Susan Maurer began working as an abortion clinician 40 years ago at a Philadelphia hospital. For the past 22 years, she’s helped South Florida women through what might be an agonizing moment. The soft-spoken 63-year-old nurse administers anesthesia and assists doctors. At one point way back when, she recalls, abortions…
Upstairs in a beige church on McKinley Street in Hollywood, a 60-year-old with a full head of dark hair launches into a PowerPoint presentation full of big ideas and a bigger vocabulary. First, Bill Faloon gives a shoutout to Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine. “We need to put…
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has sent the Seaquarium a letter notifying their intent to file a lawsuit in federal district court under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The letter says that the orca Lolita’s captivity at the Seaquarium is unlawful because she is being harmed, harassed,…
Flakka has been making headlines across the U.S. lately, and a recent arrest in Palm Beach has shed light on how the drug gets into the country and out in the streets. Flakka has been most prevalent on Florida, specifically Broward County, where there has been a 45 percent increase…
The Grey Lady has discovered Florida Man. In an essay about Florida’s most famous export after cocaine and oranges, the Times sets out to discover the deeper meaning behind Florida Man with support from writers Dan Barry and Carl Hiassen as well as filmmaker Billy Corben. And while these Florida…
Longtime New Times readers are likely familiar with the name Ryan Lipner. The Broward man’s antics have been regularly come up in the paper over the last decade, a weird public career that includes lawsuits against his parents, an obsession with the greeting card company, quixotic campaigns for Florida governor,…
For some bizarre reason, people still very much harbor a morbid curiosity for the whereabouts and goings on of Casey Anthony, Florida woman who who was found not guilty on murder charges related to the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. And now it appears that she’s resurfaced and, according to…
Robin Haines Merrill, the executive director of the Upper Room Art Gallery, came up with an unlikely idea. She imagined an evening where folks would row along the Himmarshee Canal in dugout canoes, taking in performance art along the water that nods to the traditions of the Miccosukee and Seminole…
Not wanting to court danger, the Palm Beach County Republican Party has canceled their “Lobsterfest” dinner that would have featured controversial Islamic critic Geert Wilders as the keynote speaker. Geert was part of the Garland, Texas cartoon contest that invited participants to draw the Prophet Muhammad. Islamic law prohibits any image…
Krista Eve Morton, 45, of Wellington, and principal of Mavericks High of Palm Springs was arrested Wednesday after police got a call reporting suspected sexual activity in a parked car. North Palm Beach Police arrived at the parking lot to find a half-naked Morton and an 18-year-old male student in the…
One of the principal figures behind a so-called Jamaican lottery scam has been found guilty on several counts, becoming the first to be convicted in a massive FBI probe of the graft with deep Broward ties. Sanjay Ashani Williams, a 25-year-old from Montego Bay, Jamaica, was found guilty of one…
Now that former NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez is on his way to a life sentence for murder, more legal matter tied to the ex-player’s violent lifestyle are starting to come to light. One situation — a shooting of a Hernandez friend in South Florida after a night at Tootsie’s Cabaret —…
A Florida-based doctor and inventor is about to get all Star Wars-y up in your vag. In order to treat his patients suffering from pelvic pain, board certified female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgeon Doctor Ralph Zipper came up with a device that used low-level laser therapy. But during clinical…
Jayvon Woolfork is the lone suspect in the brutal gang rape of a Hollywood teen not to have been offered a plea deal. Last month, Patricia Montes, 17, and Erica Avery, 17, took plea deals and on Wednesday, Lanel Singleton, 19, and Dwight Henry, 18, also took plea deals, pleading guilty to…
SeaWorld Entrainment Inc. announced a net loss of $43.6 million in the first quarter of the year, but tried to put a sunny spin on it by also announcing that attendance has gone up. The theme park has been fighting hard to rehabilitate its public image with a marketing…
The country is still reeling from the events this weekend in Garland, Texas, where anti-Islam activists were attacked by gunman while holding a cartoon contest meant to jab a provocative finger in the eye of extremists. The contests promised $10,000 to the person who could cook up the funniest image…
Stop. Collaborate. And let someone know you’re landing a plane in the water because people got scared. On Wednesday night, police got a call about a downed planed in the Intracoastal off Lantana Road Bridge. Palm Beach County Fire rescue was called in to investigate. But, as it turns out,…
Two BSO deputies are facing charges for brutally beating a man at a gas station last year and then lying about it in the arrest report. Those lies might have gone unchallenged if it wasn’t for the surveillance camera that caught the entire incident on camera. The Broward state attorney’s…
Last June, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that police had violated South Florida resident Quartavious Davis’ rights when they used his cell phone information without obtaining a warrant. Davis had been convicted and sentence for a string of robberies, with his cell phone records obtained from MetroPCS as the…
The Florida man federal prosecutors say was “hell-bent” on shipping guns to convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. Belle Glade resident Oscar Hernandez Jr. — who is not related to Aaron — pleaded guilty in January to three counts of lying to a…
Every year, we hear the same complaint: Why didn’t so-and-so win Best Of? But with so many great people and places around South Florida, it’s hard to get to them all. That’s why we invite you, our readers, to chime in with your thoughts on some of the best restaurants,…
Going to prison in Florida no longer means you can’t keep it kosher. After more than ten years of lawsuits, a federal court ruled that the Florida Department of Corrections must meet the dietary restrictions of prisoners who desire a rabbi-approved meal. The FDOC had already been providing kosher meals…
