A new class action lawsuit filed by the Tallahassee firm of Dudley, Sellers, Healy & Heath says that Fort Lauderdale-based Keiser University is violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by using automated calling dialing systems to call cellphone numbers registered with the National Do Not Call Registry, often several times…
Kenny Leigh’s attitude toward family law is simple: “You shouldn’t have to prove that mom’s a crack whore for a dad to get the kids every other weekend.” Leigh, of Kenny Leigh & Associates, is the founder and CEO of the largest firm of for-men-only family lawyers in Florida, with…
Back in 1995, when Hazelle Rogers, a Jamaica native, ran for a spot on the Lauderdale Lakes city commission, she was the first Caribbean-American to seek public office in Broward County. She lost by two votes, in part because she struggled to find donors who would back her campaign. The…
Charlie Esposito has lived in his home on Seville Street off A1A on Fort Lauderdale Beach for the last decade. He’s always marveled at the sharp corners, striped paneling, and asymmetrical chimneys and staircases of the neighborhood’s 1930s’ architecture. But now that Miami-based Key International purchased three parcels on Alhambra…
Miss Cleo, the inimitable self-proclaimed television psychic, has died. TMZ reported this morning that Youree Harris, who became popular on the Psychic Readers Network, was in hospice care in Palm Beach County after suffering from cancer. She was 53 years old. Profiled by New Times in 2002, she was a…
You may have been one of the lucky few that were able to snag Dwyane Wade jerseys for $13 earlier this month; but now what? If you’re in the market for a new jersey, who is at the top of the wish list? Come this holiday season what jersey will…
Attitudes toward medical marijuana are shifting as more and more states pass legislation recognizing it as a form of treatment—not a way to get high. But as Floridians gear up this November to vote on a constitutional amendment that would legalize medical marijuana across the state, it seems that the…
Marleine Bastien marveled at the packed room inside the Miami-Dade County Commission chambers. Five busloads of Haitian-Americans waved flags from their homeland and wore matching T-shirts, and people overflowed into the lobby outside, buzzing with hopeful energy. The day was May 26, and the crowd awaited the culmination of years…
Two years ago, a cloud threatened to cast a shadow over the Sunshine State: a cloud of medical marijuana, which would have become legal if Floridians had voted to ratify Amendment 2. Although the measure narrowly failed to clear the 60 percent threshold needed to become law in 2014, Amendment…
Donna Shubert has spent most of her career in the job she’d wanted ever since college, working as an elementary school teacher. But recently, another job posting caught the 62-year-old’s eye. In fact, it was in the same school district, but instead of working with kids, it was a secretary…
Three alleged ISIS sympathizers have been arrested in Palm Beach, the U.S. Attorney’s office announced late Friday. Two of the men—Gregory Hubbard, 52, who went by the name “Jibreel,” and Darren Arness Jackson, 50, who went by “Daoud”—are from West Palm Beach. The third, Dayne Atani Christian, 31, also known…
Cedrick Carnell Camper, Jr. died with $500 in his sock. That was only the beginning. On Friday, May 27, as medical students from Nova Southeastern University watched, five staff members from the Broward County morgue examined his body. One noticed something protruding from the sock. Deputy chief medical examiner Dr…
Since January, toxic algae has polluted the waterways near 10-year-old Jack Benson’s home in Stuart. Frustrated with how the adults were handling it, the incoming fifth grader flew to Washington D.C. to speak to Congress. Last week, he demanded that they take real legislative action. “Our river has toxic algae…
The man on the corner of North Miami Avenue and 24th Street in Miami didn’t say much. But he didn’t have to. His sign did the talking. “Legal Medical Cannabis,” it said, and pointed straight to NugBrand, a weed-themed apparel shop in Wynwood. Inside, employee Kevin Machin let curious passersby…
If you’ve been inside a courthouse lately, you may have noticed that just before the metal detectors, there’s an “amnesty box” where you can abandon anything that, for whatever reason, you might not want to take through security. What exactly gets left in those boxes? We filed FOIA requests with…
The Fort Lauderdale Strikers are leaving Lockhart Stadium. Again. This time, though, it’s not because the soccer club is moving up to Minneapolis, merging with a team in Orlando, or going bankrupt. Apparently, it’s because Fort Lauderdale is too stingy to fix Lockhart up. “The city was not willing to…
Seven days after he slipped out of shackles and left the Broward County Courthouse through a back door, allegedly with the help of at least seven others, accused murderer Dayonte Resiles was marched back into the Fort Lauderdale jail not long before dawn this morning. Surrounded by a SWAT team…
After ignoring invitations from Black Lives Matter and the Broward Dream Defenders for three weeks, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel made a last-minute decision to attend the People’s Debate for Broward County Sheriff at the African American Research Library last night. He may be regretting it. Unlike most community debates, this…
Meet Arian Foster, your newest Miami Dolphin. If you pay any attention whatsoever to football, chances are you’re quite familiar with the Dolphins newly inked four-time Pro Bowl running back. In his seven years with the Houston Texans, Foster rushed for 6,472 yards, 54 scores, and probably at some point won you…
Last Friday, alleged murderer Dayonte Resiles sprinted out of the maroon-colored staircase door on the northeast side of the Broward courthouse to freedom. Five days later, activist Cal Deal had his nose pushed against that same door’s glass window. Even though uniformed officers and guards patrol the front of the…
Tonight, the Broward Dream Defenders and Black Lives Matter Alliance Broward will host an unscripted debate between the candidates for county sheriff. The event will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. at the African American Research Library in Fort Lauderdale. It will include an opportunity for audience members to…
When Thaddeus Martin won the first season of MTV’s “From G’s to Gents” in 2008, he wanted to mark the permanence of his transformation into a gentleman. So four months later, in a post-season reunion episode, the Miami Gardens native rolled up his sleeve and revealed a tattoo of the…
