Democratic rainmaker and columnist James Carville on Tuesday penned a column for the insidery political paper The Hill. The article attacked Florida State University and its ties to libertarian sugar daddies the Koch Brothers. Fair point, though the timing was unfortunate — not the greatest day to attack FSU. On…
Ever since 2006, life for David Menasche must have felt like he sneaked unnoticed into some VIP section, knowing that any moment some malevolent security guard could emerge, point a meaty finger his way, and toss him out. “I really don’t ask anymore what their prognosis is for survival,” Menasche…
David Menasche, a Broward resident and former Coral Reef Senior High English teacher who had been stricken with brain cancer and wrote a book about reconnecting with his former students, has died. According to a post on his personal Facebook, a family member of Menasche’s announced that he passed away…
A routine training exercise by the Broward Sheriff’s Office dive team inadvertently ended up discovering the remains of a long-missing Pompano Beach woman on Wednesday. Charlene Azzaro had been missing since last being seen leaving her sister’s home in 2013. But divers performing a training exercise in the canal located…
Just weeks after moving to South Florida from Kansas, a 19-year-old man was found covered in blood and arrested for attempted murder after a Craigslist date that went horribly wrong. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office took Brandon Hinck into custody for allegedly stabbing 49-year-old Dave Sero, who was in town…
While the terrifying events of a lone gunman opening fire inside the FSU library and injuring three students were unfolding late Wednesday night, ESPN reporter Marisa Martin sent out an unfortunate tweet in an attempt to make a Jameis Winston joke, suggesting that the gunman was looking for the polarizing…
The sentencing for the polo mogul has been delayed until Friday. John Goodman, who was found guilty — twice — of DUI manslaughter in the 2010 death of 23-year-old Scott Wilson, had been scheduled to hear his fate on Wednesday afternoon. But Palm Beach County Chief Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath…
In the news business, we call that a headline that’s hard to ignore. Back in 2012, Boyd Corbin was involved in a Halloween brawl. Two things separated the scuffle from the likely thousands of other bar fights that happened that night: One, Corbin was wearing a cheeky KKK costume, his…
Just after midnight last night, a man opened fire at the Strozier Library on the campus of Florida State University. The gunman shot three students and was then killed by campus police. Throughout the incident, students posted videos and tweets from inside the library as they hid between stacks of…
Aaron Jackson, a CNN Hero and president of the nonprofit Planting Peace, is starting a crowd-funding campaign to open a food truck outside City Hall — essentially giving a delicious middle finger to Fort Lauderdale’s controversial homeless food-sharing regulations. This isn’t just another food truck to serve tacos or gelato,…
The Miami Marlins and Giancarlo Stanton made their mega 13-year, $325 million contract official on Wednesday with an afternoon news conference that featured former and current Marlins players and a crapload of fanfare. It’s obvious the Marlins are pushing a “new era” kind of situation here, and by giving their…
A research crew from the University of Florida, led by a wildlife ecologist who has studied alligators for decades, has discovered that the alligators living in the Everglades are getting more and more emaciated. “They’re skinnier, they’re fewer, they grow slower,” U of F ecologist Frank Mazzotti told CBS News…
Was a homeless woman doused in gasoline and set on fire in Delray Beach? That’s a question Delray Beach Police don’t want to answer just yet, nearly three months after a homeless woman was severely burned and taken into emergency care, where she remains today. Back on August 28, Melissa…
Homeless Man Arrested in Fort Lauderdale City Meeting to Raise Awareness for Homeless from Voice Media Group and Dylan Bouscher on Vimeo. Ray Cox, a homeless man, was stopped Tuesday by police officers as he was entering a City Commission meeting, where commissioners were proclaiming November 16-22 “National Hunger and…
A sex scandal involving rape allegations and a possible cover-up at a Broward Islamic private school has taken another turn. As we reported back in October, Tariq Ahmed (also spelled in some places as Ahmad) is currently wanted by police for alleged sexual activities with students at the Nur-Ul-Islam Academy…
Earlier this month, an appeals court upheld a ruling allowing the father of a 4-year-old boy to circumcise his son against the boy’s mother’s wishes. New Times broke the story last year of then-3-year-old Chase, whose parents, Dennis Nebus and Heather Hironimus, went to court to fight over whether he…
Now that the Miami Marlins have gone against their own stringent rules of not giving a player a giant contract and opt-out clauses, they’re apparently going to go against another stringent rule and go after real-life, honest-to-goodness good baseball players. After giving MVP-candidate and monster-dong-hitter Giancarlo Stanton the biggest contract…
Every city and county has its share of child sexual predators, prostitution, illegal drugs, aggressive drivers, and fugitives running amok. Each crime is dealt with in its own way. That is, unless you’re the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, which deals with those crimes in one fell swoop. In a massive…
Ever since Fort Lauderdale became infamous for the viral image of a 90-year-old man getting busted by police for feeding the homeless, Mayor Jack Seiler has been on damage-control duty, telling local and national media that his city has actually expanded the number of public feedings, mostly through churches. But…
If things remain on pace, 2014 will be the year the most Florida Panthers were killed by a vehicle. In 2012, 19 panthers were found dead from being struck by a car, the most since the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission began keeping track of the numbers. But just last…
Today, Fort Lauderdale votes to declare this National Homeless and Hunger Awareness Week. That’s an anemic response to weeks of protest from a city that has made headlines for passing laws regulating how its homeless can be fed. Its main shelter features only 230 temporary beds. But the county has…
In the past four years, whenever the Miami Heat needed rescuing from a three-game losing streak, they’d turn to LeBron James. But obviously, those days are over, as King James has left the building. But no worries, Heat fans. Because there’s apparently a new King James in town. Rookie James…
