More than two years after voting overwhelmingly to legalize medical marijuana, Floridians are still fighting for access. Smoking it remained illegal until just days ago. And in cities such as Miami Beach, officials are hellbent on restricting where and how dispensaries can operate. Other places, including Boca Raton and Coral…
A quick history refresher: After President Abraham Lincoln freed America’s slaves during the Civil War, white Southerners spent a great deal of time devising ingenious and evil ways of preventing black people from voting. Those restrictions morphed into the “Jim Crow” laws — among them were poll taxes, which forced…
At his sentencing for the 1983 murder of a West Palm Beach college student, Ronald Henry Stewart said he was pleading no contest because it was in his best interest. His attorney pointed out a slew of flaws in the case — a potentially faulty eyewitnesses, the use of jailhouse snitches, and fingerprint evidence that didn’t match Stewart’s prints. But Stewart had previously been convicted of multiple rapes, and he feared being executed if a jury convicted him of killing 20-year-old Regina Harrison.
Muse and Ella Mai bring the tunes. The Impractical Jokers bring the laughs. Tarpon River Brewing brings the party, and more.
Former Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo will serve as a strategic adviser for the Cannabis Trade Federation, a nonprofit that aims to educate and advocate for cannabis public policy.
The jailhouse surveillance video clearly shows the deputy violently wrenching inmate Audra West up out of a chair, throwing her around the room, and dragging her into a strip-search room. Other female deputies then run into the room with the door shutting behind them. West says that inside the room,…
Fort Lauderdale city commissioners will meet today to choose between two wildly different visions for Lockhart Stadium’s future.
For months, one of the most explosive court cases in the world has been playing out in Miami’s federal courthouse. Aleksej Gubarev, a tech entrepreneur from Cyprus, sued BuzzFeed News for defamation after the news outlet published the infamous “Steele Dossier” outlining alleged Russian government efforts to sway the 2016 election in favor of Donald Trump…
According to Human Rights Watch, the Saudi attack on Yemen has sparked the single-worst humanitarian crisis in the world right now. Children are starving to death, cities lay in ruins, and a horrible cholera outbreak is ravaging the poverty-stricken nation. Innocent people live in constant fear they will be vaporized by…
Throw some axes for a good cause, watch Elton John and Trevor Noah live, and party on St. Patrick’s Day. Here are the best things to do in South Florida this week.
After years of the Dolphins trying and failing to make it work, it’s clear Ryan Tannehill’s seven-year tenure with the Miami Dolphins is about to come to an end. And following the Denver Broncos’ trade of Case Keenum to the quarterback-needy Washington Redskins, there are officially zero NFL teams…
Cam Wake always represented the Miami Dolphins will class and integrity, even when everything around him was on fire and crashing to the ground. Wake deserved better than the past decade’s Dolphins, but he never complained or asked out.
Thirty-five employees at IHOP’s State Road 7 location in Plantation recently learned that they’ll be out of their jobs when a Chase bank replaces their franchise in the imminent future. The deal between the landlord and Chase had been in the works for the last six to nine months, but employees learned about it last Monday.
The Miami Herald this morning broke a doozy of a story: Li “Cindy” Yang, the woman who founded the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida — where Patriots owner Robert Kraft got caught allegedly paying for sex from trafficked women — watched the Patriots-Rams Super Bowl with Donald Trump.
In 2017, Florida lawmakers bizarrely spent a bunch of time passing a bill forcing the state to display the phrase “In God We Trust” in public schools. As it turns out, this was just the beginning of a pro-Christian legislative push in Florida: State lawmakers — namely Jacksonville State Rep. Kim…
Nouman Raja, the former Palm Beach Gardens cop who killed local drummer Corey Jones in October 2015 as Jones was waiting to get his car towed off the highway, was found guilty this morning of manslaughter and attempted first-degree murder in a South Florida courtroom…
Happening this week: District Fit, Flamingo Flea at Tarpon River Brewing, and Blake Shelton at the BB&T.
Ex-Broward Sheriff Scott Israel is not going gently into that good night. After being booted from office due to BSO’s disastrous response to the shooting in Parkland and his own poor conduct in its aftermath, Israel has been showing up at condo meetings and Democratic clubs on a regular basis…
The first movie theater to be built in Delray Beach in 40 years opens at 25 SE Fourth Ave. on Thursday, March 7. The luxury theater and cultural center is part of the iPic Entertainment brand, which introduced its first high-end theater, Muvico Palace in Boca Raton, in 1999. iPic…
From the beach to the raucous Himmarshee District, you have plenty of party options in Fort Lauderdale this Spring Break.
Medical cannabis company GrowHealthy will open a dispensary in Lake Worth this week. The shop is the company’s third in Florida and second in Palm Beach County. The company has plans to open 17 additional dispensaries throughout the state in 2019.
One of the most pressing issues for the pro-Trump wing of the internet is that it’s getting increasingly difficult to be racist and misinformed online nowadays. Since 2016, the world’s major social networking sites — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, et al. — have cracked down on hate speech, racism, propaganda, and conspiracy theories…
