Last month, grand juries cleared two police shooting cases that were brought to them by the state attorney’s office in Broward County, including a case in which an elderly security guard was killed after he had called police to report a suspicious person. In September, 2012, Earl David Brown, 73,…
The week before he was killed by a brick-wielding, 400-pound mental patient, Terry Young told his mother not to worry. It was a Saturday in late April 2013. Bettye White, a retired elementary-school principal, had made her weekly trip to see to her 53-year-old son at the Liberty City Hope…
A couple of teens have learned how the humble brag can get you in trouble with the law. Broward Sheriff’s Office reports that they’ve arrested three juveniles and an 18-year old after they made a video of themselves boating about the stolen cash, and stolen jewelry they took while sitting…
When the shots rang out, they came in flurries. The pops drowned out the music echoing through the Spot, a Caribbean restaurant in Liberty City that by midnight had transformed into a nightclub where dozens of local young people, some in middle school, flirted and rubbed sweaty bodies in the…
The City of Tamarac has decided to turn off their red light cameras, for the time being, putting a temporary end to traffic lights taking photos of cars at ten different intersections throughout the city. Since 2013, when the cameras first went operational, there have been 23,756 violations in total. …
Last week NOAA said that this year will be a below-normal Hurricane Season, and now well-known forecasters Phil Klotzbach and William Gray of Colorado State University are basically saying the same thing. Much like last year, Klozbach and Gray say we can thank El Niño being extra strong this year,…
In the world of psychic scammers — fake mystics and fortune tellers who use New Agey mystical babble and a variety of old school tricks to con money from vulnerable victims — there is a strong pipeline connecting New York City to South Florida. Often, as we have documented in…
Police shootings are often kept in a shroud of secrecy until an investigation is completed – and in Broward County, those investigations can take several years. But in Hallandale Beach, the city paid a $150,000 wrongful death settlement in October, 2014 to the family of an unarmed man who was…
First week of June. This is where the fun begins. Summer is upon us, hurricane season starts this week, and the school year is over. All of this adds up to one simple thing: It’s going to rain, and the kids are going to drive you batty. Summer time means…
Last week, Heather Hironimus signed a consent form to allow the circumcision of her four-year-old son, seemingly putting an end to a months-long battle between her and her husband, Dennis Nebus, who has wanted their son to have the procedure. Nebus was given permission to travel anywhere in the U.S. to…
Late May is the time of year when just about every high school senior class is giddy with the end of school and start of summer. Unfortunately, the good times have been clouded over at one Broward high school due to a tragedy. American Heritage School senior Liza Angulo was…
Hialeah cop who killed two police dogs in Davie by leaving them in the car all day is facing the wrath of a dog-loving public who is appalled that somebody, especially a cop, could commit such a heinous crime. However, Officer Nelson Enriquez won’t face charges of murdering a police…
In a cover story published two weeks ago, we described the empire run by longtime business partners Bill Faloon and Saul Kent, who have built up a multimillion-dollar dietary supplement business called Life Extension, and who pump huge sums into projects and experiments related to extending human lifespans. These efforts…
The weekend is finally here. Huzzah! Sure it’s been a short week, but still. You deserve a break. And a break you shall have! Time to hit up the city and get into some crazy. But heads up! The Broward Sheriff’s Office is conducting a DUI checkpoint tonight in Fort…
It’s looking like the strain of medical marijuana known as Charlotte’s Web could finally be available for medical use later this year. In April of 2014, the Senate approved the bill by a 36-3 vote, and Rick Scott signed the bill into law soon after. But CW hit a bevy of…
Roger Stone, Richard Nixon’s “dirty trickster,” Scott Rothstein’s former political czar, and Tricky Dick face tattoo owner, might be looking to throw his hat in the ring for Marco Rubio’s vacated U.S. Senate seat. Stone, a Libertarian, has announced he is forming an exploratory committee to run for Rubio’s seat as…
Proof that Broward is the pill mill capital of the world: more arrests are being made. Within a six-month period in 2010, a doctor and seven of her employees at the now defunct Real Care Medical Group in Plantation, bought more than 430,000 oxycodone pills from wholesalers and sold them…
A Pennsylvanian man named Ernest Evans, better known by his stage name, Chubby Checker, is suing a New York clothing company called Andy & Evan Industries for selling children’s clothing — some pieces of which, like “shirtzies,” are branded as “Chubby Checker” —without the singer’s knowledge or consent, or compensation…
Don’t look now, but the 2015 Hurricane Season kicks off on Monday. That’s the bad news. The kind of good news: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting a below-normal hurricane season this year. NOAA’s prediction, released on Wednesday, says that there’s a 70 percent chance of 6 to…
Edward Morton heard a knock on his door at around 10 p.m. Tuesday evening. When Morton answered the door, someone shot him in the face. Boynton Beach Police say Morton, 27, was taken to Delray Medical Center where he died. According to Boynton Beach Police, a man described as…
In the 1930’s, propaganda flicks like Reefer Madness tricked a significant part of the American population into believing that smoking marijuana turned one into a blood-hungry rapist who, after smoking a joint, went on the prowl for clean-cut victims. We know know that’s bullshit. So could the same one day…
The staff at FAU’s student newspaper the University Press (UP) was shocked on May 16 when they discovered a reporter from The Boca Raton Tribune named Fred Hamilton had passed off a student’s reporting as his own. Student journalist Emily Bloch, who is also a freelance writer for New Times, had…
