Former Fort Lauderdale City Commissioner Carlton Moore has passed away. He was 60. Moore died Tuesday night at a rehabilitation center in Tamarac, where he had been recovering from a severe stroke. Moore served nearly two decades on the commission. He was known as a strong advocate for improving the…
Dolphins fans have a great reason to pay attention to the later draft rounds this year: A familiar name may just scroll down your screen. Noah Taylor, younger brother of Dolphins great Jason Taylor, is looking to break into the NFL next season. Taylor, 24, is competing for an invite…
Numerous earthquakes have hit the West Coast recently. A powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Chile last night. So many are wondering if these quakes are a sign of a larger one on the horizon. Fear not, South Florida; the ground won’t be shaking here anytime soon. It…
Uber, the increasingly popular app that connects riders with drivers at the tap of a button — an alternative to traditional taxi service — has launched a petition on its website that residents of Florida can sign in their support of two bills moving through the state Legislature that would…
Palm Beach billionaire William Koch takes his wine seriously — very seriously. So when it came to the industrialist’s attention that he had been duped into buying hundreds of thousands of dollars of fake wine, he bit back. Koch is the slightly more private brother of billionaires David and Charles…
The Florida House has passed HB 851, a bill that will allow illegal aliens who have attended high school in Florida consecutively for four years to be eligible for resident in-state tuition rates at Florida public colleges and universities. Supporters of immigration reform celebrated it as a win in the…
Have you always wanted to express your love for the Miami Marlins and at the same time sport Hello Kitty swag? If so, you’re in luck, because that’s a really real thing now that you can totally do. Sanrio Inc., the mother ship behind the Hello Kitty brand, has signed…
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The push is on to make Florida the next state to legalize medical marijuana. Organizers have one month to get 700,000 signatures on a petition to get the issue on the November ballot. But since state laws require that the petitions be paper petitions that are mailed in via snail…
The No. 7 Buckeyes (12-1) and the No. 12 Tigers (10-2) take to the Sun Life Stadium field tonight for the 80th installment of the storied Orange Bowl. Clemson versus Ohio State doesn’t exactly scream “rivalry,” mainly because the two teams have met just once before. Thing is, that one…
A major winter storm full of frigid kick-ass named Hercules is bearing down on the northeastern United States, bringing with it record lows, canceled flights, snowfall, and blizzard conditions the country hasn’t seen in years. So everyone is miserable and whining about the weather. Except, of course, in South Florida,…
Ryan Lee Carroll, winner of a contest that allowed him to watch the Breaking Bad series finale with the show’s stars at a private party in a Hollywood cemetery, was arrested last week and charged with felony possession of a synthetic narcotic and felony possession of a controlled substance without…
After a few days of pondering his next brilliant move, Stephen Ross appears to have made up his mind and moments ago landed at the Dolphins’ training facility. ESPN’s Adam Schefter has said numerous times on air that he believes coach Philbin’s job is safe, but there is some doubt…
The latest U.S. Census Bureau population estimates were released on Monday, and we lost. Woooooooooohooooo, we lost!…
Celebs celebrate New Year’s Eve in South Florida just like you and me! Stars in South Florida took to social media this New Year’s Eve to post about their holiday celebrations, all of them looking content, warm, and happy — probably because it’s 80 degrees in January, they’re filthy rich,…
Sixteen PETA protesters were arrested at the Rose Parade on Wednesday, a majority of them for trying to stop the SeaWorld-themed float. Riot police escorted the float as it made its way through the parade, passing multiple planned protest spots along the route. PETA protests took to the street in…
George Zimmerman has been arrested in Orlando after an apparent domestic incident at a residence. Zimmerman was arrested by the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office about 1 p.m. today, authorities said. The Sheriff’s Office stated it will release the 911 call and the police report as soon as they become available…
Florida is one of 17 states where some parents are deciding to keep their children home from school today to protest Common Core standards — a set of national standards that were developed to give all states common goals and benchmarks. “November 18th is being touted as “DON’T SEND YOUR…
A 20-year-old woman was booked on charges of animal cruelty Friday after police received multiple reports of a video in which she allegedly is seen kicking at three geese at Twin Hills Park, while a child can be heard laughing in the background. The police report states that in the…
Nude pictures of gospel writer/singer and children’s book author Evon Latrail, who lives here in Hollywood, have popped up on the internet recently, as naked pictures tend to do, and it seems to have created a bit of a fuss locally…
Police are investigating the death of a man who fell through the glass ceiling of a luxury hotel in Hollywood early Sunday morning. The man’s death, following the tenth-annual Fairy Tale Ball “The Wizard of Oz” fundraising event hosted by the Diamond Angels of Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital Foundation, is…
Founding Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids guitarist Scott Mitchell Putesky, formerly known by his stage name Daisy Berkowitz, is battling stage-four colon cancer. Asked about how his treatment is going, Mitchell tells New Times: “I don’t know how the cancer happened but my diagnosis was this past August, and…
