Janet Reno

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 >>

Cuban Radio Is Dying Because of Aging Hardliners and Miami's Changing Market

Litigious Activist Jack Thompson Files State Complaint Against John Bowman

Jack Thompson​In more than two months since they took a statement from Charles Harper, 18, alleging past sexual abuse by Broward Circuit Judge John Bowman, the Plantation Police Department has been conducting an investigation and has been mum about its status or eventual completion.Many of the ano ... More >>

Is Sheriff Lamberti's Administration Crumbling?

Last week was a momentous one for Sheriff Al Lamberti. Lamberti's director of law enforcement, Col. Rick Frey, rather abruptly retired. And then in a late-hour Friday news bomb, it was announced that Lamberti had fired Larry Strain, BSO's director of purchasing, and suspended (with pay) John C ... More >>

Morning Juice: Lynn Students Tell Quake Survival Tale; Questions About Major Haiti Charity

​Here's what happened in Broward and Palm Beach over the weekend:The Lynn University students who escaped the earthquake in Haiti gave their horrifying first-person account. Two of the students and the group's two faculty advisers remain missing. [Palm Beach Post]Scott Rothstein has been a wreckin ... More >>

Gelber Unloads on Bushies Who Politicized Federal Proscutors' Offices

The Democrats' side of the Florida Attorney General race, between Sens. Dave Aronberg and Dan Gelber can feel like a meeting of the Mutual Admiration Society. But it's just not healthy to be always so measured and tactful, which is why it must have felt good for Gelber to wind up and then tee off on ... More >>

Then There Were Three (Candidates for U.S. Attorney in South Florida)

The next U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida will be either David Buckner, Willy Ferrer, or Daryl Trawick. They were selected by the Judicial Nomination Commission following interviews this month of 16. All three finalists are members of Miami's legal community -- Buckner in private p ... More >>

Joel Steinger and Mutual Benefits Corp. Stole a Billion Dollars by Peddling Bogus Life Insurance Policies

Janet Napolitano's Sorry Service Makes Her a Terrible Choice as Homeland Security Secretary

Jack Don't Know Jack

Why will the right-wing crusader likely lose his license? Swastikas are just the start.

Slick Trouble

The government's determination to deport old-school rapper Slick Rick knows no bounds

Reinhard's Bad Hair Day

Brother's Keeper

Miriam is only the beginning. Them boys in Tallahassee may bag some really big game.

Perfecta Meets Prada

The old Gulfstream becomes a shopping mall

GOPundit

Oft-quoted USF Prof Susan MacManus is neutral. Yeah, right.

Committee to Defeat Itself

A crusade to bring down President Bush looks a lot like a warm-up to a riot

Free Will

Another SNL vet may yet make giant steps

Buyout Revisited

Yoo-hoo! Investigators! Check the president's pockets!

Catered to Death

A hard-charging wheeler-dealer, a catering perfectionist, and a bitterly dissatisfied wife -- it was a lethal mix

This Week's Day by Day Picks

Maintaining Radio Silence

104.1-FM The Boss maintains radio silence

The Jackass Whimpers

Bush's war has sent the Democratic Party scurrying for cover

Indian War

A Hollywood man has spent the past decade trying to pry open the Seminoles' accounting books -- without much success

Hustling the Hood

Does it matter to blacks which wealthy, middle-aged white guy is Florida's next governor?

Letters for October 3, 2002

Hawk-dove

Belle Star

Brett Butler brings her Southern wit to South Florida

The Double Cross

Two years ago, Ken Eggleston was Palm Beach County Sheriff Ed Bieluch's heir apparent. Now, they are implacable foes. What happened?

Best Intentions

Lois Frankel's bid for governor of Florida

A Queer Law

Florida's ban on gay adoption is not only unjust; it's downright homophobic

Police Beat

More than four years after a Delray Beach cop gave him a body full of bruises and a face full of pepper spray, a local doctor is still seeking justice

Longshot

Florida House minority leader Lois Frankel is waging an impossible campaign for governor

Admitting Terror, Part 3

Florida INS director Dan Cadman fooled Congress; then his bosses promoted him

The Rise and Fall of the Hallmark Kid

By age ten Ryan Lipner was managing his father’s Hallmark store. So how did this would-be greeting card tycoon end up in jail before his 18th birthday?

Impotent Response

Is this play rude, crude, and offensive? Yes, and not in a good way.

Letters to the Editor

Letters for May 31, 2001

Elián Plus One

Conflict of interest. Anti-Cuban high jinks. A cover-up. It must be the Florida INS.

Undercurrents

A New Times photog shutters to remember his run-in with a Fort Lauderdale cop

Undercurrents

Bob Norman sends the Broward County School Board bureaucrats scurrying

Doing Elián's Bidding

Looking for a little piece of the little feller's legacy before he heads back into Castro's clutches? Just check in with eBay.

Letters to the Editor

Letters for June 22, 2000

Wrestling With Faith

Rev. Billy C. Wirtz

Fifteen Minutes of Infamy

The fisherman who rescued Elián, Donato Dalrymple, comes from a family with a violent history. And that's not the half of it.

Undercurrents

You call this damage control?

The Emerald Ire

A former probation officer once saw the IRA as killers and the FBI as heroes. All that's changed now, as he investigates the Irish gun-smuggling case.

Hit or Mrs.?

According to the courts, Joyce Cohen hired three men to murder her wealthy husband. Now the entire case may be unraveling.

Impeachment as Cache

If there's anyone who can feel Bill Clinton's pain, it's ousted-judge-turned-congressman Alcee Hastings

Cyber Stakes

South Florida is at the heart of the internet gambling boom -- and of the war to stop it

Conspiracy, She Wrote

For years private detective Virginia Snyder has accused the Delray Beach police of corruption. Now she's taking them to court.