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Joshua Burgess, Chaz West and Marquise Williams were all set to appear before a judge to defend themselves against home invasion and armed robbery charges. They were going to go to trial and fight off the charges that they broke into a home on Christmas Day with guns in Pensacola…

South Florida news junkies can rest easy: the Koch Brothers are not going to buy the Sun-Sentinel. After a handful of months stuffed with speculation, the hard-liners from the right wing have reportedly given up on the idea of purchasing the Tribune Co., citing concerns about whether the dead tree…

Political progressives from all across Florida are gathering tomorrow for a day-long conference in West Palm Beach under the banner “Agenda 2014 – Policy Positions for Progress.” The group will focus on issues rather than candidates, though according to the meeting’s mission statement: “The conference will serve as a launching…

So, let’s say you’re George Zimmerman. Wait, we take that back. (Sorry for the offense.) Let’s say you’re pretending to be George Zimmerman in a highly hypothetical moment of conjecture. Better? Better…

Lynn University projects that about 600 students will start school there next week — the largest incoming class since 2007. And every one of those kids will have iPad Minis, which they have to buy for $475. They will not use textbooks this year. Lynn calls this move “one of…

As Florida legislators weigh in on repealing Stand Your Ground, and PSAs are released speaking out against it, and groups protest it at the governor’s office, and the Internet debates how much of the law actually figured into the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin incident, FAU is going to offer a course…

A manhunt is underway for a man who allegedly pointed a gun at a Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy this morning. Police say the deputy fired a single shot in response, but the suspect ran off uninjured. Now cops are sweeping the West Palm Beach neighborhood where the incident occurred…

A fraternity at Florida International University has been booted from campus for some grade-A frat-tastic behavior. Via our sister paper Miami New Times, the school’s chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha has come under fire after the group’s private Facebook page went public. Posts showed members openly talking about dealing drugs…

A Plantation man didn’t get the coffee he ordered at a Dunkin’ Donuts. So he responded by pistol whipping the drive-through worker while his wife egged him on and even urged him to shoot the clerk. A reasonable enough response to having your order screwed up. The beating was caught…

In the wake of a still-simmering controversy, which pushed the legality of pit bulls in Broward County into question, President Barack Obama announced earlier this week that he doesn’t consider any legislation that bans a specific dog breed to be sound governance. And, for a moment at least, pit bulls…

When WPB State Rep. Mark Pafford announced he was offering walking tours of the Florida outback to his constituents (and anyone else who cares to make the trip), “bemused” was the word that came to mind: What was a nice Jewish boy from Miami doing trekking around in the swamp,…

Pompano Beach Ocean Rescue lifeguard Michael Rolle was badly burned on June 28 in a freak accident. “I was involved in a fire at my house,” he says by phone. He would only reveal that it had to do with “moving gasoline” and that “I really don’t like talking about…

Murals have been popping across South Florida since the death of local teenager Israel “Reefa” Hernandez. The 18-year-old artist and skater was tagging his name on an abandoned McDonald’s in Miami Beach when cops chased him, caught him, and shot him with a Taser. Hernandez died moments later while cops…

Back in July, we told you about the United for Care campaign, a group run by People United for Medical Marijuana, which took up the fight to get legalized medical marijuana on the ballot in Florida in November 2014 as a constitutional amendment. The group needed to collect 68,314 signatures…

In a cover story last year, we told you about how a few Florida women were the ones who discovered how banks were screwing people out of billions of dollars through foreclosures of homes. During the past decade’s housing crisis, records got confusing and messy as mortgages were bundled and…

On a blue, sun-soaked Saturday in December 2007, Valerie Parkhurst’s white Suburban took the asphalt at a purposeful creep past the blocks of modest ranch homes between Griffin Road and 595. The city of Davie was still blue-collar at the core, but the edges were going. Here, you’d see an…