Melissa Rodriguez was collecting seashells on Hollywood Beach, hours after the last fireworks had dimmed on the 4th of July, when she realized her pants were missing. She had left her black jeans, her wallet, and her car keys on a lifeguard stand before walking to the water. When she…
The Ana Cecilia carried a lot of cargo in its day. In 2012, it delivered the first shipment of humanitarian shipment to Cuba from Miami since the 1962 Missile Crisis. In 2015, border control agents seized the ship after it took $10 million in cocaine up the Miami River. Soon, its…
A man who tried to apply for a job at Twin Peaks in Davie is now leading a class-action lawsuit arguing that what he calls a “breastaurant” chain discriminates against men. Rafael Ortiz claims that he was told by the manager on duty that he couldn’t fill out an application…
If Grant Sadowski had his way, The Martian wouldn’t have been nominated for best picture of 2016. Because at the beginning of Act 2, Matt Damon wouldn’t have had to MacGyver trinkets for his survival on the red planet. Instead, he’d be taking it easy, sipping on margaritas out of…
Maylinn Arroyo owns three vape pens. She says she used to smoke, but doesn’t anymore. “It was definitely a fad, but it’s not anymore,” the 18 year old, who lives in Sunrise, explains. “There’re people who still think it’s the bomb, though. I can show you pictures of my ex…
Boynton Beach really likes beer. Last night, the city commission unanimously voted to change the law to make it easier for microbreweries to open in the city. The changes were inspired by Mike Halker, the owner of Due South, Boynton’s first microbrewery. Halker had been looking for a way to…
The homeless contend they’re being unfairly targeted in the city’s efforts to clean up one of the most troubled sections of downtown. Tuesday morning marked the second time in less than two weeks that the homeless report their belongings being taken. James Watkins says his bike was confiscated from his…
“Ninth Street and A1A Boulevard.” Richard Whitecloud relays his oceanfront location to the emergency dispatcher. “The fatalities just keep racking up in this intersection,” he mutters. “Dammit, man. Intersection of death!” Whitecloud, six feet one with long, curly hair kept back in a ponytail, bends down to inspect a corpse:…
At 5 p.m. Sunday, Dr. Michael Russin, a well-known hand surgeon, amateur pilot, and avid Cincinnati Reds fan, left Boca Raton Airport in his experimental single-engine plane. He was headed for Miami-Opa-locka Executive Airport. It should have been just a short flight. But by nightfall, his family still hadn’t heard…
Florida’s unconstitutional plan to limit abortion might have killed a Palm Beach County teen program focusing on drop-out prevention. To keep the program running, program officials scrambled to re-do contracts by the July 1 deadline. To comply with the new restrictions, they cut Planned Parenthood out of the budget to…
Plastic doesn’t biodegrade. This is great for storing a tub of mayonnaise in your fridge, yet awful for the environment. Millions of tons of plastic pile up in landfills and oceans. There have been some ideas to address the plastic crisis, but none have been as revolutionary as the one…
After New Times published a story last week about a whistleblower’s complaint against the Broward Sheriff’s Office Crime Lab — the whistleblower claimed BSO was mishandling of DNA evidence — NBC 6 reported Friday that BSO had suspended certain aspects of its DNA-testing program. But New Times has also obtained…
Michael Rajner didn’t expect to see a man getting a blow job. It was the middle of the afternoon, and he was at Colohatchee Park walking Gidget, a Yorkie-mini Schnauzer mix. But it was impossible to mistake what was happening on the park bench ahead of him: one man was…
Florida has a true American treasure in the form of Snooty the manatee, who lives at the Parker Manatee Aquarium at the South Florida Museum in Bradenton. Snooty was born in 1948, making him the oldest manatee living in captivity, and probably in the entire world. He weighs 1,100 pounds…
Free speech, attorney Gary Edinger says, is built “on the fringes of society… the KKK, communists, strip clubs. That, Edinger adds, is why he supports David Mech, a former porn star who now works as a math tutor in Boca Raton. Mech, who directed more than 100 adult films under the moniker…
On January 6, the Coalition for Trump Victory Cruise is scheduled to set sail from Miami to the Bahamas. The organizer is Robert Jeter, an oil rig worker who lives in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. The 43-year-old also volunteers as executive director of the Coalition for Trump, a grassroots campaign that’s…
Free agency is normally an exciting, hope-filled time for Miami Heat fans. Next to a title run, anticipating the teams improvement is the biggest thrill a fan can have. Unfortunately, free agency is already causing sleepless night and angina this year. It’s more about the Heat keeping what they have…
The American Civil Rights Union. a conservative group, says census data proves more people are eligible to vote in Broward County this November than are currently alive. “The result could be people inadvertently voting who are not registered to vote,” says Joseph Vanderhulst, an attorney with the Public Interest Legal…
Amid allegations that Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz “rigged” the Democratic Presidential Primary in favor of Hillary Clinton, 120 people, including 104 Bernie Sanders donors, sued both Wasserman Schultz and the DNC in the Southern District Court of Florida yesterday for fraud, negligence, misrepresentation, and other claims, after…
In March 2015, prosecutors temporarily stopped sending evidence to what was then a state-of-the-art city forensics lab Washington D.C., over concerns that lab technicians had bungled cases and and “understated or overestimated the likelihood that a particular person’s DNA was left at a crime scene.” Earlier this month, the crime lab…
Last week, Americans flocked to social media to comment on how stupid and selfish it was for Britain to revolt and separate from a large bureaucracy like the European Union. Timing couldn’t be more unfortunate now that Americans are firing up the grills and dressing in red, white, and blue…
The grainy security video shows Steven Rodgers, a 43-year-old Miami-Dade County Public Schools Police officer, inside his Miami Edison Senior High School office. His silver badge glints against the dark blue of his uniform as he grins into the camera. And his penis is in his hand as he pleasures…
