According to police, a Broward biology teacher was arrested Tuesday for having sex with one of his students. Eric Beasley, 24, was charged with nine counts of sexual assault or battery on a minor and two counts of sending obscene material to a minor after police discovered him and the…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office DUI Task Force will be conducting DUI checkpoint operations from 9 p.m. Saturday to 5 a.m. Sunday at 2850 N. Federal Highway in Pompano Beach…
Florida Power & Light Co. has announced plans for a new voluntary, community-based, solar partnership pilot program. The voluntary 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 from FPL customers –…
OMG! Nickelodeon’s hit show Sam and Cat has yet to be renewed for a second season — unusual for a hit show, and, industry insiders suggest, a sign that there is tension behind the scenes. Sam and Cat was a huge success for the network, pulling in more than 4…
Colin and Andrea Chisholm certainly did not look like Scottish royalty at the Broward County Courthouse this morning. The wealthy Minnesota couple who insist on being referred to as “Lord and Lady” were dressed in the same blue prison tunics as the plebs who surrounded them. As they approached the…
If you’ve attended, graduated, or paid for a stint in college in the past ten years, you’ve probably had one of those cold-sweat spells late at night in which you wonder: Sweet Jesus, was that worth it? The creeping realization: probably not. Thanks to the sky-high price of a four-year…
TerRio is exhausted. The 6-year-old internet star is slumped over on the hood of a limousine outside of downtown Miami’s Grand Central nightclub. It’s only 9:47 p.m. on a Saturday, but filming on TerRio’s first professional music video is scheduled to continue through 7 a.m. the next day. Suddenly, the…
The man knows how to make an entrance. In April 2012, fireworks split open the night sky over Star Island. Below, topless women wiggled by a pool lit the color of blue Kool-Aid. Veiled belly dancers tossed around fire sticks. Camels munched grass around the two-acre property. All through the…
A Florida House subcommittee passed a bill yesterday that would allow schools the option of hiring former or current law enforcement officers and military officers to carry firearms on campuses — “any preschool, elementary school, middle school, junior high school, secondary school, career center, or postsecondary school, whether public or…
Corporate Accountability International is asking LeBron James to end his affiliation with McDonald’s as part of a campaign it is calling “Slam Junk.” In an open letter to LeBron, CAI asks him to end his partnership with the fast-food titan in an attempt to set a better example for kids…
Former Fort Lauderdale City Commissioner Carlton Moore has passed away. He was 60. Moore died Tuesday night at a rehabilitation center in Tamarac, where he had been recovering from a severe stroke. Moore served nearly two decades on the commission. He was known as a strong advocate for improving the…
The Florida Lottery has been very, very good to about 200 people. Suspiciously good. Those 200 have “won” more than 30 times each, according to a Palm Beach Post investigation that rolled out this week. But reporters found that the most winningest gamblers were often store clerks…
Dolphins fans have a great reason to pay attention to the later draft rounds this year: A familiar name may just scroll down your screen. Noah Taylor, younger brother of Dolphins great Jason Taylor, is looking to break into the NFL next season. Taylor, 24, is competing for an invite…
Numerous earthquakes have hit the West Coast recently. A powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Chile last night. So many are wondering if these quakes are a sign of a larger one on the horizon. Fear not, South Florida; the ground won’t be shaking here anytime soon. It…
Florida Sen. and Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio just can’t stop himself. Though Obamacare exceeded its goal by signing up more than 7 million people nationally by the April 1 deadline, Rubio told Sean Hannity: “There’s still a significant number of people — I saw a report a couple days…
This week in the print edition of New Times, we introduce you to one of South Florida’s most colorful characters, Anwar Zayden. For nearly four decades, Zayden has been a player on the local scene; by day a humble businessman with a frame store in Kendall, he’s also a former…
The final, less-remembered phase of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life was his pivot from the pursuit of racial equality to economic justice — the Poor People’s Campaign. It was a turn even more threatening to the established order, gathering steam up until the date of his assassination in Memphis, where…
Bitcoin has become hugely popular because its potential as a new type of currency that operates outside of any government control. Because it can be bought, sold, and traded anonymously online, outside of banking institutions, proponents say it can help make commerce fast and easy and empower people in third-world…
When 101 Cantina — the same popular bar made famous first in Gainesville — opened in June 2013, FAU students were happy to patronize the place. On March 17, the Sun Sentinel reported that since its inception, 98 arrests have been made on 101 Cantina’s premises and that the vast…
Colin and Andrea Chisholm liked to tell people they were Scottish aristocrats. It wasn’t hard to fake. They were living on a $1.2 million yacht in Palm Bay and training Cavalier King Charles Spaniels — a breed popular in the U.K. One of their pups even got an award at…
Uber, the increasingly popular app that connects riders with drivers at the tap of a button — an alternative to traditional taxi service — has launched a petition on its website that residents of Florida can sign in their support of two bills moving through the state Legislature that would…
Palm Beach billionaire William Koch takes his wine seriously — very seriously. So when it came to the industrialist’s attention that he had been duped into buying hundreds of thousands of dollars of fake wine, he bit back. Koch is the slightly more private brother of billionaires David and Charles…
