As activists took to the streets to protest the police shooting deaths of Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, and others, two Palm Beach law partners wanted to do more. Malik Leigh and Danielle Watson were frustrated that only these victims’ deaths were discussed. Now they’re working to convert an…
October has been the deadliest month for drug overdoses in Delray Beach. As of October 19, the city’s police force reported 38 overdoses, nine of them deadly. Though cops, firefighters, and experts continue to warn about the dangers of mixing heroin with fentanyl and carfentanil, it seems…
Female serial killers like Judi “Black Widow” Buenano and Aileen Wuornos once walked the grounds of the Broward Correctional Institution on the far western reaches of Pembroke Pines. Shuttered in 2012, the maximum-security female prison is abandoned, overtaken by weeds and satanic graffiti.
When Jill Hyman Gallo pulled up to her Delray Beach townhouse Saturday afternoon, a tiny person in a black hoodie with a creepy mask was waiting eerily beside her driver’s side window. Gallo’s teenage daughter seated beside her initially laughed. The single mother of two shrieked in terror. The disturbing figure…
At tonight’s commission meeting, the City of West Palm Beach is planning to ban “conversion therapy” on minors. It’s a cruel practice that essentially stigmatizes homosexual attraction as a mental illness. Similar bans have recently passed in Miami Beach, Miami, and Wilton Manors. Conversion therapy is predominantly regarded as a…
Donald Trump repeatedly declares that this election has been “rigged” against him and, at Wednesday’s debate, announced that he’d leave the country “in suspense” on whether he would accept its outcome on November 8. Yesterday he said he would only accept the results “if I win.” Now the Guardian reports…
As if it wasn’t painful enough that the Miami Hurricanes lost to the Florida State Seminoles by one point earlier this month, Broward County Mayor Marty Kiar, a lifelong UM fan, spent Tuesday’s eight-hour commission meeting uncomfortably dressed in a white and garnet FSU jersey. “I just tried not to…
Fort Lauderdale’s parking scofflaws beware; the City has found a strange new way to strong-arm drivers to pay outstanding parking fines. By blocking a driver’s view, The Barnacle uses two commercial grade suction cups to latch onto windshields with 750 pounds of force. This peculiar bright yellow contraption is supposedly more efficient…
Yachts are becoming bigger and more luxurious, forcing the marinas were they dock to adapt, too. As the yachting capital of the world, officials say that Fort Lauderdale must upgrade, expand, and redevelop the Las Olas Marina to maintain its title. It’s a move that could cost $25 million and…
Approaching the high tide at 10 a.m. Sunday, a fleet of concerned residents waded through severely flooded Hollywood streets to document the effects of sea level rise during the king tide. Marching down Adams Street, the group was armed with soggy sneakers, rulers, and cameras. They were optimistic that their photos could…
Every October, the King Tide sweeps across South Florida as the full moon orbits closest to Earth. This planetary alignment causes the highest water level of the year. Toads and yards flood. But scientists say this could be one of the worst Fort Lauderdale has faced, a perfect storm of an…
Less than a month after Corey Jones was shot dead beside his broken down car by a plainclothes Palm Beach Gardens police officer, Corey’s older brother, C.J. Jones, used his sibling’s drums in a performance. Though he had been playing percussion since he was 5, C.J. says he did something…
The history of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church, a Romanesque brick building with stained glass windows, dates back nearly a century. In the 1920s, it was built as St. Anthony’s, the first Catholic church in Fort Lauderdale, by an architect who had designed dozens of churches along Florida’s east coast…
As Hurricane Matthew approached South Florida, the threat of a Category 4 storm sent thousands of people in Broward County to local shelters for safety. But after spending more than 48 hours in Arthur Ashe Middle School in Fort Lauderdale, some visitors say it’s a blessing Matthew only grazed our…
As John Wilson cooked dinner for his family in March 2010, an eerie silence filled their cozy Plantation home. Usually around 6 p.m. on a school day, the place was bustling. Four kids were asking about dinner or playing videogames. John, a mild-mannered musician with salt-and-pepper hair and rimless glasses,…
Today, and every second Monday in October since 1937, the United States celebrates Christopher Columbus and his 1492 voyage to America. Considering that the Italian explorer certainly wasn’t the first to discover the New World but did enslave Haitians and slaughtered Native Americans, states like Vermont and local municipalities don’t…
Amid the gusts and downpour of Hurricane Matthew, The Floridian never stopped serving folks hearty plates of diner food. The legendary Las Olas establishment lost power around 8 p.m. with nearly 40 patrons inside, but didn’t slow down. A waitress delivering an order of chicken tenders and sandwiches to a…
Though a Category 4 storm was barreling toward Palm Beach County, some Delray Beach bars Wednesday were poised to stay open as Hurricane Matthew passes. But the Delray Beach Police Department threw a wrench in those plans. It announced on Twitter that a mandatory curfew is going into effect from…
Though Hurricane Matthew is still 90 miles off the southeastern tip of Cuba, radar shows the outer bands of the billowing Category 4 storm already spiraling over South Florida. Combined with regular fall weather pattern, it’s brought on torrential downpours that have already flooded Delray Beach streets and police are telling…
As patrons were bargain-hunting for flashy iPhone cases and designer perfume at Festival Flea Market in Pompano Beach, all sorts of shady deals were happening in its back offices, a new lawsuit alleges. In the 84-page complaint, the flea market’s former chief financial officer, Harlene Zweig, accuses the owner Daniel…
Last November 2015, Judge Matthew Destry sentenced a black 23-year-old named Herbert Smith to 60 years in prison for driving on a suspended license (a violation of his probation). Thousands were outraged and accused the white-haired judge of being excessive, cruel, or, as Howard Finkelstein of the Broward Public Defenders…
A Broward activist was allegedly beaten and tased at least five times at Broward County Jail last February. Stephanie Auguiste (who is also known as Billie) was released after less than six hours, bruised and cut up. Though it has been more than seven months since the incident, the 30-year-old is…
