It has been a long weird road for Paul Pope. The son of the founder of the National Enquirer found himself locked in a legal tussle involving his own mother. The most reason front-line in that on-going fight: Pope’s efforts to get his guns back. In 2013, the Palm Beach…
Hallandale Beach is officially the first city in Broward County that will have cops fine anyone caught with marijuana rather than arresting them. On Wednesday night, Hallandale Beach Commissioners unanimously approved a new measure that will make marijuana possession a civil offense rather than a criminal one. Anyone caught with…
A school child psychologist from Tennessee was arrested on child pornography charges in Hollywood Tuesday night. According to a Broward Sheriff’s Office report, Richard Pitcock, 51, was busted sharing child porn images from the St. Maurice Inn, located on 314 Michigan Street in Hollywood. The South Florida Internet Crimes Against…
As it stands, anyone in Hallandale Beach caught with 20 grams of pot or less is facing one year in the slammer, maximum. But that could all change starting tonight. After mulling over whether or not to have police issue fines rather than place under arrest anyone caught with a…
This past May, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s decision and ruled that police did not violate Quartavious Davis’ Fourth Amendment rights preventing unreasonable search and seizure when they failed to get a warrant to use cell-phone records as the sole evidence to convict him in…
Jeb Bush says that he “misspoke” when, as he offered up his opinion that funding for Planned Parenthood should be cut, that women’s health programs as a whole should be scaled back. “I’m not sure we need half a billion dollars in funding for women’s health programs,” Bush told a…
Back during the 2013 season, Richie Incognito became the face of bullying in the NFL when it was revealed that he hazed and used racial slurs against then-Miami Dolphins teammate Jonathan Martin. Incognito was suspended and then released and stayed unemployed for the entire 2014 season. But this offseason, Incognito was…
A group that says they are affiliated with the hacktivist collective known as Anonymous has announced a national Day of Rage in support of Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old Chicago area woman who died under mysterious circumstances while in police custody in Texas. The rally, which is also called #opSandraBland, is…
One sunny afternoon in June, Denise Weinstein was walking Josie, her shaggy, white, Maltese shih tzu mix, outside Century Village, the 55-and-older South Florida retirement complex where she lives. That’s when the birds attacked. “Two birds were swanning down on me like dive-bombers!” she recalls. “They looked like helicopters.” The…
It’s Friday night in downtown Miami, and a dozen people chat and glance over menus inside a dark Peruvian restaurant while a pair of bartenders stand idly behind a long, mostly empty bar. Then Dom Gelin hops onto a small stage near the back of the room. The short 25-year-old…
Jeffery Feldewert, a 20-year veteran with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department who was fired in June over racist comments he made on his Facebook, is not back on the job and has instead been given a 10-day suspension. Feldewert was let go after he took to his personal Facebook page…
Lilly Baumann, the now-three-year-old Broward baby who was kidnapped by her mother in May 2014, has been discovered by authorities. Robert Baumann, Lilly’s father, confirmed to New Times Monday afternoon that the girl was spotted and that his ex, Megan Everett, has been taken into custody. Robert is now on…
After 15 years of study and debate, the National Park Service last year adopted a fishing management plan that would phase out and eventually ban commercial fishing in Biscayne National Park’s 170,000 acres, and last month adopted a management plan that established a 10,500-acre marine reserve — a no-fishing zone —…
“At first, when I heard the Sandra Bland story, I wasn’t sure if I believed it,” Pam Keith tells New Times. Palm Beach County’s 46-year-old democratic Senate candidate, who lives in Juno Beach, knows how scary it can be to be pulled over by a police officer. She’s a woman…
The positives to living in South Florida greatly outweigh the negatives; it’s always 80 degrees, at any given time you are just minutes from a beautiful beach, and there are no shortage of beautiful single people — problem is — to have all these things, most of us have to…
The Coast Guard is suspending its search for missing boys Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos at sunset tonight after having searched tens of thousands of miles for them. However, their families vow to continue their privately -organized search and to request help from volunteers. They insist the next 48 hours…
Two years ago, flakka arrived in South Florida provoking a string of bizarre incidents involving paranoid, aggressive naked people under the influence of this cheap, potent stimulant. In January, a naked man was coaxed off a Lake Worth roof by a SWAT team. In March, a man who had taken…
Uber customers in Broward County will be listening to Wiz Khalifa’s ‘See You Again’ on a loop today; because as of today, the mobile ride-sharing service is suspended there. Key word here is “suspended”, because both Uber and the county have plans to revisit the sticking points that have caused…
Last summer, we reported on every parent’s worst nightmare — a situation where one parents, in defiance of a court order, kidnaps a child, keeping the kid from the other parent. For Robert Baumann, that pretty much been his life for over a year. In May 2014, his ex, Megan…
It’s Friday — but don’t turn off your brains just yet, friends. The National Urban League is holding its annual conference at the Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale this week, and its culminating event is happening this morning as five presidential hopefuls, including rivals Hillary Clinton and Jeb…
Today there’s a presidential candidate plenary — that’s a fancy word for “big meeting” — in Fort Lauderdale, and five candidates are going to be here to speak, at the Urban League’s national conference. Surely, you’ve already media-overdosed on Clintons and Bushes by now, so here are some deets you…
Sixty-five-year-old Anita Mitchell might be Broward County’s biggest fan. She loves living in Broward County. She loves meeting people from Broward County. But she especially loves writing about people from Broward County. Mitchell, a former English teacher turned reporter, recently launched “Broward People,” a site that posts profiles of Broward’s…
