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…
More than 50 Boynton Beach Police officers are protesting outside of City Hall before Tuesday afternoon’s commission meeting, demanding that City Manager Lori LaVerriere resign. The officers are protesting what they say are overdue raises. Negotiations for those raises have been a source of conflict for several months. The officers’…
Update: That was a quick moment in the moral sun. Marino is pulling out of the lawsuit, according to new reports. Check below for the details. ****** The hits have come steadily for the National Football League on the concussion front (bad pun, sorry). As research continues to pile up…
On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed cutting carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s power plants by 30 percent by 2030 in an effort by the Obama administration to combat climate change. And while Florida’s governor has been going around reminding people he’s not a scientist and, therefore, that technically…
Chuck Wielgus has been executive director of USA Swimming since 1997. During his tenure, about 100 coaches have been accused of alleged misconduct that has ranged from placing video cameras in swimmers’ bathrooms to dealing steroids to molesting young girls. A five-month New Times investigation into the claims published in…
“You want to fuck with me?” the voice was heard saying, as the sound of scuffling and crashing debris echoed throughout the courtroom from behind the closed door. “Do you?!” the voice repeated as more slams could be heard. “All right!” the other voice screamed out. The judge, who apparently…
Between 1999 and 2001, about eight giant Gambian pouched rats were let loose by a local exotic breeder. More than a decade later, despite multiple attempts to eradicate what Zoo Miami Communications Director Ron Magill calls “the largest true rat in the world,” the mutant critters just won’t go away…
Researchers at the University of Illinois have found that hurricanes with female names are usually more deadly than their masculine counterparts. The research team thinks this may be because people subconsciously associate female-named hurricanes with feminine stereotypes of tenderness and affection — kind of like the way you subconsciously picture…
Last Friday marked the first Fort Lauderdale Critical Mass in which the police offered to help direct traffic. But instead of showing up on bikes, officers policed the area in cars and motorcycles. Although video circulated on Saturday of a 30-year-old accountant being tackled from his bike after blocking a…
We suppose we should be more surprised by this, what with our DUI checkpoint posts being among our most clicked-on blogs, but Florida ranks as the 13th drunkest state in the union, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. It’s not as much disappointing as it is…
Sharks do love them some Florida. Whether it’s a great white chilling off the coast of Fort Lauderdale Beach or a hammer head giving a guy a ride down the ocean or sharks surfing the waves of Palm Beach County or a bull shark swimming through the Intracoastal Waterway, sharks…
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…
Every family name comes with baggage. But if your driver’s license happens to say “Cousteau,” chances are you’re slotted for a life under the sea. Such was the case with Fabien Cousteau, the grandson of the famous oceanographer and documentary filmmaker, Jacques-Yves. And last weekend, Cousteau threw a new coat…
In case you weren’t aware, Hurricane Season just kicked off Sunday. That’s right. It’s that time of year again. And hopefully you’re all stocked up on batteries and cans of tuna. But no, Hurricane Season is complete without the local weather stations and storm centers and storm teams telling us…
