Both parties finally agreed that it’s enough already with the government shutdown and passed a short-term budget deal Wednesday to curb all the stupid. But, never one to disappoint in his ridiculousness, our very own governor, Rick Scott, is none too pleased with this. Because of Tea Party reasons! Scott…
Twitter killed Rep. Bill Young. Young, who just last week announced his retirement and who was recently admitted to a hospital, is still very much alive. Although “gravely ill,” according to his office. But, according to several tweets — some from credible news sources — Young has died. Except, he…
Cut through rock with a butter knife? Set up an elaborate plan to sneak out in the middle of the night? Pffft. The best way to break out of the clink, apparently, is to forge some papers. Two inmates were mistakenly set free from a Florida prison and are now…
On the night of October 5, Jandei Cherry, a 22-year-old father and worker at Quarterdeck in Dania Beach, went skinny-dipping late after work. At the time, he apparently got into a verbal altercation with a coworker. In retaliation, the coworker took Cherry’s clothes, cell phone, wallet, and skateboard and ran…
FAU’s student paper, University Press, has a cover in this week’s issue that trumpets the phrase “Free Palestine,” illustrated by a photo of students reenacting an Israeli soldier’s detention of a Palestinian woman at a roadblock. See also: – The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Gets Personal at FAU It’s the kind of…
A 19-year-old Palm Beach Gardens man decided it would be a neat idea to kill an alligator by hacking it to death with a machete. He then decided to share the moment with his dad, and so he texted his old man a photo of himself and the dead, hacked-up…
Damn, that was close. Sixteen days of government shutdown. An endless sound-bite tug of war. Negotiations that had less intellectual substance than a debate over who could bench more, the Hulk or the Thing. It’s all over. Late last night, at the 23rd hour, Congress finally hammered together a deal…
The night of the beating, the beach bar pulsed with drunken euphoria. It was well past midnight on that cool December evening last year, a moment for celebration for two Canadians who ambled inside Dirty Blondes. One of the men, Erik Kormos, a yacht captain, had just gotten engaged to…
Ryan Seay’s life was turned upside down by a phone call. It was late October of last year, and the sound engineer was celebrating his 28th birthday in Sarasota. Exhausted after a day at the Ringling Museum of Art, Seay and his girlfriend fell asleep on their lumpy hotel room…
Who’s at fault when internet celebrities become targets of real-life harassment? Are they victims of their own narcissism? What about when they’re under the age of consent? Last week’s New Times feature (“Lonely Lolita,” Allie Conti, October 10) looked at what happens to a young girl when she achieves pseudo-fame…
No one knows if LeBron James is staying with the Miami Heat or if he’s bolting via free agency next summer. But that didn’t stop ESPN the Magazine from going ahead and asking random current NBA players in an arbitrary poll anyway. And according to 71 percent of these players,…
A couple of thieves walked into a Florida pet store in the middle of the day, stuffed some boa constrictors into their hoodies, and walked out. The total value of the stolen snakes came to $8,000. According to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, the hoodie thieves walked out of the…
Four Don’ts of Halloween decorating: 1. Don’t decorate your home with a burning cross, even if it’s a “prank.” 2. Use something other than gasoline as fuel. 3. Use something other than candles to set the thing on fire. 4. Really, just stop at number one and call it a…
One of the teen girls arrested in connection to the suicide death of a 12-year-old Central Florida girl Rebecca Sedwick was ordered to remain in jail. The other girl, 12, was released into her parents’ custody. Polk County Police say the 14-year-old showed no remorse over Sedwick’s bully-driven suicide and…
Earlier this summer, bare-bones bar Dirty Blondes on Fort Lauderdale Beach absorbed sweeping castigation after its bouncers beat two men and the incident was caught on video. But, as this week’s New Times cover story has found, police have incentive to side with the bars whenever there’s an altercation between…
What in Ron Wiggins’ name is happening at the Palm Beach Post? First, they came for 300 staffers. Then they came for TGIF. Now, they are coming for courts reporter Jane Musgrave. And we can’t have that! Journalism has been under fire for more than a decade, since the internet…
Palm Beach Gardens city officials are going to try to sell the city tonight on building a $100 million spring training baseball stadium. The stadium would serve as the spring training facility for the Houston Astros and the Toronto Blue Jays. An open house is scheduled to go down tonight,…
A Seminole County family’s pet cat was attacked and abducted by a pair of coyotes one night. One of the wild dogs had the cat by the throat, while the other had ahold of her tail. The coyotes were violently shaking the cat when the family’s pit bull came rushing…
Most school districts in Florida have yet to finalize collective bargaining agreements with teacher unions to get teachers pay raises. So Gov. Rick Scott, in an effort to get people to really like him again so he can get reelected get things moving quicker, has sent out a letter to…
The bodies of the two South Florida couples who died in a plane crash in Virginia last week have been recovered. Salvage crews have been working since Sunday night to remove the wreckage of the crashed twin-propeller Cessna 340. The crews had been battling harsh weather conditions as they performed…
Two Florida girls have been arrested in the death of a 12-year-old Central Florida girl, Rebecca Sedwick. Sedwick committed suicide in September after being cyber bullied for nearly a year. According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, the two girls arrested are ages 12 and 14…
Here’s more news of the good things in store for South Florida if present climate change trends continue. Not. See also: Dengue Fever Cases in Florida Confirmed That dengue fever you heard about? The creepy disease also known as “breakbone fever” and that is normally confined to places along the…
