Last year, Deerfield Beach activist, blogger, and self-proclaimed “militant atheist” Chaz Stevens made headlines when he put up a Festivus Pole in the Florida Capitol rotunda. Last year’s pole — which was an eight-foot-tall pole made of Pabst Plue Ribbon beer cans — was inspired by Tallahassee officials allowing Christian…
Florida Power & Light wants to use public funds to fight off clean water rules. FPL went before the Florida Public Service Commission on Wednesday, asking it to allow the utility company to collect $228,500 from ratepayers to lobby against proposed water rules by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The…
Since Halloween 2012, Boyd Corbin has not kept quiet. On that evening two years ago, the Wilton Manors resident donned an ironic KKK costume, grabbed a tiki torch, and went to the epic Georgie’s Alibi holiday party. By the time the night was over, Corbin had gotten into a brawl…
The Sun Sentinel doesn’t just offer local journalism to the good folks of Broward and Palm Beach. It also offers digital services to businesses and websites. This separate branch of the paper, called 435 Digital by Sun Sentinel, promises to help any interested entities “grow your presence online,” “increase your…
This past spring, New Times published a cover story detailing widespread sexual abuse in competitive swimming. The story detailed many Florida connections, including allegations about one Fort Lauderdale coach who was accused of videotaping boys in a bathroom but was barely investigated. Now, California Congressman George Miller has asked the…
In September of 2013, we brought you the story of Attorney General Pam Bondi asking Gov. Rick Scott to postpone the execution of an inmate on Florida’s death row so she could throw herself a fundraiser. Scott honored Bondi’s request, and the execution of Marshall Lee Gore was stayed so…
In what came down to an all-nighter, Fort Lauderdale commissioners voted to approve a new ordinance that sets restrictions on how churches and groups can feed the city’s homeless. Commissioners met on Tuesday and went well into Wednesday morning, ending their meeting at 3:30 a.m. after having heard from advocacy…
Bethune Elementary School of the Arts is about to name a new principal approved by a selection committee. But a growing number of parents and faculty say they’re unhappy about this. The current principal, Michelle L. Alvarez, who was chosen as an interim principal at the beginning of the school…
Well, that was brutal. Fangate obviously didn’t cool down any tempers. Last night, Gov. Rick Scott met challenger Charlie Crist in the final gubernatorial debate. If you plugged into the live feed from Jacksonville, you witnessed the only show outside of the WWE featuring well-tanned and slightly delirious egos pounding…
We sling a lot of poop at the Miami Dolphins around these parts. And for good reason. They suck. They tend to stuff all our Sundays, loyalties, and hope into a cannon and fire it into an active volcano like Xenu. But screw that. We’re going to forge ahead and…
Alarmed at a recent rash of bloody encounters between Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies and members of local immigrant communities, immigrant right’s groups are planning to demonstrate tonight at the sheriff’s Lake Worth station. See also: Palm Beach Deputies Caught on Video Beating Man The 5 p.m. rally will be…
Listen up, Palm Beach County scofflaws! Got a bunch of unpaid tickets from long ago that have since been sent to collections? If so, now’s your shot at being able to pay off that ticket — or tickets — without having to pay the 40 percent fee that comes with…
Rick Scott and Charlie Crist are set to have their third and final debate tonight on CNN, two weeks from Election Day. And this time, there will be no fans. CNN has made it clear to both candidates that no fans are allowed in tonight’s debate, and Crist has agreed…
Hal Kreitman is having a staring contest with an eight-foot bull gator. It’s a Monday morning, and fast-moving cloud cover yanks shadows across a shallow pond nestled along an empty stretch of Loop Road in the Everglades. Kreitman — 51 years old, salt-and-pepper hair, circle medallion glinting off his gym-ripped…
Finishing off the end of a joint, the DeLisi brothers slid into a 7-Eleven parking lot just off Sample Road in Pompano Beach. It was the end of 1974, and they were ages 30 and 38, full of New York swagger, and feeling invincible. Tucked into the yellow 1965 Porsche’s…
Fort Lauderdale city commissioners will be voting tonight on the proposed ordinance that could cripple groups that distribute food to the city’s homeless. The crux of the ordinance deals with applying rules on food handling, providing toilet facilities and hand-washing areas, and requirements on how and when the food should…
For much of the past year, it seemed almost inevitable that medical marijuana would become legal in Florida. Polls showed that more than 80 percent of Floridians would support a constitutional amendment that’s on the ballot this November legalizing medicinal weed. So it was something of a shocker last week…
Another day, another juror in the John Goodman retrial has screwed up. According to a report, a man identified as Juror 3 apparently broke court rules by accessing the internet on his laptop in the privacy of his hotel room. This was a no-no. The jury, which has been sequestered…
Boca Raton resident and all-around internet sensation Vitaly Zdorovetskiy has struck a viral nerve once again with a gruesome and terrifying chainsaw-massacre prank. The 22-year-old Russian prankster, whom New Times profiled last year, has taken his pranking ways up a notch by fooling poor unsuspecting people into thinking they’re not…
With Election Day three weeks away, the decision over whether medical marijuana will be legalized in Florida hangs in the balance. And today, in what is a first for Florida, a jury will be deciding if marijuana is medically necessary for someone. The trial of Jesse Teplicki, which started Monday…
Correction, October 21, 10:50 a.m. : The Bradenton Herald endorsed Rick Scott. This article has been corrected to reflect that. Nearly every major newspaper in Florida has endorsed Charlie Crist for governor this week. The endorsements began with the Tampa Bay Times weighing in last weekend and the Miami Herald…
Cancer clusters — hot zones of highly contaminated turf that see a spike in disease — are incredibly hard cases to win in court. Not only do they take years of legal battle and involve a lot of high-end science but usually such cases pit homeowners against corporations with boatloads…
