An 80-year-old man from Century Village in Deerfield Beach expecting to hook up with a female prostitute he met online instead was met by a man and then got robbed. According to Boca Raton Police, the man had met a hooker named “Amy” on the internet. The two made plans…
Former South Palm Beach Mayor Marty Millar killed himself over the weekend, according to authorities. The once-troubled ex-mayor and former police officer reportedly shot himself at a storage facility in Lantana on Sunday afternoon. Millar reportedly left a suicide note behind, but details on what it says have not been…
We’re not sure what socialite Paris Hilton has been doing since her 15 minutes ran out, but apparently it was doing good things for animals. Because Hilton is in Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday to receive an American Humane Association award for her charity work, and yes, you read this right. At…
The offices to the Delray Beach Police Department have reopened after an unidentified man suffering from stab wounds walked into the lobby around 7 a.m. Tuesday. The courthouse garage and area around the courthouse, off of Atlantic and NW Third avenues, had been closed off but are now open again…
When it comes to cities, what separates your desirable A-list locales and the lesser-than B team? Your Denvers from your Grand Rapids? World-class public transportation? Sports teams? Museums? Sure, sure, sure. But what about a big, glossy, superfluous, high-society magazine? If that be the case, then Fort Lauderdale has taken…
Well, it took long enough, but television’s beloved and terrifying anthology, American Horror Story, is finally heading to the place that invented the very idea of American horror: Florida…
Don’t panic. Those military aircraft and soldiers you see down the street are only a drill, says the Broward Sheriff’s Office. According to a BSO advisory, the U.S. Department of Defense will be conducting routine training throughout Broward County until Thursday. Officials say the training areas were selected specifically to…
A Palm Beach man was arrested for impersonating a police officer after he angrily told a Burger King drive-thru worker he was a cop when they messed up his order. The man, Riviera Beach Police say, was so upset about getting the wrong order, he refused to leave the drive-thru…
Richie Incognito apparently doesn’t know when to quit. And while his heart may (or may not?) be in the right place, it looks like he’s not ready to quit on publicly apologizing to everyone he seemingly angered or offended or hurt. On Twitter. The past few weeks have seen Incognito…
South Florida prison reform and immigrant rights activists are mounting a vigil this evening at the Boca Raton home of GEO Group CEO George Zoley, in support of hunger strikers at the global private prison company’s Tacoma and Houston-area immigrant detention centers. See also: – GEO Group Earns Over $600,000…
Rand Hoch, Florida’s first openly- gay judge, predicted that marriage equality would come to the state — and the rest of the U.S. — no later than by the end of June, 2016. The prediction came during Hoch’s remarks at the marriage equality demonstration in Lake Worth on Sunday. The…
Business interests pushing for looser restrictions on commercial development within Palm Beach County’s Agricultural Reserve — 21,000 acres of specially protected, environmentally sensitive land — have lead the County Commission to reconsider zoning in the area, causing alarm among members of the local environmental community. See also: – Way of…
You spoke; we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s Mug-Shot Monday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, derp faces, and femmes fatale…
Back in October, the feds caught a dude trying to smuggle 620 pounds of cocaine into West Palm Beach on a 132-foot luxury megayacht. On Thursday, another dude tried to smuggle cocaine into Palm Beach on a cruise ship. Authorities say the man tried bringing coke and heroin into Palm…
Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office and the the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission caught a man illegally feeding a shark in state waters last month. The feeding of sharks has been banned in Florida since 2002. But, according to the FWC, Randall Jordan of Emerald Charters of Jupiter, and…
Another poll, another strong showing for medical marijuana in Florida. According to a new University of North Florida poll, 74 percent of Floridians say they support and will vote “yes” for Proposition 2 in November, which would legalize the use of medical marijuana. This, along with the recent news that…
Jeb Bush briefly spoke in Spanish, called illegal immigrants “risk takers” and touted Common Core standards as a keynote at the sixth annual Broward Workshop State of our County Forum at Signature Grand Friday morning in Davie.
President Barack Obama left South Florida on Thursday night after attending a fund raiser at the home of former Miami Heat star Alonzo Mourning, but not before being greeted by dozens of people protesting the Keystone XL Pipeline. Protesters, some wearing costumes representing everything that’s wrong with the pipeline, lined…
FAU’s new president, Dr. John Kelly, freshly re-located to the school’s Boca Raton campus and two weeks into the job, invited us in last Tuesday for a 15-minute sitdown. Our time with the well-spoken and gracious South Carolina native stretched into half an hour. See also: – FAU Faculty Critique…
Mike Miller will be making his first visit back to the American Airlines Arena tonight since being amnestied and signing with the Memphis Grizzlies. And the Miami Heat have already announced that they’ll be giving him his 2013 NBA championship ring during a special ceremony prior to tip-off. According to…
Former South Floridian Aaron Jackson began his career of philanthropy by deworming Haitian kids — for which he was first the subject of a New Times cover story and later named a CNN Hero. With his charity Planting Peace, he then went on to buy an “Equality House” in Topeka,…
At a kava symposium held in Fiji last week, a main concern was Vanuatu’s export of a specific variation of the intoxicating pepper root called tudei (or as commonly spelled, “two-day”) kava. Experts said they fear countries could ban all kava and destroy the industry because some exporters were selling…
