Jean Robb, who’s running for Deerfield Beach mayor against incumbent Peggy Noland, called the Broward County Election Supervisors Office the other day with a strange question: Could she open and manage her own absentee-ballot drop boxes? The answer was yes. But it was a slow yes…
The local personalities, egos, and public figures who swung through the news cycle this week, ranked by New Times’ crack research department using a highly scientific algorithm. (i.e., “Is that a rhino in the Magic Eye? Can you see the rhino? No, not a kiwi, a rhino. Just give me…
The widow of a Keiser University dean who was run over by his own car while trying to stop it from being hauled off is suing the tow truck company, which has been accused of being overly aggressive while towing cars in the Lauderhill neighborhood. Calls to Superior Lock and…
Not even Don King, the unflappable cartoon-like boxing promoter, was safe from the long paper trail following Scott Rothstein’s $1.4 billion Ponzi scheme. He settled a $700,000 lawsuit for $30,000 this week. Herbert Stettin, trustee for Rothstein’s closed law firm, Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, sued King’s Deerfield Beach-based Don King productions…
When Palm Beach County two years ago awarded a subsidiary of Kellogg Brown & Root a share of a $668 million contract to build a new waste treatment facility, the company’s anti-union ways were no secret. But KBR’s was the cheapest of three competing proposals, so commissioners gave the firm…
Update, March 20: Lozman disagreed with the characterization of him in this story. he says “I fought so that ten thousand floating home owners in the country didn’t have to go through what I went through. If I do get paid, great. If not, I’m a big boy. I can…
With three of the league’s biggest egotistical asshats superstars filling out its roster, not to mention a fresh championship, you would think the Heat would at least land in the top five when it comes to the highest valued NBA franchises. Almost, but not quite, or so says Forbes. According…
Update February 4, 2013: Heather Ray disputes Goehrig’s version of events. She contends that she first wrote e-mails to the city announcing her intention to get a therapy pig, and the city told her it was not allowed. She claims she then researched the Americans with Disabilities Act and spoke…
Apparently carnival workers didn’t have a bad enough reputation, so Gregory Matthew Bruni decided to add yet another story to the stereotype and “attack” a Fort Myers couple’s home using only his bodily fluids and craziness as a weapon. The naked 21-year-old reportedly climbed on top of Tony and LaDonna…
Bring out your pills! Leave no injectable behind! Think that two-year old bottle of codeine isn’t safe to mix with Sprite? Ditch it! Fort Lauderdale is hosting a no-questions-asked medication take back on Jan. 27 at 301 N. Andrews Ave. from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The city and much…
Staring down the barrel of what’s sure to be a brutal campaign to stay in the governor’s mansion beyond 2014, Rick Scott is pushing out a variety of campaigns that seem aimed at scoring points with weary voters. On Wednesday Scott announced he’s planning to give every public school teacher…
Rand Hoch, the president of the Palm Beach Human Rights Council, doesn’t waste words summing up what’s been happening in Boca Raton recently: “Boca is just being anti-gay,” he tells New Times.Over the last six months, the city has been locked up with activists over a number of issues involving…
Commissioners in Miami-Dade County said they want the Dolphins’ Broward County operations come south of the county borderline should they help fund the team’s $400 million revamp of Sun Life Stadium. “Any public investment we entertain, we must have a return, a clear public purpose,” said Mayor Carlos Giménez. “If…
I-95 in South Florida is America’s most dangerous highway. That’s pretty well known. Why?Sure, it’s the only major north-south highway in an overbuilt, unsustainable megalapolis, driven daily by the aged, the undereducated and the uncouth. But the cause lies even deeper than that, at the core of the Flori-duh mentality,…
Though he lives quietly in Plantation, Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, AKA “The Amazing Randi,” has a cult following around the globe.In one of the greatest about-faces ever performed, Randi was a nationally famous magician (he appeared on the Today Show, broke at least one of Houdini’s records, and toured with…
In just a few years, Julie Orr has gone from running a successful advertising business to being a single mom on disability. This past May, the 54-year-old from Riverside, California, bounced a $91 check at a grocery store. Though she tried to make good, she was told the store had…
A weak breeze was pushing in from the south, rippling the broad boulevard of water as it caught the midmorning sun. The canal, wide as a football field, ran north to south, slashing an engineered course through the unruly tangle of low-lying bush in Big Cypress National Preserve. Scott Harris,…
A West Palm Beach man and four others have been indicted in Philadelphia for beating and locking several mentally disabled people in basement dungeons in three states for years at a time to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars of Social Security benefits. The 196-count indictment accuses West Palm Beach’s…
When incoming Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel wanted to bring in his own people to help run the department, he didn’t realize that removing some of former Sheriff Al Lamberti’s top lieutenants would cost nearly $4.3 million, including a more than $340,000 payout to one colonel who had never called…
Just because you’re a public official once accused of corruption, doesn’t mean you can’t pick make a comeback. Tamarac city commissioner Patricia Atkins-Grad in December was acquitted on corruption charges stemming from a 2010 indictment. The commissioner, a realtor who goes by the nickname “Positively Patte, had been accused of…
Yup, looks like this is happening. About a year ago, Palm Beach County’s hopes were high when word spread that a local strip club would host the inaugural naked shimmy (just the tops, not the bottoms — keep it classy) of Nadya Suleman, known the world over as Octomom. Those…
Yesterday we gave you a heads-up on some stats about local guys who’ve hiked to one of the great peaks in professional sports — a spot on a Super Bowl roster. Big bragging rights go to Palm Beach County, and specifically Glades Central High School in Belle Glades. Five former…
