A 70-page report released this morning by the Broward Office of the Inspector General shows that Fort Lauderdale City Commissioner Robert McKinzie routinely accepted campaign contributions that were over the city’s $250 limit, and submitted campaign treasurer’s reports that contained false, inaccurate or incomplete information. Johnnie Smith, a Fort Lauderdale-based…

Whatever your stereotype of a gun owner looks like, Gus Kein is probably not it. The 52-year-old Wilton Manors resident is both openly gay and a retired minister. As a 17 year old growing up in Plantation, “I shot a bird or a squirrel or something and cried like a…

As New Times reported last week, Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office deputy Jason Taylor is currently being sued by a couple whose three dogs he shot and killed. As it turns out, they’re not the first to raise concerns about Taylor’s behavior. We requested to see any complaints that have been filed…

Saturday afternoons are always busy at New York Grilled Cheese. Hungover people line up for greasy sandwiches stuffed with bacon and fried chicken. Customers spill out of the tiny pink storefront on Wilton Drive, and congregate in front of the sex shop next door. This being Wilton Manors, America’s second…

Recently, Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop owner Preston Henn decided he wanted to buy a new, limited edition Ferrari valued at $2 million. You know, like regular people do.  Ferrari, however, refused to sell it to this generally chill and normal dude — which grievously offended him. After all, Henn has been…

You might think that the judge who presides over the mental health court would recognize the signs of mental illness when he sees them. But apparently, that’s not the case with Judge Mark Speiser. At a probate hearing on June 17th, Speiser charged Jennifer Mia Woodward, who struggles with bipolar…

If you’re unlucky enough to work for a company that still insists on giving everyone PC’s even though it’s 2016 (hi!), you know that Windows sucks. And Windows 10 really sucks. So much so that people have been flat out refusing to upgrade. So Microsoft has had to come up…

As New Times reported last month, some Wilton Manors residents are fed up with the amount of public daytime sex that goes on at Colohatchee Park. Cracking down on a long-time cruising destination in the second-gayest city in the country presents a unique challenge. After all, part of Wilton Manors’…

Over the weekend, the San Francisco chapter of the Council for American-Islamic Relations received a disturbing message on their voicemail. “I was hoping you guys would answer the phone today and let me know where you’re going to attack in the United States next,” the caller says. “I know that…

After snipers opened fire at a rally in Dallas on July 7 and killed five officers, police spent hours in a standoff with one suspect who was cornered in a parking garage. Finally, just before 3 a.m., they sent in a robot that had been jury-rigged to set off a…

A new class action lawsuit filed by the Tallahassee firm of Dudley, Sellers, Healy & Heath says that Fort Lauderdale-based Keiser University is violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by using automated calling dialing systems to call cellphone numbers registered with the National Do Not Call Registry, often several times…

Three alleged ISIS sympathizers have been arrested in Palm Beach, the U.S. Attorney’s office announced late Friday. Two of the men—Gregory Hubbard, 52, who went by the name “Jibreel,” and Darren Arness Jackson, 50, who went by “Daoud”—are from West Palm Beach. The third, Dayne Atani Christian, 31, also known…

Cedrick Carnell Camper, Jr. died with $500 in his sock. That was only the beginning. On Friday, May 27, as medical students from Nova Southeastern University watched, five staff members from the Broward County morgue examined his body. One noticed something protruding from the sock. Deputy chief medical examiner Dr…

If you’ve been inside a courthouse lately, you may have noticed that just before the metal detectors, there’s an “amnesty box” where you can abandon anything that, for whatever reason, you might not want to take through security. What exactly gets left in those boxes? We filed FOIA requests with…

After ignoring invitations from Black Lives Matter and the Broward Dream Defenders for three weeks, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel made a last-minute decision to attend the People’s Debate for Broward County Sheriff at the African American Research Library last night. He may be regretting it. Unlike most community debates, this…

Tonight, the Broward Dream Defenders and Black Lives Matter Alliance Broward will host an unscripted debate between the candidates for county sheriff. The event will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. at the African American Research Library in Fort Lauderdale. It will include an opportunity for audience members to…

Lagoge Graham had the bad luck of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The 26-year-old Boca Raton resident was sitting in his car outside an apartment complex in Deerfield Beach just after a woman called to say that she’d heard five gunshots outside. Four minutes later, a…

One day in June, Shantell McNair headed to the Broward Juvenile Detention Center in Fort Lauderdale to visit her 13-year-old son. Then she was turned away without explanation. For weeks, McNair, who is age 28 and lives in Pompano Beach, tried calling the center to ask why she hadn’t been…