On the same day a white South Carolina police officer was charged with murder after shooting an unarmed black man, the Florida Senate Criminal Justice Committee unanimously passed a measure that would have police agencies to establish policies and procedures addressing the proper use of body cameras for their officers. The…
The Deerfield Beach City Commission voted to allow a 69-townhouse development to be built on land that once held a black cemetery and which could still have human remains, despite public outcry against the project. Out of five members voting on the city commission, three voted in favor of the…
April: forget about poetry or pleasant showers or even the opening day of baseball season. What the month really means to your average American: taxes. Times to find those mustard covered receipts under the couch and pray you actually left that W-2 where you think you did. Luckily for Floridians,…
For a night, at least, the Miami Heat’s playoff hopes live to see another game. The Heat entered Tuesday nights home game against the Charlotte Hornets with their postseason plans on life support, but the 105-100 victory provided some much needed CPR to their season. The win snapped a four-game…
Count archeologists among those who oppose All Aboard Florida. According to a 44-page lawsuit filed by Old Vero Ice Age Sites Committee, a nonprofit archeology group, the U.S. Department of Transportation illegally approved funding for the high-speed rail project that will run 32 express passenger trains a day from Miami,…
Opening Day came and went on Monday. All of America tuned in to watch first pitches across the nation. The stars were out in full force. Mike Trout homered in his first at-bat. As it is every year, it was a special day. Yet all people can talk about is…
Palm Beach Police nabbed two women in a prostitution ring being held at The Breakers hotel in West Palm. According to probable cause affidavits, the Palm Beach Police Department’s Organized Crime, Vice & Narcotics Unit set up the sting via the website Backpage.com. Undercover agents answered an ad in the…
Life is hard and everything sucks. Racial tension is escalating, murderous militant extremists are running rampant, our white politicians lie about what race they actually belong to, and we’ll stab each other in the neck over the color of that goddamn dress! Stress is pervasive in everything. Our lives have…
Last December, just before the New Year, Palm Beach county was rocked with a report of a tragic helicopter crash involving two people in Lantana. The crash on the 29th resulted in the serious injury of Jonathan Desouza, a student earning his certification, and the death of the pilot, instructor…
The word shot out on the police wire: Be on the lookout for a Ford Focus, black female at the wheel. The driver is waving a handgun at other cars. That muggy afternoon on July 10, 2012, a Fort Lauderdale community service officer coursing through a grid of industrial streets…
In the late 1980’s, young punk rockers in Cuba, known as “los frikis,” were so fed-up with the stifling life of the communist regime that they chose to inject themselves with AIDS so they could live in a sanitorium and be free from constant police-state harassment. And today, two survivors…
Just a few paces from busy Brickell Avenue, Ishmael Bermudez crouches behind his little clapboard house and drinks serenely from a hose lowered into the ancient bedrock. Skyscrapers drape his property in shadows. Across the street, a Metrorail train clamors to a stop at an elevated station. All around, construction…
Brent Betterly of Oakland Park, one of three men associated with Occupy Fort Lauderdale who were arrested in Chicago on terrorism charges in 2012 on their way to a NATO protest, is being let out of state prison in Illinois this Thursday, his supporters have said. They are raising money…
Victor Ramirez, the Fort Lauderdale cop who was caught slapping a homeless man on video, has been charged with three misdemeanor charges by the Broward State Attorney’s Office. One of the charges includes falsifying reports. New Times reported last month that Ramirez had omitted the part where he slapped the…
When Hollywood Police arrived to Attucks Middle School Saturday afternoon, they found the Dodge four-door rolled over onto its back in the parking lot, the lone victim in the driver’s seat. The woman, a 19-year-old from Lauderdale Lakes, had in fact been in another accident just a block away before…
“Heb” Bush isn’t just a symbolic Hispanic candidate because he speaks Spanish. He’s also technically a Hispanic – according to his 2009 voter registration form. The New York Times obtained Jeb’s Miami-Dade voter registration form and found that the son and brother for former presidents (both of whom happen to…
Today is Opening Day. And that’s fun. The new-look Miami Marlins are poised to make a run in the National League and get back to the playoffs with a revamped lineup that includes extensions for Giancarlo Stanton and Christian Yelich, while adding the likes of Martin Prado, Dee Gordon and…
Cooley’s Landing Marina might be a little closer to getting moderately safer for drivers. The group leading the cause to have retractable gates placed on the boat ramps to prevent vehicles from accidentally driving into the water met with the Fort Lauderdale Marine Advisory Board on Thursday, and so far,…
Two weeks ago, four Fort Lauderdale police lost their jobs after one of their ex-girlfriends turned in racist text messages between them as well as a video showing racist imagery: dogs siccing blacks, Ku Klux Klan hoods, etc. An interesting detail from the internal affairs report were allegations from the…
If you’re the type of guy who has lots of girlfriends in developing countries, it helps to have a buddy who is a U.S. senator to expedite travel visas. And if your friend happens to be New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, consider it done. Dr. Salomon Melgen, the Palm Beach…
Just as Indiana is scrambling to fix their Religious Freedom Act law, Florida could be one step closer in replacing the Hoosier State as the face of LGBT discrimination. On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would allow private adoption agencies to refuse same-sex couples from adopting…
Tea Party activists are encouraging people to “stop the land grab” — meaning stop the state from buying 46,000 acres of land south of Lake Okeechobee that environmentalists say would be critical to cleaning up the Everglades. Tea partiers held a protest yesterday at the South Florida Water Management District’s…
