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…
Daniel Edwards is an American sculptor known for his what-the-bleep-inducing artwork that includes such classic works such as; Nude “Britney Spears on a Bearskin Rug while Giving Birth”, a topless Senator Hillary Clinton, “Bronzed Suri Cruise’s First Poop”, and something called a “Paris Hilton autopsy.” Now his “Nude Shroud…
In response to controversial undercover videos released by the Center for Medical Progress that show Planned Parenthood officials discussing the harvesting of tissue from aborted fetuses, Governor Rick Scott announced Wednesday he has requested that the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) immediately launch and investigation into abortion procedures taking place…
According to MTV’s “Casting Calls” page, the network is seeking users of flakka — the synthetic drug ravaging Broward County and seeping into other parts of the country — for a documentary style TV show called True Life: I’m Addicted to Flakka. Flakka is a synthetic cathinone drug called alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone…
A week after the Charleston church shooting, a New Times article pointed out that there are streets in Hollywood commemorating Confederate soldiers. Two weeks later, an anti-confederate flag group calling itself BlackOutWhiteSupremacy sent New Times an email with photos of five Hollywood street signs named after Confederate leaders: two on…
Earlier this month Schlitterbahn Waterparks owner Jeff Henry got the good news — a project he has been working 16 years to secure was close to becoming a reality. Fort Lauderdale was on the verge of sealing a deal that will bring a water park back to Broward for the first…
A man named Harlem Suarez, also reportedly known as Almlak Benitez, sympathized with the Islamic State and wanted to bomb a Key West Beach , according to a criminal complaint unsealed today in federal court in Miami. Department of Justice officials said he was charged with attempting to use a…
Today, the search for missing teen boys Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos continues today, with rescue operations focused near Savannah, Georgia. Mothers of the teen boys appeared on the Today Show this morning and insisted that the boys have the skills to survive their ordeal at sea. The boys have…
It’s been a week since Greg Futchi had was killed crossing a dangerous five-lane stretch of Wilton Drive, and those close to him are still looking for answers. Friends, family members, and supporters turned out at a rally last week to bring attention to the escalating hazard that is the…
The memoir, due out August 4, begins this way: “I was born on Miami Beach on December 22, 1960. How I came out, what time I came out, I don’t know. What I do know is that it was unusual. Miami Beach was still segregated… and black people weren’t even…
Good thing animals can’t read (or can they?) because there’s a legal definition in Florida’s statutes that would certainly hurt their feelings. According to Florida Statute 828.27, an ordinance on animal cruelty, the term “animal” refers to “any living dumb creature.” Calling any creature dumb, homo sapien or not, doesn’t…
Two 14-year-old boys — Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen — went missing Friday afternoon while boating off the coast near Jupiter Inlet. The Coast Guard announced today that the Navy is joining the search for the boys, while their parents urged people to comb the shoreline looking for signs of…
