Mosab Hassan Yousef was born in Ramallah in 1978. By 1987, his father, Sheik Hassan Yousef, was helping to found Hamas. Mosab has said that he was raised to want to become a soldier fighting Israel and that he was first arrested at the age of 10 for throwing rocks…
Could it be true that “boys are better than girls in math because their bodies receive daily surges of testosterone, while girls have similar skills only ‘a few days per month’ when they experience ‘increased estrogen during the menstrual cycle’?” That’s just one bit of dubious pseudoscience upon which some…
Recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, have raised questions about the militarization of American police departments. When angry protesters took to the streets to demand justice, Ferguson police responded with force. Cops in riot gear fired tear gas and stun grenades at marchers. At least one officer pointed his loaded assault…
In something of an ironic move, voters who are registered independents are banding together — to protest Florida’s closed primary system, which allows registered Republicans to pick a Republican candidate and Democrats to pick a Democratic candidate but leaves registered independents out of the game. Independents say this is not…
Update, 1:20 p.m.: At a news conference this afternoon, Obama called the Islamic State a “cancer.” He did not mention Sotloff by name and did not say specifically what his military plans were, but he vowed that “”The United States of America will continue to do what we must do…
Today, a regional airline called Silver Airways began direct flights from Fort Lauderdale to Jacksonville. The company will offer this route up to three times per day, more beginning in November. The airline serves 15 other destinations in Florida. Silver Airways also today increased daily frequencies between Jacksonville and Tampa…
The Sex Pistols railed, “God save the queen/She ain’t no human being.” The Dead Kennedys sang, “Blow it out your ass, Ronald Reagan.” And now, here comes Wolfcat, getting all up in the face of our twice-divorced, thrice-married, yet gay-marriage-denying attorney general, asking her (more tunefully than their punk predecessors):…
Fifty-one-year-old Luis Escobar of Weston was killed Wednesday night while riding his bicycle during a group ride. A media release from the Broward Sheriff’s Office says “he swerved into another lane of traffic, hitting a vehicle passing by.” The traffic homicide department is investigating, as is typical with any fatal…
Normally, kickball is the sport you can see played with Hunger Games-style intensity at Mills Pond Park in Fort Lauderdale, but come September, it’s wakeboarding that will take over the park. The world championships are set to be held here from September 11 to 14. More than 200 wakeboarders and…
You’ve known that public defender Howard Finkelstein is awesome since he began doing his “Help Me, Howard” segments on Channel 7 News. Now, the whole nation is about to have a collective crush on the five-foot-three, ponytailed lawyer, since Mother Jones has published a puff piece explaining how the department’s…
Minutes after this article went to press, Chuck Wielgus, longtime head of organized swimming, withdrew from his planned induction into the Swimming Hall of Fame on Fort Lauderdale Beach. For details, see “USA Swimming Executive Director Withdraws From Hall of Fame Consideration Amid New Times Investigation Into Sex Abuse.” It…
A local mother is fighting an order from the court that her 3-year-old son be circumcised. Heather Hironimus of Boynton Beach and Dennis Nebus of Boca Raton had a child together in 2010 and entered into a parenting agreement more than a year later. The agreement clearly stated the father…
Update, 11 a.m.: The appeals court has granted the emergency order. A copy of the ruling is posted below. Original story: A Florida mother is hoping the Fourth District Court of Appeals will intervene and stop a court order that her 3-year-old son be circumcised. Heather Hironimus of Boynton Beach…
It was only a matter of time, really. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that government meetings are allowed to open with prayer — even though currently in this country, the vast majority of such prayers are geared toward Christianity. The case was prompted in Greece, New York, where…
Rick Scott officially kicked off his tour of Florida car dealerships reelection campaign yesterday at a Volkswagen dealership in Jacksonville. He and some Republican supporters chanted his campaign slogan, “Let’s keep working!” Today at noon, when Scott comes to an AutoNation dealership in Greenacres, a grassroots group called Florida for…
Disney fanatics can hardly wait until May 28, when a new roller coaster is fully open to the public at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom in Orlando. The Seven Dwarfs Mine Train looks not unlike Thunder Mountain, with a train going over faux boulders…
Of all the murders that have been committed over the past five years, almost 100 were committed by people who were registered users of Stormfront, a West Palm Beach-based website for “white nationalists,” according to a report released April 17 by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC says that…
“If the press won’t come to us, we will go to them.” Thus spake progressive activists who held a “die-in” yesterday outside of the Palm Beach Post to bring attention to the fact that the state legislature is likely to end this year’s legislative session without expanding Medicaid, thus leaving…
Boynton Beach Police are warning the public that a man may be calling senior citizens and pretending to be a lieutenant with the Palm beach Sheriff’s Office. He may be tricking people into believing that they owe money for failing to stop at red lights. In a statement, police said…
In the summer of 2011, Boynton Beach cop David Britto — a former Marine and 2010 Officer of the Year — was arrested on charges of possession of and conspiring to traffic methamphetamine. Authorities suspected him of running a drug ring with several other men. But Britto famously cut off…
In the summer of 2011, Boynton Beach cop David Britto — a former Marine and 2010 Officer of the Year — was arrested on charges of possession and conspiring to traffic methamphetamine. Authorities suspected him of running a drug ring with several other men. But Britto famously cut off an…
It’s kind of amazing that there’s anyone left in Scientology, given all of the bad press this so-called religion has received — from Tom Cruise’s couch-jumping, revelations about Xenu, and some high-profile exits from the church. But one drive past the organization’s headquarters — a historic building called “Flag” in…
