Two teenaged girls were rushed to the hospital after their parasail detached and sent them slamming into a nearby condominium. According to reports, the parasail the two girls were riding on detached from the boat that had been pulling them on Monday afternoon. The girls spun and crashed into a…
On August 10th, 2007, Broward Sheriff’s Sgt. Chris Reyka was gunned down with a semi-automatic handgun as he sat in his cruiser at a Walgreens parking lot in Pompano. Today, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office has announced that they have a suspect. Broward Sheriff Scott Israel announced Shawn Labeet as…
Tyree Lincoln Smith, a Florida man who allegedly beat a homeless Connecticut man to death with an axe, and then ate his eyeball and parts of his brain, is having his fate decided by a three-judge panel starting this week. At the time of his arrest in January 2012, Smith…
Robbers and hold-up men live fast go-go lifestyles like the rest of us. Just like you, they need a more convenient means in which to get their work done, living in our 24-hour social media get-after it world. Take Anthony Williams of Orlando, for example. Instead of parking his car,…
A 9-year-old Fort Lauderdale girl is safe and sound today after she was able to escape from her abductor’s car on Monday. The girl was walking along NW Ninth Avenue and Second Street when a man grabbed her and threw her into his car. She managed to escape from the…
Florida State Sen. Maria Sachs is back in the headlines again, dogged by questions about where she really resides and what that means for her eligibility to represent District 34. She isn’t the first South Florida Dem to run afoul of residency issues lately, almost as if some foul curse…
Two employees at the Fort Lauderdale branch of treatment facility for troubled youths are under investigation for having inappropriate relationships with a student, New Times has learned. This afternoon, a representative for AMIkids confirmed that the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice was investigating the staffers, described as a full-time employee…
If you were not glued to C-SPAN on Saturday, June 29, you might have missed the fun footage of a judicial conference for the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that took place in West Virginia. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was there being interviewed and said that “my favorite…
Last week, we told you the horrifying news of a man who strangled his pit-bull puppy, sliced it into pieces, and cooked it for dinner. Thomas Elliot Huggins, a 25-year-old Tampa man, was arrested and booked in the Hillsborough County Jail on animal cruelty charges Friday. See also: Florida Man…
Ex-crackhead Rep. Darryl Rouson, who sponsored the bill that eventually became the “bong ban” law on Monday, is unhappy about how watered down it turned out to be, when all was said and done. Rouson believes that The Pot is a gateway drug to things like The Crack. Therefore, he…
Two Putnam County Sheriff’s Office deputies are out of a job after pulling some shenanigans and ballyhoo at a local bar that included one of them whipping out his literal gun during a fight, and the other one whipping out his figurative gun in the restroom with a lady. According…
Today, the much ballyhooed Florida ban on smoking devices goes into effect. The legislation — the brainchild of ardent antidrug Rep. Darryl Rouson of St. Petersburg — has been drumming up a lot of controversy since it was introduced at the start of the session. The original provision basically wanted…
Ernest Wallace, the man who turned himself in Friday in connection to the Aaron Hernandez murder case in Massachusetts, was denied bail on Saturday and is expected to face extradition at some point in the near future. Wallace, 41, is alleged to have been present with the former New England…
Well this one just got weird. FAU Professor James Tracy, who’s theorized both the Boston Bombing and the Sandy Hook shootings were staged by the government, has now challenged the Sun Sentinel to a debate because he’s butt-hurt over the backlash. Tracy didn’t specify how, exactly, an individual could conceivably…
A gay Fort Lauderdale married man has become the first person in a same-sex marriage to be approved for a green card. Traian Popov, a Bulgarian immigrant who is married to an American citizen, received the notice of his green card approval via email on Friday, just days after the…
Chaz Stevens, who has used his blog to battle corruption in Deerfield Beach, has filed a civil lawsuit against the City of Lauderdale Lakes. “According to Lauderdale Lakes City Manager Jon Allen,” Stevens tells New Times, “when it comes to obtaining public records, I need to pay to play.” Stevens’…
In one of the strangest and most free-wheeling interviews in the last month, Taylor Chapman, who obtained internet notoriety two weeks ago after delivering a racist and profane tirade at Dunkin’ Donuts, admitted several things to New Times this afternoon in her first public interview. One, she says she’s stripped…
Update, 4:39 p.m. : Gil Bueno, a public information officer with the city of Miramar, says that “today at around 1:20 p.m. Ernest Wallace walked in to the police department to turn himself in.” Wallace said that “he saw it somewhere on TV that he was wanted.” “He invoked his…
Rick Scott has signed a bill that will give parents of special needs students more say in their education. The law will take effect on Monday. This means that, come Monday, parents will have a greater say in how their special needs children’s school curriculum is shaped…
And now for a completely horrifying news story to ruin your day. A Florida man was arrested for killing and then cooking a 4-month old pit bull puppy. The man apparently also cut the dog into several pieces and placed them in the freezer. It was the family dog. See…
That guy Glenn Greenwald? The one who helped spill all those secrets about the gub’mint keeping tabs on everybody’s electronic communications? Like everything else weird in the news, there’s a Florida connection, specifically Lauderdale Lakes in Broward County, where the highly controversial blogger/journalist spent his youth. See also: – Glenn…
Ronald French was apparently a Renaissance man of the highest form. After graduating from FAU several years ago he bounced across the ocean and became not only a high-flying model, but also a hilariously boring and good looking actor in Italian made-for-TV movies, the most famous of which was Matrimonio…
