The clip begins with police lights blasting red and blue strobes across an entire block of NW Fourth Street in Fort Lauderdale. A teenage girl stands handcuffed next to a white Infinity SUV as her mother screams at the officers and asks what they’ve done wrong, what law they broke,…
Good news! We’ve finally found a bipartisan issue that has united Democrats and Republicans across the state of Florida! Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen have signed on to support a bill alongside Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson and Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Ted Deutch, Alcee Hastings, Frederica…
The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan — a state and federal project to restore the Glades to some semblance of its former glory — passed in 2000. That plan called for a 360,000-acre-foot reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee. But in the years since, climate scientists have warned that planners underestimated the amount of water the Glades needs to replenish itself, and that the original benchmark might not be large enough.
Jack Seiler once served as the mayor of Wilton Manors, a Broward city with the second-highest proportion of same-sex couples in the whole country. Seiler, a Democrat, now serves as the mayor of nearby Fort Lauderdale, which has its own long history of LGBTQ support. In fact, South Florida as a…
Tamarac, a sprawling South Florida suburb, is not all that special. For starters, the city’s name doesn’t come from a special natural wonder like a lake or, as it was long rumored, a nearby Native American tribe. No, the city was simply named for a local car wash called Caramat. “Tamarac” is just “Caramat” spelled backward. Caramat’s owner, Ken Behring, founded the city.
In 2014, the brother of Marlon Woodstock, a resident of Sunrise in Broward County, called to warn police that the 38-year-old was off his medication and possibly a danger to himself. Sunrise Police responded by tasering Woodstock, attacking him with a dog, and then shooting him dead.
Donald Trump’s travel ban last week was directed at seven majority-Muslim countries: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Sudan. Trinidad, which sits seven miles off the coast of Venezuela in the Caribbean, is nowhere near any of those nations. That fact, however, apparently did not stop border patrol agents…
Richard Corcoran, the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, is ardently pro-life. He’s spoken before the Florida Family Policy Council, a pro “human life” (read: anti-abortion) advocacy group, and earlier this month expressed public support for the anti-abortion “March for Life” in Washington, D.C. But Corcoran’s concern for human life…
It’s May 13, just after 6:30 p.m., and a grimy Fort Lauderdale Denny’s reeks of cooking grease and industrial disinfectant when Tim Canova busts through the door. He’s trailed by a small team of handlers. An audience of about 20 ACLU members awaits him at a banquet table and surrounding…
After New Times published a story last week about a whistleblower’s complaint against the Broward Sheriff’s Office Crime Lab — the whistleblower claimed BSO was mishandling of DNA evidence — NBC 6 reported Friday that BSO had suspended certain aspects of its DNA-testing program. But New Times has also obtained…
Free speech, attorney Gary Edinger says, is built “on the fringes of society… the KKK, communists, strip clubs. That, Edinger adds, is why he supports David Mech, a former porn star who now works as a math tutor in Boca Raton. Mech, who directed more than 100 adult films under the moniker…
Amid allegations that Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz “rigged” the Democratic Presidential Primary in favor of Hillary Clinton, 120 people, including 104 Bernie Sanders donors, sued both Wasserman Schultz and the DNC in the Southern District Court of Florida yesterday for fraud, negligence, misrepresentation, and other claims, after…
In March 2015, prosecutors temporarily stopped sending evidence to what was then a state-of-the-art city forensics lab Washington D.C., over concerns that lab technicians had bungled cases and and “understated or overestimated the likelihood that a particular person’s DNA was left at a crime scene.” Earlier this month, the crime lab…
In May 2014, Deerfield Beach resident Louis Hilaire, 25, was contacted by his ex-girlfriend out of the blue. “I’ve been looking for you,” she allegedly said via Facebook Message. She then called him on the phone, and the pair went out drinking the next night, and, according to court documents,…
Jeff Lyon, an ex-Hallandale Beach Fire Rescue Battalion Chief fired for a laundry list of sexist, racist comments — like admittedly calling a black employee a “token” and allegedly referring to male-only shifts as “No Bitch Tuesdays” — filed a petition in Broward County Court earlier this month claiming that…
Brian Krebs, 42 — the real-life inspiration for Steve Stifler, the rowdiest, drunkest, most upsettingly bro-ish film character since Bluto Blutarsky; the man American Pie screenwriter Adam Herz reportedly based the famed bro-mancer on — was convicted last Wednesday of second-degree murder, ending an ordeal that had stretched on for more…
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi staked a sizable chunk of her political career on trying to ensure that same-sex couples were never allowed to marry. The “promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest,” Bondi once wrote in a legal brief. Translated from Bondi-speak, she was just…
South Floridians have been thirsty for a waterpark since Hurricane Andrew wiped out Six Flags Atlantis in 1992. In 2010, Fort Lauderdale decided that a 65-acre site next to Fort Lauderdale Stadium should be developed into a waterpark by Schlitterbahn rather than become a soccer stadium. But the project has…
You won’t BELIEVE how well former South Florida Congressman Allen West’s Breitbart-style conservative clickbait website is doing! Frankly, we can’t believe it either, since a site West runs apparently has more followers on Facebook and Twitter than New Times Broward Palm Beach and its sister paper, Miami New Times, combined. According to…
The development team behind the controversial Bahia Mar redevelopment plan, which called for two 29-story condominium towers to be built on a plot of historic, publicly owned land along the A1A, withdrew their application today, ending months of contentious debate between the construction team, the Fort Lauderdale City Commission, and…
Fort Lauderdale is currently considering a proposal to redevelop the iconic Bahia Mar property, which would plunk two 29-story towers on a stretch of public land along A1A. Critics have long contended that city officials are too cozy with the project developers. Now, video from a recent commission meeting has…
Tim Canova, the longtime Wall Street critic and onetime Bernie Sanders adviser now running to unseat Debbie Wasserman Schultz in Florida’s 23rd Congressional District, has now raised more than $2 million dollars since announcing his candidacy in January. It’s a campaign haul that is sure to flummox his critics, who…
