Late at night September 20, when Davie Police officers arrived at the Apollo House, a residential group home for troubled kids, they found staff rushing around a fallen teen. The bleeding wouldn’t stop. A knife had poked through the boy’s side and punctured his lung. EMS rushed him to Memorial…
Broward County commissioners will finally take up a vote for a measure to decriminalize marijuana possession throughout the county on Tuesday. The measure, which was introduced by Commissioner Martin Kiar, had been in the works for some time ever since Miami-Dade county decriminalized pot possession in June. Since then, Key West…
The blinds are drawn in Murphy’s Miami Beach bedroom as the 33-year-old pulls a white, silicone, four-inch conical contraption from his nightstand. Called a TLC Tugger, it was designed to stretch skin gradually, as earlobes are stretched for gauges. Except Murphy isn’t stretching his earlobes. His project is much more…
Another week has come and gone and the Miami Dolphins are still a gigantic cesspool of a franchise. Following yet another embracing loss, this time to the New York Jets on Sunday, everyone is clamoring for head coach Joe Philbin to be canned. New Times did this last week, because…
Like a game of a whack-a-mole, the Broward-spawned Felony Lane Gang just doesn’t go away. Made up of sneaky crews that work parking lots and bank drive-thus across America, the loose federation of criminals is more joined by area code and game plan than an actual organized hierarchy. As we…
On July 27, 1981, the mother of 6-year-old Adam Walsh left him in the toy section of the Sears department store in the Hollywood Mall while she went to look for a lamp. Weeks later, his severed head was found in a canal in Vero Beach. In 1983, convicted serial…
The crowd of about 1,200 filed languidly out of the Friday afternoon sun into the dank B. George Mayer Gymnasium in Broward College, waiting to catch a glimpse of the Democratic frontrunner for President of the United States. But there seemed to be very little enthusiasm for Hilary Clinton outside…
After last week’s demolishing at the hands of the Buffalo Bills, we wrote that the Dolphins should clean house and fire everyone on the coaching staff and front office. We still hold to that. Some agreed, while others have argued that the season is still very early and that the…
Yesterday in Tallahassee, a judge ruled that a week-long hunt on Florida’s black bears, scheduled to begin October 24, can proceed. The hunt was authorized by the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission this summer. In the past year or so, four women in Central and North Florida were attacked by…
The Florida Family Policy Council has called on Gov. Rick Scott to fully defund Planned Parenthood. The FFPC says Scott has not done enough to show he’s a pro-life governor, and have launched a campaign to get Scott to terminate Florida’s Medicaid contract with Planned Parenthood was well as the…
Sex and death aren’t exactly concepts that sit comfortably in your thoughts. But according to a lawsuit filed this month by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, there was a lot of sexual hanky panky going on at Fort Lauderdale’s McWhite Funeral Home. Unfortunately — and grossly — it was…
Arguments are being made before a judge in an emergency hearing to stop the Florida bear hunt that is set to begin later this month. The environmental group Speak Up Wekiva has filed a lawsuit against the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission seeking to stop the hunt. If the…
A manager at the Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort showed a member of the housekeeping staff his penis, and propositioned her for sex several times, a lawsuit by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges. When the woman complained to the manager’s supervisor and reported the harassment, she was fired, according to…
The Palm Beach County Inspector General’s office says that they are looking into the leaking of confidential police information release by West Palm Beach onto the city’s website earlier this month. On Wednesday morning, Inspector General John Carey announced that he is also looking into allegations that city spokesman Elliot Cohen…
On Monday, we posited the idea that the Miami Dolphins need to fire their entire staff, from front office to all the coaches, and start over. And we stand by this. On Wednesday, our sister paper Miami New Times said that the team should fire head coach Joe Philbin and…
A shake-up in the support of a controversial and big dollar project in the Everglades has environmentalists cheering that the plan’s days are possibly numbered. But although the latest news on the River of Grass Greenway, a path that would link Naples to Miami, does seem to considerably alter the prospects,…
Boca Raton has had the 3rd highest poverty decrease in the United States since 2008, a new study says. The study, put together by personal finance website WalletHub, looked into the quickest socioeconomic changes, compared 515 U.S. cities across 10 key metrics, ranging from population growth rate to unemployment rate decrease,…
With Uber’s ongoing battle with Broward County commissioners over how the ride-sharing app company is to be regulated, the taxi cab industry has gotten in on the app game with the New York-based company ZabCab. Much like Uber and Lyft, the ZabCab app allows a person to summon a ride…
Donald Trump continues to lead the GOP in Florida, but a new poll recently released shows Jeb Bush making a sudden and strong comeback, vaulting into second and gaining on The Donald. According to the latest Jacksonville University poll, Trump gets 24 percent of the vote in Florida, with Jeb…
On a rainy Thursday morning in August, Tangela Sears parks her Mitsubishi SUV in front of a small yellow house on a quiet street in Liberty City. Her grandfather bought the home about six decades ago. Sears was raised there. She raised her own son David there, too, and had…
With Donald Trump harping on Hispanic immigration and Jeb Bush talking up how society should not be multicultural, it’s time to look at the numbers and see exactly where Florida — the state where the two candidates hail from — ranks when it comes to Hispanic assimilation. A recent study…
Whoa man were we colossally wrong about that one. Most of us were. Most bought into this season being different. That the Dolphins were ready to turn the corner. That they added enough talent, including an all-world defensive tackle, and a dynamic rookie wide receiver, and that their quarterback was…
