Looks like the Florida Panthers’ latest proposal to Broward County has altered language that would basically screw over the county while they make the big dough, according to a rundown of the proposal by the Sun Sentinel. The first proposal the Panthers made at the beginning of the year had…
Steve Carell is attached to star as David Menasche, the Broward resident and former Coral Reef Senior High English teacher who was stricken with brain cancer and wrote a book about reconnecting with his former students. The rights to Menasche’s The Priority List: A Teacher’s Final Quest to Discover Life’s…
The internet has made official what we pretty much already knew: Downtown Fort Lauderdale is a kickass place. How kickass? According to Livability.com, it’s the seventh-best downtown in the U.S. The website is all about tracking down and ranking the best cities to live and work in, avoiding the obvious…
No single debate is as overstuffed with bloody history and hot feelings like the Israeli-Palestinian standoff. With U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry expected to unveil a plan to settle the century-long tug of war this spring, the heat is only rising. And now, stumbling into the picture, here comes…
The identity of the machete-wielding man who was shot and killed by a BSO deputy has been released by the Broward Sheriff’s Office. Homicide detectives say Deosaran Maharaj, 51, was the man who allegedly threatened a woman with a machete and was later shot and killed by BSO Deputy Paul…
A group calling itself Floridians for Immigration Enforcement (or, FLIMEN) is putting on the full-court press to get legislators to derail HB 851, a bill that would allow all students who have studied in Florida for three consecutive years the opportunity to pay in-state tuition at a state college or…
If you’ve had a few too many green beers later tonight, keep those keys in your pocket and call AAA, which is offering free towing tonight for impaired drivers. The company’s “Tow to Go” program is offered throughout Florida and Georgia on big drinking holidays such as New Year’s and…
United for Care campaign manager Ben Pollara announced in January that enough signatures had been collected to force a vote on whether to legalize medical marijuana in Florida. He stopped gathering petitions and started working to get voters to the polls to vote in favor of the constitutional amendment this…
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…
There seem to be more questions than answers after a man who allegedly threatened a woman with a machete was shot and killed by a Broward Sheriff’s deputy Sunday night. According to the BSO, a woman approached the deputy just before 8 p.m. Sunday to tell him a man had…
SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. released fourth quarter earnings for 2013 on Thursday, and reported record earnings in its first year as a public company. SeaWorld President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Atchison told analysts during Thursday’s conference call that the documentary Blackfish, and its ensuing backlash, had no impact on the…
Back home in Bolivia, Col. Mario Fabricio Ormachea Aliaga’s gig at the Bolivia National Police was to root out corruption — supposedly. In an irony that makes perfect sense in the Caribbean, Ormachea has been sitting in U.S. federal custody since September on charges he tried to extort money from…
Jeff Platt is the 29-year-old CEO of Sky Zone Indoor Trampoline Park, a Los-Angeles-based trampoline fun factory with 55 parks across North America. He visited his company’s Pompano Beach location, which officially opened last week, to star in an episode of CBS’ Undercover Boss, a show that features an executive…
New Times began calling Florida Highway Patrol in late February for an update on Kayla Mendoza’s criminal investigation. After all, it had been almost four months since Mendoza Tweeted “2 Drunk 2 Care,” went behind the wheel, and caused a head-on collision that killed 21-year-old best friends Marisa Catronio and…
The attorney for Elroy Phillips is determined to have his client set free for what has amounted to an egregious and distorted miscarriage of the law. Phillips, the 47-year-old West Palm Beach resident, has already spent the better part of a decade in prison for what he says is a…
If you are still not tired of Alonzo Mourning trying to sell you health insurance while watching a Miami Heat game, then let Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz have a go at it. The outspoken Democratic National Committee Chair will be at Broward College’s Central Campus in Davie Sunday, urging uninsured…
The speaking appearance at FAU next week of FOX News talking head Walid Phares has been preceded by little fanfare, unusual for a school that trumpets such events as a local Boys & Girls Clubs’ art exhibit or the school’s Jupiter campus being named a “Tree Campus USA.” See also:…
Next time you sigh in line at a CVS because your girlfriend wants flowers, be thankful. It could have been worse. I mean, what if she wanted this thing? Just look at it. How does that happen? What kind of insane genie do you have to rub to make that…
After a two-year hunt with no success, a dangerous, man-eating Nile crocodile was captured alive in Florida’s Everglades National Park this past weekend. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says two other crocs were captured in 2009 and 2012 in the same area as this one. Since the Nile…
Arguably the most important governor this state has ever had has died. Reubin Askew, who served Florida as the state’s 37th governor from 1971 to 1979, died early Thursday after suffering through various ailments, including a stroke, a former aide has confirmed. He was 85. In his time as governor,…
Alphonso Davis had no business being around kids, and the Broward County School Board should have known it. That’s the basis for a lawsuit filed in February by a local mother-daughter duo who claim the sexual assault suffered by the latter could have been prevented. According to the court filing,…
Florida seems to be well on its way to getting medical marijuana legalized. Voters this November are going to be able to decide on their own whether weed should be made legal for folks with debilitating diseases, and a bill that would decriminalize the use of a strain of medical…
