Central Florida

Kashi Ashram: Claims of Rape, Child Abuse, and Kidnapping

Five Reasons Florida Is America's Most Infamous Marijuana State

Dear Stoner, We understand how you're feeling. Dark and formidable challenges lay before you. While the rest of the nation -- especially Washington and Colorado -- takes strides to normalize diplomatic relations with marijuana, Florida has moved in the other direction. Yesterday was the most recen ... More >>

Pain & Gain: Where the Real-Life Sun Gym Gang Characters Are Now

See also: "Pain & Gain: From New Times Story to Michael Bay Film."

Jim Greer, Former Florida GOP Chair, Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison

Former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, Jim Greer was sentenced on Wednesday to 18 months in prison, plus a year's probation for stealing from the Republican Party. See also: - Jim Greer: Racism and Dead Bodies Ahead - Jim Greer Lied to Everyone: to Us, to You, to Himself. And Then, Cha ... More >>

Jim Greer, Former Florida GOP Chair, Pleads Guilty

Former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, Jim Greer, was headed to trial on fraud, theft and money laundering charges after allegations of big-time spending and shady behavior surfaced. But, in a surprising twist, Greer has accepted a plead deal Monday morning and has pled guilty. S ... More >>

Casey Anthony Files for Bankruptcy

Last week, we told you about an appeals court throwing out two of Casey Anthony's remaining convictions of lying to police during the investigation into her daughter Caylee's disappearance. Well, it appears that as soon as the appeals court was done making its ruling, Casey walked over to federal c ... More >>

SpaceX: Kiss Florida's Place in the Space Race Good-bye! Spend $16 Million Making the Place a Theme Park.

SpaceX, the California company that plans to help NASA and perhaps become the world leader in space travel, announced yesterday in Washington that it would send a man to space by 2015.The firm will send one of its own employees. Last year, it was the number one private firm to send an unmanned craft ... More >>

Mayan Calendar Predictions Versus Reality

Wawa Convenience Stores Come to Florida

You Jersey transplants who are longing for hoagies and water ice and the sight of oil refineries on the gray horizon, your beloved Wawa is coming to Florida.OK, right now it's only up in north and central Florida, but they already have six locations open in Kissimmee and Orlando, with two more on th ... More >>

I-4 Corridor Predicts Florida for Romney

Man Inherits Huge Clown Collection

Well now, this is kinda terrifying. Richard Levine of Ft. Lauderdale was living his life, minding his own business, when he suddenly inherited 13,000 clown items. Levine got the collection after his father-in-law and business partner died two years ago. The warehouse of nightmare fuel includes c ... More >>

Alex Sink Would Defeat Rick Scott in 2014, According to Poll

If scientists could harness the power of a black hole and build a time machine, we could use it to go back in time to kill Hitler and cure AIDS while going forward in time and seeing who wins the next 40 World Series while also living in a Rick Scott-free world. But for now, we have a poll cond ... More >>

Constitution Party: Obama Might Mobilize Rioting Blacks, Hispanics to Take Over Country

There's something the South Florida-based wing of the Constitution Party would like you to know: There is a very real danger that President Barack Obama is going to stage a "false flag" assassination attempt to incide rioting, which will allow him to install martial law and postpone the November ele ... More >>

Best Ice Cream Food Trucks in Fort Lauderdale and Miami

​Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don't forget to check out the full Best of Broward-Palm Beach® 2012 online at bestof.voiceplaces.com.Summer means sweating in mysterious places, ... More >>

Mug-Shot Friday: One Winning Smile, Two Zombies, and Three Deep Emotions

​Welcome to this week's post of the Broward-Palm Beach edition of Mug-Shot Friday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week's most eye-catching mug shots from South Florida's tat heads, tough guys, and femmes fatale. Check out Miami New Times' Riptide blog for the Miami-Dade edition.

Brotherly Love Productions' Matt Beck and Destiny Spang Celebrate Five Years of Fostering a Jamming Local Music Scene

I Watched a Hog Get Slaughtered

Onto the Kill Floor: Here's What It's Like to Watch a Pig Turned Into Pork

The process was described to me before I walked onto the kill floor. Jim Wood, the owner of Palmetto Creek Farms, gave me the rundown. "They can't see anything. There's nothing to hear. I don't think they have any idea what's going on."I was handed a long lab coat and a hair net. I could feel my hea ... More >>

Juvie Prison Operator Youth Services International Donates to Powerful GOP Lawmakers

If you're aiming to win multimillion-dollar contracts to run Florida's juvenile prisons, it helps to have friends in high places. Youth Services International, the for-profit company that runs Thompson Academy in Pembroke Pines along with seven other juvie lockups in the state, has learned this less ... More >>

Farm-to-Table Isn't Easy in Florida, but a Few Pioneers Are Pulling It Off

Suck Da Heads at Shuck-N-Dive for Mardi Gras

How to Eat Crawfish - PSA from Loyola Motion Design on Vimeo."It's early in the season for crawfish," said Clif Smith of Crawfish Company of Central Florida. "We're very busy and could run a little short," he told Clean Plate Charlie in between taking orders for tomorrow's Mardi Gras festivities. De ... More >>

