It’s going to look like something scary is going down at the airport or near Port Everglades today, with scores of police cars and fire trucks, but don’t sweat it — authorities are carrying out a $100,000 emergency preparedness drill. Today’s mock scenario comes straight from an action movie: a…
In a now-famous circumcision case, a Boynton Beach mother named Heather Hironimus remains in hiding with her four-year-old son to prevent him from being circumcised. Hironimus and the boy’s father had agreed in writing years ago to have the boy circumcised, but had read about the procedure and changed her…
Dan Savage rose to national prominence as a gay sex columnist whose darkly humorous, sometimes raunchy writings — like whether to use an enema before “buttfucking” — appeared in a weekly Seattle newspaper and were later syndicated to other newspapers, including New Times. He made national headlines for a…
The sun just set on Tortuga Music Festival about 18 hours ago, and already, a limited number of advance tickets are on sale for the 2016 edition of what is becoming a signature event on Fort Lauderdale Beach. They’ll cost you $165. Dates have not yet been determined, but they…
The good news: only two percent of Florida bridges are structurally deficient — making ours the state with the lowest percentage of problem bridges of all 50 states. The bad news: two of the ten most heavily-traveled stressed bridges in the state are in Broward County — the one on…
Brent Betterly of Oakland Park, one of three men associated with Occupy Fort Lauderdale who were arrested in Chicago on terrorism charges in 2012 on their way to a NATO protest, is being let out of state prison in Illinois this Thursday, his supporters have said. They are raising money…
Two weeks ago, four Fort Lauderdale police lost their jobs after one of their ex-girlfriends turned in racist text messages between them as well as a video showing racist imagery: dogs siccing blacks, Ku Klux Klan hoods, etc. An interesting detail from the internal affairs report were allegations from the…
Tea Party activists are encouraging people to “stop the land grab” — meaning stop the state from buying 46,000 acres of land south of Lake Okeechobee that environmentalists say would be critical to cleaning up the Everglades. Tea partiers held a protest yesterday at the South Florida Water Management District’s…
In the legal world, it’s forbidden for a judge to discuss a case with one of the parties in the case without the other party’s knowledge. Doing so is called ex parte communication, and because it could unfairly favor one party over the other, judges who have been found to…
On March 7, off a dirt road 40 miles west of Miami, swamp buggies careened into the thicket and little kids shimmied up a 40-foot wooden pole trying to grab the $50 bill stapled to the top. At a booth, Betty Osceola, a Miccosukee tribe member with a long black…
In Lake Worth, some residents fear that private developers will be given too much power in controlling the city’s beachfront. Lake Worth beach has always been one of the coolest in South Florida — awesome for people-watching, surfing, and chilling. You could grab breakfast at John G’s, fish off the…
According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, since December, police had been receiving complaints from women that a stranger had touched them inappropriately when they were walking in the Rock Creek subdivision of Cooper City. Tuesday night, police were in the area investigating when 911 received a call from a woman…
Back in 2003, after months of meetings, the City of Fort Lauderdale adopted a downtown master plan. It defined how Fort Lauderdale should grow and become a livable, walkable city over the next few decades. The visionary document laid out a dozen guiding principles, including to “green the Downtown with…
According to a news release from Beyond Pesticides, the EPA yesterday granted Florida farmers a 2½-year emergency exemption to use a powerful pesticide known to have a side effect of killing bees. Clothiandin is a neonicotinoid, a type of pesticide that has been linked to declines in honey-bee populations and…
A 4-year-old boy named Chase has been at the center of a long court battle between his parents over whether he should be circumcised. The courts have now ruled that the circumcision be allowed to proceed, and the boy is reportedly due to be circumcised tomorrow at South Florida Pediatric…
As she climbed the hill leading to Florida’s State Capitol last spring, Lauren Book broke from a walk into a run. The 29-year-old blond with a pink ribbon wrapped around her ponytail raised both arms in triumph and flashed a huge smile as she crossed the finish line of the…
Check out our interviews with the other Ft. Lauderdale mayoral candidates Jack Seiler, and Earl Rynerson. In 1969, “gonzo” journalist Hunter S. Thompson ran for sheriff of Aspen, Colorado, on a platform he dubbed “freak power.” He called on outcasts, misfits, and the disenfranchised to support him and collectively topple…
After telling us last week that developers of the controversial Marina Lofts condominium must apply for a building permit by February 20 or else go before the Fort Lauderdale City Commission again, city spokesperson Chaz Adams stands corrected. Actually, he says now, the developer has until February 20, 2017…
Dean Parker is a surfer who went from West Palm Beach to Costa Rica, then in November on to Syria, where he helped Kurds resist the advance of the Islamic State. Parker made headlines around the world after he participated in a radio interview and the world learned of his…
Update: a few days after this story ran, a building official advised that Marina Lofts in 2014 had applied for and received a two-year extension to apply for a building permit, a fact confirmed by city spokesperson Chaz Adams. The developer now must apply by February 20, 2017. Original story:…
You should probably recycle just because it’s, ya know, the right thing to do for the ecosystem, but Cooper City realizes that a few of us might need some incentive to throw jars into the recycling bin rather than the trash can. It’s instituting a program that rewards people for…
A slew of Grammy-winning jazz artists are coming to Pompano Beach for the Sea of JazzFest this Friday and Saturday at the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre. Christian McBride, Ken Peplowski, the Clayton Brothers, Randy Brecker, Hubert Laws & Tierney Sutton, Nanny Assis & Brazilian Carnaval Jazz, and the Phil Woods Quintet…
