The National Low Income Housing Coalition calculated the Department of Housing and Urban Development figures in what they say is “fair market rent” and determined that a person would have to make at least $19.08 an hour in a full-time job to make rent in a one-bedroom apartment in Broward…
Former West Palm Beach Police Officer Dewitt McDonald pleaded guilty to selling illegal drugs to fellow police officers while on duty. According to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, McDonald, 45, was running two separate businesses selling anabolic steroids and other prescription drugs while also…
Two Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies are under investigation for alleged brutality after a gas station’s surveillance video captured them slamming a man to the ground when trying to detain him, breaking bones in his face in the process. BSO Internal Affairs is investigating deputies Justin Lambert and Mike Manresa for…
“If the press won’t come to us, we will go to them.” Thus spake progressive activists who held a “die-in” yesterday outside of the Palm Beach Post to bring attention to the fact that the state legislature is likely to end this year’s legislative session without expanding Medicaid, thus leaving…
In 2009, President Barack Obama set out to deactivate the next bomb awaiting the U.S. economy, the one ticking inside our bloated, beleaguered health system. Since the 1990s, insurance premiums had averaged double-digit annual increases. America was spending more than $7,500 per person per year — 50 percent more than…
It ended with a boom: a 40-year relationship and two lives — one dead and gone, the other alive and alone. Jorge Arrojas and his partner, Miguel Larrieu, were heading home, fresh from a dinner party in Bal Harbour around midnight last August 10 on I-75 when a red 2009…
The newly formed anti-medical marijuana group Drug Free Florida has appointed former Ronald Reagan drug czar Carlton Turner as its chairman. Turner made a name for himself in the 1980s when he came up with the “Just Say No” campaign. But he’s also grabbed headlines for once famously saying that…
UPDATE: According to the Tallahassee Democrat, Winston may have not been cited or arrested, conflicting with the Tomahawk Nation report, although they only cite the Tallahassee Police Department. The Tallahassee Police Twitter feed says the “TPD has NOT had any contact with Jameis Winston regarding an alleged recent citation” UPDATE…
The very owls Florida Atlantic University is named after are being seriously threatened by the school’s ever-expanding buildings and dormitories. Burrowing owls, along with gopher tortoises and other species of life, currently live in a nature preserve nestled between the campus parking lot and Boca Raton Airport. And, as the…
You’ve had 20 days to vote for your favorite local business in the New Times Best Of Readers’ Poll. Instead, you ate macaroni and played Xbox. But please — please — put down that bowl and hit pause, because today is the last day you have to vote. How does…
Wearing Broward County Jail khakis, a former black radical who hijacked an airliner in the mid-’80s appeared Tuesday at the Federal Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, hoping to finally close the door on the unresolved past. But a last-minute hold-up kept William Potts from officially entering his guilty plea…
Buzzfeed is to lists what Bob is to barricades. And while the modern media juggernaut has certainly proven its knowledge on topics ranging from fierce llamas to awkward sleeping cats, it — on occasion — gets things wrong. Recently, it posted an article called “17 Reasons Why Ft. Lauderdale Is…
“When I found out that not only did I get into an accident, but the two girls I got into an accident had passed away, it just really made me wonder why I didn’t too,” a tearful Kayla Mendoza says in her first televised interview since she killed two girls…
It appears the stage is set for Gov. Rick Scott and his challenger, former Gov. Charlie Crist, to go mano-y-mano in an all-world, no-holds-barred, smackdown, cage-match extravaganza. Or, as most people would call it, a debate. Leadership Florida, a nonprofit political group, announced Tuesday that Decision 2014: Before You Vote…
In a pretty historic move for Florida, the legalization of the strain of marijuana known as “Charlotte’s Web” was passed by the Senate on Monday by a whopping 36-3 vote. The CW strain has very low tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in it — which is the stuff that gets you high when…
In October 2012, the Judicial Qualifications Commission’s investigative panel filed formal charges against Palm Beach County Judge Barry M. Cohen for using his bench as, in their words, a “bully pulpit” and “a neutral and detached magistrate.” The findings came after the outspoken judge made some comments about racial profiling…
Florida sure knows how to get caught up in a good drug scare, especially when it comes to substances that are on the cusp of becoming illegal or are downright fake in the first place. Our residents have seen some synthetics drugs’ most horrifying effects, and our law enforcement officials…
It ended with a boom: a 40-year relationship and two lives — one dead and gone, the other alive and alone. Jorge Arrojas and his partner, Miguel Larrieu, were heading home, fresh from a dinner party in Bal Harbour around midnight last August 10 on I-75 when a red 2009…
The Miami Heat took care of business Monday night, beating the Charlotte Bobcats 109-98 and sweeping their first round playoff series in the process. While there are plenty of game and series recaps to peruse, we at the Pulp like to dig deeper and get into some specific stuff you…
Boynton Beach Police are warning the public that a man may be calling senior citizens and pretending to be a lieutenant with the Palm beach Sheriff’s Office. He may be tricking people into believing that they owe money for failing to stop at red lights. In a statement, police said…
On the heels of the Legislature’s working on laying out harsher punishments for hit-and-run suspects and the trial of Axel Inostroza (a man who allegedly ran over a cyclist before dumping him in the woods), and this weekend’s Fort Lauderdale Critical Mass comes the sad news of yet another cyclist…
Fort Lauderdale Fleet Week is here, which means Navy ships and all-around maritime awesomeness. Of all the ships coming into Port Everglades, the biggest star will undoubtedly be the USS New York, which was constructed from steel recovered from the wreckage of the Twin Towers. Coming in at 684 feet…