South Florida Muslims Seek a New Way to Get Along in the Wake of Terrorism Charges and Bigotry

Triton Submarines Races to the Bottom of the Ocean for Fame and Fortune

Tim Tebow More Popular in Florida Than God is Nationwide, According to Poll Results

broncogator15.com​Tim Tebow is quite possibly more popular than God Himself -- at least, he may be in Florida.The former Florida Gator, Heisman Trophy winner, two-time BCS national champion, and current Denver Broncos quarterback is viewed favorably by 59 percent of Floridians, according to su ... More >>

Wellington Officials Furious Over Today Show Using City as Location for Story on Car Surfing

Steven Erdmanczyk from Flickr.com​The City of Wellington wants a correction from Matt Lauer, host of NBC's Today show.Earlier this week, Lauer introduced a story on a dangerous teen trend known as car surfing. Rather than recorded footage of such antics, he instead handed the reporting o ... More >>

Steal Art

Some Kinda Bust: Buxom Bandit Behind Bars

Photo: BSOSamara Seward​With a nickname like Buxom Bandit, it's hard to stay out of sight. So it goes for Samara Seward, accused of stealing the identity of a couple Broward teachers, a crime for which she's already been incarcerated. From the BSO release:Following a tip, Broward Sheriff's Office ... More >>

Morning Juice: Boynton Family Battles Stingy Insurer; Murder Near West Palm Park

​A rundown of local news items on this Wednesday morning:A Boynton Beach family is devastated by an insurance company's decision to renege on a guarantee that it would pay for the residential treatment of Ryan Crofutt, 25, who needs treatment for brain damage and was prepared to receive therapy at ... More >>

A Gourmet Day Trip: DeLand

One of DeLand's coffee shops​I had a terrible weekend in the south-central Florida town of Arcadia one time. I'd been drawn principally by the name -- but the place turned out to be far from paradisal: restaurants closed at 8 and were mostly dry. The villagers were like something out of a creepy ... More >>

Diocious Funks Up the Tricounty Area at Dive Bar

Will Identity Crisis Divide Florida Tea Party?

Flickr​They all hate taxes, so why can't all tea partiers love one another? This week has revealed divisions within the tea party activist community of South Florida, and in Central Florida the infighting has spilled into the courts, where an Orlando radio host is being accused of "hijacking" the ... More >>

Fast-Casual Tex-Mex Tijuana Flats Rolls Out New Menu

Courtesy of Tijuana Flats​ Burrito lovers rejoice! With their biggest menu roll out in their 15 year existence, fast-casual Tex-Mex restaurant Tijuana Flats welcomes half a dozen new menu options to the South Florida Mexican food-loving masses starting today. All six new items were featured items ... More >>

Clowns Protesting Elephant in the Room

courtesy of PETA and ARFF​Outside American Airlines Arena in Miami this Friday will be a pack of angry clowns. No, it's not a Nickelback concert; it's the circus. And the clowns outside won't be working for Ringling Bros. They're animals rights activists protesting Ringling's treatment of elephant ... More >>

Dolphins Coach Tony Sparano Is a Risk-Taking Conservative

Chinese News Has Best Tiger Woods Reporting

China already owns the U.S. government. It's just a matter of time till Chinese money also buys the American media. But look at the bright side. After that happens, we can expect wicked-cool videogame reenactments of the day's biggest stories. Like the one below, which offers two animated versions o ... More >>

Palm Beach State Attorney to Get Neo-Nazi Stabbing Case Next Week

Flickr: Paul Garland​Manalapan Police Chief Clay Walker says his investigators are wrapping up their case against the two men involved in the knife fight Monday night at the Ritz Carlton, where Nazi historian David Irving was giving a speech. He expects to deliver investigative findings to the Pal ... More >>

Ritz Knife Fight Reveals "War" Between White Supremacists, Watchdog Says

Flickr user: Jon LeightonProtestors at a David Irving event in England.​The knife fight that broke out during Holocaust-denier David Irving's speech at the Ritz-Carlton on Manalapan this week appears to be the latest twist in an ongoing spat between two white supremacist factions, according to a w ... More >>

On the Hunt for Exotic Lizards in the Florida Everglades

Local Hero Does NOT Kill Children

Aaron Jackson does a lot of good in the world.Aaron Jackson, founder of Planting Peace -- a locally based nonprofit running orphanages in Haiti and shelters around the world -- says he does not "kill children." That's right, not even one. I've hung out with the man on several occasions, for e ... More >>

Drivers of the Toyota Prius Have Discovered They Can Be In for an Unexpected Adventure

Diet for a Broke Planet

A brief guide to eating well in tough times

The Talk of the Green Iguana

Will American voters elect the first gay vice president in November?

Charlie Crist Is NOT Gay

And other things the Republican Party wants you to believe on Election Day.

To the Lighthouse

Old Florida still exists. It's over there behind those condos.

A Single Hair

After a severely flawed trial, Michael Rivera was convicted of killing a little girl. New DNA evidence may help him.