Last summer, we brought you a sad tragedy from the streets of Hollywood involving a love triangle involving a gang-banging drug dealer, a young woman, and the struggling MMA-fighter they allegedly murdered. Now, there’s a coda to the murder of Michael Rivera. The father of the man police say pulled…
Two participants in a smuggling scam that secreted acid-like hallucinogens into a Broward Sheriff’s Office facility have pleaded guilty in federal court. But this story — which was broken by New Times in early December — doesn’t look like it’s over yet. Court records show Dean Aubol and Gregory Golden…
Oh yes. The Monday after Valentine’s Day. You’re probably either still basking in that lovey-dovey afterglow or you’re in day two of the kind of epic, soul-killing hangover that comes from pounding Miller Lites alone in an efficiency apartment while looking at your ex’s honeymoon pics on Facebook (uh, or…
With little fanfare this week, the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress went ahead and passed legislation that would move ahead with the controversial Keystone Pipeline project. This tees up a showdown with President Obama, who’s already said there’s fat chance he’d sign it. But the good thing about congressional votes: They give…
One-percenters the world over are shaking in their Louboutins this week. Over the weekend, a massive leak of financial information from the British bank HSBC pointed a bright light into the suspect penny-saving going on at the institution’s Swiss branch. These documents basically show how assets were secreted away from…
As we wrote in a recent cover story, the tale you’ve been hearing your whole life about the creation of the world’s most famous comic hero is bogus. Bill Finger, the quiet and shy writer who came up with all the major elements behind Batman, was never truly credited for…
Chances are good that you or someone you know is a sucker for fantasy sports — pretending that real-life players are on your imaginary team and competing against friends’ teams based on how the real players fare in weekly performances. This time-killing hobby for sports obsessives has ballooned in recent…
Florida was pretty close to legalizing the good green last November — a constitutional amendment that would have allowed medical marijuana failed by just two percentage points. But even though those stats make the Sunshine State look weed-friendly, the facts on the ground paint a different picture. A recent study…
It has all the makings of a big-screen thriller. You’ve got a globetrotting computer expert who once worked for Blackwater and continued to get high-security clearance from the U.S. military despite past run-ins with authority. His wife, a young expat Iraqi. U.S. military locations in hot spots such as Iraq…
Things got interesting last night at the Fort Lauderdale City Commission meeting. Instead of the usual ho-hum municipal mechanics, a vocal group of protesters stole the show, and the outburst of civil disobedience ended with an arrest. Afterward, mayor Jack Seiler suggested the arrest was justified. The Dream Defenders have…
In the annals of criminal enterprise, this has to have been tried before. It’s the old I-don’t-know-what-you’re-talking-about-officer-I-was-blacked-out excuse. Unfortunately for one Jupiter resident who allegedly made off with a stash of expensive jewelry, when police confronted her with the evidence, this was all she could come up with. A successful…
Solar is good. It’s good for the environment. It’s good for you and me. And, apparently, it’s good for the state’s massive utilities, who have steadily been rolling out large-scale solar projects. These project unveilings come after the utilities spent the past year edging the private solar providers out of…
Cruises pretty much sell themselves on their care-free vibes: Come stay with us on this floating five-star hotel, where you don’t have to worry about anything except getting to the buffet before the cheese blintzes run out. The truth is that there’s a shady underbelly attached to the cruise business…
This week in federal court, a Palm Beach County man tied to a strange case of international espionage pleaded guilty to the rack of criminal charges he was facing. Rather than fight his case, Christopher Glenn admitted he hacked into classified computer files while working as a private contractor at…
The Solar Wars continue. As we’ve been steadily reporting over the past year, the face-off between the state’s powerful power utilities and the private solar industry has been pretty much a one-side squabble. Using their sway with Florida’s Public Service Commission, the state’s power companies like Florida Power & Light…
Somewhere, according to rumor in a supersecret lair hidden under an abandoned zoo, Jeb Bush is training. Curling phone books, running up cement stairs, practicing ancient Chinese martial arts — whatever it takes to prepare for that day when he’ll have to strap on a santo mask and tights and…
Back in 2008, a woman claimed that she was pulled over for a blaring stereo in Belle Glade — and that her encounter with police ended with a beating in the back of a police car. She filed a lawsuit against the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office. This month, a federal…
Video by Mitchel Worley and Ryan Pfeffer Evil is bald. Evil is bearded. And today, Tamerlane — who passes for evil personified here at UltraCon — clunks his combat boots down the turquoise carpet of the Broward Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, swinging around a riding crop like a five-star…
Don’t count out legal weed just yet. Although medical marijuana racked up only 58 percent approval at the polls this election year, supporters are already mounting a campaign to get a similar proposal on the 2016 ballot. The thinking is that a general election will draw more Floridians off their…
The strange political bedfellows that are hoping to revitalize Florida’s solar industry are taking another step toward that goal. Floridians for Solar Choice bills itself as a “grassroots citizens’ effort to allow more homes and businesses to generate electricity by harnessing the power of the sun.” Right now the organization…
The treatment of the homeless was a huge issue in Fort Lauderdale at the tail end of 2014. With a mayoral race coming up, it’s probably going to be the defining conversation of the new year as well. Today, homeless advocates are gathering at the Broward County Courthouse to push…
Scary times out there: The world is still trying to screw its head back on after last week’s attack on the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo. The publication, which was hit by two gunmen who took 12 lives, had long been a target for radical Islam after its provocations against…
