One Broward college campus was rocked yesterday morning with grisly news of two students being victimized during a sexual assault. Two Nova Southeastern University students were allegedly attacked the night before, sending some nasty shockwaves through the campus. Although only a little information has squeezed out about the situation. This…
A South Floridian with a colorful criminal history has been scooped up by authorities in Mexico after spending nearly four decades running from police. Robert Woodring, now 81, was picked up in Guadalajara, Mexico late last year and will finally face arraignment this week. Police had been looking for the…
We’re not exactly fashion mavens here at New Times, but according to sources in the know, Judith Ripka is a big deal in the jewelry world. The New York City-based designer has 120 stores around the country and is promoted heavily on QVC. But she allegedly has an, uh, interesting…
Over the past year, Florida’s struggling solar industry has been knocked a number of blows that could seriously hurt the chances of making clean energy common. Most of those hits have come from the state’s utilities, which — despite claims as being pro-sun power — have continually obstructed the private…
Ornan Antoine was just trying to get home. It was a rain-laced July night around midnight in 2013. The stocky, gap-toothed Haitian was pedaling down SW 28th Avenue, heading from a buddy’s house to his own sea-green single-story bungalow a few blocks over in the Melrose Park section of Fort…
The Love Burn — South Florida’s own Burning Man-style festival — is returning for a second year after last year’s successful inaugural weekend. Not only is the festival expanding exponentially but organizers are hosting a fundraiser — or in burner-speak, FUNdraiser — this Friday to both raise money and begin…
A family vacation pretty quickly turned into a nightmare over the weekend as the cruise ship Oasis of the Seas was pulling anchor out of Port Everglades and leaving South Florida on Saturday. The ship quickly turned around after reports leaked out that a little boy had almost drowned in…
Now that 2014 is officially in the rearview mirror, you are probably, like us, suffering from an epic, earth-shaking hangover. But shakes and spewing and headaches aside, it could have been a lot worst. For some folks it sure was. Here are the highlights of the mug-shots that filtered through…
Ahhhh, the holidays. A time for family, unhealthy amounts of booze, a lot of sports on TV, and more booze. So, basically, the perfect combination for trouble. But while you’re at home bickering with Sis or putting your cousin in a headlock, keep in mind that for some unfortunate souls…
Welp, you done and did it again. Had that piggy bank all fat with money for the Christmas season, then made a couple ill advised trips to the bar and/or the race track, and now you’re trying to scrape together some last minute, on-the-cheap Christmas gift ideas. Don’t fret. Here…
Although Florida seems to be on the edge of a truly historic leap into the 21st Century with marriage equality, the football isn’t quite in the end zone. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to tackle whether or not to keep the state’s same sex marriage ban in place past…
It’s been more than four years since Robert Pinto’s life skidded after a bizarre series of run-ins with the Hollywood Police Department. But now the former government contractor is looking to even the score. He has filed a federal lawsuit against the department alleging intimation and retaliation…
In less than three weeks gay couples across the Sunshine State may be able to get married — may. As we reported earlier this week, Attorney General Pam Bondi is pretty much doing everything in her legal power to pump the brakes, including an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court…
The reasons to move to South Florida are pretty long — beaches, sun, lack of snow, easy driving conditions — just kidding on that last one. One reason apparently not to move down to the region? College. Despite a sprinkling of fine institutions of higher learning all over the tri-county…
Pam Bondi just won’t leave gay marriage alone. Despite the growing consensus in the Sunshine State drifting toward marriage equality, the state’s top law official now is asking the country’s highest court to block same-sex-marriage next month — the latest move in Bondi’s campaign to keep Florida’s gay population from…
It has been five long years since reggae super-star Buju Banton was busted by law enforcement in a shady operation that resulted in a ten-year prison sentence. The Grammy winner — born Mark Myrie — has maintained his innocence, and as we documented in a 2012 feature, it appears Banton…
It takes varying degrees of balls to sling any kind of drugs. Even your down-the-block teenaged weed hustler is working on some equation of eff-the-system brashness plus a healthy dose of stupidity. But to try to smuggle drugs into the Broward County Jail? That just might belong more to the…
For Boyd Corbin, the long slog is over. After more than two years, five lawyers, and one quixotic mayoral campaign, the Wilton Manors resident has finally resolved the criminal charges filed against him after a 2012 Halloween brawl at Georgie’s Alibi. Corbin, dressed as a tiki-torch-wielding Ku Klux Klansman, faced…
The python — a speckled four-footer who’ll go down in the books as “Ibzan” — twists viciously in Tom Rahill’s gloved hand like a downed power line. Rahill sucks in his gut, stretches out his arm, and grips the snake’s tail. Wiggling furiously, the angry animal releases a shower of…
In December 2011, Jared Bretherick and his family were tooling around Orlando when the visitors from Indiana were cut off in a road rage incident. According to reports, a driver named Derek Dunning almost sideswiped the car Bretherick’s father was driving. Dunning allegedly slammed his car to a halt, got…
If you were the kind of person who liked to sniff out plots and nefarious designs in headlines, you might raise an eyebrow over the recent actions of Florida’s utilities. Over the course of the summer and fall, Florida Power & Light and others basically blocked the state’s private solar…
The holidays are the warm and fuzzy time of year, but for one Broward dad, it’s especially tough now. Earlier this summer, we brought you the sad, frustrating story of Robert Baumann, a father who spent two years locked in a custody battle stacked against him; when he finally got…
