After a couple of weeks of relative quiet, chikungunya is back on the radar of local health officials. This week, authorities in Palm Beach announced that two more people had contracted the fever in the area, bringing the local total of Palm Beachers affected to four. The latest victims pretty…
In something of an ironic move, voters who are registered independents are banding together — to protest Florida’s closed primary system, which allows registered Republicans to pick a Republican candidate and Democrats to pick a Democratic candidate but leaves registered independents out of the game. Independents say this is not…
Back in April, we brought you the story about a Jupiter woman having to pay for the damages an exploding corpse caused to her condo unit. She tried to sue the insurance company that refused to pay for the damages, but the suit was dismissed. Now, a judge has declared…
Police arrested seven student activists yesterday afternoon at the Broward Transitional Center (BTC), after they blocked the entrance of the detention center. The seven were part of a demonstration of about 70 people who are urging President Obama to help alleviate the fears of many undocumented people who fear deportation…
Ray Allen was decidedly unhappy about how the Coral Gables Police Department handled seven teens who broke into his home in the middle of the night. But after meeting with the Florida State Attorney’s Office, authorities have charged all seven teens with first-degree misdemeanor trespassing of an occupied structure. “Ray…
An assistant principal at Royal Palm Beach High was stabbed this morning while she tried to break up a fight between students. According to Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office, a little after 7 Thursday morning, the assistant principal was monitoring the outside of the school, located on Wildcat Way and Bob…
Let’s face it, if you are going to raise your kids in a crime-free environment, South Florida isn’t your best option. That said, there certainly are some blissful pockets in this fallen landscape of face-eating zombies, coke-crazed baddies, hucksters, con men, predators, and maniacs. According to a new list of…
Remember Colin and Andrea Chisholm? The couple owned a yacht, lived in a Lighthouse Point mansion, and touted themselves as Scottish aristocrats, all while collecting public assistance. This past March, they were chased down by the FBI, caught in the Bahamas, extradited to Port Everglades, and summarily arrested. Not long…
Oh look. Another tropical disturbance. There’s something brewing out there, and according to the National Hurricane Center, it could impact South Florida in the next five days. While it’s still too early to say exactly what will happen with this disturbance, if it’ll fully form, or where it’ll go, pretty…
As teenagers in neon cleats stutter-step between lines of orange cones on the sun-baked grass behind Norland Senior High, one boy fumbles a pass thrown right at his hands. Coach Daryle Heidelburg punctuates the sweltering afternoon with a booming outburst. “Damian, get on the ground, please!” he hollers to the…
After being named for a prison accused of human rights violations and after almost being named for an apparent homophobic fast-food restaurant, the Florida Atlantic University football field is finally getting a name that everyone will love and isn’t a total lapse into bad taste. FAU announced Wednesday that the…
Update, 1:20 p.m.: At a news conference this afternoon, Obama called the Islamic State a “cancer.” He did not mention Sotloff by name and did not say specifically what his military plans were, but he vowed that “”The United States of America will continue to do what we must do…
Kratom, an herb found in Southeast Asia and banned in Thailand, Australia, Myanmar, Malaysia, and recently Indiana and Tennessee, is often used in a drink called kava here in Florida — where it is not banned. Not yet, anyway. But now, Palm Beach County is considering banning kratom. This is…
Stitches is a viral rapper, but he’s also a human meme. When the video for “Brick in Yo Face” hit the internet this past April, it racked up 6 million views in six days. The rhyme slinger was quickly declared a sensation, but he wasn’t without his fair share of…
Tom Steyer, a former hedge fund manager billionaire from California, has decided to pour millions into a campaign to remind Floridians that Rick Scott has been terrible to the environment. Steyer’s super PAC, NextGen Climate, is going strong to the hoop with attack ads targeting Scott and his environmental record,…
Today, a regional airline called Silver Airways began direct flights from Fort Lauderdale to Jacksonville. The company will offer this route up to three times per day, more beginning in November. The airline serves 15 other destinations in Florida. Silver Airways also today increased daily frequencies between Jacksonville and Tampa…
Coral Gables Police have released audio from the 911 made by Shannon Allen, Ray Allen’s wife, after a group of teens walked into their home in the middle of the night. Also, according to an incident report, Shannon Allen confirmed to police that the home’s alarm system was not activated…
That hazy sky you woke up to this morning wasn’t the usual August overcast. It was actually Saharan dust flying over our neck of the woods straight from Africa. Prior to this year’s hurricane season, forecasters predicted a slower-than-usual turnout of storms. Part of that is because of El Nino,…
Jameel McCline, the Democratic challenger to Alcee Hastings for Florida’s 20th Congressional District, was caught on video in a heated exchange in which he dropped a homophobic slur as well as a term used against mentally challenged people toward his daughter’s ex-boyfriend and that man’s mother. The video, shot by…
It’s hard to be black in Lake Worth. At least that’s how the rapper 28 Gramz tells it. The 27-year-old self-described “King of Palm Beach County” wants people who live east of Dixie Highway to understand his struggle. This past June, he released “Living in Lake Worth” through Smokeface Entertainment…
It’s been a long haul for Buju Banton, the famous Jamaican recording artist who has been gummed up in federal drug and gun charges since 2009. Despite two trials and an exhaustive series of New Times stories tracking the shady business behind the convictions, Banton — born Mark Anthony Myrie…
The Sex Pistols railed, “God save the queen/She ain’t no human being.” The Dead Kennedys sang, “Blow it out your ass, Ronald Reagan.” And now, here comes Wolfcat, getting all up in the face of our twice-divorced, thrice-married, yet gay-marriage-denying attorney general, asking her (more tunefully than their punk predecessors):…
