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The development team behind the controversial Bahia Mar redevelopment plan, which called for two 29-story condominium towers to be built on a plot of historic, publicly owned land along the A1A, withdrew their application today, ending months of contentious debate between the construction team, the Fort Lauderdale City Commission, and…

Fort Lauderdale is currently considering a proposal to redevelop the iconic Bahia Mar property, which would plunk two 29-story towers on a stretch of public land along A1A. Critics have long contended that city officials are too cozy with the project developers. Now, video from a recent commission meeting has…

Twenty-nine-year-old Rachel Alexander woke up on Saturday morning in Delray Beach to the horrific news of a mass shooting at an Orlando gay club. As a member of the LGBTQIA community, Alexander had frequented Pulse nightclub a handful of times, most recently about a year ago. She later found out…

Ever since the New Times pointed out that several streets in a historically black Hollywood neighborhood in Hollywood are named for former Confederate generals (and one member of the Ku Klux Klan,) activists have been fighting to have them renamed. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the debate has brought neo-Confederates out of the…

Heads up to people from Kendall who head north to Hollywood: some politicians are trying to crack down on coolers, tents, and umbrellas so that you’ll stop coming to their beach. Yesterday’s commission meeting in Hollywood, which is at least 34 miles from Kendall, ended in a vote to tentatively…

Joe Kaufman is  running against Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Tim Canova for Florida’s 23rd Congressional District, which encompasses parts of Hollywood, Hallandale Beach, and select sections of Miami-Dade county. On Sunday, he put out a call to shut down “every Florida radical Muslim institution” —  though he couldn’t say how he’d…

Not long after the news broke that 49 people had died in a mass shooting at an Orlando gay club, Ghazal Tajalli began seeing the posts appearing in her Facebook feed again. Just as had happened after the San Bernardino shootings, people were blaming Islam and suggesting that Muslims be…

A high school debate teacher ran a food concession out of her classroom, gave grades of “incomplete” to students who didn’t meet fundraising targets, and pushed an expensive summer camp run by her husband, according to a new internal report by Broward County Public Schools’ chief auditor.   The report…

Police work is inherently difficult. Cops need to balance competing cases, are occasionally threatened, and must make decisions each day that will permanently affect the people they deal with. It’s a job that requires level-headedness, emotional resolve, and vast amounts of bravery. The job also requires getting addresses right. According…

After Robert Taylor learned that seven of his friends and acquaintances had died in the mass shooting that took place at an Orlando gay club early Sunday morning, he didn’t go outside for two full days. Then, on Tuesday afternoon, he decided it was time. The first place that he…

As a 6-year-old kid, Lily Capeheart would catch lizards in her West Palm Beach backyard. Then one day in 2006, she tried to hypnotize one. She had seen a show on Animal Planet in which a woman hypnotizes an alligator by flipping it over and rubbing its belly. Capeheart figured…

“The current mood in Orlando has been a bit on edge and somber,” says resident Hannah Swope. “We recognize the severity of the tragic event; however, it seems hard to believe this took place in our own backyard. Although many people are worried, the focus is primarily on expressing condolences…

Tensions are high in Wilton Manors after the massacre of 50 clubgoers at a gay nightclub in Orlando early Sunday morning. People from the city of 12,000 have donated blood, signed a petition banning assault weapons, and donated to Equality Florida, a nonprofit collecting money for victims and their families…

Brian Krebs went to East Grand Rapids High School with American Pie screenwriter Adam Herz. According to a 2011 New Times story, Krebs was a rowdy, drunken sod of sorts back in the day, so much so that when Herz sat down to write the classic 1999 bro-comedy, Herz reportedly based the…

Dog paternity is a contentious issue at animal shelters. Often times, pets are taken in with little knowledge of their ancestry, leaving staff to assume a pet’s breed on its looks. Mary Steffen, director of the Humane Society of Broward County, explains that this guesswork can lead to problems since…

Fort Lauderdale can be a rowdy place. Drink too much at Cafe Martorano, and you might end up with Journey lyrics tattooed on your neck the next morning. Drink too much at Blondies, and you could potentially get put in a sleeper-hold. But while Fort Lauderdale does have a longstanding…