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…
The Middle East — and specifically Iran — has probably been lodged in your news feed nonstop for the past couple of weeks. With Congress brawling over President Obama’s nuclear deal and the possibility of normalized relations with the Islamic Republic, old debates are being argued anew, geopolitical slights revived…
Ray Strack worked as a U.S. Customs special agent on JFK International Airport’s drug squad in New York during his 27-year career. He constantly busted people — two per day on average — who were attempting to smuggle narcotics into the country. But today, the now-retired Strack is working to…
It’s Week 3 of the NFL season and so far the Miami Dolphins have managed to only Dolphin their way into a 1-1 record, after struggling to beat the crappy Washington Redskins and losing to the arguably crappier Jacksonville Jaguars. Now is when things start to get interesting. And by…
A lunar eclipse is nothing rare or uncommon, but come Sunday, thanks to the position of the Earth in relation to the moon, we’ll be getting a glimpse of the rare supermoon eclipse. How rare is a supermoon eclipse? There have only been five of them since 1900, and according…
Elijah Manley says it’s hard to be a kid presidential candidate. Not only does he lack the financial backing available to more prominent candidates, the 16-year-old Fort Lauderdale High junior says he also has to deal with people constantly reminding him that the constitution dictates that he has to be…
It’s been six years now since the Great Recession called it quits, although the economic aftershocks and damage continued all around the country. With that grim bit of socio-economic truth in mind, the good folks over at WalletHub decided to conduct a ranking of the cities that have best jumped…
A Piper PA-24 single-engine plane was forced to make an emergency landing onto I-595 near Flamingo Road Thursday morning, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The plane, with only the pilot on board, made a landing with the flow of traffic at around 8:50 a.m. right onto the intersection of…
Marine biologist Dr. Ingrid Visser recently visited the Miami Seaquarium and took video and photos of the dolphins that appear in the popular “Flipper Dolphin Show” that appears to show at least three of the animals with open wounds on their snouts, and scars across their lower jaws. A video…
For more than 30 years now, eager-beaver federal prosecutors caught up in drug war hysteria have been reaching for whatever laws they have on the books to punish drug offenders. Often that’s meant handing out harsh sentences to low-level offenders, resulting in law and order that’s way more stick than…
Evan Rowe is a former professor at Broward College, who wrote about his frustrating experience as an adjunct for New Times. He was terminated after his articles appeared, and sued the college for its retaliation. His case is pending. On September 8, the Miami Herald ran an article— “Part-time teaching…
Debbie Wasserman Schultz went after Sen. Marco Rubio hard for holding a fundraiser on Yom Kippur at the home of a man who owns Hitler memorabilia. The much maligned Democratic National Committee chair’s suggestion is that Rubio was raising money in the home of a Nazi memorabilia collector on the Jewish…
