The Florida Highway Patrol released the identities of the four victims killed in a horrific traffic accident yesterday that’s roiled the region. Two of the victims were affiliated with the United States Navy. Dennis Ortiz, 31, of California; Albertson, 31, and Kristina Almase, 26, of the U.S. Navy; and Lily…
On February 6, in the federal courthouse in Miami, District Judge Ursula Ungaro handed down a ruling that would dismay law experts across the region. In a defamation lawsuit filed by Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe of Haiti against the American editor and owner of the Haiti Observateur newspaper, Ungaro banned…
Updated, 10:24 a.m.”We assumed there were four people killed, but we just don’t know how many people were in the van,” said Joe Sanchez, spokesperson for the Florida Highway Patrol, referring to a terrifying accident that has rocked the region this morning. “It was that bad of an accident.” Sanchez…
Late yesterday afternoon, Deandre Poole, embattled FAU instructor who is accused of asking his students to “stomp on Jesus,” said that Ryan Rotela — the student who’d refused to participate — had balled his fists that day after class and told Poole he wanted to hit him. Now, Rotela has…
Thor Holm Hansen will not stay in the United States — either as a prisoner, or as a free man. Last month, in a 5,000-word cover story, we told the crazy story of Thor Hansen, a Norwegian country singer, a one-time ambassador to a rebel Haitian government, and an Outlaw…
The bulldozers arrive at dawn on a Sunday. In the inky twilight of this crisp January morning, several bearded men creak open a barbed-wire gate to grant entry to the three Caterpillar machines. For a short while, the men contemplate the darkened and crumbling building among the olive trees. East…
For Dennis Rodman, there’s only location on this green planet that could possibly follow up North Korea, the Vatican, and New York City — and that’s Bulgaria. After a few quiet days with his daughter in South Florida, his spokesperson said, he’s landed in Bulgaria and will take the rest…
Post-GEO, post-James Tracy, post-president hitting student with car, post-stomp on Jesus, we finally got some contrition out of Florida Atlantic University. Late yesterday afternoon, the university apologized for one of its instructors who asked students to write “Jesus” on a piece of paper, throw it against the wall, and, well,…
A 22-year-old black man wearing a hooded sweatshirt was leaving Macy’s in Aventura Mall when five Macy’s security guards tackled him to the floor and later stripped him down to his underwear. The problem was? He didn’t have anything on him. Duddeley Petigny, who had an afro and was scruffy,…
We all have at least one crazy girlfriend/boyfriend lurking somewhere in the not-so-distant past. Likely there were wild arguments involving broken plates, email snooping, and accusations of philandering. The one consolation? She wasn’t Jennifer Capriati — the world’s craziest ex-girlfriend. (Except for that one blond from Fatal Attraction. That ho…
We get a lot of emails from Rick Scott. Like a lot. He never forgets his friendly neighborhood media, and he’s always appointing someone to some bureaucracy somewhere. But two days ago, he hit us with this Huffington Post article that made everyone go, “Wuuuuuuhhhh”?? The article concerns how swell…
Scott Prouty’s rich! Well, kinda. Scott Prouty can finally get outta debt! That’s better. Five days ago, after more than 1,000 articles appeared showing how local man Scott Prouty helped vanquish the Romnoms once and for all with his commando camera skills, he set up a legal fund to battle…
They thought it was safe. They thought it was secure. They thought it couldn’t happen here. “It’s scary knowing it was this campus,” a senior studying psychology named Sarah said. “He had bombs and assault weapons and you think it’s a safe place to be, but behind someone’s closed door,…
Update, 10;16 a.m. UCF police will hold a press conference at midday to release details of police findings, which should include the identity of the man who was found dead last night inside a university apartment. The spokesperson, who declined to be identified, said university police were responding to a…
Scott Prouty, who changed the entire context of the 2012 presidential elections when he clandestinely videotaped Mitt Romney being Mitt Romney, has a few hiccups in his past. Let’s not exaggerate the infractions. But still, interesting to note. Prouty — who today lives in a swank condominium high-rise overlooking the…
Last night, we discovered the identity of the man who changed the outcome of the 2012 election, vanquishing Mitt Romney once and for all. His name is Scott Prouty. And he’s from South Florida. YES. Tally a much-needed score for America’s most-maligned state. See also: – Mother Jones’ David Corn:…
A collective “awwww, fuuuck” went out across the land as the nation took in our story that poor, poor Edgardo Toucet’s penis was cut off near Orlando while operating some despicable-sounding machine known as “the peeler.” Yesterday, we tried to talk with Toucet to, if anything, lend him an awkward…
New Times rarely makes calls at an early hour. Especially on a Monday morning. But this morning, after we got hold of an unusual police report starring an even more startling character, we dialed up Bruce Augello, a candidate for Coconut Creek Commission, who’d apparently bit his wife after she…
Over the past decade, Broward County’s fastest-growing demographic was Venezuelan, and the conventional explanation most bureaucrats, demographers, and activists deployed to explain this trend: Hugo Chavez. El Comandante’s socialistic and populist style of governance, which extolled the virtues of the impoverished class while demonizing the wealthy and upper-middle class, was…
On a recent overcast day in downtown Fort Lauderdale, a cluster of reporters watched a tanned blond man sashay into the federal courthouse dressed like the Joker: orange pants, purple socks, red pocket square, and a Technicolored iPhone in his hand. Murmurs immediately. “Who’s that?” one reporter asked. “He’s definitely…
At DeSoto County High School in Arcadia, freedom of speech doesn’t extend to silence. Amber Hatch, 15, sued its principal, its dean of student, and the local school board last week in Fort Myers federal court, claiming she was suspended last year after school administrators tried to coerce her from…
It didn’t take long for the tweets to start rolling in. Weston, which has the highest percentage of Venezuelans of any Florida municipality besides Doral, rejoiced at the news of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s death. He reportedly died of infection. Across Broward County, the number of Venezuelans has more than…
