Investigators are still trying to ID the woman discovered dead over the weekend in a part of west Delray Beach. As of now, the Palm Beach Sheriff Office isn’t providing that many details about the crime — other than they’re still stumped about who’ve they found. Foul play, however, does seem to…
Victor Mooney’s voice lowers and soars like he’s performing a one-man theater show. Sitting inside a hot, windowless room on the second floor of the Merrill-Stevens boatyard, not far from dozens of million-dollar yachts bobbing in the Miami River, Mooney is a youthful-looking 49, with a shaved head, broad face,…
On November 1, 2013, Patricia Montes, then 15, and her friend, then-16-year-old Erica Avery, invited an estranged friend over to a home in Hollywood. There, they allegedly stripped her, beat her, and held her down as she was raped by a 19-year-old man. On Monday, Montes, now 17, was sentenced…
Miami Heat President Pat Riley held his annual post-season-state-of-the-franchise press conference Monday morning (albeit, a tad earlier in the year than what we’ve grown accustomed to around here), and talked about the team’s past, present, future and draft pick. Oh and he also threw a subtle, yet not so subtle,…
A cushy partnership between one of Florida’s all-power public energy utilities and the U.S. military looks like it’s moving forward. The state’s Public Service Commission — which right now is pretty much an official rubber-stamp for whatever project the utilities want — signed off recently on the deal, which will…
A scathing new report says the private prison industry is getting fat off profits from detaining undocumented immigrants in sub-par conditions – and Boca Raton-based GEO Group is one of the main culprits behind the scheme. In the report, titled Payoff: How Congress Ensures Private Prison Profit with an Immigration…
Awww yea. It’s that time of year again. 4/20. And while everyday is 4/20 for most of you, it’s important to recognize today as Stoner’s Christmas. Because, why not, man. So, in order to commemorate and celebrate this righteous occasion, we present out annual list of best places in Broward…
A federal judge magistrate ordered that Palm Beach eye doctor Salomon Melgen be detained before trial. Melgen, who was was indicted on Thursday for Medicare fraud, has been called a flight risk by prosecutors. Melgen is tied to New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez’s corruption scandal after the eye doctor allegedly…
National child welfare advocates held a joint presser to speak out against the so-called Indiana-style bill (HB 7111) that’s been moving rapidly through the House that would allow private adoption agencies to turn down applications for adoption based solely on the agencies’ religious beliefs. This, the opposition says, would allow…
As New Times discovered earlier this year, there isn’t a subject matter more touchy that the laws outlining the rights — or lack there of — of sex offenders. The uptick of laws determining where sex offenders can and cannot go, along with the rise and ubiquity of information on…
As a bill that would set rules on police body cameras makes its way through the Florida Legislature, Hallandale Beach decided to start its own pilot program for their officers to wear the body cams for at least a year. Police body cams have become a hot topic of discussion…
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…
