We all go through these small-scale personal ceremonies on days like September 11. You might light some candles or call up a buddy whose brother died when the towers tumbled. Terry Jones, the riot-inducing Florida pastor with the 19th-century facial hair and ninth-century sense of religious conviction? He loves to…
Early in the morning on August 10, Christina West was pulled over by police after crashing her vehicle on the roads of Tallahassee. A video affixed to the cop cars captured the bust and exposed what may be one of the most violent and horrifying DUI stops in recent state…
The Pantry’s Facebook page makes it very clear: “Calling all supporters,” it reads. “We have NO FOOD on our shelves. We are in need ASAP of an emergency donation of funds or food or our clients will NOT EAT in September.” The Pantry of Broward helps seniors who are on…
The killer arrived just after lunch. Clutching a sawed-off shotgun in a leather-gloved hand, he slipped through the back door of a long, stucco dental office. But then, because he wore a ski mask and the afternoon burned hot, he coughed. Down a narrow hallway at the front of the…
It’s 3 a.m. and pitch-black except for a spot of light pollution emanating from the island of North Bimini — and a 669-foot-long ship bumping with club music. Suddenly, DJ Zog, of Power 96 fame, cuts the sound. He announces that Kok Thay Lim has arrived to cut his birthday…
A Broward Sheriff’s deputy was critically injured Wednesday morning when his car veered off I-95 and crashed into a tree. Deputy Daniel Rivera, 32, was taken to Broward Health North by Pompano Beach Fire Rescue, where he underwent surgery for life-threatening injuries. Rivera is said to be in very critical…
The tragic events of September 11, 2011, happened 12 years ago this morning, but the memories and pain remain fresh in many Americans’ minds. Particularly, on the minds of Marriott Hotel chains, which chose to commemorate the memory of those fallen by giving away free coffee! And muffins! YAY! But…
Updating a 47-year old anti-discrimination policy, the Boca Raton City Council voted 4-1 to extend the full range of domestic partnership benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, to its municipal employees. The benefits also include a continuation of insurance coverage, funeral leave, domestic violence leave, family sick leave and…
Dr. Shiping Bao, the recently fired Volusia County associate medical examiner who testified in the George Zimmerman trial, is suing for ethnic discrimination and wrongful termination, according to his attorney. Bao is also claiming that prosecutors, medical examiners, and the Sanford Police Department were all biased against Trayvon Martin and…
Former U.S. Rep. and Fort Lauderdale Mayor E. Clay Shaw, has died at age 74 after a lengthy battle with lung cancer. Shaw was born in Miami in 1939 and, for 26 years, represented Broward County and parts of Palm Beach County…
A North African python, which also goes by the menacing name “rock python,” killed a West Kendall family’s 60-pound Siberian Husky. Florida already has a pretty bad snake problem, what with the invasive Burmese python causing havoc in the Everglades. Now comes this new species of python breeding in the…
Jonel Jones has special reason to pause and reflect today, the anniversary of the horrific attacks on the World Trade Center. “My father was a firefighter,” the Lake Worth native told New Times. “The sacrifices made that day, I really felt them.” The aftermath of the attacks also have a…
As if the court case up in West Palm pitting a fortuneteller against her former clients couldn’t get any weirder, this week the Rose Marks trial went to warp speed. Jude Deveraux — the bestselling romance novelist at the center of the $25 million fraud allegations — took the stand…
Gov. Rick Scott swung through Fort Lauderdale yesterday as part of a campaign-style “tax cut tour” to galvanize support for a quixotic $500 million tax cut he wants to jam through the state Legislature this coming term. Calling it his “primary goal” for next year, Scott again reiterated the apparent…
Alligator wrestler John Carlos Martinez, a lifelong animal lover, a Marine, and a character on the reality show Gator Boys, died on September 3, New Times has learned. He was 30 years old. The show focuses on “the only bare-hand nuisance animal trapping company in Florida” — guys who trap…
Looks like the “George Zimmerman threatening his wife with a gun” saga is not yet over, even though his bro Robert has said this to be the case on the Twitter. Apparently, George smashed an iPad that had supposedly captured video of Monday’s dispute between he and wife Shellie. Lake…
Prosecutors in the Gerard Lopes Belmonte trial did not mention that he allegedly raped his adopted mother, Natalie Belmonte, before killing her, even though just last week, they claimed that DNA tests revealed that Lopes’ semen was found in her body. The prosecution certainly want jurors to know this, since…
Public defender Matt Shirk had a shower built in his office, and he allegedly asked a female employee to join him in it. Also, Shirk built the in-office shower without the proper permits, according to Jacksonville plumbing officials. Shockingly, Shirk has been embroiled in other incidents inappropriate for a public…
GOPers sure do love them death penalty executions. Especially here in Florida. Except, of course, when they get in the way of fundraisers, like one did for State Attorney General Pam Bondi. The state was set to execute Marshall Lee Gore on Monday for the 1988 raping, strangling, and stabbing…
Yesterday we wrote about how a rescue person in Lake Park had found a kitten infected with rabies. The person had to be treated for rabies, while the kitten eventually died. And now, to make sure rabies doesn’t spread throughout the county, Animal Care and Control is looking to trap…
Small acts of defiance have sometimes sparked political infernos. December 1955: Seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of the bus and touches off the Montgomery bus boycott. August 1980: Electrician Lech Walesa hops a fence at the Gdansk shipyards and goes on to lead a strike that…
Tyree Lincoln Smith, a Florida man who beat a homeless Connecticut man to death with an ax and then ate his eyeball and parts of his brain, was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a Connecticut psychiatric hospital for up to 60 years. A three-judge Bridgeport…
