A second South Florida municipality is dealing with a ransomware attack that affected operations – this time, an incident just weeks before the 2016 election. NBC affiliate WPTV-TV reports that the Palm Beach County elections office recently found out about the attack while the current supervisor of elections was working with a new IT director. “I was shocked, didn’t know…

The woman was arrested in December, becoming the second person in less than a year to be arrested.

A Chinese woman has been found not guilty of trespassing for an alleged incident inside the Mar-a-Lago resort of President Donald Trump. NBC affiliate WPTV-TV reports a jury of seven people acquitted 56-year-old Lu Jing of the crime Wednesday in a West Palm Beach courtroom but did convict her of one count of resisting arrest. Jing faces one year in…

The North Miami Beach Police Department was hit with a ransomware attack and is now being told to pay millions to regain access to information it stored online. NBC 6 Investigator Willard Shepard reports.

Investigators say a 26-year-old man is accused of fatally stabbing his father in a Boca Raton parking garage

An elementary school teacher in South Florida found herself behind bars after police say she shoved a student’s head into a wall and knocked out his tooth. NBC affiliate WPTV-TV reports that 64-year-old Cynthia Smith was arrested on Friday and charged with child abuse before she bonded out of the Palm Beach County jail hours later. According to an...

Wildlife officials say a newborn sperm whale has died after beaching itself on Palm Beach

Law enforcement agents opened fire on an SUV driver who smashed through two security checkpoints at Mar-a-Lago. NBC 6’s Steve Litz reports.

The sheriff of Palm Beach said the vehicle was driving erratically and putting the public’s well-being in danger

Students at a prominent South Florida school remain waiting inside their homes until they get they get the ‘all clear’ after being in contact with a college student being tested for the coronavirus. The students who attend The Benjamin School in Palm Beach Gardens were a part of the Model United Nations being held at Yale University recently and had…

At least 10 people were taken into custody after a group of Chinese immigrants came ashore at Palm Beach Friday morning, officials said.

At least 10 people were taken into custody after a group of Chinese immigrants came ashore at Palm Beach Friday morning, officials said. Palm Beach Police said the group of men and women came ashore in the 900 block of N. Ocean Boulevard. Footage from WPTV showed law enforcement taking multiple people into custody. Police said they were still searching…

Having twice failed to get its way at the U.S. Supreme Court, the city of Riviera Beach has agreed to pay $875,000 to settle a decade-long legal battle that began over a floating home. The settlement was reached Monday and will be presented to the City Council for approval next month, the Palm Beach Post reported. The city of Riviera Beach...

A West Palm Beach, Florida mom is now seeing quadruple after giving birth to two sets of twins in 2019. Doctors told Alexzandria Wolliston she had better chances of hitting the lottery. Now, she says her sets of twins are her jackpot. Mark, Malakhi, Kaylen and Kaleb.

Having one set of twins could be enough for any mother – but one South Florida got to experience the thrill twice in the same year.

A former military member who was dishonorably discharged was able to lie his way past two various checkpoints at the South Florida airport where President Donald Trump departed from this past weekend according to members of the Secret Service. NBC affiliate WPTV-TV reports the incident took place Sunday at Palm Beach International Airport, when the man identified as Brandon Mark…

When someone in a Florida neighborhood heard chilling cries and the words “Let me out!” they dialed 911

 Rock icon Rod Stewart and his son are facing simple battery charges after an altercation with a security guard during a private event in a children’s area at The Breakers hotel in Palm Beach on New Year’s Eve, according to court records. Security guard Jessie Dixon told Palm Beach police officers that Stewart’s group was at the check-in table...

A South Florida woman is recovering after police say she was shot by what they believed was celebratory gun fire to ring in the new year. NBC affiliate WPTV-TV reports the incident took place early Wednesday morning In Delray Beach as the woman was sitting on a street corner near Atlantic Avenue as the victim told police she felt something…

A woman standing beside her disabled car on Interstate 95 was struck and killed by a passing motorist on Friday morning, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Dennis Bodee, 56, was driving south near Boynton Beach when his vehicle left the road and hit the disabled vehicle, Lt. Yenko Reyes said. The car then hit the 29-year-old West Palm Beach woman,…