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Boca Raton

Mostly Cloudy
Temperature: 65.8 °F

Humidity: 67 %
Wind Speed: 5 mph NNE
Pressure: 30.05 "

Dew Point: 55 °F
Gusts: 20 mph WNW
Rain Today: N/A "

• The suspect who shot and killed a mother and daughter in an SUV in...
  

  A Boca Raton incident that gained national attention this past year for its brutality and senselessness began shortly after midnight Dec.

• Boat parade back in Boca Raton and looking for boaters
  

  Dec. 1--Last year, disappointed boaters followed the normal route of Boca Raton Click here for restaurant inspection reports's annual boat parade only to find there was no parade after all.

• Wexler opponents allege he will resign house seat and join Obama
  

  Although defeated, former Congressional candidates Edward Lynch and Ben Graber say they will run again- and they believe the race will be sooner than 2010.

• Man stabbed in altercation at club near Boca Raton
  

  Authorities thought they were looking for a shooting victim when they came to a suburban Boca Raton night club this morning.

• Boca Raton will kick off its holiday festivities with a tree lighting and carnival downtown
  

  The weather outside tonight may not be frightful - it rarely is in South Florida.

• Nude beaches seen as cover for Florida's cash gaps
  

  Times are tough, maybe even tough enough to start paying more attention to one of the state's leading nudists.

• Kraft Foods exec scores Boca Raton 3BD
  

  Burton L. Reiter and Edythe R. Agron bought a three-bedroom, five bath townhome at 46088 N.W. 24th Terrace in Boca Raton from Antoinette J. Schweitzer for $600,000 on Nov.

• Shopping center developer spends $2.4M in Boca Raton
  

  Michael Fimiani and his wife, Cristy, bought a home at 1501 Cocoanut Rd. in Boca Raton for $2.4 million from David A. Heller and James O. Dolson on May 20.

• Man robs Boca Raton bank
  

  A man robbed a bank at gunpoint Monday and escaped with an unknown amount of cash, police said.

• Former Student Found Dead in FAU Apartment
  

  Florida Atlantic University has released the name of the man found dead in a student's apartment Tuesday afternoon.

• Boca Raton police arrest four suspects in home invasion robbery
  

  Boca Raton police arrested four suspects in connection with a home invasion robbery reported just before 10:30 p.m. Nov.18, police said.

• Florida man pleads guilty in junk fax scam
  

  A Florida business analyst pleaded guilty to wire fraud for his role in a junk fax scheme that defrauded business owners across the nation of millions of dollars.

• Boca Raton police are investigating a robbery Wednesday. The victims...
  

  Two jewelry couriers from New York were reportedly robbed of more than $500,000 worth of gems outside a Boca Raton hotel just after 6 p.m. Nov.

• Armed Robbery at Orion Bank
  

  Orion Bank on North Federal Highway in Boca Raton was robbed today around 1 p.m. and police need help nabbing the robber.

• Boca Contractor Faces More Than 60 Fraud Charges
  

  A Boca Raton man remained in jail Thursday night after being accused of swindling more than $100,000 from people who wanted remodeling work done.

• The Boca Raton Garden Club is using the Boca Raton city seal as the...
  

  The Boca Raton Garden Club has come up with its newest holiday seasonal ornament - the 15th annual creation since it began the project in 1994.

• Florida Library Association will present a leadership seminar in Boca Raton
  

  The Florida Library Association will present a seminar in Boca Raton Dec. 3 from 1 to 3:30 to address leadership during financial crisis and creative approaches to budget woes for 2009 and beyond.

• Boca Raton voters ask: Jeff who?
  

  Even if Jeff Atwater is the great-grandson of one of Florida's Governors - who by the way had a county named after him -- what's a nice boy like Atwater doing raising nearly $3 million dollars to reassume his ...

• Boca Raton Museum of Art will host a display of art by John Henry from Dec. 16 to May 31
  

  Award-winning sculptor John Henry, known for his large-scale steel sculpture, is bringing his work to the Boca Raton Museum of Art and Mizner Park as part of a seven-city exhibition traveling throughout the ...

City Description

Boca Raton ("bōkə rə-tōn") is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida incorporated in May 1925. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 74,764; the 2006 population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 86,396. However, the majority of the people under the postal address of Boca Raton, of about 200,000 in total, are not actual residents of municipal Boca Raton. This is due to the county's stringent annexation laws passed in 2004. Estimated that on any given day, there are roughly 350,000 people in the city itself. By population and land mass, Boca Raton is the largest city between West Palm Beach and Pompano Beach, Broward County. Listed on early maps as "Boca Ratones," many people assume the name is simply translated to "Rat's Mouth". The Spanish word boca (or mouth) was often used to describe an inlet, while ratón (literally mouse) was used by Spanish sailors to describe rocks that gnawed at a ship's cable, or as a term for a cowardly thief. The name Boca Ratones originally appeared on eighteenth century maps associated with an inlet in the Biscayne Bay area of Miami. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, the term was mistakenly moved north to its current

City Contained By:

• Palm Beach County
• Florida

City Contains:

• Florida East Coast Railway Passenger Station
• Seaboard Air Line Dining Car-6113
• Seaboard Air Line Lounge Car-6603
• Boca Raton Fire Engine No. 1
• Fred C. Aiken House
• House at 1240 Cocoanut Road
• Lavender House
• Administration Buildings
• Boca Raton Old City Hall

Size:

• 75.3686540108 km squared

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