 carjacking at 59 S. Federal Highway of a Rolls-Royce SUV valued at about $400,000. Tyrone Walker was charged on Sept. 29 after DNA linked him to the crime that occurred last year.According to ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — In the U.S. House district that includes Coconut Creek, 164,000 people will see an increase in healthcare costs under the proposed budget at the center of the partial federal government shutdown. That’s according to Rep. Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat, who sent out an email blast ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — While the temperatures outside may still feel like mid-summer, the calendar has turned to autumn and that brings fall festivities to two parks in Coconut Creek.Tradewinds Park & Stables will hold its Fall Festival from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18. Activities ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – The family of a woman whose was discovered in a Coral Springs canal on Aug. 25 and died in a hospital is sharing memories of her life, and calling attention to domestic violence while the investigation into her death continues.According to a GoFundMe page, the relatives describe ...
BOCA RATON, FL — Despite news reports that President Donald Trump was considering Florida Atlantic University’s campus for his presidential library, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that the state has approved a plan to donate property near downtown Miami for the site.The 2.63 acres of ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — The Coconut Creek City Commission last week awarded the city’s state lobbying firm a 33% raise, agreeing to pay Kirk Consultants Inc. $48,000 a year. City officials heaped praise on the firm, which has represented Coconut Creek on a number of issues in Tallahassee since ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — As the calendar turns to the month of October, spooky happenings come into focus in Coconut Creek as the young and young-at-heart get ready for Halloween.To that end, the city will host Movie in the Graveyard on Friday, Oct. 24, at the Recreation Complex, 4455 Sol Press ...
BOCA RATON, FL – The Boca Raton Police Foundation is releasing its first K-9 calendar for 2026, with proceeds supporting the city’s police dog unit.The calendar features the department’s three K-9s — Ivan, Zorro, and Pely — photographed at locations across Boca Raton, including Mizner Park, Town ...
BOCA RATON, FL — A Boca Raton man was involved in a crash that left one person dead Sunday night in Lauderdale Lakes, authorities said on Tuesday.According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, 70-year-old Amboise Blaise of Boca Raton was driving a 2020 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck eastbound on West ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – The Coral Springs Community Redevelopment Agency this week signed off on up to $7.5 million in public infrastructure funding to help launch City Village, a mixed-use development planned for the former City Hall property.CRA board members voted Monday to move ahead with a formal ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – Coconut Creek’s Hometown Market is back starting this Saturday, giving residents another season to shop locally and gather with neighbors, according to city leaders. The market will run from Oct. 4 through March on the first and third Saturday of each month, from 9 a.m. to 2 ...