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…
LENNARRRD! LENARRRRRD! SLAMMAAAAHHH!! ALONZO MOURNING WITH THE STUFFFAHHH!! Simply the greatest calls in Miami Heat broadcast history. The man and legend who made those calls, Dr. Jack Ramsay, passed away in his sleep Sunday night at age 89 after a long bout with cancer. Ramsay coached the Portland Trailblazers to…
We probably should have seen this coming. In the last year, thanks to open rules about what can and can not be displayed in the area, the rotunda at the Florida Capitol has become contested ground for a grab bag of worldviews and opinions. Besides your regular nativity scene, this…
The grievance hearing tomorrow in the case of Stephen McCulloch, the “dolphin gurn” fired by FAU, has been preceded by wrangling over procedure. The school has agreed to allow McCulloch to bring witnesses and cross-examine the school’s witnesses but has declared the hearing a closed-door affair. See also: – Dolphin…
Back in 2008, an elderly woman’s undiscovered body had decomposed so badly inside her apartment that it exploded. Fluid from the ruptured corpse began to seep through the floor and into the apartment below, which led the owner of that unit to sue her insurance company, claiming that it needed…
David Benjamin, the former Broward Sheriff’s Deputy accused of accepting more than $20,000 from convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, was charged Friday with accepting that financial help in exchange for using his authority to protect and aid Rothstein. Former BSO deputy Jeff Poole was also charged. Federal prosecutors filed criminal…
As Hurricane season approaches, we’re getting more and more sophisticated in the way storms are tracked. And while we’re still waiting for those Hurricane Tracker Sharks we were promised, there is some pretty cool news coming out of the National Hurricane Center. Staring this season, the NHC will be displaying…
Former Miami Dolphin great Earl Morrall has passed away, sources close to the Morrall family has told New Times. Morall, 79, had been in ill health for some time and was in hospice care in his Fort Lauderdale home. As Bob Griese’s backup with the Miami Dolphins, Morrall became the…
The many opponents of legalized marijuana in Florida have come and gone, defeated with facts and science and the power of the people. But, like a ferocious hungry hydra looking to devour the movement at every turn, opposition continues to rear its long, scaly talons at preventing medical weed from…
Street art has been appearing in Broward County news this week. Earlier, we told you about downtown Hollywood’s upcoming mural project expansion. Up next is Saturday’s opening of Inside FACES, at FAT Village’s MAC Fine Art Gallery. In case you missed it, MAC is that lime-green building near the train…
