Coral Springs Top Stories
By LUIS F. PEREZ
December 11, 2025
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — The lack of bacon on a recent Coral Springs Dunkin' Donuts breakfast croissant order ended with the arrest of an employee for brandishing a pocketknife and threatening two drive-through customers. After the incident on Dec. 7, police arrested Elijah Joseph Muller, 21, of West ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Coral Glades High School is celebrating a historic milestone: Kyler Theophile, a senior, has become the first boys basketball player in school history to commit to a Division I program. The 16-year-old standout, who has been playing basketball since he was three, officially ...
BOCA RATON, FL — In a bid to deepen its local footprint, The Boca Raton resort launched a charitable foundation that will direct grants to nonprofits focused on the area's most important needs.In a statement, the resort said it created the Boca Raton Foundation for Charitable Giving, shifting its ...
POMPANO BEACH — Pompano Beach commissioners on Tuesday advanced a proposed zoning amendment that would allow “freestanding emergency rooms” - sometimes called “off-campus emergency departments” to be built in the city.HCA Florida Northwest Hospital Driving the ChangeDriving the debate is HCA ...
WEST BOCA RATON, FL — Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office deputies recently arrested a West Boca Raton man with a history of mental health issues and access to guns for harassing his ex-girlfriend with up to 1,000 contacts within a week, through phone messages and social media. On Dec. 9, they charged ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A Coral Springs man is accused of hitting his mother in the head multiple times with a frying pan before trying to smother her inside their home, according to an arrest report.Police say 53-year-old Keith Woodward and his mother were searching for the phone number of a caretaker ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — Coral Springs' building and planning officials are warning residents and businesses about a new scam targeting anyone applying for building permits, architectural review, or even to pay code violations. In a warning posted on the city's Development Review Committee website, the ...
BOCA RATON, FL - Keith O’Donnell spent decades helping shape the Boca Raton so many residents know today — from high-profile corporate headquarters to the redevelopment projects that energized the city’s downtown. O’Donnell died on Nov. 28 at age 74, leaving behind a legacy written into the ...
BOCA RATON, FL — After a two-year investigation, Boca Raton police on Tuesday announced the arrest of a Clearwater man who stands accused of defrauding nearly $200,000 from clients of a Boca Raton-based company for much of 2023. Police charged Marius St. Gerard, 38, with multiple counts of ...
POMPANO BEACH, FL — For most spectators, the 63rd Annual Greater Pompano Beach Holiday Boat Parade is an hour or two of shimmering lights, thumping music and holiday cheer drifting up the Intracoastal Waterway. But for the folks who actually enter their vessels in the parade, it's a tradition that ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — Coral Springs schools and those across the county are starting to feel new burdens due to the financial crunch Broward County Public Schools faces as a result of declining enrollment. Superintendent Howard Hepburn on Monday announced several moves the district is taking ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — The city’s annual Holiday Parade returns this Wednesday, Dec. 10, bringing thousands of spectators to Sample Road — and a series of planned road closures beginning at 5 p.m.The parade, one of Coral Springs’ biggest community traditions, will run along Sample Road, where families ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — The 11-story, 300-unit mixed-use development called 32 Hundred that’s proposed to replace the downtown Bank of America building continues to wind its way through the Coral Springs approval process this week with two committee reviews. The development review committee reviewed ...
POMPANO BEACH — Newly obtained 911 audio sheds light on the death of former NBA center Elden Campbell, who died in what his family called a fishing tragedy in Pompano Beach on Dec. 1. He was 57.A passerby reported seeing Campbell's body at the beach shore, and dialed 911. Deputies at the scene ...
BOCA RATON, FL — If Boca Raton were to build a new skate park, what kind of obstacles should it have for the skateboarders, BMX enthusiasts, rollerbladers and other “wheeled sports” enthusiasts? That’s the focus of an upcoming conceptual design workshop hosted by the local non-profit skateboarding ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Coconut Creek’s move into high-tech law enforcement is scheduled to take another step this week as the city’s elected leaders review a proposal for the police department to purchase equipment and software to launch a drone program. Last year, city officials decided to install ...
BOCA RATON, FL — Louisville will meet Toledo in this year’s Boca Raton Bowl, set for Dec. 23 at Flagler Credit Union Stadium on Florida Atlantic University’s campus, officials announced on Monday. The game, officially the Bush’s Boca Raton Bowl of Beans, will kick off at 2 p.m. on ESPN. It marks ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – After a breakthrough season that has the band already focused on raising the bar for next year, the Coral Springs Charter School Marching Panthers closed out 2025 with a history-making accomplishment: qualifying for finals at the Florida Marching Band Championships for the first ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — Israeli siblings Maya and Itay Regev received thunderous applause Sunday night in Coral Springs as they calmly recounted being shot, kidnapped, and held hostage by Hamas militants during the October 7, 2023 attack on the Nova Music Festival.More than 250 people filled the Chabad ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — A Coconut Creek woman was arrested early Thanksgiving morning after an argument that began at a local casino, and ended at home when she allegedly threatened her husband with a kitchen knife. Ana Paola Estrada, 42, was booked into the Broward County Main Jail and charged with ...
BOCA RATON, FL — A free community event next Sunday will open the gates to one of Boca Raton’s most active neighborhood gardens — with visitors asked only to bring a canned good to help support Boca Helping Hands, which helps people in need. Boca Raton Urban Gardens will host its Food Drive Event ...
POMPANO BEACH — For visitors who turned out to the Goodyear Blimp base on Sunday morning and afternoon, the annual Toys for Tots open house offered two rewards in one visit: the chance to help make Christmas brighter for a child by donating a new, unwrapped toy — and the privilege of seeing the ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Two families squared off in the lobby of Broward Health Coral Springs Hospital recently after their children ended up in the emergency, one blaming the other for them being there, until fists started flying. The end result: Coral Springs police arrested 28-year-old Shymiesha ...
BOCA RATON, FL — Boca Raton’s 100th birthday now has its own party anthem, thanks to two local singers who turned a parade route into a rolling sing-along.In honor of the city’s centennial, Kelly Boyle — who performs as Bougie Beret — and Salvatore Aiello, known professionally as Salgo, performed ...
BOCA RATON, FL — A 43-year-old homeless man with a long record of theft and vandalism downtown is facing a new grand theft charge, adding to a series of cases that city officials say reflect the complex challenges of Boca Raton’s homeless population.Police identified the man as Salvador Farias Jr., ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — A Coconut Creek man with a penchant for hair dryers recently stopped by an Ulta Beauty store and allegedly helped himself to one without paying, then he hopped in his mother's car, according to authorities. The store seems to be popular with shoplifters these days. In past ...
BOCA RATON, FL — Boca Raton’s Sugar Sand Park is introducing a new kind of classroom this weekend — one without walls, electricity, or even plumbing. Children’s Science Explorium will debut its Chickee Lab, an outdoor learning space built in the style of a traditional Seminole house, during a free ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — As the proposed Life Time Fitness project on Heron Bay Boulevard moves through the Coral Springs approval process, more details are emerging about what it will offer and what it may look like. The city’s architectural review committee will review the two-story, ...
POMPANO BEACH — It started with a burst of gunfire outside a Pompano Beach McDonald's on a quiet Tuesday night, with a man sprawled in a parking lot, and a second victim who vanished into the night before anyone knew he’d been hit. It would take detectives time to unravel what happened, identify a ...
BOCA RATON, FL — New Orleans-style Beignets & Brew will open a location in Boca Raton soon, although an official date has not been announced. The company’s website listed Boca Raton under its “coming soon” locations, and a window sign has been placed at the door of an empty space at the Polo ...