Florida could have a less-partisan electoral process if a new petition gets on the 2016 ballot. Or it could get All Voters Vote, Inc., a Tallahassee-based group, filed a petition that would make Florida a “top-two” primary state. In this process, which is the model in Nebraska, Louisiana, Washington, and…
Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office announced that they have arrested a 14-year-old kid for the double-homicide shooting deaths of two Boynton Beach men. In the early morning hours last Monday, Ricky Taylor Miner, 23, and Andrew Vincent Laudano, 21, were found shot dead inside a Dodge Charger off Verona Lakes Boulevard…
The four Fort Lauderdale cops fired for their role in racist videos and text messages are trying to get their jobs back. Alex Alvarez, 22, Jason Holding, 31, James Wells, 30, and Christopher Sousa, 25, who sent out messages about “killing niggers,” and produced a video of a mock movie trailer…
It’s hard out there for a ‘tee. Florida’s population of endangered yet lovable underwater hunks, the manatee, has had a mixed 2015 so far. Yes, the manatee season – which runs from November to the first week April, when the water temperatures lure herds south to Florida – ended with…
The Miami Heat did all it could to not win Wednesday night, in order to secure that top-10 pick. But they were ill prepared for the juggernaut of losery that are the Philadelphia 76ers. Any time the Heat tried to suck the joint up, the 6ers took it up a…
It’s going to look like something scary is going down at the airport or near Port Everglades today, with scores of police cars and fire trucks, but don’t sweat it — authorities are carrying out a $100,000 emergency preparedness drill. Today’s mock scenario comes straight from an action movie: a…
Alleged shoplifters tried to use their five-finger discount at a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Palm Beach Gardens earlier today and eventually got arrested. The cops released a press release about arresting the shoplifters, but they apparently didn’t do anything about the gun-toting bystander who might have committed a more…
The Miami Heat are visiting the Philadelphia 76ers tonight in the final game of the NBA regular season. And it might just be the weirdest/worst/most ridiculous game ever played. Because both teams, ideally speaking, need to lose on purpose. Because tonight, the loser wins. Since being officially eliminated from the…
Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office Deputy William D. Wheeler wrapped his hands around an inmate’s neck and threw his head up against the walls inside the medical unit of the Palm Beach County Detention Center in Belle Glade. Wheeler had kept a nurse from seeing the inmate’s medical wristband before trying…
Former Florida Gator and New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez has been found guilty of first degree murder. The former star tight end had been charged with killing Odin Lloyd in June 2013. Lloyd, who had been dating Hernandez’s fiancee’s sister, was shot six times in an industrial park near Hernandez’s…
Between 2000 and 2013, Broward County’s minority population outnumbered its white population, becoming one of the largest minority-majority counties in the country during that time span, according to Pew research. The study released earlier this month found that 78 counties (with a minimum population of 10,0000 people) in 19 states…
The Florida Senate has approved a bill that would officially remove Florida’s gay adoption ban from the state’s statutes. The bill has already passed the House and now moves to Gov. Scott for finalization. In 1977, Florida banned same-sex couples from adopting. The law has not been in effect since…
So Marlins aren’t off to such a hot start. And that sucks, because expectations were large — especially after an offseason that featured giving Giancarlo Stanton the fattest contract in pro sports history, and because the Fish actually went out and got good players. The Marlins are off to an…
Just two decades ago, Florida’s black bear was nearly extinct, but now their population is back on the rise. In 1974, there were 300 to 500 in the Florida area. Now, there are believed to be more than 3,000. Bears didn’t just pick-up and move to Florida because they got…
Sea Turtle Oversight Protection’s Richard WhiteCloud has taken up the old Warren Zevon mantra of Lawyers, Guns & Money. Well, maybe not guns, but the Broward-based sea turtle conservation group promises to meet Fort Lauderdale officials with litigious aggression should they take up an agenda to try and move sea…
In a now-famous circumcision case, a Boynton Beach mother named Heather Hironimus remains in hiding with her four-year-old son to prevent him from being circumcised. Hironimus and the boy’s father had agreed in writing years ago to have the boy circumcised, but had read about the procedure and changed her…
Broward County Commissioners will be voting today on imposing new regulations on ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft. Among them, having more thorough background checks for potential drivers, including fingerprints, and inspections for vehicles. The ordinance also includes having Uber and Lyft to obtain commercial vehicle licenses, meaning divers would…
Last month, Broward County traffic judges threw out 24,000 pending red-light camera tickets from various cities throughout the county. These fines would have totaled about $6.3 million. Residents had sued both the City of Fort Lauderdale and the City of Hollywood on the grounds that their ticketing programs were illegal…
Good news for Gladesmen, snake-heads, reptile fiends, would-be reality TV stars, and just about anybody else who gets their kicks chasing big slimey invasive species through the wild: The Python Challenge is back. This is probably the best news we’ve heard in awhile. In case you weren’t around for the…
Limos. A rock band. Crab claws. Strippers. The night had all the ingredients for an epic bro-down. On February 28, 2013, the limo swung by the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino to pick up five members of the ’90s alt-rock band Candlebox. Along for the ride: Matt Iudice, their…
Dan Savage rose to national prominence as a gay sex columnist whose darkly humorous, sometimes raunchy writings — like whether to use an enema before “buttfucking” — appeared in a weekly Seattle newspaper and were later syndicated to other newspapers, including New Times. He made national headlines for a…
We’re not ones to want to rain on someone’s big day. It’s not every day, after all, that you go and declare that you’re running for President of the United States in a big showy stage from an historical building in downtown Miami. But, we’re going to do it anyway…
