While our big, sweaty grandpa president is busy tweeting that immigrants don’t deserve due-process in immigration courts, the business bearing his name (which he pretty much still runs) is trying to hire more foreign workers. According to federal Department of Labor documents BuzzFeed first dug up yesterday, the Trump Organization has…
Singer Chris Brown was arrested last night shortly after walking offstage at his Coral Sky Amphitheater concert in West Palm Beach. Brown was arrested for an outstanding felony battery warrant stemming from an incident in which he allegedly punched a photographer in a Tampa nightclub last year. The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office says the singer was booked into jail at around 11 p.m. and released after paying a $2,000 bond.
Three Doors Down with Collective Soul, Pouya, a sushi-making class, and more of the best things to do in South Florida this week.
When Christine D’Onofrio was fired in 2013, she had been working for Costco for 24 years, first at the Davie location, then in Pompano Beach. D’Onofrio, who is deaf, says she spent the previous year begging the company to better accommodate her disability. Instead, she claims she repeatedly got in…
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi was recently confronted by protesters at a Tampa showing of the Mr. Rogers documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? The activists questioned her outside the Tampa Theater about her recent actions on health care policy and her stance on immigration. Here are the top ten times Bondi made news for the wrong reasons.
Earlier this week, the Broward Sheriff’s Office posted a single photo on the agency’s Twitter account. It read: “Our new #dodge #charger. Do you like the paint job?” Thousands of Twitter users did not like the paint job.
The Broward Transitional Center is basically a jail for people who haven’t committed crimes. It’s designed to hold “low-level” immigrant detainees slated for deportation after they’ve been arrested on minor charges — such as driving without a license — or picked up on no criminal charges at all.
Two years later, the stark facts of Gregory Frazier’s death are still startling. Frazier was eating a chicken dinner in his Pompano Beach backyard September 9, 2016, when two Broward County Sheriff’s deputies stormed in with guns drawn. It was 10 p.m. Within minutes, the two cops had shot Frazier six times, killing him on the spot.
Fourth of July happenings, Donny and Marie, Boy George with Culture Club and the B-52’s, and more of the best things to do in South Florida this week.
Freedom. America. Fireworks. Get off your rump and celebrate the red, white and blue in the best ways possible this Fourth of July.
Around sundown Tuesday, the 3600 block of North Dixie Highway in Deerfield Beach was lined with cars. Police blocked off a section of NE 37th Street just outside Riva Motorsports, where the controversial SoundCloud rapper XXXTentacion, born Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, had been gunned down the previous day. Fans streamed in by the hundreds, holding white candles, balloons, and chalk to decorate the spot where he died.
Concerts from Luke Bryan, American Idol’s Casey James, and the Manuel Valera Trio, along with a dirty set from Bob Saget and the chance to watch sea turtles nesting with the Museum of Discovery and Science are among the best things to do in Broward and Palm Beach this week.
Though the rapper had received widespread criticism for allegations of brutal domestic abuse, investigators have not yet determined a motive for the murder of XXXTentacion or made any arrests.
Barbara Dziedzic struggles to hold back tears as she recounts the moment her 25-year-old son, Josh, collapsed in a chair at Palms West Hospital after a seemingly routine IV line removal. She propped up his trembling body as best she could until the medical staff arrived and tried to prevent him from slipping into a coma.
Miami New Times’ 2018 Best of Miami issue shows plenty of love for Broward eateries, bars, music venues, gentlemen’s clubs, and more. Here are Broward’s Best of Miami winners for 2018.
Strange stares in the break room. Uncomfortable small talk by the printer. A boss who insists on hugging you. For far too long, women have grown accustomed to awkward and distracting interactions at work, especially in a city such as Miami, which can at times seem like the unofficial capital of catcalling, leering, and sexual innuendo. “At Starbucks, older men are constantly hitting on you,” sighs Aileen Lavin, a Miami mom who works in real estate. “I was tired of going to networking events and feeling uncomfortable.”
On November 2, 2014, Jennifer Harper called 911 about a domestic dispute with her husband. But when Broward Sheriff’s deputies arrived at the couple’s Weston home that night, they decided to take her, not her husband, into custody.
Slightly more than three months after David Hogg was forced to hide in a closet to avoid being shot to death in a school massacre, some monster today prank-called a SWAT team to the teen’s house. Thankfully, the Miami Herald reports Hogg wasn’t home at the time — but that doesn’t make the prank any less heinous and cruel.
May has been an absolutely awful month in South Florida for police-misconduct videos, from the Miami Police Department cop charged with assault for taking a flying kick at someone’s head, to the Miami-Dade County cops who shot a man for holding nothing but a screwdriver, to the Miami Beach officer…
By the time Demarcus Semer’s headlights flashed through the living-room window of the Fort Pierce house, the rest of the guys were already inside. Most nights, the group of childhood friends got together to rap and play videogames at 20-year-old Rhashaad Owens’ North 19th Street home, a three-bedroom ranch with…
Mary Caceres fled Colombia’s brutal civil war in 2005 with her then-9-year-old daughter Daniela Gaona after Caceres’ brother was killed by guerrillas. Daniela was eventually awarded status under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and spared from possible deportation. But Caceres’ repeated attempts to obtain asylum in the United States have so far…
If you ask the experts, the Miami Dolphins will be a special sort of bad this season. But if you ask Dolphins fans, many will tell you the team is better off without all the talented players the team jettisoned this off-season.This is pretty much standard procedure in South Florida, where fans take the team’s off-season bait…
