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…
Broward isn’t known as a tech hub, let alone for having a digital arts scene. 3-D-printed designer jewelry? Digital art masterpieces in BroCo? Not really. But the folks over at Coral Springs Museum of Art want to change that. The museum plans to open a high-tech digital arts lab. Imagine…
On Tuesday, Broward College adjunct professor Evan Rowe came out swinging against school administration by accusing it of paying poverty wages. Adjuncts can earn a max of $16,000 a year teaching a full load, he said. He threatened to organize a strike. Yesterday, the college responded, saying that it’s illegal…
The lives of three young women, all in their early 20s, unexpectedly intersected on the westbound lanes of the Sawgrass Expressway last November 17. Twenty-one-year-old best friends Marisa Catronio and Kaitlyn Ferrante were in a red Toyota heading west at 1:45 a.m. Meanwhile, 20-year-old Kayla Mendoza approached driving her boyfriend’s…
Darkness has swallowed the train tracks. It won’t be long until the men arrive. At 9:50 p.m., the first pair of headlights punches through the black, and a white Ford pickup rolls into the parking lot of a large warehouse sitting among the nameless structures dominating the Miami-Hialeah border. Within…
Eric Madrid is a 32-year-old shaman with a cropped beard, a protruding lower lip, and dark curls grown long in the back. Although he typically wears an all-black uniform, from flat-brimmed cap to high-top skate shoes, he’s barefoot and stripped to his skinny jeans this January night. He lies prostrate…
This week, our cover story in the print edition of New Times profiles a group of young South Florida men who find enlightenment in hanging their bodies with hooks. The group calls their practice out-of-body experiences, or OBEs, and testify to the practice of suspending one’s self in the air…
After a massive citizen turnout at public hearings in Naples yesterday, Environmental Protection Agency officials have extended the comment period on a Texas oil company’s request to drill a wastewater disposal well in the Everglades. Environmental activists at the meeting claim 300 to 400 of their number were in attendance…
On Friday, we reported on a JetBlue flight bound for Fort Lauderdale that was forced to divert to Jacksonville because of an unruly passenger. And it appears that the passenger, who was reportedly drunk, was headed to a rehab center. “I want to make sure everybody on the plane knows…
The Jonathan Martin era with the Miami Dolphins is over. The Fins traded Martin to the San Francisco 49ers on Tuesday for a conditional draft pick, where he will be reunited with his Stanford University head coach, Jim Harbaugh, who now coaches the 49ers. During the bullying scandal that engulfed…
