The loosely organized internet group Anonymous put Fort Lauderdale in its sights yesterday, serving some anarcho-internet justice over the city’s homeless hate laws. Yesterday, the group posted a video on YouTube demanding Mayor Jack Seiler drop the series of ordinances targeting the homeless. If not, the group threatened to shut…
One of the many gunbarrels America is staring down right now pertains to its infrastructure. Roads, dams, levees, coastal areas — basically, it’s all crumbling faster than state governments are willing to throw money at reconstruction, which means the next 20 years might be interesting. And although down here in…
We’ve all had those small-change domestic spats with our roommates that end up blowing into big deals. Where’s my favorite hoodie? Why didn’t you DVR this week’s Big Bang Theory? Shut the fucking refrigerator door. You know the drill. Unfortunately for a pair of Palm Beach County senior citizens, a…
The day that pro-solar power advocates across the state had been fearing finally came this week. The state’s Public Service Commission held a number of recent votes that basically knee-cap Florida’s home solar-power industry. This come after pressure from the state’s powerful utilities, which have been trying to edge solar…
Thanks to a little literary chart-topper called Fifty Shades of Grey, the BDSM corner of the fetish universe is no longer off-limits in the mainstream. Average Joes and Janes don’t have to keep their leather-riding crops and cuffs hidden in the closet anymore. But back in the ’80s, when Dr…
There have to be easier ways to make some money than stealing an ATM. That’s probably among the thoughts this morning speeding through the minds of the would-be criminal masterminds who have botched an overnight heist in Lake Worth. Police currently have two suspects in custody after a dramatic four-county…
Democratic rainmaker and columnist James Carville on Tuesday penned a column for the insidery political paper The Hill. The article attacked Florida State University and its ties to libertarian sugar daddies the Koch Brothers. Fair point, though the timing was unfortunate — not the greatest day to attack FSU. On…
In the news business, we call that a headline that’s hard to ignore. Back in 2012, Boyd Corbin was involved in a Halloween brawl. Two things separated the scuffle from the likely thousands of other bar fights that happened that night: One, Corbin was wearing a cheeky KKK costume, his…
A sex scandal involving rape allegations and a possible cover-up at a Broward Islamic private school has taken another turn. As we reported back in October, Tariq Ahmed (also spelled in some places as Ahmad) is currently wanted by police for alleged sexual activities with students at the Nur-Ul-Islam Academy…
Polo mogul John Goodman’s second trial for DUI manslaughter may be done, but there are still some big unanswered questions hanging over the proceedings. New information is now trickling out over a Vermont man’s offer to sway the jury, a scam that could tee up the trial for a potential…
After losing back-to-back elections, a candidate’s tank of political capital probably is running on empty. But Charlie Crist isn’t your regular pol. Currently smarting from last week’s loss to Rick Scott, a sequel to his 2010 U.S. Senate defeat to Marco Rubio, Crist is likely trying to figure out a…
Across South Florida, cities are beefing up their statutes against the homeless. As Fort Lauderdale begins enforcing its restrictions on public feedings, now Lake Worth has jumped in with its own new law against panhandling. Despite the obvious questions about the legality of such a law, the Palm Beach County…
The man more than any other responsible for shaping Fort Lauderdale’s swim culture passed away this morning from complications due to Alzheimer’s disease. Jack Nelson, 82, was a championship swimmer in his youth and coached multiple champions in Fort Lauderdale, including five Olympic medal winners and four world record holders…
Right now, Jeffery London is sitting in a quiet cell waiting for his second child sex abuse trial to start. Outside, the former charter school administrator’s actions are still resounding loud and clear. In September, a group of victims filed a civil lawsuit in Broward against a clutch of charities…
So it’s go-time for Sunshine State supporters of medicinal smoking. For the first time, Floridians are going to polling places weighing a choice on the legalization of marijuana. By this time next week, Florida’s weedscape could look drastically different — or unfortunately the same. With such a possible historical swing…
For more than a year, David Mech — formerly known as porn star and director Dave Pounder — has been tussling with the Palm Beach County School Board. In federal court, the Boca Raton resident charged that the district wrongly yanked down banners advertising his math tutoring business because some…
Sure, technically Halloween is for the ghouls and ghosts, but we know who’s really bumping out there in the night: people knee-deep into their worst behavior. To mark the festivities, we combed through recent arrests for a special Halloween edition of Mug-Shot Monday. Enjoy the drunk derp faces, failed costumes,…
Hal Kreitman, the subject of a New Times story just a few weeks back, was arrested this week in a sting conducted by Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers. The KeysNet.com reports that Kreitman is facing a felony conservation charge, and currently has a $2,500 bond…
UPDATE: More alleged abuse victims have come forward in the case against former Nur-Ul-Islam Academy teacher Tariq Ahmad. New details are shaking out over the alleged off-limits activities of one Broward private school teacher and his students. Last week, Pembroke Pines Police announced they were looking for Tariq Ahmad, a…
Despite the moral swing-and-miss on meaningful gun control that followed the Sandy Hook school shooting, there still is some effort to get momentum going on reforms that would end the open season on young people in this country. One Florida group — the Dream Defenders — is going with a…
Moms and pops are suckers for their own little ones, especially in those sunny preteen days when nearly every kid could be a Gap model or at least mug on the cover of a cereal box, you know, before little Timmy and Sue get mugged by puberty. That brand of…
A few weeks back, there was a small news story that blipped across the media about a local Jewish temple in Planation that was hit by a scurrilous cyberattack. Temple Kol Ami Emanu-El’s website was hijacked with anti-Semitic messages, including a shoutout to the ISIS terrorist group. Although the incident…
