Donald Trump remains ahead of Jeb Bush in just about every poll — and by wide margins. This has been moistly thanks to Trump’s relentless attacks on Bush and the fact that the media can’t stop showing Trump’s face at every turn (guilty!). At every opportunity, Trump has gone for…
Hialeah Police Officer Nelson Enriquez, who killed two police dogs in Davie when he left them in a hot police SUV all day, will not be charged criminally, the Broward County state attorney’s office said on Tuesday. In May, Enriquez’s K-9 partners Jimmy and Hektor were found dead inside his police…
Jayvon Woolfork has been openly defiant and insistent that he was innocent in the gang rape and beating of a Hollywood teen but on Monday, a jury didn’t found him guilty of sexual battery and kidnapping. In 2013, Woolfork, and three other teens — two girls and two boys — invited…
A viral video posted by the website Photography Is Not A Crime that appears to show a suspect being bitten by a Delray Beach police dog has prompted some to make threatening phone calls to Delray Beach Police PD. The video, which was shot by an onlooker and uploaded onto Facebook…
The Florida Supreme Court has rejected a 90-day suspension without pay for Broward Circuit Judge Lynn Rosenthal in order to keep from getting any disciplinary action pursued against her by the Judicial Qualifications Commission. Rosenthal had agreed to the suspension last month. In May of last year, was busted for driving…
On June 26 of this year, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that state-level bans on same-sex marriage — like the one Florida had in place since 2008 — are unconstitutional because they violate the due-process and equality clauses of the 14th Amendment. The ruling, in the case…
Even with DUI checkpoints and saturation patrols by Broward Sheriff’s Office over the last couple of days, Labor Day weekend still ended up being a deadly one with two fatal accidents occurring, and at least one of them likely caused by an impaired driver. In the early morning hours Monday,…
Every few months, a 38-year-old woman drives to Miami from Broward. She meets with Carlos Franco, a 66-year-old retired drug-rehabilitation specialist turned harm-reduction advocate. He hands her a box with hundreds of new, wrapped syringes, and she then in turn covertly hands them out to low-income intravenous drug users in…
The Port Everglades is currently the third busiest cruise port and 11th busiest freight port in the nation. And it’s about to get busier with plans for deepen and wide the port under way. In 2007, the Broward County Board of County Commissioners approved the Port’s Master/Vision Plan, which included a…
While Arby’s is offering free food for all police officers throughout Broward and Miami-Dade Counties today in response to a Pembroke Pines officer being denied service because she was a cop, there as been more serious fallout over the incident. Arby’s has confirmed that the manager from the store located…
A federal judge finally put the brakes on a lawsuit that has been rumbling through the court system since 2010, a high-profile match-up between the Public Defender’s office and a former pro-wrestler-turned-psychologist who previously had been one of the office’s go-to courtroom experts. The ruling, issued by Federal Judge Donald…
The three-day Labor Day weekend is just about here. But before you venture on out, there are a couple of DUI and driver’s license checkpoints that the Broward Sheriff’s Office will be conducting that you should know about, starting Friday morning into late Sunday. First, a heads up for anyone…
A Jamaican woman was caught with mounds of cocaine inside her bra as she tried to walk through customs like it was all good. The woman was arrested at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on August 2, according to a news release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The woman was…
Did you know that Labor Day is one of the busiest travel days on the road of the year? It’s true! And this Labor Day weekend will have the most travelers on the road since 2008, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. And that means the likelihood of…
Over 30 activists attended the commission meeting Tuesday evening to discuss the reinstatement of Fort Lauderdale police officer Jeffery Feldewert, who was fired in June over racist Facebook comments and then brought back on the force last month. Six activists took to the podium to explain that officers like Feldewert…
As an overweight teenager living in Weston approximately 10 years ago, Mark Pfefer hated going to the mall. He didn’t care about what he wore, never wanted to spend more than a minute in a clothing store, and he definitely didn’t want to try on clothes. The only exception: socks. A…
We’re officially living in a world where Donald Trump is very likely going to be the GOP nominee. So it might be time to fighting it, and simply become part of the xenophobic rhetoric and the women-hating, and the insults, and get on the Trump bandwagon by showing your support…
You might soon be able to legally smash a vehicle window in order to free an animal from the confines of a hot locked car. The Florida Senate is reviewing a new bill that would allow not only first-responders and animal control officials to break a window to free someone’s…
In June, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), approved a hunting season on Florida’s black bears from October 24 to 30. Today at the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina, the commission was meeting and was expected to set “harvest objectives” — i.e., to put an exact figure on how…
A Pembroke Pines officer was denied service at a local Arby’s Tuesday night simply by virtue of being a police officer. According to the Pembroke Pines Police Department, the uniformed cop went to get some food at the Arby’s located at 11755 Pines Blvd., but was told by a worker…
The second felony kidnapping charge involving the case of an unhinged Broward mother who defied a court order and stole two-year-old Lilly Baumann away from her father has been dropped. Last week, New Times reported that the Broward State Attorney’s office had decided not to go forward with the kidnapping…
Vice President Joe Biden, he of the thinning pate and big mouth, will be in South Florida today with a three-fold assignment: to push the Iran nuclear arms deal, to address Miami-Dade College, and garner money for U.S. Senate candidates. What he should be doing, though, is making a surprise…
