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FREE Dolphins Cheerleaders Calendars if You Give a Non-Perishable Food Item

America was the very first country to create a holiday all about being thankful. One of the best ways to do that is to help others have a good Thanksgiving, too. Yet sometimes we all need a little encouragement to get giving. Don't put off giving any longer. Bring a non-perishable food donation to a ... More >>

Ron Vinci Was Shot and Stabbed in His Home. Did His Mild-Mannered Girlfriend Finally Snap?

Victoria Jackson Went From "SNL" to the Rabid Right

Victoria Jackson Is Crazy (About America)

​Remember the ditzy-sounding actress Victoria Jackson? You probably know her as Saturday Night Live's worst cast member of all time. Or if you can remember black-and-white TV, you might recall her fairly ridiculous standup routines on the Tonight Show.Well, if that's all you know of Victoria Jacks ... More >>

Off-Duty BSO Deputy Dies in New Year's Day Motorcycle Crash

BSOBroward Sheriff's Deputy John Blackwelder.​Broward Sheriff's Deputy John Blackwelder died in a motorcycle crash shortly after noon on New Year's Day, according to the BSO.The sheriff's office says Blackwelder, 45, was riding his 2010 Honda motorcycle west on East Commercial Boulevard when a ... More >>

Griselda "The Godmother" Blanco's Lone Surviving Heir Ends Up Stumbling Into His Own Cocaine Arrest

Woman Lights Ex-Boyfriend's House on Fire; He Returns the Favor by Setting Her Car Ablaze

heinoushats.blogspot.com​In case you happened to see three people running around Lauderdale Lakes lighting things on fire Monday night, it was apparently a pair of ex-lovers and a third wheel attempting to work out their dispute using the arson method.In the third case in a week involving people l ... More >>

CNN/Tea Party Express Republican Debate: Live Blog

​The Pulp will be in Tampa tonight to live-blog the Republican presidential debate, hosted by CNN and the Tea Party Express.Eight candidates will take the stage for the debate -- moderated by CNN's Wolf Blitzer -- from 8 to 10 p.m., and the event will be streamed live online, which you can find he ... More >>

Ronald Vinci's Girlfriend Arrested in His "Suspicious" Fort Lauderdale Duct-Tape Death

Fort Lauderdale PDCatherine Pileggi​Police have arrested the girlfriend of 70-year-old Ronald Vinci in connection with his death last week.Vinci's death, as you may remember, was considered "a suspicious death" by police after his body was found wrapped in duct tape in his Fort Lauderdale mansion ... More >>

Multimillionaire's Body Found Wrapped in Duct Tape Is Considered "Suspicious"

whozhe.blogspot.com​The death of 70-year-old Ronald Vinci -- who was found dead and wrapped in duct tape in his Fort Lauderdale mansion -- is being considered "a suspicious death" by police, which we're hoping they usually say when they find a body wrapped in duct tape.Vinci, who earned his millio ... More >>

"My Mother Is the Mayor; I'll Spit All Over Your Kids," and Other Tales From Hallandale Beach

Mayor Joy Cooper​Over the past few months, Hallandale Beach City Commissioner Keith London has been in touch with New Times to express his concern about the number and frequency of police and fire department responses involving the personal activities of Mayor Joy Cooper and her family.We have obt ... More >>

Sources: Another Corruption Arrest Coming on Election Day

Former Tamarac Commissioner Marc Sultanof will turn himself in to the Broward County Jail tomorrow on state corruption charges regarding his involvement with dirty developers Bruce and Shawn Chait and possibly other matters, two informed and reliable sources tell me. Sultanof w ... More >>

Boynton Woman Passed Out in Car With Child, Said She Was "Smoking Blues"

Jessica Lobig tried to juggle parenting with a prescription drug habit, and that combination has landed her in jail. The probable-cause affidavit says that just before midnight Thursday, Boynton Beach Police found the 24-year-old mother passed out in her 2007 Honda pickup truck, sweating profusely, ... More >>

Miami Beach's Troubled Police Force Pays Officers in the Six Figures

At Florida Memorial University, Surviving Beatings, Gunshots, and Assaults Is Part of the Curriculum

