Last Chance To Vote in the Best of Readers’ Poll. We Mean It!

Hi. Hello. How are you? Have you voted in the New Times Readers’ Poll yet? Because if you haven’t, you’re dead to us. Ha. Ha. Just kidding. You’re the best! No, seriously. Go vote for South Florida’s best restaurants, bars, shops, drag queen, Heat player (LOL it’s LeBron!), best pool,…

Miami Heat Drop Game 4 to Pacers As Series Heads Back to Miami 2-2

Thanks mostly to the Heat’s role players shooting the basketball like it was a bag of piss, some putrid rebounding, strong play from the Pacers’ Roy Hibbert, and a crapload of atrocious officiating from the referees, your 2013 Eastern Conference Finals is all knotted up at 2-2. After cracking the…

Grannies Caravan to Washington to Tell Feds: Hands Off Medical Marijuana

Our favorite reformed pot smuggler and marijuana legalization activist, Bobby Platshorn, is at it again, with an ingenious scheme to bring the good word on maryjane to the attention of legislators and the general public. And once again he’s drawing on support from an unexpected quarter of the population –…

Rick Scott Signs Texting-and-Driving Ban Into Law

Looks like Florida has finally joined in on the texting-and-driving-ban palooza after Gov. Rick Scott officially made it illegal to do so. Scott signed the bill on Tuesday, making Florida the 40th state to enact some sort of text-while-driving ban. Florida drivers will not be able to write or read…

Sun Sentinel Photographer Gives Birth In Parking Lot

Amy Beth Bennett, a photographer for the Sun-Sentinel , and Joe Cavaretta, gave birth to their second child over the weekend at Boca Raton Regional Hospital. But Bennett never made it inside the hospital, because baby Sienna Grace wasn’t going to wait. So she was born in the parking lot…

Ten Reasons Why Indianapolis Is Terrible

Don’t count Indy down and out just yet. They have an annoying knack for squeaking out Ws, which is exactly what they’ll have to do tonight if they don’t want to put any chance at the Finals in the rearview mirror. So today, on the day of make-or-break home court…

Shark Bites Boy Off Coast of Volusia County

Memorial Day is all about relaxing, hitting up the beach, and grabbing some food. It is for sharks, anyway. According to reports, a shark bit a boy swimming in Ormond Beach in Volusia County on Memorial Day…

Florida’s Best College Scandals

Man, college what a wild time! Remember when Joey got blasted on Jager shots and vomited on your iPhone or that time your tenured professor told you the Newtown shooting never happened? Or remember when another professor asked students to step on Jesus’ name and that pissed off a lot…

Rick Scott To Sign Texting-and-Driving Ban Bill

It looks like Florida’s texting-and-driving ban, which was at one point was almost derailed by the House added some frivolous amendments to it last month, will become a thing when Rick Scott signs it into law next week. The bill barely made it to the governor’s desk thanks to an…

Florida High School Bans Backpacks After Supposed Bomb Threat

A bathroom wall at Wellington High School had a message scrawled on it which warned that a student or students would “blow up the school” this Friday. As a result, school administrators have banned backpacks and large purses from school grounds for the remainder of the school year. Police, meanwhile,…