If the second time is a charm, Florida may soon take steps toward enlightened drug policy. For the upcoming legislative session in Tallahassee, proposals that were introduced but died stillborn last year have been revived, and with bipartisan support. One would rewrite mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines for possession of pain…
A Boca hockey dad was a little too involved with his son’s Jr. league hockey team when he decided he didn’t like another player getting physical with his boy. So he decided to run onto the ice and attack that kid like he was begging for a five minute major…
Our post yesterday on South Florida’s 11 hottest newsmen drew a lot attention in the Twittersphere and even a damned funny video. Moms got involved. There was a fair amount of fraternity-style backslapping. Even a congrats from our own columnist that might raise, ahem, questions about the choices… of course,…
You spoke, we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s Mug-Shot Friday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, derp faces, and femmes fatale…
A Florida Atlantic University student claims that he was turned away by the school’s library because he looks and acts like a woman. The student, Abdul Asquith, says that he needed to check out a laptop for school work on Wednesday. But, he says, the librarian turned him down because…
With 70 percent of Floridians approving the legalizing of medical marijuana, and a drive to get it on the ballot next November as a constitutional amendment garnering over 100,000 signatures, it’s safe to assume that Florida is as close as it has ever been to becoming the 21st state to…
Bummer news coming out of the the Palm Beach Zoo. Popular tigers Jaya, Bunga and Penari are moved to the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens starting next week. The tigers are expected to be shipped away on Monday. ::Sad Panda Face::…
The trial for former WPTV-Ch. 5 weatherman (and former New Times Best Weathercaster) Rob Lopicola, who was arrested last July on charges he engaged in unlawful sexual activity with a teen boy he met on Craigslist, kicked off on Wednesday. Lopicola, 45, stands accused of child sex and pornography charges,…
Now that the economy seems to be soldiering on, we tend to forget that just a few years back the banks were basically endless conveyor belts of foreclosures. But the aftershocks of the mess are still sounding. John Lebeau’s case puts that in stark relief Last week, the North Palm…
Miami New Times and New Times Broward Palm Beach have an immediate opening for an assistant web editor. This position combines journalism with social media marketing and analytical data management to increase the audience for New Times on its desktop and mobile applications. The assistant web editor assigns and edits…
It’s Halloween time again! And that means it’s time to visit some haunted houses with friends and get the crap scared out of you. But instead of hitting up a so-called “haunted house” where you pay $7 to walk into a place covered in fake spider webs where some sweaty…
Last week, Luther Campbell, AKA Uncle Luke, AKA Miami New Times columnist, exploded the internet with his off-the-cuff list of the ten hottest local female TV newscasters. Lest we be targets of your cries about sexism, please know that we are equal-opportunity objectifiers. Here now is our list of TV’s…
There was once a time in South Florida — long before this current epoch of condo overdevelopment, strip-mall existence, and LeBron James — when our land was pervaded by vagrants and vagabonds and when good, God-fearing folk feared proud sluts roaming the streets. Or at least that’s what it appears…
A Jupiter couple is suing the Purple Lotus Kava Bar in West Palm Beach because they claim they’ve gotten addicted to its specialty drinks. The reason they’re addicted, they say, is because of a special ingredient in the drinks called kratom, which is actually an opium substitute. Mmm, opium… Kratom…
When Sarah Orzechowitz walked through the doors at Nova Southeastern University on the first day of classes in winter 2012, she had her hopes pinned on a career as a nurse. But as the mother of two went through the Davie university’s program, higher learning turned out to be a…
James runs his hand along a shelf full of expensive, glistening glass water pipes before grabbing a small, clear one. It has a titanium disk where the bowl is supposed to be. The lanky, droopy-eyed art gallery owner sets it on a table next to a small blowtorch and twists…
Six West Palm Beach men loaded with an arsenal of weapons and led by a dude who went by the name “Black Jesus” were arrested by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives after a sting operation that set them up to rob $450,000 worth of “pure Colombian cocaine.”…
There’s a literal shitstorm spreading through Broward County, apparently. The Florida Department of Health in Broward County has sent out a warning about a crazy diarrhea bug that’s apparently spreading throughout schools and daycare centers lately. Officials say that Broward County has been showing an increase in cases where the…
Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said that he’s not going to approve the workers’ comp rate hike that had been requested by insurers. The industry’s National Council on Compensation Insurance filed for a 1 percent increase, but after the Office of Insurance Regulation analyzed the numbers, McCarty shot down the request…
The Miami Heat kicks off its run at a three-peat on October 29 (THAT’S, LIKE, A WEEK AWAY!) when it hosts the nonsmiling Derrick Rose and nonshowering Joakim Noah and rest of the Chicago Bulls. On that same night, the Heat will be unveiling its third NBA Finals Champions banner,…
Last Friday night, Passion Nightclub was looking to make one lucky girl’s dreams come true. The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino’s bump-and-grind palace held a “Free Melons” contest. It was not a produce giveaway. The top honors included a free augmentation. The winner wasn’t walking away with just any…
The families of Mackendy Jules, 30, and Samuel Artez Martindale, 35, the two men who were killed by 22-year-old Alyza Rachel Russell when she plowed her mother’s 2012 Porsche Panamera through some bushes and into a parking lot, slamming into the two men, have been awarded a joint $2.2 million…
