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…
On the outskirts of Orlando lies the small town of Mount Dora. Often referred to as the New England of the South and famous for its October bike festival and macabre ghost tours, it is also now the scene where a quirky piece of history has allegedly just taken place…
Just off the six lanes of Tamiami Trail, west of Florida’s Turnpike and behind a Kentucky Fried Chicken, a secret gate leads to a backyard where dugout canoes rest under a chickee hut. Across the grass and through a sliding-glass door is a living room that doubles as the Medicine…
A Davie police officer was hanging out at Geronimos Bar & Grill, located at 3528 S. University Drive, on Saturday night when the .380 caliber Glock in his pocket accidentally discharged, shooting him in the foot. The officer, Maiker Sanchez, 36, was not on duty at the time and was…
Giancarlo Stanton has reportedly signed a massive 13-year, $325 million contract to stay with the Miami Marlins. It’s not only one of the most unexpected things the Marlins have ever done; it’s also the richest contract in pro sports history — a record previously held by Alex Rodriguez, who signed…
Back in September, the Satanic Temple announced its intention to hand out pamphlets on its tenets to Florida schoolchildren in response to an Orange County School Board decision that allowed a Christian group to hand out Bibles and pamphlets of its own. But the outcry over the idea of a…
A young Vanilla Ice, blond hair spiraling out from the top of his head, floats through outer space and approaches the flaming sun, with whom the future performer of “Ice, Ice Baby” begins a spiritual conversation. This really happened — in a short film produced by Jillian Mayer and Lucas…
Mark Haines, a prominent leader in the LGBT community and founder of the popular website Mark’s List, was killed after being struck by three vehicles while walking after having had dinner with friends Friday evening. Haines, 54, who hailed from Fort Lauderdale, had been in the Florida Keys with his…
This year, the City of Fort Lauderdale has budgeted $25,000 to purchase bus tickets for homeless people who would like to leave town to be taken in by their friends or family. According to Deanna Greenlaw, public information officer for the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, “this program is facilitated via…
Hal Kreitman, the “Gator Whisperer,” who was the subject of a New Times story last month, was recently arrested by the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on “harassment of a protected species” charges. Kreitman could be facing a felony conservation charged. Kreitman received a bit of attention after our piece…
