In 1983, a young Boy Scout met with two of his scout leaders, and some other scouts, at TY Park in Hollywood. The boy, now a 40-year-old man, says that the scout masters gave him and other scouts alcohol, showed them pornography, and had them run around naked. The scout…
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are taking Florida, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll, released Thursday morning. More tellingly, despite all his bombast, controversial rhetoric, and Twitter meltdowns, Trump has overtaken Jeb Bush among likely voters in Florida. Bush was at a pretty healthy 20 percent when the poll…
Ben Carson, the former neurosurgeon and Florida’s other presidential hopeful, may have told an audience at a rally Wednesday that he is open to drone strikes on U.S. soil to protect the border. Carson appeared in front of thousands at a rally in Phoenix, where he touched on topics such as…
John Singer went on a burglary spree throughout Broward and Palm Beach where he stole what police call “an arsenal of weapons,” which he then tried to sell at a gun show. According to a Broward Sheriff’s Office Report, Singer — who has has been arrested 17 times in the…
For months, a unit at the Public Storage on Colonial Boulevard in Fort Myers went unclaimed. Though warehouse staff sent several letters to the renter of the space, Maria Gamez, no responses or payments were made. In an effort to clear out the unit so it could be leased by someone…
Floridians are a weird bunch. Geographic isolation has leant its way to bizarre habits, like an aversion to indicator signals and a pathological fear of cockroaches. We even have our own twang—we prefer “you guys” to “y’all” and “Publix” to “supermarket.” It should come as no surprise that we e-laugh…
Anti-abortion activists are calling for a protest at the Planned Parenthood facility at 263 North University Drive, in Pembroke Pines this weekend. The gathering is being headed up by Broward Right to Life & Respect Life in what is being called a National Day of Protest at Planned Parenthood offices and…
After nearly three hours of debating and hearing from both Uber and the cab industry, Palm Beach County commissioners voted to not regulate the ride-sharing company when it comes to fingerprint-based background checks, and are likely going to deregulate the entire industry — including taxi cabs. According to various reports,…
According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, Florida’s poor or underprivileged children make up about 24 percent of the 3,894,496 children living in the state. Nationally, it’s 22 percent. And now, via a new study released by WalletHub, the numbers look even more dire for underprivileged children living in…
As we showed you in a recent New Times cover story, Florida’s group homes are in serious need of an overall. Due to the privatization of the state’s channels for placing and caring for trouble kids, there’s a serious lack of oversight among the ground floor service providers who are…
As Broward works to get Uber operating within the county again, the focus now shifts to Palm Beach, whose commissioners must also decide if they want to institute regulations on rid-sharing companies, or have the popular Uber suspend operations there as well. Palm Beach County commissioners will be meeting tonight…
It was the Monday after Christmas, 2014. Night had fallen, and the air was crisp. In front of the Hollywood Beach Theatre — a pale-yellow concrete bandshell located where Johnson Street meets the ocean — a crowd of a few hundred people danced to a cover of Duke Ellington’s 1940s…
On October 1, 2013, more than 60 men in jumpsuits crowded into the austere cafeteria at the Krome Service Processing Center, a huge Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility on the edge of the Everglades. The men, detainees from various Latin American countries, were gathered for a Spanish-language Catholic service…
In July, Kanter Real Estate filed an application to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection agency to begin drilling for oil just south of Broward County in the Everglades. But last week, Broward County Commissioners voted unanimously to amend a state law to have individual counties decide if they would…
The Florida Panthers — known for their outside-the-box ahh, screw it hiring tactics — are back at it again. From the same team that brought you open goalie tryouts comes a chance to audition for the teams PA announcer position, anthem singer, and radio play-by-play positions for the upcoming season. If being…
On Sunday, Demetrius Vaugha walked past Plantation Heritage Park, where almost 200 Confederate flag supporters were meeting for a road rally. The 23-year-old was holding signs that read “God Hates Flags” and “Cops Kill.” He was headed to the Black Lives Matter counter-protest that was meeting nearby. That’s when, Vaugha…
A panel on Gamergate, the highly controversial debate over sexism and journalism in the video game world, had to be canceled Saturday after bomb threats. But planners of the panel at Little Havana’s Koubek Center, part of Miami-Dade College, didn’t skip a beat. They headed outside to the carport at…
Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office says that 32 undocumented migrants were spotted off the shores of Juno Beach early Monday morning. A PBSO marine unit spotted a boat arriving just about two miles off shore at around 5:40 a.m. Authorities say 13 men, 9 women, and 10 children — including an…
A Mardi Gras Casino greyhound tested positive for cocaine, but the dog’s trainer apparently got off on a bureaucratic technicality regarding the Division of Para-Mutuel Wagering’s inspection manual. On December 14, 2014, a urine sample was taken from a greyhound named Waylon Hambone just before the dog entered into the 9th…
Forbes calls GamerGate “a consumer movement.” But the Washington Post calls it a “misdirected lynchmob.” CNN calls it “a heated debate over journalistic integrity.” But the New York Times says it looks “like an orchestrated campaign of harassment against women.” So what the hell is it? If you don’t play…
If your dog dashes out the front door and scampers out of sight, you’ll appreciate a fresh —- and free —- tool to help bring home the wayward pet. Finding Rover provides an app that uses facial recognition technology to match lost and found dogs. The software ideally simplifies the…
Chris Nicolaus used to drive around Fort Lauderdale with a confederate flag proudly flapping on the antenna of his truck. But in the mornings he’d find that his truck had been keyed overnight. He started bringing in the flag in the evenings and putting it back up in the mornings…
