Last month, Broward County traffic judges threw out 24,000 pending red-light camera tickets from various cities throughout the county. These fines would have totaled about $6.3 million. Residents had sued both the City of Fort Lauderdale and the City of Hollywood on the grounds that their ticketing programs were illegal…
A Salvadoran immigrant detained at a GEO Group facility in California died from cancer only three days after being admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with cancer. And now an immigrant advocacy group is calling for an investigation into the death, which they say happened after several weeks of warning…
The Deerfield Beach City Commission voted to allow a 69-townhouse development to be built on land that once held a black cemetery and which could still have human remains, despite public outcry against the project. Out of five members voting on the city commission, three voted in favor of the…
In the late 1980’s, young punk rockers in Cuba, known as “los frikis,” were so fed-up with the stifling life of the communist regime that they chose to inject themselves with AIDS so they could live in a sanitorium and be free from constant police-state harassment. And today, two survivors…
“Heb” Bush isn’t just a symbolic Hispanic candidate because he speaks Spanish. He’s also technically a Hispanic – according to his 2009 voter registration form. The New York Times obtained Jeb’s Miami-Dade voter registration form and found that the son and brother for former presidents (both of whom happen to…
If you’re the type of guy who has lots of girlfriends in developing countries, it helps to have a buddy who is a U.S. senator to expedite travel visas. And if your friend happens to be New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, consider it done. Dr. Salomon Melgen, the Palm Beach…
Democratic New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez has been indicted on corruption charges and Palm Beach opthamologist Dr. Salomon Melgen is at the heart of the scandal. In a 68-page indictment, Menendez is accused of accepting lavish gifts from Melgen, including private flights, vacations in the Dominican Republic, cash contributions, and…
President Barack Obama put a dent in America’s ridiculous reputation for insanely long sentences for drug offenses by commuting 22 federal prisoners, eight of which were for life without parole, including Pompano Beach woman Theresa Brown, who has been in prison since 1993 for a crack cocaine offense. Because she…
At midnight on April 23, 2011, Colin Johnson, a prisoner at the Fulham Correctional Centre in Sale, Australia, was found in his cell, naked and bent over on his knees, surrounded by blood and vomit. A closer look found his head had been bashed in and the right side of…
In the 1950s, the only way for Beatrice Miller to get home from her after-school job picking peppers at her father’s farm was to cut through the cemetery — when it was getting dark. For the teenage girl, few things were more frightening. “I ran so fast my feet never…
The Lake Worth-based Human Rights Defense Center is urging the federal government to adopt rules that would regulate the practice of issuing debit cards instead of cash or check to prisoners just getting out of captivity. Third-party companies that issue the cards charge exorbitant fees, HRDC says, which heavily impacts…
On Thursday night in Deerfield Beach, residents of the city gathered to hear the case of Rob Kassab, a Boca Raton businessman who wants to build townhouses on land that was once home to a black cemetery. The topic is an emotional one for people here and several expressed their…
This past Sunday night, a group of friends decided to check out some of the cheap drink specials during Fort Lauderdale’s spring break scene at Off the Hookah. But the fun took a nosedive when one member of the group noticed something on the t-shirts worn by several people at…
George Zimmerman has popped up again and says in a video that the justice system failed because he shouldn’t ever have had to go to trial, it was God’s wish for him to stalk and kill 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, and President Barack Obama personally tried to stoke racial tensions in…
Florida sends more kids to adult prisons than does any other state, largely owing to the state’s “direct file” law, which gives prosecutors — not judges — discretion over whether to charge children as adults. But this year, there are five separate bill proposals to reform the oft-criticized practice. This…
Three Fort Lauderdale police officers have been fired and another resigned before he could be fired after an internal affairs investigation found the cops spent time on the taxpayer clock sending each other racist text messages and sharing a racially-charged video using racial slurs and images. The officers’ names are…
The Florida Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision to ban mandatory life without parole sentences for juveniles should be applied retroactively, possibly affecting more than 200 cases. In 1997, 15-year-old Rebecca Lee Falcon was convicted of first-degree murder and attempted armed robbery for her involvement…
Pastor Mike Olive says downtown Lake Worth is not exactly a safe haven for followers of JC. “They’re not tolerant of Christians living a public life downtown,” Olive says of the city’s government, adding, “There are certain people [government officials] who have personal agendas where Jesus would stand in the…
When a Broward County jury ruled that 50-year-old Jesse Teplicki was not guilty of growing marijuana earlier this month because his need for medical cannabis outweighed the crime of actually growing the still illegal plant, cannabis reformers rejoiced. The victory meant a precedent was set and more victories cold follow…
A million thoughts raced through Randy Lanier’s head as he cast a fishing line into the azure waters off Antigua, 1,300 miles from South Florida. He had a family back in Davie — a wife, an 8-year-old daughter, and a newborn son. Then he pondered auto racing. He’d been a…
Marijuana might not be legal in Florida yet, but that’s not stopping a Fort Lauderdale software company from being at the forefront of technology helping the more enlightened states keep track of how cannabis is processed and sold. BioTrackTHC is a five-year-old software technology firm that has managed to make…
A smooth senior citizen sauntered into an Oakland Park bank on February 9 and cashed a fake check worth $1,315. But he wasn’t satisfied with the money. He also took a few of those free lollipops. BSO is looking for the sly suspect. They say he was calm and cool…
