Fort Lauderdale Police and officials from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation are still investigating a fatal boating accident along Middle River that left one teen boy dead and five others injured — three of the them critically. One of the teens is in stable condition, and another was treated…
Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter, who is no stranger to controversy, may have compared Uber to clerks who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after it was made legal. In an email exchange obtained by New Times, Broward resident Christina Davis wrote Ritter to push her to convince…
The father of a dead baby whose remains were discovered in the back yard of a Hallandale Beach home in 2013 has agreed to take a plea deal. Calvin Melvin, 29, has been charged with two counts of child neglect and three counts of giving false information to law enforcement officials…
A group of 22 Sikh men are on a hunger strike to protest their custody at the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Krome Service Processing Facility, according to Shalini Agarwal, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union in Miami. Agarwal said the men began the hunger strike on July 25…
On Saturday, at least 50 Black Lives Matter activists took off from the Fort Lauderdale courthouse on Broward Boulevard. They stomped down Southeast Third Avenue, protesting racist police in memory of Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old black woman who allegedly committed suicide in a Texas jail last month. This group of…
It looks like Uber might be coming back to Broward County — just not yet, anyway. During a lengthy meeting on Tuesday, commissioners discussed the possibility of relaxing their ordinance to allow the ride-sharing company to operate in the county and agreed to draft a new ordinance that would bring…
The Riviera Beach Police Department says it’s investigating an officer after a video surfaced of the cop getting into a confrontation with a disabled veteran. The video, shot on Sunday on the man claiming to be a disabled vet’s cell phone camera, depicts Sgt. Gary Wilson walking up to a…
Pembroke Pines Police are looking for those responsible for beating a family dog to death and then tagging a handwritten note to the dead animal with an angry-looking smiley face and “WE BEAT IT 2 DEATH lol! HAHAHA!” written on it. The dog, a 13-year-old Pomeranian named Fox, was discovered…
This week’s feature story in New Times takes a hard look at a usually hidden corner of the state’s bureaucracy — the group homes and foster care services that provide shelter for some of Florida’s most troubled kids. Allegations of lax supervision have dogged the system, leading to reports of drug…
Marco Rubio says that, if elected president, he will crack down on states that have legalized marijuana by enforcing the federal law. Rubio has a long history speaking out against marijuana legalization, though he’s never said whether he’s used it in his past. The recent comments came on Sunday on…
There were raised voices and broken glass and the high-voltage emotions that pinball between a wild teen and her worried mom. In their Davie home, Bonnie had installed new locks on the windows to keep her 16-year-old daughter, Cathy, from sneaking out again. The fight ended with Cathy waving around…
Ride-sharing service Uber suspended operations in Broward County back on July 31, citing what they called stringent regulations put in place by county commissioners. The move was twofold: to let the county know that the regulations were too complicated and onerous to allow the company to operate, and to get…
For the past three years or so, investigators from the Broward Public Defender’s Office have been going through local law enforcement records with tweezers, picking out any pattern of suspected race-based policing. The digging brought to light, among other patterns, “Biking While Black,” the Fort Lauderdale PD’s practice of using…
The City of Fort Lauderdale, as well as Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Oakland Park, Port Everglades Authority, Village of Sea Ranch Lakes, Wilton Manors and sections of Davie and Tamarac (east of State Road 7/441) has upgraded a boil water advisory to a boil water warning. On Saturday, a sample taken from one…
Editor’s Note: Robin Merrill is part of the coordination circle for Love the Everglades. It was just this April that President Barack Obama gave a speech amidst the blades of grass deep in the South Florida Everglades. But that memory is nearly forgotten as news of a proposed oil well…
This weekend marks the 45th anniversary of the Penn Cove orca captures, the controversial and deadly whale hunt off the coast of Washington where Lolita the killer whale was captured to become the trained performer she is today at the Miami Seaquarium. In the summer of 1970, about eighty whales…
Donald Trump had himself a YUUUGE Twitter meltdown following Thursday night’s GOP presidential race. As we boldly predicted in our Florida GOP Debate Drinking Game, Trump went on to declare himself the winner of the debate, and retweeted his horde of supporters who concurred with this opinion. But, as it…
In a year when transgender issues have been at the forefront of conversation and headlines around the nation, Fort Lauderdale will be the home of The Southern Comfort Conference, the largest annual trans conference in North America. In fact, Fort Lauderdale has been announced as the host city for the…
SeaWorld announced on Thursday that there has been a steep decline in attendance, sales and profits, and blamed ““continued brand challenges” — which is another way of saying people are upset over the company keeping orcas in captivity. Attendance at SeaWorld’s theme parks across the U.S. fell by two percent…
Four presidential candidates from Florida and a bunch of other guys are all set to have the first GOP debate tonight, and it promises to be a doozy. Mainly because there are so many of them — ten candidates in all on stage — and also because of a weird…
It has been a long weird road for Paul Pope. The son of the founder of the National Enquirer found himself locked in a legal tussle involving his own mother. The most reason front-line in that on-going fight: Pope’s efforts to get his guns back. In 2013, the Palm Beach…
Hallandale Beach is officially the first city in Broward County that will have cops fine anyone caught with marijuana rather than arresting them. On Wednesday night, Hallandale Beach Commissioners unanimously approved a new measure that will make marijuana possession a civil offense rather than a criminal one. Anyone caught with…
