A Pompano Beach woman was arrested after she left five kids unattended without food at a home that reeked of urine and feces while she went to hit up the slots at a local casino. The kids were between the ages of 2 and 12, according to the legal complaint…
A couple of storm forecasters from Colorado have brought some seemingly bad news for those of us who love to take days off and listen to 24-hour local news stations tell us how we’re all gonna die when a hurricane is on its way. Phil Klotzbach and William Gray of…
Michael John Cefola had been driving for days, transporting cargo in his vehicle all the way from California. Maybe it was the lack of sleep, or maybe it was just carelessness. But Cefola couldn’t keep his blue Chevy four-door from swerving in and out of the lane on a Gainesville…
New Times has won a 2014 James Aronson Award for a story about a local man who has spent more than $85 million funding settlements in Israel. “Miami Beach Man’s Millions Thwart Middle East Peace” was published this past March 28 and written by then-staff writer Terrence McCoy, who recently…
Just like every other state not ending in “-alifornia,” Florida is scrambling to scoop up Hollywood business. Seeking tax breaks, television and movie crews over the past decade have decamped SoCal for elsewhere, in turn shoveling money and prestige into local economies. Florida already has used nearly $300 million in…
On June 19, our 27th-annual Best Of Broward/Palm Beach issue will hit the streets. Our beloved annual issue is your guide to all the local legends and hidden gems Broward and Palm Beach have to offer. But we all know, if you really want to find the best spots in…
The measure that could lead the way to virtually ending greyhound racing in Florida hit an abrupt snag earlier this week, putting a damper on some serious momentum gained by proponents in the past several months. While state senators approved a bill on Tuesday that would require racetracks to report…
Byron Maharrey knows what a Florida panther looks like. The former chairman of the board for the Florida Sportsmen’s Conservation Association had seen the elusive cats near Palatka and around his home by Lake Kissimmee before. And he swears he saw one of these rare cougar subspecies while hunting there…
Raul Medina Jr. walks into a Starbucks in Hollywood’s Young Circle and asks for a cup of black coffee with light hazelnut syrup and exactly two ice cubes. Better-known as DJ Raw, Medina brought hip-hop to Miami from his native South Bronx and founded Hoodstock, a free, big-name festival in…
Florida Power & Light Co. has announced plans for a new solar partnership pilot program. The program would include FPL installing new solar-powered generating facilities in Florida communities, including Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. But it would be funded by voluntary contributions — $9 a month — from FPL…
Candlebox hasn’t been spending too much time dominating the pop charts lately, but unlike a lot of alternative-rock acts that rode the grunge wave to popularity in the ’90s, the band is still alive and kicking. 2013 was supposed to be a big year for the ‘Box. Band members were…
Cecilia Cortes crossed the Tijuana border into San Diego on a Sunday morning this March. The 34-year-old curly-haired brunet, with her 3-year-old son, Jonathan, and her 6-year-old daughter, Alexa — both U.S. citizens — walked a pedestrian bridge into the Otay Mesa Port of Entry station controlled by U.S. Customs…
Palm Beach County is a dump. Or, at least, it’s going to be, after county commissioners voted 4-3 vote to seek bids from waste haulers from all parts outside of Palm Beach just so they can land some big money for a new incinerator. The commissioners argue that the money…
The Florida Department of Transportation is warning people about a mail scam involving a fake letter asking to pay an overdue toll fine. The letter, which comes from the official-sounding but extremely fake Toll Enforcement LLC, or TELC Inc., is trying to dupe people into sending a cashier’s check for…
Kayla “2 Drunk 2 Care” Mendoza made her first court appearance Tuesday afternoon after having been arrested and formally charged with the deaths of Marisa Catronio and a passenger, Kaitlyn Ferrante, in a wrong-way car accident on the Sawgrass Expressway last November. Broward Judge John “Jay” Hurley set Mendoza’s bond…
Salomon E. Melgen lives in a 5,000-square-foot North Palm Beach mansion. He travels by private jet to the Dominican Republic with New Jersey senators. He’s the subject of not one but two current FBI investigations. The 59-year-old eye surgeon has yet another claim to notoriety now, the New York Times…
Pagans are unorthodox but they do have their limits, apparently, and rumors that some of their number have crossed the line by advocating pedophilia have cast a cloud over the Florida pagan community’s big annual May Day shindig, the Florida Pagan Gathering. See also: – Local Pagans Get Down With…
Candlebox hasn’t been spending too much time dominating the pop charts lately, but unlike a lot of alternative-rock acts that rode the grunge wave to popularity in the ’90s, the band is still alive and kicking. 2013 was supposed to be a big year for the ‘Box. Band members were…
Feel free to keep your doors unlocked from now on, Fort Lauderdale! (*Just kidding; don’t do that.) Because of 239 cities with a population greater than 100,000, Fort Lauderdale ranks as the 19th city that invest the most resources in public safety. This, according to NerdWallet.com, which crunches numbers on…
It seems like 27-year-old Josh Krasner spends more time upside down than right-side up. His Instagram (@krasnation) is chock-full of his signature inverted stance, where he balances on his forearms, his legs shooting up in the air. “It’s a whole bunch of yoga moves, depending on where I place my…
Melanie Carter, wife of former Miami Dolphins and Hall of Fame wide receiver Cris Carter, apparently got head-butted Tuesday morning after fighting with another woman over a tennis match. According to a Boca Raton Police Department incident report, Melanie was playing a doubles tennis match with a couple of other…
The recent news that Bob Coy, charismatic founder of Fort Lauderdale’s Calvary Chapel, abruptly resigned over what the church is calling a “moral failing,” has rocked believers and parishioners everywhere. Under Coy’s leadership, Calvary Chapel became the second-largest megachurch in Florida and the 14th-largest megachurch in America. But Florida is…
