Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene, who made an absolute fortune hedging against the real estate market by betting that people would default on their mortgages, has put a 35,000-square-foot mansion in Beverly Hills on the market for what is believed to be the most expensive public listing in the country…
After getting hacked by cyber activist group Anonymous last month for its homeless laws, the City of Fort Lauderdale beefed up its cyber security network with a hefty $430,000 worth of improvements. But city officials say it wasn’t the Anonymous attack that made them spend almost half a million dollars…
Don’t count out legal weed just yet. Although medical marijuana racked up only 58 percent approval at the polls this election year, supporters are already mounting a campaign to get a similar proposal on the 2016 ballot. The thinking is that a general election will draw more Floridians off their…
A throng of ATV riders turned parts of Broward and Miami-Dade into a scene out of Mad Max, zipping through traffic, popping wheelies, and generally creating havoc on the roadways on Monday afternoon. The ATV riders and motorcyclists brazenly traveled in packs, not really caring for traffic laws, with at…
Super sports agent and South Florida resident Drew Rosenhaus was apparently involved in a domestic incident with his wife Sunday evening. According to a report by TMZ, police were called to Rosenhaus’ Miami home where his wife, Lisa Thomson, says she was verbally attacked by Drew and his brother Jason…
Evan Rowe is a former professor of history at Broward College. Broward College, that hallowed institution of community access to higher education, wants to help remind students about its whitewashed version of the King legacy, one that is now entirely compatible with its consistent abuse of adjunct professors. The college…
The strange political bedfellows that are hoping to revitalize Florida’s solar industry are taking another step toward that goal. Floridians for Solar Choice bills itself as a “grassroots citizens’ effort to allow more homes and businesses to generate electricity by harnessing the power of the sun.” Right now the organization…
Last year, the Florida Panthers ended the season at the bottom of the conference standings and among the worst teams in the league. They’re a team constantly mired in controversy. For various reasons — from terrible management to a lack of fans buying tickets to the fact the South Florida…
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court Justices have said they will determine this spring whether the Constitution requires all states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and whether every U.S. state must recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere…
So a teenage kid was walking around in a lab coat at St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach totally pretending to be a gynecologist. According to an incident report, police got a call on Tuesday about a teen boy roaming the halls of the medical center wearing a…
On Tuesday, nearly a month after Broward County ordered ride share companies Uber and Lyft to cease operations until their drivers complied with county taxi laws and transportation regulations, county commissioners voted to regulate the companies and to come up with a set of rules to do just that. The…
Last year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration brought a proposal to amend the current Endangered Species Act listing for Southern Resident killer whales to include Miami Seaquarium’s Lolita as a member of her extended family. As New Times reported last March, the National Marine Fisheries Service sought public comment…
Back on January 5 at 3:37 a.m., a shot was fired in front of the Walgreens on Haverhill Road and Okeechobee Road in West Palm Beach. PBSO confirmed then that a shot was fired but didn’t release any details. But this week, Florida Cop Watch reported something a little more…
The treatment of the homeless was a huge issue in Fort Lauderdale at the tail end of 2014. With a mayoral race coming up, it’s probably going to be the defining conversation of the new year as well. Today, homeless advocates are gathering at the Broward County Courthouse to push…
The mayor of Riviera Beach wants to change the name Old Dixie Highway and rename it Barack Obama Highway. Mayor Thomas Masters is on a personal quest to have the old road renamed after the current president and hopes his constituents can back him up on the plan. Masters says…
On Thursday, the Treasury and Commerce Department announced that trade and travel restrictions to Cuba will loosen up starting Friday. This means, among other things, that traveling to the island nation will be much less restricted, such as no longer having to apply for a travel license if one falls…
An armed robbery at a Palm Springs department store turned into a hostage situation Thursday morning, according to multiple reports. Police say several people in the store managed to run out when three armed men entered La Vieja, a department store located on Lake Worth Road and Kirk Road. Six…
People of the internet, I have an important announcement — I need to borrow $100,000. Why, you ask? Because that’s how much ex-Bears head coach and current ESPN talking head Mike Ditka says it will take for him to Prancercise. I feel like this is where the post should end,…
Residents of the City of Doral in Miami have come to the conclusion that Donald Trump is not a great person and have asked their mayor to rescind an offer of giving him the key to the city. And the mayor has done just that. Trump had been offered the…
Scary times out there: The world is still trying to screw its head back on after last week’s attack on the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo. The publication, which was hit by two gunmen who took 12 lives, had long been a target for radical Islam after its provocations against…
It was recently announced that retired Brazilian soccer legend Ronaldo would be part of the ownership group that purchased the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. With his World Cup-winning pedigree and well-known grin, Ronaldo is expected to lend his name to the North American Soccer League and the Strikers, which is never…
A diary purportedly belonging to Virginia Roberts, the sex slave Palm Beach financier Jeffrey Epstein “loaned” out to billionaires and, allegedly, to Prince Andrew when she was underaged, reveals sordid and dark details of her experiences at the hands of Epstein and other high-powered men she claims she was ordered…
