In one of the bloodiest incidents in recent Palm Beach County history, three teenagers were murdered Monday in Mangonia Park. Nineteen-year-old Carley Chapman and 17-year-olds Martavious Brown and Se’sawn Danford were shot to death in a Mangonia Park apartment on Australian Avenue, Palm Beach deputies say. Neighbors reported shooting just…
Marek Christopher Amann was busted last week for bootlegging. OK, Prohibition ended long ago, but 32-year-old Amann had a still and a jug of homemade hooch as well as Mason jars for more, the state Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco reported Monday…
Okay, so it ain’t even a Tropical depression yet. But after decades living in this steamy subtropical hurricane magnet of a land mass, we have an instinct for these things. A front located about 1150 miles east of the Windward Islands is showing “signs of organization,” according to the National…
ESPN analyst Chris Broussard Tweeted this morning that LeBron James will opt out of his Miami Heat contract, throwing the NBA and Miami Heat into chaos. Broussard Tweeted at 9:23 a.m. that LeBron’s agent, Rich Paul, has told the Heat he will exercise the player option on his contract. LeBron…
Cops arrested Mandy Dawson, Broward County’s first black female legislator, and took her to jail in Daytona Beach last Friday. It was, hopefully, the last stop in the downhill slide for the woman who represented central Broward County for 16 years. Dawson improperly took money from disgraced Hollywood lobbyist and…
If you plan to watch tonight’s Miami Heat NBA Finals home opener against the San Antonio Spurs, you might notice a curious sight down in the fourth row of Section 116. It will be one of South Florida’s weirdest media sensations: Little Birdman. Yeah, 11-year-old Gianni Zandri will again likely…
Florida Gov. Rick Scott wanted to drug-test state employees, and he put your money where his mouth is. Lawyers’ bills for him — and you — to defend this proposal have come to $381,654.45, according to data from the state obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union under a Freedom…
Not to get ahead of ourselves, but after last night’s Heat thrashing of the Indiana Pacers, 102-90, we are looking ahead to the San Antonio Spurs (again) in the NBA Finals. Warning: The Spurs are really, really good. They top the Heat in most statistical categories, including NBA Finals appearances…
South Florida’s most famous — and infamous — photographer of nudes, Bunny Yeager, is dead at 85. Yeager was born in Pennsylvania and found fame in 1955, when she lived with — and photographed — pinup model Bettie Page on the Miami River. Her picture of Page — nude next…
John Thrasher, a Florida Senator and now the lone candidate for president of Florida State University, doesn’t deserve the job. Thrasher, a Republican lawyer, was reprimanded on the House floor back ithe 1990s after appearing as a lobbyist for his longtime employers, the Florida Medical Association. A year after leaving…
So far, 39 nurseries have been approved to grow low-THC marijuana under the Charlotte’s Web bill recently passed by the Florida Legislature. It hasn’t been easy to get on the list, which requires — among other things — that a nursery has operated continuously for at least 30 years…
Florida’s attempt to kill craft brewing almost succeeded because of… gasp… campaign money, a Montana think tank has found. During the past five years, the biggest supporters of Senate Bill 1714, which would have required small beer makers to — in effect — pay twice for their own beer, invested…
The Livingston Award for Young Journalists is kind of a Pulitzer Prize for the under-35 set. It honors good writing by those who have yet to grow thick around the middle and thin on top. New Times has often done well in these awards. Bob Norman, our columnist in Broward…
New Times has won a 2014 James Aronson Award for a story about a local man who has spent more than $85 million funding settlements in Israel. “Miami Beach Man’s Millions Thwart Middle East Peace” was published this past March 28 and written by then-staff writer Terrence McCoy, who recently…
Florida Sen. and Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio just can’t stop himself. Though Obamacare exceeded its goal by signing up more than 7 million people nationally by the April 1 deadline, Rubio told Sean Hannity: “There’s still a significant number of people — I saw a report a couple days…
All Aboard Florida, a private group that plans to run trains from Miami to Orlando, yesterday unveiled plans for a 25,000-square-foot station in downtown Fort Lauderdale to be surrounded by high-rises and commercial properties. The plan, shown to a chamber of commerce meeting on Tuesday, could have a dramatic effect…
So our boys face off against the Celtics Nets tonight at 8 p.m.on ESPN and things are looking bleak. Firstly, Dwyane Wade sat out the last game and LeBron has been shooting like, well, not LeBron lately. Secondly, the Nets whacked the Heat twice in the preseason. Third, Nets center…
Ticket sales are up for the world’s largest in-water boast show, which starts today. Last year, 100,000 people attended but you may remember, the extravaganza was hampered by Superstiorm Sandy’s landfill in the Northeast,. The show, which runs through the weekend features crazy expensive yachts, big time boat dealers, and…
It’s not even November yet, and a record number of manatees has died this year. The total of 769 is more than has perished in any year since record keeping began, according to the Save the Manatee Club. More than 100 of them were babies. Almost 300 of them died…
When the Miami Heat opens its season at home tonight at 8 versus the Chicago Bulls, most people will logically be watching the basket. But the real game will be taking place at knee level. Rose tore his anterior cruciate ligament 18 months ago. It was repaired by Brian Cole,…
What if Fort Lauderdale Police mapped the city’s gun owners and increased patrols only in those neighborhoods where guns were concentrated? And if those neighborhoods were mostly black? Or Hispanic? Or white? How about if cops, taking advantage of a smart partnership with big data experts IBM, targeted crime-heavy neighborhoods…
Our post yesterday on South Florida’s 11 hottest newsmen drew a lot attention in the Twittersphere and even a damned funny video. Moms got involved. There was a fair amount of fraternity-style backslapping. Even a congrats from our own columnist that might raise, ahem, questions about the choices… of course,…
