Over a year ago, we clued you in on a strange case of he-said-she-said involving a homeowner and a BSO deputy in North Lauderdale. This week, the charges were dropped involving the case — after nearly two years of wheel-spinning and hair-pulling. In December 2013, Valarie Joaceus, a North Lauderdale mother…
Hollywood Police says they are looking to crack down on the group responsible for painting over street signs named for Confederate generals in the city. On Wednesday, New Times reported that a group calling itself #BlackOutWhiteSupremacy had claimed responsibility for painting over signs on Forrest Street and Lee Street as…
Senator Bill Nelson has announced that he will be undergoing surgery on Monday to remove prostate cancer. According to a press release, Nelson has exhibited no symptoms, and that doctors found the cancer early during a routine medical exam. The cancer has not spread, according to further studies done on…
The American Democracy Legal Fund has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Florida’s Lieutenant Governor, Carlos Lopez-Cantera, for allegedly violating the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971. On June 20, Lopez-Cantera told a group of Republicans at a Miami-Dade fundraising dinner that on July 15 (today!), he’ll…
Catherine Pileggi, the Fort Lauderdale woman convicted for murdering her 70-year-old multimillionaire boyfriend, Ron Vinci, has been sentenced to 25-years in prison. The murder investigation, which was the subject of a New Times feature, was initially handled sloppily. But during the trial, the defense argued that Vinci was a drunk,…
They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. Those words about Mexicans from Donald Trump’s presidential announcement speech have been on a near-continuous loop since the comb-covered one uttered them on June 16. Within nine days, Univision, the largest Spanish-language TV network in the country, declared it would cancel its…
Probably the only benefit from the steady beat of violent public deaths of young black men — a public fuse lit with Floridian Trayvon Martin, continued with Jacksonville’s Jordan Davis, and that now includes the litany of Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray and others — is that these tragedies have…
Palm Beach tycoon and Republican political activist Don Burns has been identified as the target of an alleged $1.5 million extortion attempt by a gay porn star named Teofil Brank — whose performer name is Jarec Wentworth — during his first day of trial. On Tuesday, Burns, who has donated…
On the heals of South Carolina voting to take down the Confederate flag from its Capitol grounds, and Marion County voting to fly the Confederate flag again, and a New Times article reminding everyone that the City of Hollywood has several streets named after Confederate generals, a group calling itself #BlackOutWhiteSupremacy…
Fred DeLuca, Fort Lauderdale resident and co-founder of Subway, has seen his fair share of controversies hit his sandwich chain empire. From Hepatitis A contaminations, to trademark court battles, to what the sandwiches are made from, to the supposed false claims that the subs are actually 12-feet-long. But nothing has…
From May 13 to 15, across the state, a slew of “body rub” businesses were busted by the Department of Health for operating without proper massage licenses. Operation Trigger Point lasted only three days but the final count was 64 cease-and-desist orders being issued as a result of the sting…
An international firestorm erupted last November over Fort Lauderdale’s citing of then-90-year-old Arnold Abbott, and the arrests of members of the activist group Food Not Bombs, for violating the city’s outdoor food sharing ordinance that passed October 22 — a measure that was part of a trend of “homeless hate…
The Delray Beach City Commission unanimously voted on Tuesday to enact an LGBT-inclusive civil rights ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, genetic information, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, pregnancy, familial status, or age. The vote came as a culmination of work…
On November 14, 2014, three men flew a 1976 Gulfstream II jet from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport to Venezuela, making stops in the Cayman Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago. The jet returned to Fort Lauderdale nine days later, stuffed with over 485 pounds worth of cocaine — a load worth…
On the same day the South Carolina Senate voted to remove the Confederate flag from it’s Capitol, comes news that a pro-Confederate flag rally is being held in Loxahatchee this Saturday. As first reported by the Palm Beach Post, the rally and march has been planned to run through Loxahatchee, Seminole Pratt…
Despite campaign promises to go after environmental bad actors and polluters, Rick Scott’s administration has done no such thing. That’s the take away of a new report released Monday by the Florida chapter of the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Each year the group monitors the number of new environmental enforcement cases…
George Gray, all five feet eight inches of him, flies up the court like a Chihuahua released from a cage. He bursts through midcourt, dribbling at hyperspeed, and weaves around two towering defenders near the goal. Just before slamming into another, an enormous center beneath the rim, he spins instinctively…
On Monday, Donald Trump decided to put the kibosh on all the hullabaloo over his controversial statement about Mexicans being rapists who bring drugs into America by releasing a statement saying that Mexicans bring diseases into America. Trump, seemingly unhappy his comments are being misconstrued, released the statement to clear…
After saying it couldn’t do business in Broward County after commissioners pushed through new regulations to be imposed on ride-sharing app companies, Uber has announced that it will suspend operations in Broward effective July 31. Back in April, in a statement provided to New Times, Uber spokesman Bill Gibbons said the…
Despite being fired from several jobs and having his “brand” harmed, Donald Trump is not only not backing down from his Mexican immigrant comments, he’s going nuclear against fellow GOP Florida candidate Jeb Bush. At least he was, until he realized that’s probably not a good idea. Over the weekend,…
After hurdling over legislative red tape and squabbles over spending, it looks like a new spring training complex will be built in West Palm Beach after Gov. Rick Scott held a ceremonial bill signing Monday morning. The 160-acre facility, which will be home to the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros,…
The early a.m. docket at Broward County’s criminal court is like the day’s first race at a dog track – if you start late, it screws up the whole schedule. But two circuit court judges have regularly shown up to the bench tardy – around 10 p.m. or later –…
