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…
PGA golfer Dustin Johnson is the latest to lay down some big money for a big house in our neck of the woods. Johnson, who has earned over $5.2 million in the last year swinging the golf club, has bought himself a waterfront house in Palm Beach Gardens worth $4.95…
Blackstone Labs is a heavy hitter in the weight-room-supplement game. The company is fronted by two social-media-savvy beefcakes who often take to YouTube to hawk and explain their company’s wares. But Arizona-based Nutrition Distribution, a supplement company that competes with Blackstone, claimed in an April lawsu it (filed in California)…
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump was a guest on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert Tuesday night, and was given the opportunity to move on from his “birther” status by the late night host — and he turned it down. Before he became the face of the Republican party, and the…
Entering last week’s second GOP Presidential Debate, West Palm Beach’s own Ben Carson was making serious headway. According to a CNN poll, Dr. Carson had surged ahead of fellow Florida and once-favored candidates Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, shooting into second place behind current frontrunner Donald Trump. Following the first…
Palm Beach County Commissioners have unanimously voted to expand civil rights protections for minorities by redefining “places of public accommodation” in the Palm Beach County Ordinance for Equal Opportunity to Housing and Places of Public Accommodation. The vote, which passed in 6-0 decision, was held on Tuesday morning. Specifically, the…
Two hours before her redeye Greyhound was scheduled to snort out of the lot, Valerie Bozeman walked into the bus station in Oakland, California. She was traveling light: $93 in her pocket, a tote bag full of underwear and toothpaste courtesy of the Bureau of Prisons, and the blessings of…
Jaime Nicole Lewis, a Palm Beach Woman who was arrested on importing and possessing with attempt to distribute flakka from China charges last April, has plead guilty. Lewis, 22, appeared in West Palm Beach federal court on Monday where she plead guilty to conspiracy to import flakka. In a story…
Monalisa Weber remembers a 16-year-old boy standing in a Broward courtroom with a blank stare. He had broken his probation. A judge asked the boy why he didn’t attend the mandatory boot camp, and when the boy didn’t answer, the judge sentenced him to prison. “The streets raised him. You…
Even when they’re not in town, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue are hero-ing it up. While a group of firefighters were up in Colorado attending the Fallen Firefighter Memorial over the weekend, they decided to climb some rocks there — because, Firefighters. During the climb, they heard a woman’s scream from…
Ndamukong Suh has gone rogue, maybe. The Miami Dolphins suffered an embarrassing 23-20 defeat to the usually inept Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday. And while losses like that seem to magnify the larger issues going on with a team (and there are plenty with the Dolphins), perhaps no issue was more…
One of the great wrongs in comic history has been made right, meaning one Broward woman will finally get to see her grandfather get the credit he deserves. Bill Finger was the shy genius who was the creative engine behind Batman. Along with illustrator Bob Kane, Finger cobbled together the…
