One of the truth’s about life in South Florida is that condo boards are pretty much hell-holes of infighting and disfunction. Put a dozen or so people in the room and ask them agree on anything — just see what happens. That’s what makes the continuing story of the Edgewater…
Under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), the Miami Seaquarium is required to renew its exhibitor’s license every year with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), an agency under the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Before the marine mammal park’s license expired in 2012, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, a California-based animal advocacy…
Last year, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross’ New York-based Related Companies and Related Fund Management bought the W Hotel & Residences in Fort Lauderdale for a reported $90 million with the intent to spruce it up and make it all new and shiny. Now that vision is closer to becoming…
With Election Day a mere 17 months away, it looks like Hillary Clinton still holds an edge over Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush in their own home state. Though the gap looks like it has closed a bit in the last couple of years or so. According to a new…
“I should cut your fucking head off,” Charleston Calix allegedly told his stepfather, as he wielded a machete. Riviera Beach Police say Calix, who has an extensive violent criminal history, was high on flakka when he made the threat. According to an incident report, Calix, 30, and his stepfather, William…
Florida ranks third in the nation when it comes to the number of people killed by police, which sounds accurate since this is the third most populous state in the country. But when looked at per capita, Florida is actually a little better – this year, at least – according…
Human trafficking and prostitution has masquerading as a massage parlor has been growing industry throughout the state, particularly in South Florida. But the City of Hollywood wants to get ahead of the trend and curb its growth by instituting new distance restrictions and requirements of massage parlor businesses throughout the…
Gaudy-hotel builder, Obama birther, epic combover-haver Donald Trump announced that he’s running for president Tuesday. And while his candidacy is good fodder for comedians and late night talk show hosts, we think he’d actually probably make a fine good president. And on Tuesday, he proved that he’s quite qualified because,…
The parent of a Broward County Boy Scout who objected to a parent leader showing hardcore porn to kids received a letter from the South Florida Boy Scout Council warning him that he will be kicked out unless he stopped making the accusations. Last week, Mark Kern, a former parent-volunteer…
As if Floridians need more to worry about from Mother Nature — take your pick, we’ve got invasive pythons, wild bears and coyotes, deadly snails — now health officials in the Sunshine State have released a warning on a flesh eating bacteria that has been making appearances on our beaches…
Hallandale Beach might be following in Miami-Dade’s footsteps to have anyone busted with marijuana possession to have to pay a fine rather than get arrested. That is, if Commissioner Keith London gets his way. Just last week, Miami-Dade Commissioners heard from residents and public defenders on an ordinance that would…
Grab your plutonium, rev that engine to 88 mph, and hang on tight: Best of Broward-Palm Beach 2015 is almost here! Here’s a preview of one of the winners, but check out the entire issue when it hits browardpalmbeach.com/bestof tomorrow and newsstands Thursday, June 18. U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy Let’s…
Hm. What’s the best way to say this . . . Floridians are not exactly . . . good workers? Office-bound? Competitive in the work place? Is that mean? Well, maybe we should say it like this: with beaches! and the ocean! and the Everglades! and the SUNSHINE! . …
Summer time means packing up the car and taking the family on that long-planned road trip to Orlando or Tampa or the Keys. And while hitting up the Magic Kingdom with the kiddos is a great deal of fun filled with wonder and whimsy, there’s always room to make things…
A Boy Scout parent volunteer was arrested by Sunrise Police last week for showing several minors, ranging in ages from 8 to 16, hardcore pornography on his cell phone while at a church fundraiser. And a Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy who volunteers for the troop and is friends with the…
Daniel Vazquez, a Gainesville-based personal injury attorney, has taken up Heather Hironimus’ case pro bono because, as he tells New Times, hers and her four-year-old son Chase’s case has precedent-setting issues including medical-legal ethics. Vazquez says he decided to become involved in the case, and not charge Heather, because he believes…
Orlando-based attorney and pro-medical marijuana advocate John Morgan is once again putting his money on the line to get medical marijuana legalized in Florida, writing a $150,000 check to get things rolling. Last month, Morgan promised that he would match every dollar donated to United for Care to get the…
Is the story about a Florida mom whose kids were taken away because she let her 11-year-old play in the yard unsupervised true? Lenore Skenazy, the writer behind the “Free-Range Kids” movement, which advocates for giving kids more space and freedom to roam instead of constant surveillance and supervision, wrote…
Last night while you were drinking too much because the forces of good lost to evil (NBA finals, Cavs v. Warriors, 2-2), Lake Worth was rocked with a dramatic series of events related to Mad Max-style road madness. Around 2:20 a.m., a woman and man wee involved in a heated…
Just one day after Rick Scott signed the 24-hour abortion waiting period bill into law, the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida and the Center of Reproductive Rights have filed a lawsuit looking to block the law. In April, lawmakers passed a bill that would require a woman to have…
Anti-circumcision groups known as inactivists have waged an online war with Joe DiMaggio’s Children’s Hospital over a supposed scheduled circumcision of 4-year-old Chase Hironimus this week. The groups have inundated the hospital’s Facebook page and, the hacktivist group known as Anonymous is supposedly threatening to hack the hospital. Meanwhile, an…
Raees Qazi and his brother Sheheryar are Pakistani-born siblings who hated America so much, they came up with a plan to set off a bomb in New York. The bomb itself, made from spare parts and possibly cribbed off an instruction manual downloaded from the Internet titled Make a Bomb…
