For the past three years or so, investigators from the Broward Public Defender’s Office have been going through local law enforcement records with tweezers, picking out any pattern of suspected race-based policing. The digging brought to light, among other patterns, “Biking While Black,” the Fort Lauderdale PD’s practice of using…

It has been a long weird road for Paul Pope. The son of the founder of the National Enquirer found himself locked in a legal tussle involving his own mother. The most reason front-line in that on-going fight: Pope’s efforts to get his guns back.  In 2013, the Palm Beach…

Lilly Baumann, the now-three-year-old Broward baby who was kidnapped by her mother in May 2014, has been discovered by authorities. Robert Baumann, Lilly’s father, confirmed to New Times Monday afternoon that the girl was spotted and that his ex, Megan Everett, has been taken into custody. Robert is now on…

Last summer, we reported on every parent’s worst nightmare — a situation where one parents, in defiance of a court order, kidnaps a child, keeping the kid from the other parent. For Robert Baumann, that pretty much been his life for over a year. In May 2014, his ex, Megan…

Since February, the Broward courts have been dragging their feet over the fate of a special needs 3-year-old who’s father has failed to cough up the appropriate financial support. But now that the story of Davia Bradshaw and her daughter Ashton has made a splash on the internet, the mother’s…

There’s nothing worse than a deadbeat dad. Well, actually, yes, there is: the deadbeat dad of a special-needs child who is wheelchair-bound thanks to a raft of developmental issues, including cerebral palsy. Especially when the deadbeat dad is a former NFL player who apparently tried to hide his money to…

Weather ain’t no kiddie business down here in South Florida. Sure, there’s not too much variation when you look out the window — sunny day, sunny day, rain, sunny day, repeat. But especially during the summer season, when the ecological ingredients cooking in the Gulf and Atlantic are basically holding…

If any of Jah out there in internet-land are chilled-out rasta fans or just appreciate a good groove, you’ve probably got some Burning Spear in your iTunes. The Jamaican-born roots musician has been a mainstay on the scene since the 1970s, racking up Grammys and hordes of  fanboys and girls over the years. …

Summer is the high season for getting the hell out of South Florida. Hurricanes, mosquito clouds, daily Mars-like temperatures — pick your reason for why no one wants to be here in the middle of the year. That seems to be true also for the Broward-based crews of scammers who…

Over a year ago, we clued you in on a strange case of he-said-she-said involving a homeowner and a BSO deputy in North Lauderdale. This week, the charges were dropped involving the case — after nearly two years of wheel-spinning and hair-pulling.  In December 2013, Valarie Joaceus, a North Lauderdale mother…

Probably the only benefit from the steady beat of violent public deaths of young black men — a public fuse lit with Floridian Trayvon Martin, continued with Jacksonville’s Jordan Davis, and that now includes the litany of Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray and others — is that these tragedies have…

The early a.m. docket at Broward County’s criminal court is like the day’s first race at a dog track – if you start late, it screws up the whole schedule.  But two circuit court judges have regularly shown up to the bench tardy – around 10 p.m. or later –…

Last week’s news that a local strip club chain was agreeing to settle with class action lawsuit filed by dancers could detonate across the entire bump-and-shake industry here in South Florida. The agreement, which still has to be signed off on by a federal judge, would see Scarlett’s Cabaret ponying…

Broward Sheriff Scott Israel isn’t really facing too much serious opposition in his run for a second term as the high law in Broward County. But even though the politics are stacked in his favor, that doesn’t mean Team Israel isn’t bringing out the big celebrity endorsement guns. This month,…

The .223 slugs racing from the barrel of Suleiman Yousef’s M4 rip over the mud before sinking through paper targets. A wall of raised earth backstops the gunfire. Five other men in fatigues pop off more rifle rounds. Then, following Yousef’s lead, one by one they drop their M4s, twist…

The owners of one of South Florida’s most popular strip clubs have agreed to settle a big-time class-action lawsuit filed by former dancers over pay. The parent company that’s behind Scarlett’s Cabaret in Hallandale, as well as two other clubs, agreed to fork over $6 million. That means more than 4,700…

As if traveling isn’t already a pain, imagine if your infant is suspected of being a terrorist. Ramsey Abdallah and his wife, Ghadeer Abbasi, attempted to board a flight at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport with their 18-month-old daughter, Riyanna, back in May 2012. The couple — New Jersey residents —…

The mother-son grudge match of the century — a decades-long spat between the heirs to National Enquirer fortune — is heating up again. This month, Paul Pope, the son of the tabloid’s founder, asked a court to amend a 2013 injunction issued by a court after he was arrested for…