On Friday, January 24, Chad Cooke and Andy Monet went out for a celebratory beer. Earlier that day, election officials had announced that enough petition signatures had been verified to force a vote on whether to legalize medical marijuana in Florida. The duo had been working tirelessly for weeks on…
A Boca Man is exercising his right to be a total racist by flying a Ku Klux Klan flag and a Confederate flag outside his mobile home (because, of course he lives in a trailer home). The man is also displaying a “Members Wanted” sign and has a noose hanging…
As if herpes and irritable seagulls weren’t enough, Fort Lauderdale spring breakers can now add another potential hazard to their list of things to avoid on the beach. “Bathing in Nude Condition” is against the law in Fort Lauderdale. This is the exact phrase used by a cop on a…
Last year, 64-year-old Ft. Lauderdale native Diana Nyad completed her lifetime goal of swimming from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage in just under 50 hours. And now, she’s going to be on this season’s Dancing With the Stars. Because if swimming 103 miles through treacherous man-eating sharks, while…
Last week, our sister paper had a story about a Florida man so terrified of spiders, he decided to get a giant tattoo of one on his face. As a sort of inked-up reverse psychology that he’ll probably regret when he’s an old man. Or when he tries to grow…
This week, our cover story in the print edition of New Times delves into the heinous story of a Hollywood girl who was allegedly stripped, beaten, and held her down by her supposed friends as she was raped by a 19-year-old man. On November 1, Patricia Montes, 15, and Erica…
The woman behind the largest case of fortunetelling fraud ever to hit a courtroom has finally been sentenced. Rose Marks, the Manhattan and Fort Lauderdale psychic accused to bilking her longtime clients using a bag of tricks and mental manipulation common among fortunetellers, will go to prison for a little…
On March 18, from 5 to 7:30 p.m., a store called Babalu Palm Beach will hold a cocktail party. Its purpose is to celebrate the smell of a candle. The candle costs $595…
The entire NBA season has seen the national media try to give the MVP award to the Pacers’ Paul George or the Thunder’s Kevin Durant. But then along comes a night like Monday night, when LeBron James steps in to preserve the natural order of the universe by raining destruction…
Well, here’s something you can fine under An Idea That Has ZERO Chance of Getting Passed but Is Totally a Great Idea Anyway: A Florida senator has filed a bill that would allow people to smoke weed for recreation.Sen. Dwight Bullard (D-Miami) filed SB 1562, a bill that, if passed…
This past September, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz stole the national spotlight for a hot minute — OK, 21 hours — when he took over the Senate floor, giving a speech that included a full reading of Green Eggs and Ham. Cruz promised to filibuster to delay a vote on a…
Marissa Alexander, the Florida woman who was arrested for firing a warning shot to ward off her abusive estranged husband, may now be looking at 60 years in prison because of a weird law that would add 20 years to each charge. The Florida Times-Union is reporting that the Office…
Well now, this is something. Michael Yormark, the Florida Panther’s polarizing team president, is leaving the franchise to join… Jay Z. According to multiple reports, Yormark is leaving to run the business side of Jay Z’s agency, Roc Nation…
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…
Ah, Florida. Sure, we have criminals, just like every other state. But we have our own special kind of criminals. Namely, dumb ones. And, because we’re never in short supply of dumb criminals, we present to you our latest series of the dumbest Florida criminals of the month. February was…
James Schiltz never went to spring break in Fort Lauderdale. The recent Iowa State University graduate hasn’t even been to Florida. But that didn’t stop him from writing an elaborate 120-page master’s thesis last year on the rise and fall of spring break in Fort Lauderdale. “I was really fascinated…
A SWAT team put down a gunman who forced the lock down of the Moore Justice Center in Viera, as well as Viera High School, and Viera Charter School in Brevard County on Friday afternoon. Palm Bay police officers had cornered the man in an area near the courthouse around…
UPDATE, 3/4: The Ambassador of the Dominican Republic has responded to this article. The Ambassador’s statement is posted in full at the bottom of this post. UPDATE 2, 3/4: Mayor Sharief has also issued a response, which is posted below. On February 23, Enterprise Florida led a group of local…
Meagan Simmons’ attractive mugshot made her a sort of internet sensation for a while. That is to say, people thought she was totally hot and decided to make her face a meme. She didn’t mind it so much. She even bragged about it. But now that a background check website…
Florida has its share of strange animal stories — from huge pythons to invasive lizards — but this tale is so common, it’s scary. In August, a man from Lakeland named Ronald Resse came home complaining of a spider bite. Six months later, he was dead. It all happened because…
LeBron James is the hero Miami deserves. It was exactly one week ago that James broke his nose against the Oklahoma City Thunder. And after missing one game in between, LeBron returned to the night to fill his enemies with dread like Batman. Literally. Much to the delight of the…
A federal judge in two California cases has swatted away Donald Trump’s efforts to defeat claims of fraud, financial elder abuse and racketeering. In San Diego last week, Judge Gonzalo Paul Curiel held that California, New York and Florida residents who were students at Trump University could proceed as a…
