Palm Beach County

The family of a child who died of a fentanyl overdose while staying in a Florida Airbnb rental is suing the property owner, the property manager, and a previous tenant for wrongful death, according to the lawsuit.

An illegal alien defrauded pedestrians of at least $80,000 over the last year by playing a violin outside stores and claiming to be collecting money for his sick child, the Palm Beach County, Florida Sheriff’s Office alleges.

The mother of a newborn who was found dead off the Florida coast in 2018 is facing a first degree murder charge.

A former middle school teacher in Florida received a three-year prison sentence for having sex with a 16-year-old girl in a classroom closet.

The town of Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday mandated masks and social distancing protocols, even though 100 percent of residents aged 16 and older are vaccinated, per the county health department.

Public documents show President Joe Biden’s brother, Frank Biden, was caught speeding in Florida and received no punishment in another example of how the Biden family lives above the law.

The Palm Beach, Florida, school board is rethinking its controversial statement to combat “white advantage” from a statement about “equity” in education.

Florida state Rep. Omari Hardy (D) is calling on Palm Beach County officials to shut down  President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort due to alleged mask mandate violations.

A registered Democrat in Florida was arrested Saturday after allegedly issuing online threats targeting the Sunshine State’s leading Republican lawmakers, according to law enforcement. 

The Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections confirmed that the ballot return envelopes that appear to identify the party affiliation of the voter — which went viral after a woman posted a video of the observation —  are valid. Although, it claims different envelopes — which do not identify the party of the voter — are used in the general election.

Several deaths in Palm Beach County, one of the areas of Florida hit hardest by the Chinese coronavirus, have been wrongly attributed to the virus, a CBS12 News investigation revealed.

Popular beaches in South Florida will close for the Fourth of July weekend as coronavirus concerns, and cases, continue to grow.

Florida’s Palm Beach County will send every household two reusable masks as part of its greater effort to slow the spread of the Chinese coronavirus and enforce the county’s mask directive, Mayor Dave Kerner (D) announced on Friday.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced Monday that he is imposing a stay-at-home order for Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach Counties through mid-May in an effort to combat the spread of the Chinese coronavirus. 

Thousands of boaters hit the water in Boca Raton, Florida, over the weekend despite officials’ warnings regarding the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

A teacher was suspended Wednesday for allegedly washing a student’s mouth out with hand sanitizer in Wellington, Florida, in October.

A dog that spent three weeks buried under the rubble left behind by Hurricane Dorian is now thriving with his new family in Florida. 

A parrot caused quite a stir when a neighbor called police after hearing someone screaming for help in Palm Beach County, Florida, December 29. 

A Florida man paid off the school lunch debt for more than 400 children at nine different schools after learning that students were not being served a full meal in their school cafeterias.

A Florida professor who instructed his students to “stomp on Jesus” for a class assignment is running for an elected position.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) official said late Friday that plans to send migrant families to South Florida have been put on hold temporarily following a backlash from state lawmakers.  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s governor plans to fight a federal plan to fly hundreds of immigrants from the Mexican border to two South Florida counties, saying Friday he’ll take his case to President Donald Trump.

A Federal judge ruled against a request to extend the deadline for recounts in Florida’s U.S. Senate and governor midterm races. 

Florida Democrats urged voters to submit absentee ballots after Election Day, using an official form that had been altered to make it look like they were doing so within the legal deadline, hoping a judge would later allow the votes.

A judge ruled to extend the recount deadline for Palm Beach County until November 20 in Florida’s U.S. Senate race, according to reports. 

A suspect tried to steal a car with a five-year-old sitting in it and was subsequently shot and killed by the child’s father.