Byron Maharrey knows what a Florida panther looks like. The former chairman of the board for the Florida Sportsmen’s Conservation Association had seen the elusive cats near Palatka and around his home by Lake Kissimmee before. And he swears he saw one of these rare cougar subspecies while hunting there…
Raul Medina Jr. walks into a Starbucks in Hollywood’s Young Circle and asks for a cup of black coffee with light hazelnut syrup and exactly two ice cubes. Better-known as DJ Raw, Medina brought hip-hop to Miami from his native South Bronx and founded Hoodstock, a free, big-name festival in…
Salomon E. Melgen lives in a 5,000-square-foot North Palm Beach mansion. He travels by private jet to the Dominican Republic with New Jersey senators. He’s the subject of not one but two current FBI investigations. The 59-year-old eye surgeon has yet another claim to notoriety now, the New York Times…
More than four months after Kayla Mendoza allegedly (and drunkenly) careened into two young women on the Sawgrass Expressway, she has been arrested and formally charged with their deaths. In a story that went absolutely bonkers on the internet last November, New Times reported that the 21-year-old Mendoza had Tweeted…
Raul Medina Jr. walks into a Starbucks in Hollywood’s Young Circle and asks for a cup of black coffee with light hazelnut syrup and exactly two ice cubes. Better-known as DJ Raw, Medina brought hip-hop to Miami from his native South Bronx and founded Hoodstock, a free, big-name festival in…
Colin and Andrea Chisholm certainly did not look like Scottish royalty at the Broward County Courthouse this morning. The wealthy Minnesota couple who insist on being referred to as “Lord and Lady” were dressed in the same blue prison tunics as the plebs who surrounded them. As they approached the…
TerRio is exhausted. The 6-year-old internet star is slumped over on the hood of a limousine outside of downtown Miami’s Grand Central nightclub. It’s only 9:47 p.m. on a Saturday, but filming on TerRio’s first professional music video is scheduled to continue through 7 a.m. the next day. Suddenly, the…
The Florida Lottery has been very, very good to about 200 people. Suspiciously good. Those 200 have “won” more than 30 times each, according to a Palm Beach Post investigation that rolled out this week. But reporters found that the most winningest gamblers were often store clerks…
Colin and Andrea Chisholm liked to tell people they were Scottish aristocrats. It wasn’t hard to fake. They were living on a $1.2 million yacht in Palm Bay and training Cavalier King Charles Spaniels — a breed popular in the U.K. One of their pups even got an award at…
Eric Madrid is a 32-year-old shaman with a cropped beard, a protruding lower lip, and dark curls grown long in the back. Although he typically wears an all-black uniform, from flat-brimmed cap to high-top skate shoes, he’s barefoot and stripped to his skinny jeans this January night. He lies prostrate…
Robert Levinson, the longest-held hostage in American history, turns 66 today. The former FBI agent traveled to Kish Island off the coast of Iraq in March of 2007 and went missing. Although the government and the media maintained that Levinson was in the Middle East on private business, the story…
Just south of Oakland Park Boulevard on I-95, drivers turn to stare at an eye-catching billboard. It shows a picture of an adorable golden retriever and this striking web address: KillThisPet.com. The website offers the same picture with a devilish choice: You can either save the pup or kill it…
Two things are immediately apparent upon meeting Rasue and Rasheeb Pinnock. First, they bear an uncanny resemblance to Stephen Marley, the son of musical legend Bob Marley and a five-time Grammy winner in his own right. Second: They look absolutely, unbelievably stoned. The 22-year-old, glassy-eyed twins, who go by the…
Wally Clark swears it was a million-dollar idea. The bespectacled man with big ears, a bald head, and a trim figure scrolls through the 10,000 pornographic snapshots he took of his wife cavorting with his best friend. Sure, Clark had nudged the two of them together — but it was…
Scott Rosen thought he had sealed the deal when the pretty blond 20-something got up to use the bathroom. The 55-year-old with a receding hairline and freshly pressed shirt downed a $12 vodka cranberry as he waited for his target to slink back to the wicker sofa he occupied on…
UPDATE: Kat Stacks did end up writing that book, Admire Andrea: Surviving Savagery to Saving Lives, with the help of a hired writer, Tessie Patrick. But when WorldStarHipHop decided not to release it, Kat Stacks gave the book a new title, Becoming Kat Stacks, and released it anyway. Now, Patrick…
Despite all the tours and T-shirts declaring otherwise, pop-punk is now officially dead. New Found Glory, a band that has often prided itself on maintaining all of its original members over 16 years of recording, has fired its guitarist and songwriter. In a Facebook post this morning, the Coral Springs…
David Strecker is a skinny former softball pitcher who lives in a modest Key West duplex and maintains a healthy head of fine, sandy-colored hair. He prefers tank tops that show off his muscular biceps. He is also a connoisseur of Caribbean prostitutes and has slept with more than 2,500…
Touchdown Tommy has been one of the University of Miami’s most memorable traditions since 1945. Each time the Canes football team scores, members of the Sigma Chi fraternity fire a small cannon in celebration. Seniors from Gamma Phi, as the local chapter is known, shoot blanks out of the wheeled…
It seems like a miracle — or at least a statistical unlikelihood — that none of the Filipino workers onboard the cargo ship Ocean lost anyone in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan. Thousands of people were killed and millions were left homeless after the storm ravaged the nation’s 7,100 islands…
Who’s at fault when internet celebrities become targets of real-life harassment? Are they victims of their own narcissism? What about when they’re under the age of consent? Last week’s New Times feature (“Lonely Lolita,” Allie Conti, October 10) looked at what happens to a young girl when she achieves pseudo-fame…
Loli-chan is a modern-day Rapunzel locked inside a South Miami fortress of rust and weeds on a dead-end street. She rarely leaves a guest house that sits in a jungle-like yard overrun with six peacocks and half as many junked cars. Ten paces away is her parents’ place. Wooden boards…