Psystar, a Rebel South Florida Company, Takes On Apple

Seeing Capitalism: A Love Story with a Real-Life Capitalist

​Near the beginning of Michael Moore's new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, the filmmaker calls upon Wallace Shawn, an actor/writer friend of his, to explain our economic system in terms he could explain, presumably because Shawn is one of the more knowledgeable people Moore knows when it ... More >>

FPL Wants Rate Hike From State; Employee Offers Crack to Former Lauderdale Commissioner

​I'm not necessarily saying the two things are related. But with Florida Power & Light, you never know. The utility has ingratiated itself with its state regulators at the Public Service Commission, prompting a corruption investigation at a time when it is also asking for a rate hike and permi ... More >>

After 30-mile High Speed Chase, Lauderdale Police Catch Armed Robbery Suspects

Photo: Fort Lauderdale PoliceKyle Smith​Two men suspected of robbing a 71-year-old man last night in Fort Lauderdale led police on a 30-mile high-speed pursuit into Palm Beach County before being arrested near Woolbright Road in Boynton Beach.Kyle Smith, 23, and Ivan Camacho, 24, are in custody on ... More >>

When Fast and Furious Locals Meet Slo-Mo Tourists, Consequences Are Deadly

Jerome PeelLike a crappy movie sequel franchise, it seems the souped-up, tricked-out import cars driven recklessly by immature teens and even more stunted 20- and 30-somethings are here to stay. As are tourists, who -- you may have noticed -- like to drive slow enough to savor their South Florida ge ... More >>

Ford's Hybrid Saves Liberals, One Rental Car at a Time

It's hard to be a card-carrying, foreign-car-driving, alt-weekly-newspaper-working, Cheez Whiz-loving liberal these days. The conservatives say President Obama's corporate bailouts amount to socialism, and who knows if they're right, because they kind of lost me at the first trillion. So that's why ... More >>

Oops, Lee Abrams Did It Again.

Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams struck again. In his latest think piece sent out to newsrooms across the county, this one titled "Celebrity Crimes Against Humanity," he included a quote that has been attributed Mariah Carey: "When I watch TV and see those poor ki ... More >>

There's more of the same in Mario Kart Wii, and that just might be plenty.

Give ΄im the Yokozuna

They Can't Be Beat

Customers claim AutoNation lured them into bad loans

Spank the Monkey

Children's TV pioneer Alan Shalleck had a secret that killed him

The Anti-Amy Winehouse

A legitimate soul chanteuse prefers hits to headlines

Goldstein Still Screws

Well, New Times, anyway

Beat Happens

An' Jushtiss f'r All!

The Luckiest Perps

Letters for September 1-7, 2005

Letters for July 14-20, 2005

Crotch Rocketeers

It's zero to oblivion in a heartbeat for too many of the risk takers on the new supercharged bikes

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Beat Street

Proto-Shizo

In Defense of Dashboard

Carrabba's not just a crybaby!

Crashing Glass

The aftermath of a freak accident: shattered windows and two broken families

Golf Greats on the Move

Hospital Index

Want to play free golf and stay at the finest hotels in the country?

Enviro-hassles

Yeah, Jeb's boys saved the Miami Blue. But since then, it's been open season on the environment.

Letters for December 11, 2003

Blink and your accused

The Blink of an Eye

Before she could hit the brakes, Sonia Ortiz was transformed from homemaker and pregnant mother of three to "cop killer"

Shipped Off

When you're down and out in West Palm, a free ticket to New York can mean just being homeless in another city

Throwback Is Comin' Back

Pirate radio, a Holiday Inn that isn't, lots of cops, and cagey promoters

Game Boys

What do you get when you mix guaraná, computers, assault rifles, and explosives? A fragger's paradise.

Best Pool Store

Pool Depot

Babes 'n' Bikes

From Tokyo with love: It's the Godzilla bike fest

Net Free

A whimsical journey on the wings of a butterfly

By Susan Eastman

Boys Under the Hood

What makes fast-car enthusiasts furious? Cops, speed limits, and punk kids with loud mufflers and no brains.

A Vehicle For Racism

Isn't selling cars for Republic Industries hard enough without your boss cracking racist jokes all the time?