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…
The Solar Wars continue. This time, the battlefield is the Florida Supreme Court, which is in the process of hashing out an opinion related to the ballot initiative set forth by Floridians for Solar Choice, a bi-partisan group of green energy backers who want to circumvent the usual process of solar…
“The idea is to have a no kill community and a no kill community is only achieved by running programs that help decrees the overpopulation issue, which is education outreach, high volume low cost available spay and neuter,” Pets Broward’s Meredith Bruder says. “Because that’s what this county needs, and…
Just One Day is an annual animal-saving event organized by No Kill Learning and No Kill Nation that gets shelters to participate in not euthanizing any animals in their facilities for one day, and to instead make a push to get the public to come out and adopt a pet…
John Trainer, M.D., is a family doctor in Jacksonville. He has circumcised children and taught other doctors how to perform circumcisions. His own son is circumcised. But during the past few months, as he’s followed the case of 4-year Chase Hironimus — whose father won a highly-publicized legal battle against…
Pembroke Pines city commissioner Angelo Castillo is not just a local politician who quibbles about zoning issues – he’s also a biting satirist, right up there with Voltaire, Jonathan Swift, and Jon Stewart. That’s why he would like you to know that he will not alter his gender and plans…
Knowing a good story has been part of Paul Pope’s family business. It’s obvious why. As the son of Gene Pope, the Italian American businessman who’s nose for gore and sex created the National Enquirer, Paul grew up surrounded by a business that literally changed the tone of American pop…
A high-speed chase that reached up to 100 mph, and covered three counties, ended with two men up in a tree. According to multiple reports, U.S. Marshals were following a Boynton Beach man who was wanted on charges of aggravated assault with a firearm after allegedly shooting at his girlfriend. He…
G2 Security Staff make $8.05 an hour plus tips, with limited benefits. And the wheelchair attendants who work these jobs are protesting what they call “poverty wages” at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Tuesday. According to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), about fifty or so workers planned an all-day strike…
The boy 4-year-old boy caught in the middle of a circumcision battle between his parents is supposedly scheduled to have the procedure done this week. And anti-circumcision protestors are planning to picket outside the doctor’s office on the day before and the day of the scheduled circumcision. Anti-circumcision group South…
Residents of Deerfield Beach told city leaders not to approve a measure that would allow the building of condos on land that was once a blacks-only cemetery. They said human remains were still in the ground and building there would dishonor their memory. Despite the passionate pleas, the city voted…
Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy Justin Lambert punched David Gonzalez and threw him to the ground so hard, it broke the man’s orbital bone. Gonzalez never lifted a hand or became threatening towards Lambert, nor his partner Mike Manresa, though both officers said otherwise in their reports. A nearby surveillance camera captured Lambert…
