Since Halloween 2012, Boyd Corbin has not kept quiet. On that evening two years ago, the Wilton Manors resident donned an ironic KKK costume, grabbed a tiki torch, and went to the epic Georgie’s Alibi holiday party. By the time the night was over, Corbin had gotten into a brawl…
Well, that was brutal. Fangate obviously didn’t cool down any tempers. Last night, Gov. Rick Scott met challenger Charlie Crist in the final gubernatorial debate. If you plugged into the live feed from Jacksonville, you witnessed the only show outside of the WWE featuring well-tanned and slightly delirious egos pounding…
Hal Kreitman is having a staring contest with an eight-foot bull gator. It’s a Monday morning, and fast-moving cloud cover yanks shadows across a shallow pond nestled along an empty stretch of Loop Road in the Everglades. Kreitman — 51 years old, salt-and-pepper hair, circle medallion glinting off his gym-ripped…
Cancer clusters — hot zones of highly contaminated turf that see a spike in disease — are incredibly hard cases to win in court. Not only do they take years of legal battle and involve a lot of high-end science but usually such cases pit homeowners against corporations with boatloads…
Rick Scott might be trying to recover this morning from one of the more idiotic and childish political blunders since barefoot Greeks first started tallying votes in the Acropolis. But the current governor of Florida actually might have a bigger issue starting today. Scott — whose personal wealth is huge…
On Monday, the Broward Sheriff’s Office had to put the cuffs on one of their own. An arrest among the ranks of law enforcement is always bad enough, but the crime Deputy Ted Arboleda is accused of is particularly grimey: swapping sex in exchange for looking the other way on…
Ever since South Florida voters booted him from office after realizing they’d accidentally elected not a serious politician but a self-interested sound-bite machine, Allen West has been looking for steady work. Sure, he can hop onto Fox News whenever he wants and say some treasonous malarkey, and the Tea Party…
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush can’t shake the is-he-isn’t-he? speculation regarding a 2016 shot at the White House. And although he’s stayed away from the kind of blatant campaign work that indicates a coming run, he has made some recent appearances that put him in solid with current candidates for…
Joseph Kuhn’s head was a madhouse, and all he wanted was a becalming glimpse of the ocean. The bad economy had killed his business first, then finished off his savings; now, he was facing foreclosure. The only thing that could douse his nerves was a daily trip to the beach…
In the investing world, metals are always considered a good bet. No doubt that was part of the sales pitch one Hollywood company and its partners made to investors over a two-year period. But now the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is going after International Monetary Metals Inc. (IMM) and…
Rich Wilkerson Jr. is at the front of a new wave of pastors rebranding the Christian message. Gone are old hymns, stodgy sermons, and xeroxed church bulletins; in are rap songs, Jackass-style stunts, and high-def video messages, all led by pastors wearing AG leather jackets and Chuck Taylors. The smiley,…
Here was the groom: poured into a slim Givenchy tux, hair mowed short, smile big. There was the bride: in Givenchy too — a white dress that modestly sheathed her Jessica Rabbit frame like cloud cover hiding an Alp. And there between the couple, his face bright as a polished…
Of all the reasons for booting a teacher — porn past, sex with a student, general uselessness — this is a new one on us: diabetes. Until January 2013, Marc Schaeffer was a substitute teacher with the Broward School District. Now, in a federal lawsuit filed at the end of…
Of all the reasons for booting a teacher — porn past, sex with a student, general uselessness — this is a new one on us: diabetes. Until January 2013, Marc Schaeffer was a substitute teacher with the Broward School District. Now, in a federal lawsuit filed at the end of…
As he stomps his way around the state hoping to keep his job, Governor Rick Scott has been pushing his “Keep Florida Beautiful” campaign, a likely too-little-too-late bid to appear like a friend to the earth. As we’ve written before, nothing is further from the truth, with the Scott administration…
Crime stats are always figuring into the decisions people make about where to lay their heads. The folks at the website Homesecurityshield.net have done everyone a solid by doing a state-by-state breakdown of each of that particular 50’s most dangerous municipalities. The Sunshine State edition has just hit the internet,…
In 2012, Jeffery London, a former youth pastor and charter-school dean of students, was accused of a vicious pattern of sexual assault with the poor kids he let stay with him at an unlicensed foster home dubbed “London’s Hotel.” The investigation reportedly involved up to 40 possible victims. When London…
On Monday morning, the Sun Sentinel dropped a big, wet kiss of an A1 story on Versailles Cafe, the famous Miami eatery located in Little Havana. The piece, titled “A Taste of Versailles,” did a quick drive-by on the restaurant’s history and sociopolitical significance while also mentioning that a cookbook…
In 2012, Jeffery London, a former youth pastor and charter-school dean of students, was accused of a vicious pattern of sexual assault with the poor kids he let stay with him at an unlicensed foster home dubbed “London’s Hotel.” The investigation reportedly involved up to 40 possible victims. When London…
They say that your new boyfriend or girlfriend’s ex can always be a problem, but Ronald Attie probably didn’t expect his run-in with Anthony Dippolito to end up how it did. According to police, a Wednesday night confrontation between the two men ended in a bloody homicide. Although police haven’t…
This is pretty amazing, considering we’re talking about a talent pool that contains Rick Scott, a man with the social poise of a 13-year-old in sex ed, and Charlie Crist, a man who probably would fail the replicant test from Blade Runner, but we might have The Derp Face of…
In April, New Times reported on the filing of a lawsuit that had everyone’s inner ’90s alt-rock fan paying attention. Back in 2013, Candlebox — the grunge chart-toppers of “Far Behind” fame — had been mapping out a comeback to mark the band’s 20th anniversary. The band’s then-managers, Atlanta-based Lujen…
