Last year after Ray Allen sprinted furiously to a corner, made Mike Breen yell “BAAAAAAAAAAAANG” and the Heat took a bat to San Antonio’s knees, Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski collected on his bet with his San Antonio counterpart Gustavo García-Siller. Wenski received a sizable chunk of Texas barbecue and fajitas…
“I may have used the ‘N’ word while trying to protect myself from the immediate threat,” writes Wilton Manors Commissioner Ted Galatis, after he and his wife were involved in a road-rage incident near his home Sunday night. “I apologize for my use of the ‘N’ word,” he goes on…
The fall elections approach, and like clockwork, GOP operatives begin priming the faithful with horror stories of rampant Democratic Party voter fraud. How much substance is there to their tales of electoral chicanery, and how great is the need for stern measures to deter it? See also: Republican Voter Suppression…
Warning: the following story is sure to thaw out the most cold-blooded of SOBs or haters. You’ve been warned . . . Probably by the time you read this, a little boy from Coral Springs is living out his dream. We’re not talking about like a new bike or some…
The Spurs needed 90 percent shooting in the fourth quarter and the aid of a machine to beat LeBron James and the Miami Heat 110-95 Thursday night in San Antonio. The Heat took control of Game 1 in the third quarter of the NBA Finals matchup against the San Antonio…
A jury of six men and six women have recommended that James Herard, the former gang member convicted for the brutal 2008 Thanksgiving Day Dunkin’ Donuts robbery in Tamarac, be sentenced to death. Herard, 24, has already been sentenced to multiple counts of life imprisonment for the death of Kiem…
Former embattled Broward Circuit Judge Ana Gardiner has been disbarred from practicing law by the Florida Supreme Court. Back in 2008, New Times broke the story of Gardiner’s improper sexual relationship with then-prosecutor and Assistant State Attorney Howard Scheinberg during a death penalty trial. Gardiner and Scheinberg had both been…
FAU announced recently that researchers at its Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center (SNMREC) have signed a five-year lease to evaluate underwater turbines powered by ocean currents. The lease, which was granted by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), calls specifically for the researchers…
More than 100,000 cases have been reported in the Caribbean. About 53,000 have cropped up in the Dominican Republic. And South Floridians traveling to those two places might be responsible for bringing an epidemic home. Chikungunya, the oddly named disease that’s spread through mosquitoes, has infected 18 people in Florida…
There’s one rule about casinos: you always lose. No matter how much of your pocket change you dump into that slot machine, you’re always the sucker. That said, it’s eye-opening to see on a macro-level which casinos are actually making real money off you and your fellow suckers. Unfortunately for…
Has Mr. Horner lost his way to the house under the hill? Is old blind Bob having trouble finding the harbor of hope? Oh, don’t despair. It’s time for Just the Tips with the queen of concupiscence, Joy Taylor. Jonathan Zaslow: Just the Tips, we do it every week at…
Well. Here we are. The two best teams in the world ready to square off tonight at 9 on ABC. This 2014 NBA Finals is a rematch of last year’s Finals between the Miami Heat and the San Antonio Spurs. And it promises to be a doozy. With the series…
Biking in South Florida is dangerous — that can be said flatly. Last week, for instance, hundreds of cyclists from Miami to Delray Beach participated in a memorial event for fallen riders called the Ride of Silence. So after a cyclist took a bad fall over a wet grated bridge…
Every family name has its baggage. But if your driver’s license happens to say “Cousteau,” chances are you’re slotted for a life under the sea. Such is the case with Fabien Cousteau, grandson of the famous oceanographer and documentary filmmaker Jacques-Yves. And last weekend, the 46-year-old Cousteau threw a new…
Italo Morales is on the run. The 27-year-old from Honduras is trying to scrape up the cash to sneak through the border from Mexico to El Paso, Texas. After that, he plans on speeding through the southern United States on his way to Florida. He’s headed to Hollywood — home…
Minutes after this article went to press, Chuck Wielgus, longtime head of organized swimming, withdrew from his planned induction into the Swimming Hall of Fame on Fort Lauderdale Beach. For details, see “USA Swimming Executive Director Withdraws From Hall of Fame Consideration Amid New Times Investigation Into Sex Abuse.” It…
Medical marijuana advocates United For Care have come out and answered the various claims made in an eight-minute anti-medical weed ad that was recently released. Last month, we told you about Drug Free Florida’s anti-medical marijuana video called “Devil In the Details,” that breaks down reasons why passing Amendment 2…
A swarm of bees stung an elderly Plantation woman more than a hundred times Tuesday evening. The woman, who is reportedly in her early 90s, was attacked by bees that had nestled in a tree outside her home in the 1400 block of Campanelli Drive West. According to one witness,…
Game 1 of the NBA Finals rematch between the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs gets kicked off Thursday night. And so far, the story of the week leading up to tip-off has been that Tim Duncan said something interesting. Well, interesting by his standards. After their Western Conference Finals-clinching…
A Circuit Court ruled that antigay groups Florida Family Action, Florida Democratic League, and People United to Lead the Struggle for Equality cannot intervene in the lawsuit filed by six same-sex couples who sued Florida and are asking a court to rule that Florida’s ban on marriage equality is unconstitutional…
A state judge yesterday overruled legal challenges to an exploratory oil well in an area of the Big Cypress Swamp watershed adjoining the habitat of the Florida Panther, near the Naples residential neighborhood of Golden Gate Estates. See also: – DEP Bends to Oil Company Seeking to Drill in Everglades…
The first dozen headed to Gainesville hospitals last Thursday and Friday. Although the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office has yet to release the victims’ names or ages, the one thing they certainly had in common was an affinity for Spice. Although the drug typically produces a short high that can mostly…
