Coral Springs Top Stories
By ZAHRA HUBER
August 27, 2025
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Three longtime community residents who shaped Coral Springs’ youth sports programs will now have their legacies preserved in the city’s parks. On Wednesday, city commissioners voted unanimously to approve the naming of three sports facilities after Jim Reilly, Jennifer Brown, ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – A 69-year-old gas station clerk who was shoved by a man stealing from the store in Coconut Creek backed out of pressing charges over fears that Immigration and Customs Enforcement might get involved.The clerk at the Marathon station, at 4811 Coconut Creek Parkway, told officers ...
BOCA RATON, FL — The City of Boca Raton stands to make $3 billion from its downtown government campus redevelopment plan. The campus will generate that amount of revenue over the 99-year lease of the land to allow a developer to build on it. In today’s dollars, that equates to $350 million per ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – A man was seriously injured in a shooting outside a 7-Eleven in Coconut Creek on Saturday evening, police said.The shooting happened just after 7 p.m. on August 23 in a car parked outside the store at 4500 West Hillsboro Boulevard, according to Coconut Creek Police. The victim, ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A woman pulled from a canal in Coral Springs this week has died, according to police.Officers responded to the 9900 block of NW 15th Court at 8:52 p.m. on Monday after reports of an unconscious woman in the water.When they arrived, police found an adult female unresponsive in ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — The proposed 11-story, 300-apartment downtown Coral Springs development to replace the Bank of America Building would include retail, office, and bank space, two parking garages, a co-working area, and a sixth-floor pool for residents. That’s according to a letter submitted by ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – When Gloria Guillo moved to Coral Springs a year and a half ago, she was looking for a way to connect.“I've always had a strong commitment to working in the community and helping people,” Guillo said. “When I came to Coral Springs, I wanted to be part of the community.”Before ...
BOCA RATON, FL — Florida Atlantic University will celebrate its 25th season of football this year, and new coach Zack Kittley aims to build a faster team with a stronger offense. Kittley, who worked with three-time Super Bowl champion and Kansas City Chiefs starting quarterback Patrick Mahomes for ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Minto Communities USA has moved its corporate headquarters to the Promenade at Coconut Creek, the company announced last week. The homebuilder opened the new office on Lyons Road with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday. The company now occupies 15,530 square feet of office ...
WEST BOCA RATON, FL — Before opening Il Fiore in West Boca Raton, Chef Michael Monaco spent years in North Jersey kitchens where mobsters, celebrities, and Sinatra’s circle were as common as veal cutlets and Sunday sauce. Those encounters — sometimes humorous, sometimes tense — became part of his ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — Coral Springs police responded to a bank robbery at 10:04 a.m. Monday at the Amerant Bank on University Drive, according to police. Police issued a precautionary code secure at nearby Ramblewood Elementary School as they investigated the robbery. It was lifted about an hour ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — The lack of affordable housing in Coral Springs has city officials exploring the possibility of changing local zoning rules to allow single-family homeowners to add mother-in-law suites. As part of a discussion on affordable housing at a city commission retreat on Wednesday, ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – A man was found sleeping on Broward College’s North Campus in Coconut Creek with a dagger-style knife inside his backpack while the school was open for classes.Police were notified on August 145 at 10:18 a.m. by campus security about a homeless man sleeping in the breezeway near ...
BOCA RATON, FL — A Boca Raton veteran who had been homeless for about four years secured transitional housing with help from the city’s homeless liaison officer and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.Officer Gabriel Cox, who has served with the Boca Raton Police Services Department since 2022, ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – “In the United States, we have the Rockefellers, the Kennedys, and the Bushes. When you think of Coral Springs, you have the Walshes.”With those words, Vice Mayor Shawn Cerra summed up the City Commission’s recognition of Brian Walsh Sr. and his family last week, honoring their ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – A Tucson man with a kidnapping warrant in Arizona and a grand theft conviction in Florida is back behind bars for assaulting his wife during an argument in Coconut Creek.The victim and her husband, John McIntyre, 60, were arguing over car keys at their home in Coconut Creek on ...
BOCA RATON, FL. — A spectacular big band concert that was a highlight of the 2025 Festival of the Arts will return as a free performance for the community, celebrating the city's centennial.The Centennial Celebration Concert: Through the Decades is a multimedia extravaganza that will be held at 8 ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — Four Coral Springs public middle schools and two high schools that serve its students are up for discussion as Broward County Public Schools officials continue to make changes across the district to address declining enrollment. At a school board workshop scheduled for Tuesday, ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Coconut Creek led the way in the years-long fight to try and stop the expansion of the Monarch Hill Landfill, and this week it led the way in ceding that battle, clearing the path for the landfill’s owner to move forward. On Monday, the city’s elected leaders agreed to end their ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — The Chai Center Chabad in Coral Springs announced this week that construction of its expanded facility will be finished by the middle of November.The project, years in the making, will give the Jewish congregation in The Shoppes at Heron Lakes a larger sanctuary, a new ark, and ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — A Miami man who was stalking his ex-girlfriend recently fled as Coral Springs police, Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies, and other law enforcement officials searched for him throughout four cities as he tried to get away, causing several accidents along the way. Police in Coral ...
BOCA RATON, FL– English footballer Gary Lineker once said, “Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and, at the end, the Germans always win.”Although Germany’s last World Cup victory was in 2014, the passion for the beautiful game and teams from all over the world is ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – When Coconut Creek firefighters responded to a 911 call at the Residence Inn off SR-7 on July 23, they knew the odds were against them. By the time they arrived, Douglas Kitson was in full cardiac arrest, unconscious, without a pulse, and not breathing.What happened next was ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A 48-year-old Coral Springs man hurled a concrete landscaping paver at a vehicle carrying his ex and their five children, an incident that also led investigators to uncover a prior shooting inside the home.Nealando Richards’ ex arrived outside his home on Aug. 12 to pick up ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Nordstrom Rack will open its newest South Florida location in Coral Springs on Sept. 18 at Pine Ridge Square plaza.The store will occupy the 31,000-square-foot space at 4631 University Drive that was previously home to Bed Bath & Beyond. Nordstrom Rack, the off-price ...
BOCA RATON, FL — An 87-year-old Boca Raton man died in a freak accident at a Lake Worth gas station when a family member moved an SUV they were in, causing him to fall, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said on Wednesday. Edward Drumm, who lived on Coco Plum Boulevard, was a passenger in an ...
WEST BOCA RATON, FL — The curtain is coming down for the VIP Shadowood 16 movie theater in West Boca Raton next week. The cinema’s last day of operation will be August 24, 2025, according to a recent social media post by the theater.In August 2023, South Carolina-based real estate developer EDENS ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Promenade at Coconut Creek will host a free bubble show for families on Wednesday, August 27.The event runs from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. outside the shopping center at 4467 Lyons Road. The show takes place in front of the butterfly mural near the North Parking Garage Ramp.The ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A lockdown at Sawgrass Middle School in Coral Springs has been lifted following a report of a possible armed individual on campus that was later determined to be a false alarm.Someone called the Panthers Ice Den – located across from the school at 12500 West Sample Road – at ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — The National Weather Service issued an air-quality alert for Coral Springs and Broward County residents to go into effect Wednesday evening due to a wildfire in the Everglades. Authorities issued the alert from 10 p.m. through 9 a.m. Thursday, since that’s when they expect smoke ...