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Bush-Cheney and Kerry-Edwards signs littered the lawns as Imam Foad Farahi walked from a mosque to his North Miami Beach apartment a few blocks away. It was November 1, 2004,...
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It's the big day. On a recent June afternoon, Jon Jacobs is rushing around his office inside his Spanish-style house in Miami's Design District. A 39-year-old with a British...
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Note: An earlier version of this story attributed some quotes to Melania Knauss-Trump, Donald Trump’s wife, at an April 14 marketing event for Trump International Hotel &...
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On May 17, John P. Contini leaned across a table in Broward County Courtroom 343 and whispered in his client's ear. Martin Diez, a 34-year-old Pembroke Pines man with brown...
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In January, one piece of paper changed James McCalla's life.
A muscular, six-foot Haitian-American, the 26-year-old McCalla went out to get the mail at his suburban home in...
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Note: An earlier version of this story attributed some quotes to Melania Knauss-Trump, Donald Trump’s wife, at an April 14 marketing event for Trump International Hotel &...
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The slots are coming. Once Florida lawmakers work out the finer details, gamblers will be able to pull the levers at Broward County's four pari-mutuel facilities —...
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Mandoah "Manny" Ebaid walks Harrison Street in downtown Hollywood. It's 10:30 on a Wednesday night in February, and the restaurateur is checking the foot traffic outside his...
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Hollywood is so eager to give developers unfettered access to public money that city officials recently helped to create what amounts to a slush fund.
By forming a private...
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Maria Jackson and Helen Chervin happily give tours of their Hollywood neighborhood. It's not a tour you'll find in a promotional pamphlet. In fact, city officials admit that...
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The Villas of Positano will offer the height of luxury living in Hollywood when the development project is completed in December.
Located on Hollywood Beach, just south of...
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This is the second in a two-part series. See the first installment at New Times Broward-Palm Beach.
"I haven't been to this area in nearly 15 years," says John P. Contini...
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This is the first of two parts.
It should have been his last job.
Richard "Dickie" Robertson was getting out, going straight. On April 1, 1983, Robertson had...
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The call to James W. Johnson came in April 2004. On the phone was Winston Thompson, an associate dean at Broward Community College, telling him that Lulrick Balzora, an...
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Larry Gierer is annoyed.
"That's where the carport was," Gierer says, pointing to the front of his Oakland Park home. A large blue tarp covers his roof. His landscaping, once...
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Gangland-style murder.
That's how the 2001 slaying of gambling mogul Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis is remembered, and for good reason. That night, February 6, while driving in...
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Basketball's outlaw league is back. For nine seasons starting in 1967, the American Basketball Association (ABA), with its huge afros and tri-colored ball, was the roughneck...
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War is the hot industry.
Recently, New Times described how Pompano Beach's Point Blank Body Armor has raked in millions since 9/11, despite repeated allegations that the...
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On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Philip Freedman steps out of an elevator on the 39th floor of Broward County's tallest building and into a condo fit for an episode of MTV Cribs....
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It's a hot afternoon on July 2 in Baghdad. Inside a silver van, two Iraqi insurgents sit at an intersection. Seventy-five yards away, Pfc. Stephen Tschiderer, a 20-year-old...
