Back in October, the feds caught a dude trying to smuggle 620 pounds of cocaine into West Palm Beach on a 132-foot luxury megayacht. On Thursday, another dude tried to smuggle cocaine into Palm Beach on a cruise ship. Authorities say the man tried bringing coke and heroin into Palm…
Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office and the the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission caught a man illegally feeding a shark in state waters last month. The feeding of sharks has been banned in Florida since 2002. But, according to the FWC, Randall Jordan of Emerald Charters of Jupiter, and…
Another poll, another strong showing for medical marijuana in Florida. According to a new University of North Florida poll, 74 percent of Floridians say they support and will vote “yes” for Proposition 2 in November, which would legalize the use of medical marijuana. This, along with the recent news that…
Jeb Bush briefly spoke in Spanish, called illegal immigrants “risk takers” and touted Common Core standards as a keynote at the sixth annual Broward Workshop State of our County Forum at Signature Grand Friday morning in Davie.
President Barack Obama left South Florida on Thursday night after attending a fund raiser at the home of former Miami Heat star Alonzo Mourning, but not before being greeted by dozens of people protesting the Keystone XL Pipeline. Protesters, some wearing costumes representing everything that’s wrong with the pipeline, lined…
FAU’s new president, Dr. John Kelly, freshly re-located to the school’s Boca Raton campus and two weeks into the job, invited us in last Tuesday for a 15-minute sitdown. Our time with the well-spoken and gracious South Carolina native stretched into half an hour. See also: – FAU Faculty Critique…
Mike Miller will be making his first visit back to the American Airlines Arena tonight since being amnestied and signing with the Memphis Grizzlies. And the Miami Heat have already announced that they’ll be giving him his 2013 NBA championship ring during a special ceremony prior to tip-off. According to…
Former South Floridian Aaron Jackson began his career of philanthropy by deworming Haitian kids — for which he was first the subject of a New Times cover story and later named a CNN Hero. With his charity Planting Peace, he then went on to buy an “Equality House” in Topeka,…
At a kava symposium held in Fiji last week, a main concern was Vanuatu’s export of a specific variation of the intoxicating pepper root called tudei (or as commonly spelled, “two-day”) kava. Experts said they fear countries could ban all kava and destroy the industry because some exporters were selling…
Protesters dressed in scuba gear, a polar bear costume, and as various sea creatures are gathering in Pinecrest near former Miami Heat star Alonzo Mourning’s house Thursday afternoon. President Obama is scheduled to have a fundraiser at Mourning’s home, and members of groups like 350 South Florida, the Center for…
Andy Amoroso, the first openly gay city commissioner in Palm Beach County, is leading the charge for a gay marriage demonstration this coming weekend. But the angle Amoroso is taking is unique. Instead of the usual call for gay rights, the city commish and countless others will try to reason…
The Chicago-based megachurch leader with serious ties throughout Florida and in Broward has lost his flock due to a sex scandal. Since the ’60s, Bill Gothard has been preaching a submit-to-authority brand of Bible that excoriates rock music and free thinking: Listen to your parents, obey your husband, toe the…
Speakeasies began sprouting up in the 1920s when a ban on alcohol prompted the sale of bootlegged liquor in clandestine bars. Nowadays your chances of stumbling into a speakeasy have significantly decreased, since Prohibition ended in the ’30s. But last Monday, Fort Lauderdale Police shut down the closest thing to…
Concerns about safety and economics are roiling the kava industry in Polynesia. Roots of the kava plant are used to make a mildly stimulating, euphoric beverage that has long been a cultural mainstay in the Pacific Islands and, more lately, a significant and remunerative export. But one type of plant…
Ever wanted to own Scottie Pippen’s lavish mansion with basketball court and putting green? If so, now’s your chance. The former Chicago Bulls star and Michael Jordan sidekick has put his Fort Lauderdale mansion on the market, and it’s a humdinger of a house for anyone who ever wanted to…
When Karina moved to Miami Beach from Eastern Europe in 2007, she used no nicotine, no alcohol, no drugs, nothing. Although she’d had a problem in her midteens with booze and MDMA, the 22-year-old was determined to begin her new life in America clean and sober. Soon after she arrived,…
A West Palm Beach man allegedly attacked another man with a scythe, which is pretty much the same kind of curved blade the Grim Reaper carries around to take you to the other side. Carlos Vasquez, 24, is now facing charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he…
Yesterday, we brought you the news on how the internet made it official that Downtown Fort Lauderdale was a kickass place. But today, we’re here to tell you that not just the downtown area is kickass but the whole of Fort Lauderdale is kickass. All of it. A new study…
The new I-595 reversible lanes will kick off at 2 p.m. on March 26, the Florida Department of Transportation has announced. To alleviate congestion, three sets of reversible lanes will move traffic east in the morning, then west in the evening. As a sort of test run, the lanes will…
Dania Beach Jai-Alai opened in the 1950s and was one of the first frontons to operate in the country. At its peak in the ’90s, the sport attracted thousands of spectators, but those numbers have significantly decreased as other gambling options (like horse and dog tracks) became available. Over the…
All of the aerospace experts in the world cannot find a missing jetliner here on Earth, but the sun? That’s big. We can find it! Yesterday, NASA announced it had chosen a company — United Launch Services LLC of Centennial, Colo. — to handle the launch of a solar orbiter…
A couple of bills that would force greyhound tracks to report dog injuries are making their way through the House and Senate. Meanwhile, the fight to add decoupling to the bills is also on the docket. If decoupling can get pushed through, it could virtually end greyhound racing in Florida…
