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…
Broward commissioners voted on Tuesday to have a final vote for a new lax law that would allow Uber to return to the county. As has always been the case whenever the commissioners meet to discuss the ride-sharing app company’s operations, many showed up to voice their opinion, with the…
Miramar, Hollywood, Davie, Plantation, and Dania, meet your next state senator: 30-year-old Lauren Book. The Plantation resident, founder of a nonprofit, and daughter of influential lobbyist Ron Book — is running for office, she told New Times via phone today. “I’m going neighborhood to neighborhood to and lacing up my sneakers…
After coming two percentage points of having medical marijuana legalized in last November’s election, United for Care quickly bounced back to get medicinal marijuana back onto the ballot for the 2016 election. It needed to collect 68,317 valid signatures for a Supreme Court review and 683,179 validated petitions to get…
The University of Miami Hurricanes was once known as a fierce, unbeatable team that dominated opponents, won National Championships, and was an NFL talent factory. That, sadly, is ancient history. And things have seemed to have gotten appreciably worse during the Al Golden era. But, no worries, Canes fans. A…
Elijah Manley was daydreaming on the school bus again. The Fort Lauderdale High sophomore wasn’t thinking about homework or quizzes but about the 2016 presidential race. That’s when he decided he was going to run for president. Not school president — but president of the United States of America. Annoyed…
Pelting rain has glued red-and-yellow-striped jerseys onto the soaked bodies of 6,000 fans scattered around Lockhart Stadium’s metal bleachers. The waterlogged pitch looks more like a World War I battle site than a soccer field, but the true believers in the stands chant and sing ecstatically. For the first time…
Citing what they call repeated labor violations by airline contractors, airport workers are holding a Pre-Labor Day Strike at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport on Tuesday. American Airlines, Southwest, JetBlue, and Spirit are among the airlines expected to be impacted by the strike, which began at 5:30 Tuesday morning in protest over…
A measure to decriminalize marijuana possession across Broward County that was introduced by commissioner Martin Kiar is still being explored, the vice mayor tells New Times. After hearing of Miami-Dade’s plan to decriminalize pot possession in June, Kiar brought up doing the same before Broward Commissioners in July. Since then,…
Boca Raton’s Blue Martini is the go-to spot for Palm Beach County’s raging middle-agers — sun-cured old dudes looking for their next ex-wife and Botox-boosted ladies riding Appletini binges to bad decisions. So you can imagine that the customers at the Town Center bar expect a certain level of class…
A Palm Beach County family says they found their pet cat cut in half by someone using a knife. The family, which lives in Jupiter Estates, posted on Facebook last week that their cat Rocky was murdered, and that another cat was also found in the area killed in the…
In late January 33-year-old Leroy Strothers took to the roof of his apartment building in Lake Worth and began screaming. He waved his handgun in the air, terrifying the people below, and then shot it toward the sky. Several people feared he was a sniper and called 911. Deputies from…
While she’s a sloppy and disorganized system, Erika is bringing torrential rain and wind with her when she passes over Florida in a few days, and that has prompted Gov. Rick Scott to declare a state of emergency for all of Florida. “The National Guard is now partially activated and…
Last summer, New Times spent some time hanging with Rick Wilkerson Jr., the South Florida pastor then sitting in the eye of swirling media attention thanks to his role in the wedding of the century. The fresh-faced Miami-based man of God presided over the May 2014 union of Kanye West…
