A 40-foot sperm whale that died as it swam near the shore in Pompano Beach has washed ashore at the International Fishing Pier in Deerfield Beach. Deerfield Beach lifeguards roped the whale carcass so the animal can be allowed to slowly drift away from the fishing pier toward the shore,…
It’s always nice to walk away from watching a Dolphins game and not feel like you just fell down and punctured your scrotum with your car keys. Sunday’s game against the visiting Jacksonville Jaguars was such a day. Ryan Tannehill put together the best QB rating at 123.2, and completion…
Friends in the Palm Beach Chapter of the ACLU recently asked us if we had any suggestions whom they might grace with its 2013 Harriette Glasner Freedom Award, “for a Palm Beach County resident whose life and work embodies the values and ideals of the Constitution and the ACLU.” When do we…
At 9 one Saturday morning in mid-August, David Parga threw back the barn doors at his Southwest Ranches farm to a surprise. Marco, one of his two horses, was gone. Parga’s first thought: Someone has stolen Marco — or maybe, by some measure of equine wizardry, Marco escaped. He was…
For the record, the killing of 20 innocent school children in Connecticut was about the most horrible thing I have heard in years. The kids, of course, didn’t deserve it — and Florida needs to act. We are preparing to issue our 1 millionth concealed weapons permit next week. And…
Heat point guard Mario Chalmers is averaging 6.3 points and 3.9 assists per game so far this season. Backup point guard Norris Cole is averaging 4.9 points and 2.2 assists per contest. Not much difference in numbers, really. Yet Cole has consistently been eating into Chalmers’ minutes lately, particularly in…
The two teens who were charged with murdering a homeless man behind an auto parts store were looking to hook up with a prostitute on that fateful night. Juan Xolo, 17 and Jose Carlos Llano, 14, who confessed to police of stabbing the man with a pen, had been introduced…
Skinny dipping is all fun and games until someone shows up and starts making fun of your small dick. And that just leads to dudes getting shot by cops. Palm Beach Shores resident Adam Brown decided to go for a skinny dip in his El Coqui apartment complex at around…
It sounds too good to be true, and it makes our utopian heart–what remains of it–sing. City officials in West Palm Beach are trying to foster a cool zone in the aging, historically minority neighborhood of Pleasant City. The embryo of the plan is an artist colony, Lot 23. The idea, officials say,…
Broward County Circuit Court’s Jeffrey Streitfeld really took home the “activist judge” belt when he presided over Lucinda Naugle’s 2009 lawsuit against Big Tobacco. The sister of a former Fort Lauderdale mayor, Naugle was a smoker whose 25-year habit led to emphysema. She asked the court to put Philip Morris…
Police have closed the turnpike’s southbound lanes at Okeechobee Boulevard, as well as the entrances to the southbound turnpike at Okeechobee Boulevard, PGA Boulevard and the Beeline Highway, after a fatal crash there this morning. According to officials, a woman’s car was struck from behind when she tried to avoid…
You know what the worst thing in the world is? When some yuppie New York schmuck wearing designer Gucci-whatever tells you how shitty you look. Worse still, when that New York douche bag has access to a wide audience to critique your awful appearance. And you know what makes us…
A Boynton Beach woman’s day went from bad to pretttaayyy craptacular (and deservedly so — allegedly!) when she pulled the stolen car she was driving into a parking lot filled with cops. Tesia Cain allegedly stole herself a car that just happened to have a LoJack tracking system. She also…
Yesterday we told you about a dead man that was found behind an Advance Auto Parts store in Hallandale Beach. Police had taken two teens that were spotted fighting with the man in for questioning. According to Hallandale Police Chief Dwayne Flournoy, Juan Xolo, 17 and Jose Carlos Llano, 14…
Over several weeks in early 2010, then-Governor Crist unleashed a series of tweets condemning President Obama’s prospective health care reform bill. To Crist — yes, the other Crist — enacting ObamaCare would only constitute “the beginning.” He said “Americans deserve better than this.” He launched a petition to stop “health…
An guy hired to install alarms to protect homes stands accused of robbing a customer’s home where he was installing an alarm. A 50-year-old Boca Raton woman allegedly caught Jason Michael Adams, 37, a worker for an alarm installation company, robbing her of $40,000 worth of jewels and other valuables…
On Tuesday night, some 11.3 million people watched The Voice finalist Cassadee Pope perform on-air CPR. One of the four finalists in NBC’s blockbuster song-off, the West Palm Beach native took up a lifeless Keith Urban song, pumped that sucker full of actual artistic juice, and miraculously came out with…
Hey good news, everybody! In only a matter of days, Florida will officially be number one in the most people with concealed weapons permits in the country! According to Florida’s Secretary of Agriculture Adam Putnam — who seemed so proud of the milestone, he thought it would be neat to…
New Times Broward Palm Beach editor Chuck Strouse and managing editor Deirdra Funcheon almost came to blows over this week’s feature story, Balloon Boy 2012: Three years after the hoax, Falcon Heene fronts a metal band. What follows is a stolen transcript of a conversation the two had over IM…
Balloon Boy 2012: Three Years After Hoax, Falcon Heene Fronts a Metal Band
A Festivus Pole Arises Next to Jesus’ Manger in Deerfield Beach
Federal Terror Suspect Seems More Frat Boy Than Deadly Mastermind
