Palm Beach County taxpayers have shelled out more than $28,000 for PBSO deputy Shatara Shatara to be on a paid leave during the past four months as Delray Beach police continue to investigate why the cop shot and killed his own son this past Christmas Eve. Shatara shot his 21-year-old…
Palm Beach County Commission has decided not to pursue their months-long quest to enact an ordinance that would force kava bars to put up warnings about kratom. Kratom and whether it should be banned has been in the headlines ever since the death of a 20-year-old Boynton Beach man named…
A man was lit on fire in an alley in Lake Worth Tuesday night. According to the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office, two men splashed a liquid on the victim and threw a flame on him, setting his face and upper torso ablaze. Police say they responded to the report in…
The FBI has been providing flawed hair analysis for decades and Florida is the state with the most defendants affected, with at least 10 of those ending up on death row and at least one execution. According to a report by the Washington Post, the hair analysis was overstated by…
Just after dawn, a gray van pulled up to Maria’s mustard-yellow house on the western edge of Immokalee, just a few blocks from the acres of tomatoes that draw tens of thousands of migrant workers to this remote town in Southwest Florida. Maria got into the van and sat next…
President Barack Obama is in our own backyard today to talk up climate change and Everglades restoration. It’s the first time the president visits the Everglades, which he has talked about spending $2 billion to restore. He’s going to use the opportunity to talk about the dangers of rising sea…
Today is Earth Day! You don’t seem excited, though! Well you should be, because regardless of your religion, race, or preference in One Direction band members, the Earth is the biggest part of your life. So show some respect, alright? Today there are lots of things you can do to…
Yesterday, Patricia Montes, one of two girls accused of being involved in a brutal beating and rape of a Hollywood teen, was sentenced to to four years in prison, and two years probation after agreeing on a plea deal with prosecutors. Today, her accomplice, Erica Avery, was sent back to jail…
Back in early February, a Lake Worth man stripped naked, climbed up on top of his apartment building with a handgun, and began to threaten to shoot himself and others. After hours of negotiating with the man, authorities say the man admitted to them that he was high on flakka…
Investigators are still trying to ID the woman discovered dead over the weekend in a part of west Delray Beach. As of now, the Palm Beach Sheriff Office isn’t providing that many details about the crime — other than they’re still stumped about who’ve they found. Foul play, however, does seem to…
Victor Mooney’s voice lowers and soars like he’s performing a one-man theater show. Sitting inside a hot, windowless room on the second floor of the Merrill-Stevens boatyard, not far from dozens of million-dollar yachts bobbing in the Miami River, Mooney is a youthful-looking 49, with a shaved head, broad face,…
On November 1, 2013, Patricia Montes, then 15, and her friend, then-16-year-old Erica Avery, invited an estranged friend over to a home in Hollywood. There, they allegedly stripped her, beat her, and held her down as she was raped by a 19-year-old man. On Monday, Montes, now 17, was sentenced…
Miami Heat President Pat Riley held his annual post-season-state-of-the-franchise press conference Monday morning (albeit, a tad earlier in the year than what we’ve grown accustomed to around here), and talked about the team’s past, present, future and draft pick. Oh and he also threw a subtle, yet not so subtle,…
A cushy partnership between one of Florida’s all-power public energy utilities and the U.S. military looks like it’s moving forward. The state’s Public Service Commission — which right now is pretty much an official rubber-stamp for whatever project the utilities want — signed off recently on the deal, which will…
A scathing new report says the private prison industry is getting fat off profits from detaining undocumented immigrants in sub-par conditions – and Boca Raton-based GEO Group is one of the main culprits behind the scheme. In the report, titled Payoff: How Congress Ensures Private Prison Profit with an Immigration…
Awww yea. It’s that time of year again. 4/20. And while everyday is 4/20 for most of you, it’s important to recognize today as Stoner’s Christmas. Because, why not, man. So, in order to commemorate and celebrate this righteous occasion, we present out annual list of best places in Broward…
A federal judge magistrate ordered that Palm Beach eye doctor Salomon Melgen be detained before trial. Melgen, who was was indicted on Thursday for Medicare fraud, has been called a flight risk by prosecutors. Melgen is tied to New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez’s corruption scandal after the eye doctor allegedly…
National child welfare advocates held a joint presser to speak out against the so-called Indiana-style bill (HB 7111) that’s been moving rapidly through the House that would allow private adoption agencies to turn down applications for adoption based solely on the agencies’ religious beliefs. This, the opposition says, would allow…
As New Times discovered earlier this year, there isn’t a subject matter more touchy that the laws outlining the rights — or lack there of — of sex offenders. The uptick of laws determining where sex offenders can and cannot go, along with the rise and ubiquity of information on…
As a bill that would set rules on police body cameras makes its way through the Florida Legislature, Hallandale Beach decided to start its own pilot program for their officers to wear the body cams for at least a year. Police body cams have become a hot topic of discussion…
Florida could have a less-partisan electoral process if a new petition gets on the 2016 ballot. Or it could get All Voters Vote, Inc., a Tallahassee-based group, filed a petition that would make Florida a “top-two” primary state. In this process, which is the model in Nebraska, Louisiana, Washington, and…
Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office announced that they have arrested a 14-year-old kid for the double-homicide shooting deaths of two Boynton Beach men. In the early morning hours last Monday, Ricky Taylor Miner, 23, and Andrew Vincent Laudano, 21, were found shot dead inside a Dodge Charger off Verona Lakes Boulevard…
