Ornan Antoine was just trying to get home. It was a rain-laced July night around midnight in 2013. The stocky, gap-toothed Haitian was pedaling down SW 28th Avenue, heading from a buddy’s house to his own sea-green single-story bungalow a few blocks over in the Melrose Park section of Fort…
A defense attorney has a question: If it’s “justice” for his 16-year-old client to get 23 years in prison for shooting a retired police dog, what should happen to police officers who shoot civilian dogs? The subject of our feature story this week is Ivins Rosier, a juvenile who was…
Broward County Judge — and misdemeanor drug court judge — Gisele Pollack, who was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence last May, has decided to resign rather than face being fired from her position. Pollack’s fate was in the hands of the Judicial Qualifications Commission, which, after reviewing…
Yesterday, Dean Parker, a West Palm Beach native who had gone to Syria to fight ISIS, announced on his Facebook page that he was going home, though it was unclear whether he was referring to West Palm Beach, Costa Rica, or another place. (In a December radio interview, he referred…
Several members of the Miccosukee Tribe are reporting that former chairman Buffalo Tiger has died. He was 94. He died at his home in Kendall due to natural causes, according to his family. Tiger was one of the founders of the Miccosukee Tribe — whose members organized separately from the…
After yet another mediocre season in which they missed the playoffs and lodged themselves firmly in the middle of the draft, the Miami Dolphins have gone ahead and hired Mike Tannenbaum to be their next head of football operations. Who is Mike Tannenbaum, you ask? He once ran the New…
With clerks handing out marriage licenses to same-sex couples today all across the state, Attorney General Pam Bondi — who has spent a lot of time and energy trying to keep the same-sex marriage ban in Florida intact — has come out with a lukewarm endorsement of the overturning of…
Everything seemed quiet outside the courthouse in downtown Fort Lauderdale just before midnight. The only thing that hinted that there might be something monumental going on inside was the presence of about a dozen cops scattered around the entrance. In a huge waiting room on the third floor, about 300…
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz was roped into a international sex scandal, and now, in a court motion, he’s firing back against the “outrageous and impertinent allegations” that he victimized an underaged girl. Allegations that Palm Beach financier Jeffrey Epstein kept underaged girls as masseuses/sex slaves are old news –…
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is not attending Rick Scott’s inauguration today. Instead, he’s out in New York putting together his new PAC, Right to Rise. Bush announced the news of his new PAC on Twitter and Facebook with two videos shot in both English and Spanish. And, in another…
Virginia Roberts, the sex slave Palm Beach financier Jeffrey Epstein “loaned” out to billionaires and, allegedly, to Prince Andrew when she was underaged, is writing a tell-all book that promises to present undeniable evidence of the Duke of York’s involvement. In December, a lawsuit was filed saying that Roberts –…
The Love Burn — South Florida’s own Burning Man-style festival — is returning for a second year after last year’s successful inaugural weekend. Not only is the festival expanding exponentially but organizers are hosting a fundraiser — or in burner-speak, FUNdraiser — this Friday to both raise money and begin…
On a Sunday evening in November 2012, three teenagers crept up to the sliding glass door at the back of the Palm Beach home belonging to Robert Boody, a Florida highway patrolman they knew was out on the job. On the other side of the glass, a vicious, cantankerous German…
Video by Mitchel Worley In 50 years — when we’re all commuting via hoverboard and drinking the carbonated beverages of our wildest dreams — we’ll likely wonder: How? How could it take us so long to legalize gay marriage? And — in the same way we look upon the grainy…
A reptile store owner was arrested for slapping his employees with a bearded dragon lizard. And you hate your boss when he gives you gruff about stuff. According to a Broward Sheriff’s Office arrest report, Benjamin Siegel, 40, owner of Ben Siegel Reptiles Inc. in Delray Beach, was arrested on…
Update, 1:30 p.m.: According to a press release, Once Judge Zabel lifted the stay, Miami-Dade County Clerk Harvey Ruvin stated marriages can begin immediately in the county. Couples have already begun receiving their marriage licenses. Judge Zabel has agreed to marry the plaintiff couples who wish to marry today. Karla…
As gay marriages begin just after midnight tonight, it’s a historic day for Florida — and particularly for Fort Lauderdale, which according to 2012 Census data, has the highest percentage of same-sex households in America, 2.8 percent. South Florida has come a long way in acceptance of gay rights. In…
Update and CORRECTION: The earlier version of this post reporting of a mass wedding on Fort Lauderdale Beach was incorrect. There will be a mass wedding at 3 a.m. Tuesday, but it will be held at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale. The courthouse wedding will take place on…
A family vacation pretty quickly turned into a nightmare over the weekend as the cruise ship Oasis of the Seas was pulling anchor out of Port Everglades and leaving South Florida on Saturday. The ship quickly turned around after reports leaked out that a little boy had almost drowned in…
With Florida on the cusp of same-sex marriage being legalized, in-all-probability-going-to-run-for-president-in-2016 Jeb Bush has come out and said he’s not necessarily in agreement with the law being decided on by a judge. Briefly stopping from a round of golf on Sunday, Bush told the Miami Herald that gay marriage should…
Craig Attebury launched his retail shop, GayMart, in 1994 in Laguna Beach, California, and opened another outlet in Wilton Manors in 1997, just as now-legendary gay bar Georgie’s Alibi started getting popular. “The plaza was quite empty back then,” he remembers. In the intervening years, Wilton Manors and the surrounding…
Oakland Park brothers Sheheryar Alam Qazi and Raees Alam Qazi are set to go on trial this year on terrorism charges, and prosecutors are planning to use secretly recorded phone calls between one of the men and his wife as evidence against them. The defense says the phone conversations were…
