Delray Beach is considering putting 637 parking meters in its downtown area because the city is running low on cash.A study conducted for the city says it would cost $1.95 million to install the new meters but “could” raise $2.1 million per year.Aside from business owners already complaining about the…
It’s not often that there’s a showdown between the NRA and doctors, but anything goes in the Sunshine State.Three Florida medical groups are threatening to sue over the “docs and Glocks” law — we’re going with “Glocktor” because it sounds more brutal — a Gov. Rick Scott-approved piece of legislation…
This week’s New Times cover story is an in-depth look at Strax Rejuvenation and Aesthetics Institute, a popular plastic surgery center in Lauderhill where four patients have died after operations in the past three years.Strax officials say their mortality rate is in line with the national average, since their board-certified doctors…
Broward County Judge Fred Berman has declared police officers writing tickets to drivers running red lights is unconstitutional — at least in his court.Berman’s ruling is in response to red-light cameras, saying it’s not fair for police and cameras to co-exist in ticketing drivers for running red lights because they…
Jean-Carlo Baptist — the 22-year-old Boynton Beach man police say beat his 11-week-old daughter unconscious in January 2010 — was sentenced yesterday to four years in prison.According to a Boynton Beach police detective, police were called by hospital medical staff on January 9, 2010, to investigate a “suspicious head injury.”Baptist’s…
As soon as we were done telling you about 48-year-old Bryan Garnett, from Utica, New York, slapping a male JetBlue flight attendant on a flight from Palm Beach International Airport to Boston, it happened again — this time with a little more booze and punching.According to the Palm Beach County…
Raymond Herisse — the 22-year-old Boynton Beach man shot and killed over Memorial Day weekend on the streets of Miami Beach — has been identified by Boynton Beach police as the gunman in a November shooting at a BP gas station.Police say Herisse tried to hit several police officers on…
A Pompano Beach man says his Magic Faucet bidet unexpectedly exploded(!) — causing thousands in damage both to his bathroom and to his downstairs neighbor’s apartment. So now, Angelo E. Rosa is demanding cash from Home Depot MFB Inc. — the bidet’s manufacturer — and John the Plumber to fix water…
News at Florida’s juvenile detention centers has not been good lately. At some state-run facilities, teenagers are allegedly being doped up on anti-psychotic drugs to control their behavior. At Thompson Academy, a privately run lockup in Pembroke Pines, the owners have settled a federal lawsuit alleging that a teenaged boy…
Tamara Strulovici may have set the benchmark for the term “ugly divorce,” which included holding a steak knife to her husband’s throat during her demand.Strulovici, now 53, came up behind her husband in their Tamarac home in May 2009 and put the steak knife to his neck, demanding he sign…
As a candidate for worst mother of the year, a Coral Springs woman tried to kill her kids yesterday by plowing her car into a house, police say.According to Coral Springs police, 46-year-old Jane Gonzalez told her two kids in the back seat of her Ford Mustang to take their…
It turns out government scammer Alan Mendelsohn’s hopes of being sentenced to home confinement, probation, and community service were a little optimistic — he was sentenced today to four years in prison.U.S. District Judge William Zloch handed down the sentence this afternoon to the 53-year-old Mendelsohn, who pleaded guilty in…
Alan Mendelsohn — the Hollywood ophthalmologist, GOP fundraiser, lobbyist, and adviser to former Gov. Charlie Crist — will be sentenced in federal court today after pleading guilty to a conspiracy charge in December.Mendelsohn’s conspiracy charge specifically claimed scheming to bilk the U.S. government — trying to hide $82,000 in political…
According to Florida law — and now the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals — doctors’ sometimes-deadly mistakes have a financial limit: $500,000.The law was being challenged by Michelle McCall, who the Associated Press reports died after giving birth to her son in 2006 after a nurse decided not to tell…
There’s something to be said about a man slapping another man, but when the recipient of that slap is a JetBlue flight attendant — that’s going to be a legal problem.Police say 48-year-old Bryan Garnett, from Utica, New York, was on Flight 442 yesterday, taking off from Palm Beach International…
It seemed pretty innocent that 79-year-old Alfred Orzechonski and his 63-year-old neighbor were arguing about whose dog was smarter — except for the part where the police say Orzechonski pulled a gun on him.According to Palm Beach Gardens police, Orzechonski and the man were going back-and-forth on the dog IQ…
Typically, being caught with a backpack and car full of “herb” would land an easy arrest. But for Hollywood resident Robin Brown, her herb was the cooking variety — 50 grams of sage.Brown, 49, was arrested in March 2009 after a deputy from the Broward Sheriff’s Office was apparently convinced…
Sgt. Kevin Finn takes a step forward to make sure his next point isn’t missed. His spurs clank on the barn’s concrete floor. His calvary hat is turned just slightly to the side, gold tassels on the brim below a Fort Lauderdale police crest. His ice-blue eyes go still, not…
Will “Da Real One” Bell Jr. was a slam-poet of great power, as well as an entrepreneur. He died over the weekend after unknown assailants shot him in a drive-by outside of his small establishment on 125th street, the Literary Cafe and Poetry Lounge. Police have an extremely vague description…
The most expensive joint in the world was never even smoked, CNN.com reported on Saturday.Most likely, it was confiscated by police and left to rot in an evidence room. This was in the late 1970s, and the joint’s true worth was not then apparent. The person in whose possession it…
There probably are no real ghosts in this world, but some places are haunted anyway. One of them is the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, which has existed for a century just outside of a greasy mosquito cloud of a town called Marianna, in a desolate part of the…
Nicole Sandler won’t admit it, but she and Allen West are simpatico.I know it sounds silly. She was once a host on the lefty radio network Air America, and she still hosts a pleasingly pink internet radio show called Radio or Not, which you may listen to here.And yes, it’s…
