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…
Back in 2010, 50 Cent was accused of posting a sex video of Lastonia Leviston, the mother of Rick Ross’ child, on YouTube where it received 3.2 million views. The video, which showed Leviston having sex with then-boyfriend Maurice Murray, also apparently had snippets of 50 Cent wearing a wig…
It was supposed to be easy. Edouard Rene Joseph was a combat vet, Desert Storm, so he had trimmed the situation down to simple mission objectives: Get into the country, pick up the kids, leave the country. One day, tops. No big deal. “It’s not,” he would muse years later,…
Marco Rubio, the Florida Senator who wants to be the next President of the United States, is holding the line on his feelings towards same-sex marriage. And those feelings remain consistent: He’s not about it. Rubio appeared on the Christian Broadcasting Network and called same-sex marriage a “clear and present danger”…
A high-speed chase on I-95 in Boca has ended with four men in custody. The pursuit, which reached speeds of up to 100 mph, began early Tuesday morning when the suspects attempted to rob the bridge tender on Spanish River Boulevard at gun-point. After the man called 911, Boca Raton…
On a cool summer evening on January 8, 2012, 34-year-old Gregory Ehlers, Jr. exited a Best Buy in Aventura with a few items he didn’t pay for. Aventura cops chased him at first, but that store is located just a few blocks from the line that divides Miami-Dade from Broward…
Although the 2016 race for Broward Sheriff isn’t likely to be all that dramatic when voter finally head to the polls, there’s a side-show to the main event that just seems to be getting weirder and weirder. This centers on Edison Jules, the nominal challenger who’s filed the official paperwork…
Anxiety envelopes you. You’re drenched in cold sweat. There’s a jackhammer pounding inside your skull. You begin hallucinating and your mind begins to betray you. The muscles in your face tighten. Your legs feel atrophied. Your heart rate blasts through you like someone shot a firehose into your veins. Then…
A bounce house with children inside was lifted about 20 feet up into the air by a waterspout that hit Fort Lauderdale Beach on Memorial Day. According to several reports, the bounce house had four children inside, and all were taken to Broward Health Medical Center Monday afternoon. One of…
Recently, officials have been considering whether the act of trainers riding Lolita the orca at the Miami Seaquarium should be considered harassment under the Endangered Species Act. Meanwhile, activists are also arguing that such behavior poses a significant risk to the safety of the marine park’s employees. In July of 2014,…
The Miami Marlins refuse to stop letting their fans down in the most egregious ways imaginable. The Fish — fresh off their deciding to hire a guy with zero professional coaching experience to be their manager, and right smack in the middle of a seven-game losing streak — held a…
Heather Hironimus has signed a consent form to allow the circumcision of her four-year-old son. Hironimus, who has been in jail for a week, was given a choice by Judge Jeffrey Gillen of the 15th judicial district in Palm Beach County to either sign the form or remain in custody…
A naked man sitting atop a draw bridge in Fort Lauderdale has been safely brought down. According to various reports, a man who was completely nude was spotted on top of the raised Florida East Coast railway drawbridge over the New River at around 8:30 a.m. One witness says they recognized…
Don’t know if you’ve been outside much after dark lately, but if you have, you already know: bug season is fast upon us. As South Florida begins easing into the summer season, the people walking in from an extended period outside at night are going to start looking like they…
