Hiya, Broward, how goes it? Good, good. End of summer treating you right? Great, glad to hear. Look, thanks for coming today, but I’ve gotta lay something heavy on you. This is a touchy one to talk about, but listen: Next time you’re in the shower, you need to, um,…
The family of a Florida man killed several months ago released a video late last week that shows the last horrifying moments of 38-year-old Marlon Brown, who the family’s attorney says had fled cops over an alleged seat belt violation. The chase scene through a vegetable garden shown in the…
The University of South Florida is reporting that an armed intruder has been spotted near the College of Medicine in the USF Health Center. Students have been advised to avoid the area. The Tampa Bay Times reports that USF police got a call around 1:40 Friday afternoon about a man…
A West Palm Beach was man walking northbound on I-95, a weary traveler who was making a one-man pilgrimage to Palm Bay. He was tired, sweaty, and also not wearing any shoes. A Florida Highway patrolman approached the man, who told the trooper he was on a mission from God…
A Hillsborough school bus driver appears to be texting while driving as she was transporting students. According to wptv.com, a 14-year-old student captured the moment on her camera phone and then showed it to her parents. The video shows the driver apparently texting with one hand and holding the steering…
Broward and Palm Beach each reported that unemployment rates have dropped in recent weeks in the respective counties. And while on the surface this appears to be good news, a lot of it is based on the number of people who have stopped looking for jobs altogether. So, it’s good…
A 7-year-old boy has already done more in his young life than you ever will after he got his Indiana Jones on and discovered what appears to be an ancient canoe. Koen Ergle was scuba diving in Owen Lake near Ocala when he spotted a piece of wood dug into…
LeBron and the newly minted Mrs. James are honeymooning right now in Italy, no doubt hanging out in coastal villas, riding through the countryside on white colts, bathing in 100-year-old wines, and doing whatever else the 1 percent does when they’re on a European vacation. But as we already told…
And now for your dose of Friday-morning awfulness. A mentally challenged Delray Beach man who had spent months saving up to buy himself the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto V videogame was beaten up by a man and woman who then stole the game from him…
According to its website, The Experts, a Fort Lauderdale company, is “a global provider of IT, engineering, telecom and business process solutions” with operations around the world and “personnel supporting the war fighter abroad and domestic policy at home.” Apparently, one of those personnel members, 34-year-old Aaron Alexis, went on…
There’s a miracle worker in Delray Beach, a wizard in a white robe who can make make appendages grow back like an amphibian. His name is Eugenio Rodriguez, a surgeon schooled at the University of Puerto Rico, who just made a jockey’s finger grow back…
Aficionados of kava — a drink made from the kava root, which is said to have a mild sedative effect — are warning of ill effects from kava gathered in the wild. Apparently, free-range kava is to be avoided and carefully cultivated varieties the way to go. Echoing a scare…
A Florida pool cleaner and a Connecticut realtor say they were victims of a scam perpetrated by Donald Trump’s seminar-based education program Trump Institute of Boca Raton. Namely, that Trump’s deal-making secrets they were promised were not delivered. The Trump Institute of Boca Raton, which at one point was called…
A Florida man got into a big fight with his live-in girlfriend and decided that her being such a super nag was the Devil’s work, so he decided to hold her down and perform an exorcism on her. Sounds like a measured and reasoned thing to do in a situation…
Last November, Florida’s Public Service Commission approved a $246 million annual rate hike for Florida Power & Light. The hike started hitting bills in January. But now, Florida’s consumer advocate is asking the Florida Supreme Court to overturn the rate hike. At the time of the approval, the costs were…
Ever receive a text, and you think it’s from a buddy or your girlfriend, and you look up to read it and it says: “Your entry in our drawing WON you a FREE $1,000 Target Giftcard! Enter “312.” Well, so have millions of other people And now, two Broward businessmen…
Biotech interests’ plan to sacrifice Briger Forest on the altar of development met new resistance yesterday as environmental groups filed a notice of violation with federal agencies charged with permitting the plan, Scripps Florida Phase II. According to one of the enviros’ attorneys, the notice effectively stops Scripps in its…
The Heat’s Birdman was a victim of a double catfish. Before becoming a local icon and helping the Miami Heat win its second-consecutive NBA championship, Chris “Birdman” Andersen played for the Denver Nuggets. And it was while he was with the Nuggets that Andersen was caught up in speculation about…
Last Friday, New Times broke the story about the Broward Public Defender’s Office stepping up to challenge the Fort Lauderdale Police Department on the practice of using the city’s bike ordinance to stop African-Americans in a disproportionate number. “Biking while black,” as Howard Finkelstein called it, is a clear case…
A Central Florida man named Mark Schmidter is being celebrated among libertarians after he was arrested September 14 while protesting red light cameras at an intersection in Apopka. According to a police report Schmidter posted online, officer Robert Campbell saw him in the intersection. The officer claims Schmidter was walking…
The grin was a dead giveaway. Bob Sellers spotted the smile on his friend’s face as he pulled up to the end of the tarmac. Bill Warner was still straddling his race bike, a ‘roided-up 1,000-horsepower Suzuki Hayabusa. The black Bell helmet was sitting on the gas tank. Warner’s bathwater-blue…
A distinguished, handsome Italian gentleman saunters into a Miami Beach tattoo shop that’s drenched in purple neon light. He’s dressed straight out of GQ magazine with his leather boat shoes and matching fedora. Not exactly the place’s typical clientele. Suku Rivera, manager of Salvation Tattoo on Washington Avenue, will never…
