On Monday, representatives from All Aboard Florida — the private company that plans to run 32 passenger trains a day between Miami and Orlando — released pictures of what the trains will look like, and announced that the project would be known by a new name: the Brightline. This came…
A trial taking place today brings attention once again to the plight of the 700-acre Briger Forest, a rare tract of pristine land in Palm Beach County that environmentalists have been trying to protect for years. Developers have begun to clear trees and build roads to construct homes, stores, and…
Last week, while Hillary Clinton was in the middle of a marathon Congressional hearing defending herself in relation to the Benghazi incident, Roger Stone was at the Fort Lauderdale Barnes & Noble giving a talk about his newly-released book, The Clintons’ War on Women. Tonight, Stone will appear on Real Time…
Yesterday, 207 bears were killed in the first day of Florida’s 2015 bear hunt. Two of four “bear management units” — regions where bears are allowed to be killed — were closed, since the number of bears killed in those areas had reached the area quota (maximum) set by the…
As hunters strap on their guns and ammo to venture into the woods Saturday for Florida’s impending bear hunt, anti-hunting activists will also gather their gear: cameras. As of yesterday, the number of hunters had surpassed 3,000 — nearly a hunter for every one of the estimated 3,200 bears in…
Cooper City commissioner John Sims was among those who applied for a permit to hunt a Florida black bear beginning this weekend — a controversial topic that is explored in our cover story this week. Reached by phone, he told New Times, “It’s allowed and that’s it…. There’s a process…
Richard Couto borrows his looks from Mr. Clean: bald and intimidatingly muscular. He seems more comfortable in full combat gear than a pair of Dockers. But as tough as he appears, inside of this ex-Blackwater contractor lurks a major soft spot —- an all-consuming passion for animals. Last week, Couto and…
At 7:30 in the evening, Terri Frana noticed two black bears gallop through the backyard of her 10-year-old, $725,000 house in Lake Mary, just north of Orlando. Frana, a 44-year-old banker with brown bangs and a kind face, was used to seeing the beasts around her woodsy neighborhood, but she…
Anyone who’s graduated from their college/party years to real, job-having adulthood knows how difficult it can be to make new friends as a grown-up. Work friendships can get complicated. Compliments to other women can be misconstrued as flirtation. And we all just feel kind of shy sometimes. Yet you see…
Must be tough to be a college president these days. Once upon a time, the hardest part of the job was deciding who should get tenure and how much tuition would go up. Now, it’s crossing your fingers and hoping no mass murderers mow down your students on the campus…
Yesterday in Tallahassee, a judge ruled that a week-long hunt on Florida’s black bears, scheduled to begin October 24, can proceed. The hunt was authorized by the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission this summer. In the past year or so, four women in Central and North Florida were attacked by…
It’s election season, and surprise, surprise — Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and REM are pissed about politicians using their songs for campaigns. Donald Trump, however, doesn’t need permission from any self-righteous celebrity (though Dee Snider has been fine with him using Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It” as an…
School spirit will be in full effect at Florida Atlantic University as the campus hosts a bonfire to kick off the school year. And nothing says school spirit like the university president + the football team + a terrifying/clownish rap/rock band from L.A. Hollywood Undead — who used to wear horror…
This Sunday, 50 Cent will be in Fort Lauderdale at the Crown Liquor store at 1030 NE 15th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale to sign bottles of Effen Vodka. He is the spokesperson for the Dutch vodka brand. The event is billed as “free” but a rep at the Crown store said…
For most kids, the idea of emulating their dad sounds about as appealing as having a tooth pulled — without the benefit of novocaine. But if your father was Frank Zappa, one of the most prolific musicians of all time, you might recognize that there’s a legacy to live up…
Miramar, Hollywood, Davie, Plantation, and Dania, meet your next state senator: 30-year-old Lauren Book. The Plantation resident, founder of a nonprofit, and daughter of influential lobbyist Ron Book — is running for office, she told New Times via phone today. “I’m going neighborhood to neighborhood to and lacing up my sneakers…
One sunny afternoon in June, Denise Weinstein was walking Josie, her shaggy, white, Maltese shih tzu mix, outside Century Village, the 55-and-older South Florida retirement complex where she lives. That’s when the birds attacked. “Two birds were swanning down on me like dive-bombers!” she recalls. “They looked like helicopters.” The…
After 15 years of study and debate, the National Park Service last year adopted a fishing management plan that would phase out and eventually ban commercial fishing in Biscayne National Park’s 170,000 acres, and last month adopted a management plan that established a 10,500-acre marine reserve — a no-fishing zone —…
The Coast Guard is suspending its search for missing boys Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos at sunset tonight after having searched tens of thousands of miles for them. However, their families vow to continue their privately -organized search and to request help from volunteers. They insist the next 48 hours…
According to MTV’s “Casting Calls” page, the network is seeking users of flakka — the synthetic drug ravaging Broward County and seeping into other parts of the country — for a documentary style TV show called True Life: I’m Addicted to Flakka. Flakka is a synthetic cathinone drug called alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone…
A man named Harlem Suarez, also reportedly known as Almlak Benitez, sympathized with the Islamic State and wanted to bomb a Key West Beach , according to a criminal complaint unsealed today in federal court in Miami. Department of Justice officials said he was charged with attempting to use a…
Today, the search for missing teen boys Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos continues today, with rescue operations focused near Savannah, Georgia. Mothers of the teen boys appeared on the Today Show this morning and insisted that the boys have the skills to survive their ordeal at sea. The boys have…
