It’s beginning to look increasingly likely that Hurricane Matthew will hit Florida. Government agencies have been giving out typical advice: Have an emergency evacuation plan, stock up on non-perishable food and water, make sure you have extra flashlights and batteries, and so on. All good advice, but we figured some…
Hurricane Matthew continued its march toward Florida last night, slowing a litle but not really changing its path. It now appears the storm will arrive in the area late Thursday with 130 mile per hour winds, according to the 5 a.m. forecast from the National Hurricane Center, though rainfall from…
Nearly a month after Gregory Frazier was fatally shot in his Pompano Beach backyard, the Broward Sheriff’s Office has released the names of the two officers who shot him. According to spokesman Veda Coleman-Wright, both Zachary Hasson, 22, and Andrew Landells, 26, fired their guns. Both were relatively new to…
Hurricane Matthew still looks like a serious threat to the east coast of Florida, but when can we expect to feel its effects? For clues, watch the trend of the National Hurricane Center’s forecast cones. Since 5 p.m. yesterday, that trend has remained fairly steady and it places much of…
Though Hurricane Matthew is still 90 miles off the southeastern tip of Cuba, radar shows the outer bands of the billowing Category 4 storm already spiraling over South Florida. Combined with regular fall weather pattern, it’s brought on torrential downpours that have already flooded Delray Beach streets and police are telling…
Dear Stoner: I’ve been smoking pot for a few years, but in the last six months I’ve started smoking more as I drink less (I’m 25). My parents have always been against marijuana, but I want to be honest with them if I continue to partake. How should I break…
Jason Calleri doesn’t usually tell people that he keeps venomous snakes as pets. “One of the first things people say is, ‘Do you have a girlfriend? Are you married?’” he explains. “It’s like I’m disgusting, and girls wouldn’t want to be around me.” Calleri, who is 42 years old and…
Ever since the Marine Mammal Comission, a federal agency, criticized USDA officials for interpreting the Animal Welfare Act’s (AWA) regulations in a way that allowed for a concrete wall in the orca Lolita’s tank, animal rights activists have been buzzing. Thousands of them signed a petition demanding administrators at the…
Hugh’s Tropic Cafe in the Broward County Courthouse trie s to create something fun. If you ever received the Oriental Trading catalog in the mail, you will likely recognize the decor from their “luau party” collection: bamboo curtains, tropical bird figurines, a tiki bar. (Sadly, the tiki bar only serves…
Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein is on a mission to cancel all federal student loans. “Once you get into student debt you don’t get out,” she told New Times this past Friday in downtown Miami. “This is a sign of a human rights crisis… a generational human rights crisis. This is absolutely unacceptable.”…
Dear Stoner: I’ve had a vaporizer for almost a year now and have a buttload of golden-brown vaped weed saved up. Is there anything I can do with it, or have I been wasting my energy? Nicholas Dear Nicholas: If your vaporizer isn’t turning your flower black, it might eventually…
Oh, South Florida! Nothing can ever be quite as simple in the swampy suburban sprawl we call home. We are the epitome of the “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” meme. Take our nifty new I-95 express lanes, for example. What started out a a quick way to…
Twitter was made to roasting the ridiculous. And yesterday, the ridiculous was our little football team’s crazy-looking attire. Don’t try to stop the memes and jokes. Just ride them out. The Dolphins debuted their special color rush alternate uniforms Thursday night against the Cincinnati Bengals, and the internet was glad they…
As patrons were bargain-hunting for flashy iPhone cases and designer perfume at Festival Flea Market in Pompano Beach, all sorts of shady deals were happening in its back offices, a new lawsuit alleges. In the 84-page complaint, the flea market’s former chief financial officer, Harlene Zweig, accuses the owner Daniel…
Two years ago, Boynton Beach-based forensic expert Tiffany Roy was hired to double-check a piece of DNA evidence swabbed from a knife handle. What she found was troubling: the Broward Sheriff’s Office crime lab had misinterpreted the evidence, claiming it was conclusive when, in fact, it wasn’t. As New Times…
Last November 2015, Judge Matthew Destry sentenced a black 23-year-old named Herbert Smith to 60 years in prison for driving on a suspended license (a violation of his probation). Thousands were outraged and accused the white-haired judge of being excessive, cruel, or, as Howard Finkelstein of the Broward Public Defenders…
In April, Aledys Llorens was riding his motorbike in the I-95 express lanes through northwest Miami-Dade when a driver abruptly plowed through the orange plastic poles, cutting him off in the process. Llorens, a 28-year-old Hialeah resident who worked at Port Everglades and had a four-year-old daughter, couldn’t come to…
As you might have guessed from your Facebook news feed, a plethora of Democrats (who share many views with Greens) are not happy that Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presidential candidate, is running for the Oval Office. They believe that Stein may steal votes from Clinton, and, in this close…
Vivian Villarreal knows how to work the angles. Ranked the number one pool player in the world from 1993 to 1998 by the Women’s Professional Billiard Association (WPBA), she has been feverishly working the phones in recent weeks, inviting pros for her tournament that began yesterday at the Seminole Hard…
A Broward activist was allegedly beaten and tased at least five times at Broward County Jail last February. Stephanie Auguiste (who is also known as Billie) was released after less than six hours, bruised and cut up. Though it has been more than seven months since the incident, the 30-year-old is…
A viewing of departed Cuban American Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez will be open to the public tonight at St. Brendan’s Catholic Church just off Galloway Road at SW 32nd Street in Miami from 5 to 11 p.m. Even more people are expected at the west plaza of Marlins Park at…
As the gospel choir finished the last chords of “Going Up Yonder,” Deborah Frazier approached her brother’s powder-blue coffin. It was surrounded by heaping bouquets of baby’s breath and blue roses. For a moment, the cavernous sanctuary of the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church was silent except the sound of her…
