So, Hurricane Danny was a thing last week that ended up being nothing (for us in South Florida, anyway). But another disturbance has emerged right behind Danny that is projected to get at least 200 miles of our neck of the woods by the weekend and into next week. That…
Lee Bacall noses his sleek two-seater Jag off Riverland Road in Fort Lauderdale. “The word ‘serene’ seems to bubble up from the ground,” the 71-year-old says with a conspiratorial nod, as if you’ll soon see what he means. He follows a ribbon of concrete, wide enough only for one car,…
Stan Hughes, a tall, thin, straight-faced man with a gray ponytail, shuffles through dozens of boxes lining the shelves of a small storage space. They’re filled with memories of his brother-in-law’s exuberant life: an old coin collection, semiprecious gemstones and geodes, slot cars. It’s dusty in the small unit at…
Convicted Polo magnate John Goodman will be sitting in a jail cell for the next 16 years after he was found guilty of DUI manslaughter last October in the 2010 death of 23-year-old Scott Wilson. It took two trials to get Goodman to pay for his crime, but he may…
Back in July, medical marijuana advocates United for Care shipped over 100,000 petitions to Florida Supervisors of Elections offices for Supreme Court review. Once the Supervisor of Elections verifies that petitions are valid, the Supreme Court can then schedule a review so that the initiative can start to make its way to…
Robert Baumann was slugging through the workday on a recent Monday, installing an air-conditioning unit in the slamming August heat, when his cell phone shook around 1 p.m. with an incoming call. He didn’t recognize the number. “I used to never answer random numbers,” the 27-year-old told New Times last…
It looks like, as predicted by the National Hurricane Center, Danny won’t be much of a threat to our neck of the woods after all. However, there are at least two disturbances brewing right behind Danny in the Atlantic. After reaching category 3 status as a hurricane over the weekend,…
On Tuesday, the Palm Beach County commission decided to backtrack on regulating Uber, and even decided to deregulated the taxi cab industry from Level-2 background checks. Cab drivers in Palm Beach are required to under go fingerprint as well as state and FBI background checks. The county was considering putting…
Last week New Times opened a door on a little-seen part of the tax-payer-funded bureaucracy: the private group homes where Broward’s troubled and abandoned kids are housed once they end up in state care. The investigation dove into complaints that the contractors paid by the state to watchdog these kids were…
Exactly one year ago today, U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle of Florida’s Northern District in Tallahassee handed his 33-page ruling against the state’s same-sex marriage ban. After staying the ruling, and some challenges from state attorney general Pam Bondi, and some conservative groups, the ruling finally became official on…
It might be time to hit up the Home Depot for some supplies and canned tuna. Or, maybe not. Quick! Deploy the hurricane tracking sharks! The storm once known as Tropical Storm Danny has now become Hurricane Danny, making it the first hurricane to form in the Atlantic this season…
In 1983, a young Boy Scout met with two of his scout leaders, and some other scouts, at TY Park in Hollywood. The boy, now a 40-year-old man, says that the scout masters gave him and other scouts alcohol, showed them pornography, and had them run around naked. The scout…
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are taking Florida, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll, released Thursday morning. More tellingly, despite all his bombast, controversial rhetoric, and Twitter meltdowns, Trump has overtaken Jeb Bush among likely voters in Florida. Bush was at a pretty healthy 20 percent when the poll…
Ben Carson, the former neurosurgeon and Florida’s other presidential hopeful, may have told an audience at a rally Wednesday that he is open to drone strikes on U.S. soil to protect the border. Carson appeared in front of thousands at a rally in Phoenix, where he touched on topics such as…
John Singer went on a burglary spree throughout Broward and Palm Beach where he stole what police call “an arsenal of weapons,” which he then tried to sell at a gun show. According to a Broward Sheriff’s Office Report, Singer — who has has been arrested 17 times in the…
For months, a unit at the Public Storage on Colonial Boulevard in Fort Myers went unclaimed. Though warehouse staff sent several letters to the renter of the space, Maria Gamez, no responses or payments were made. In an effort to clear out the unit so it could be leased by someone…
Floridians are a weird bunch. Geographic isolation has leant its way to bizarre habits, like an aversion to indicator signals and a pathological fear of cockroaches. We even have our own twang—we prefer “you guys” to “y’all” and “Publix” to “supermarket.” It should come as no surprise that we e-laugh…
Anti-abortion activists are calling for a protest at the Planned Parenthood facility at 263 North University Drive, in Pembroke Pines this weekend. The gathering is being headed up by Broward Right to Life & Respect Life in what is being called a National Day of Protest at Planned Parenthood offices and…
After nearly three hours of debating and hearing from both Uber and the cab industry, Palm Beach County commissioners voted to not regulate the ride-sharing company when it comes to fingerprint-based background checks, and are likely going to deregulate the entire industry — including taxi cabs. According to various reports,…
According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, Florida’s poor or underprivileged children make up about 24 percent of the 3,894,496 children living in the state. Nationally, it’s 22 percent. And now, via a new study released by WalletHub, the numbers look even more dire for underprivileged children living in…
As we showed you in a recent New Times cover story, Florida’s group homes are in serious need of an overall. Due to the privatization of the state’s channels for placing and caring for trouble kids, there’s a serious lack of oversight among the ground floor service providers who are…
As Broward works to get Uber operating within the county again, the focus now shifts to Palm Beach, whose commissioners must also decide if they want to institute regulations on rid-sharing companies, or have the popular Uber suspend operations there as well. Palm Beach County commissioners will be meeting tonight…
