A chorus of hot-for-teacher jokes kicked into overdrive in May, when a Palm Beach County charter school principal was busted by police in a car that stank of marijuana, with a male student, in a state of alleged hanky-panky. The incident landed Krista Morton, principal of Mavericks High in Palm Springs…
One thing American cities from coast to coast love to do is brag up their rankings — Best City for THIS and THAT — perfect fodder for tourism brochures and such. In the mad scramble for municipal bragging rights, probably one of the most coveted laurels is ranking that have…
One of the truth’s about life in South Florida is that condo boards are pretty much hell-holes of infighting and disfunction. Put a dozen or so people in the room and ask them agree on anything — just see what happens. That’s what makes the continuing story of the Edgewater…
As if Floridians need more to worry about from Mother Nature — take your pick, we’ve got invasive pythons, wild bears and coyotes, deadly snails — now health officials in the Sunshine State have released a warning on a flesh eating bacteria that has been making appearances on our beaches…
Hm. What’s the best way to say this . . . Floridians are not exactly . . . good workers? Office-bound? Competitive in the work place? Is that mean? Well, maybe we should say it like this: with beaches! and the ocean! and the Everglades! and the SUNSHINE! . …
Last night while you were drinking too much because the forces of good lost to evil (NBA finals, Cavs v. Warriors, 2-2), Lake Worth was rocked with a dramatic series of events related to Mad Max-style road madness. Around 2:20 a.m., a woman and man wee involved in a heated…
The Solar Wars continue. This time, the battlefield is the Florida Supreme Court, which is in the process of hashing out an opinion related to the ballot initiative set forth by Floridians for Solar Choice, a bi-partisan group of green energy backers who want to circumvent the usual process of solar…
Knowing a good story has been part of Paul Pope’s family business. It’s obvious why. As the son of Gene Pope, the Italian American businessman who’s nose for gore and sex created the National Enquirer, Paul grew up surrounded by a business that literally changed the tone of American pop…
The 2016 Presidential election season is coming to a boil. For the next year and a half, you’re only going to see more and more coverage on the blatant, craven, and obnoxious political ass-kissing underway as both Democrats and Republicans gun for the White House. Here’s something to think about,…
The week before he was killed by a brick-wielding, 400-pound mental patient, Terry Young told his mother not to worry. It was a Saturday in late April 2013. Bettye White, a retired elementary-school principal, had made her weekly trip to see to her 53-year-old son at the Liberty City Hope…
In the world of psychic scammers — fake mystics and fortune tellers who use New Agey mystical babble and a variety of old school tricks to con money from vulnerable victims — there is a strong pipeline connecting New York City to South Florida. Often, as we have documented in…
Late May is the time of year when just about every high school senior class is giddy with the end of school and start of summer. Unfortunately, the good times have been clouded over at one Broward high school due to a tragedy. American Heritage School senior Liza Angulo was…
It was supposed to be easy. Edouard Rene Joseph was a combat vet, Desert Storm, so he had trimmed the situation down to simple mission objectives: Get into the country, pick up the kids, leave the country. One day, tops. No big deal. “It’s not,” he would muse years later,…
Although the 2016 race for Broward Sheriff isn’t likely to be all that dramatic when voter finally head to the polls, there’s a side-show to the main event that just seems to be getting weirder and weirder. This centers on Edison Jules, the nominal challenger who’s filed the official paperwork…
Don’t know if you’ve been outside much after dark lately, but if you have, you already know: bug season is fast upon us. As South Florida begins easing into the summer season, the people walking in from an extended period outside at night are going to start looking like they…
Barring some kind of cataclysmic clusterfrick inside the organization, Vegas odds are that Scott Israel will hold on to his job as the Broward County sheriff in the 2016 election. To date, only one challenger has filed the right paperwork for the job . . . and he isn’t picking…
Authorities and law enforcement are still scratching their heads to explain to recent deaths of two students at the New College of Florida in Sarasota last week — including one victim from Boca Raton. Although it will take about six weeks for toxicology reports to come in, Sarasota investigators are…
The big news out of East Tennessee over the last three months has involved the federal takedown of a massive pill mill ring, with prosecutors alleging that up to 50 individuals were involved in moving prescriptions for high-powered medications like oxycodone. Sitting at the center of the alleged criminal enterprise: a…
It’s not easy flying these days. What with airline consolidation, the boom of discount carriers, and the complete disappearance of the in-flight meal (what the hell???), flying the skies aren’t all that friendly anymore. if you want some hard data on this, the US government has been keeping track on…
Longtime New Times readers are likely familiar with the name Ryan Lipner. The Broward man’s antics have been regularly come up in the paper over the last decade, a weird public career that includes lawsuits against his parents, an obsession with the greeting card company, quixotic campaigns for Florida governor,…
Now that former NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez is on his way to a life sentence for murder, more legal matter tied to the ex-player’s violent lifestyle are starting to come to light. One situation — a shooting of a Hernandez friend in South Florida after a night at Tootsie’s Cabaret —…
The country is still reeling from the events this weekend in Garland, Texas, where anti-Islam activists were attacked by gunman while holding a cartoon contest meant to jab a provocative finger in the eye of extremists. The contests promised $10,000 to the person who could cook up the funniest image…
