You’ve known that public defender Howard Finkelstein is awesome since he began doing his “Help Me, Howard” segments on Channel 7 News. Now, the whole nation is about to have a collective crush on the five-foot-three, ponytailed lawyer, since Mother Jones has published a puff piece explaining how the department’s…
A 26-year-old man was swimming in the waters of Hallandale Beach in the 1900 block of Ocean Drive on Sunday afternoon when a shark decided he’d like to have a taste of the man’s foot. The man, whose name is not being released, was wading around in waist-deep water, according…
Two Pompano men are being held in Broward County Jail after cops busted their massively elaborate prostitution business. According to the Broward Assistant State Attorney, Douglas Juiffre, 58, and Joshua Rubenstein, 34, ran their all-cash business from a Pompano office space that doubled as a call center they dubbed AAAA…
Democracy is a great idea, sure whatever, but more money can be made if you have a velvet rope to cordon off your plebes from your patricians. Social media is about the last place we have equal footing in the world. But a new app cooked up by a team…
The anti-medical marijuana group called “No on 2” has made a lot of noise about the supposed dangers of legalizing medical weed in Florida. Some of its claims include that weed leads to gay sex and AIDS, weed has more cancer-causing compounds than cigarettes, weed causes more accidents and ER…
UPDATE: Since this story was published, the judge in charge of this custody case, Steven Feren, lost his seat in August’s elections. Robert Baumann has still not seen his daughter, Lilly. The clock reads 20 to 6 as Robert Baumann wheels his Ford Escape north. The 26-year-old is beat-tired, his…
An 81-year-old man not only cut off an 18-year-old driver on a Boca Raton road but then proceeded to pull a gun on the kid as well. Because, Florida. According to Boca Police, the elderly man, Irving Feingold, pulled a .380 caliber pistol on an 18-year-old after cutting off the…
Seven years later, Brady Quinn could be a Miami Dolphin! And it’s basically because the Dolphins are hurting at quarterback right now (still). Starting QB Ryan Tannehill had a decent performance during the Dolphins’ first preseason game over the weekend. But his backups, Matt Moore and Pat Devlin, are both…
It seemed like the police in South Florida had it out this summer for Critical Mass, the end-of-the-month group bike ride that takes place in hundreds of cities across the world. In Miami, Police Chief Manuel Orosa told reporters the mass had been taken over by “anarchists” and said organizers…
Even with four Florida judges ruling in the past three weeks that the ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, State Attorney General Pam Bondi has stepped in to appeal and keep same-sex marriage illegal in Florida. On Friday, Bondi filed two motions in a state appeals court requesting a freeze…
Andy Andrist is putting a maximum stress test to the adage “humor heals.” The Oregon-based standup comic laughs through trauma stemming from sexual abuse he suffered as a kid. But instead of confronting his demons in therapy, he tracked down his alleged abuser and met him face-to-face in Florida with…
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi wants the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to decide whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires states to sanction same-sex marriage. If her motion is successful, then the South Florida couples who are challenging the state’s ban would not be heard in the Third District…
Last month, we brought you the crazy-sad tale of Raymond Frolander, an 18-year-old Daytona man who was beaten unconscious by the father of a young victim Frolander allegedly raped. According to the arrest affidavit, the father of the alleged victim had walked in on Frolander sexually abusing the 11-year-old child…
In mid-July, New Times broke the story of Miami Dolphins center Mike Pouncey and his twin brother, Maurkice, allegedly assaulting a couple of people at Cameo Nightclub in Miami Beach. Since then, the road to charging the two had seemed a tangled one, with Miami Beach Police trying to piece…
Let no crisis go to waste. And if it isn’t truly a crisis, talk it up as though it is and ride that sucker all the way home to the voting booth — or the bank. That’s the strategy of the right-wing populists of the Tea Party, whose Palm Beach…
As part of its effort to watchdog Rick Scott’s administration, the Florida arm of the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) combs through the annual data about the caseload of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The thinking goes that a shrinking number of corrective actions by the state’s…
During the Donald Sterling racism debacle, LeBron James was quoted as saying “there is no place for [then LA Clippers owner] Donald Sterling in our league.” But as it turns out, when he made the bold move to return to Cleveland, he perhaps didn’t know about the potentially bigoted skeletons…
“C’mon, boi! One and tree! One and tree! C’mon, boi! C’mon, boi!” The heavyset Jamaican man in the yellow button-down shirt and khaki shorts threw a clenched fist in the air and shouted at the clutter of steeds galloping down the stretch in a cloud of sunburnt mahogany. Another man,…
Uber, the controversial car service that has earned a cult following but irked cabdrivers nationwide, has arrived in Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. On its website, the company announced UberX service starts today: “We’ve had an awesome time bringing safe, affordable and stylish transportation to the streets of Miami…
Diego Rastrojo, the extradited drug kingpin authorities say was the leader of a Colombian organization mainly responsible for drug trafficking to the U.S., was sentenced in a federal court in Florida, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Wifredo A. Ferrer, announced Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Patricia A…
If medical marijuana rolls out in November, people with legal businesses related to pot will be living like they’re in Breaking Bad. Until weed is legal on a federal level, it’s not going to be easy for people to stick their profits from the biz into a Wells Fargo. Instead,…
As we’ve told you earlier, there’s a big, OK Corral-style showdown going on in Florida over the future of solar energy. On one side of the debate, you have a small yet scrappy band of private businesses who rig homes with solar; on the other, Florida’s powerful utilities, who over…
