A Broward school bus driver transporting middle school students from school made a slight error in judgment and missed the original stop by eight miles. The driver left the students there anyway. At least that’s what their parents are saying. The Broward school district, however, is giving a slightly more…
As You may have heard, the 1972 Perfect Season Miami Dolphins were honored at the White House by Barack Obama on Tuesday. Obama mostly joked and joshed with the players, but also noted that the ’72 team was a juggernaut, that they ran over opponents with two 1,000 yard rushers…
Sorry, Egypt. The “eyes of the world [were] on Fort Lauderdale” last night. At least, that’s what Marina Lofts developer Asi Cymbal said without the slightest hint of irony before a packed house at a Fort Lauderdale City Commission meeting Wednesday. The commission, voting on the relocation of a century-old…
Police are confirming that they searched through Justin Bieber’s luggage for drugs at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Friday. Apparently, the DEA got an anonymous tip that someone in Bieber’s entourage had drugs stuffed away in their bags and passed it along to the Broward Sheriff’s Office. According to sheriff’s…
Yesterday, the law firm of Searcy, Denney, Scarola, Barnhart, and Shipley held a news conference about lawsuits related to a cluster of pediatric brain cancer in the residential neighborhood Acreage, located in western Palm Beach County. Five couples who lived in the area and whose children developed brain tumors are…
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has put out an anti-Stand Your Ground ad by reenacting the events of the night George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin by using audio from the 911 calls made as the events unfolded. Real-life audio from that night is played over footage featuring…
According to the American Lung Association, a Deerfield Beach couple, Amaury and Renata Rosa, were expecting a baby. But when Renata was eight months along in her pregnancy, they began to seriously worry that secondhand smoke from a neighbor’s apartment could hurt the unborn child. Secondhand smoke has been linked…
In a Tuesday-afternoon hearing, Indian River County Judge Robert Pegg ruled that Kaitlyn Hunt is to remain in jail for violating her pretrial-release court order when she sent thousands of text messages, including naked photos, to the girl she’s accused of having sexual relations with when the victim was 14…
Alan Williams, a Florida legislator and a supporter of the Dream Defenders — the protesters who staged a sit-in in Gov. Rick Scott’s Tallahassee office over the controversial Stand Your Ground law — has filed legislation to repeal the law. Williams, a Tallahassee Democrat and outspoken critic of Stand Your…
Fort Lauderdale Police are investigating a man who raised suspicions after he took panoramic photos of the Broward County Governmental Center, typing info into his iPad or some sort of tablet, and peppering the building’s security guard with questions before disappearing in a car without a license plate. The security…
Elmore Leonard, a best-selling crime novelist and sometimes Florida resident, died Tuesday from complications of a stroke he suffered three weeks ago. He was 87. Leonard, who made his home between Detroit, Pompano Beach, and North Palm Beach, set many of his novels in Florida. His bestsellers included Out of…
Well, the timing is rich. Today — the same day that Fort Lauderdale city commissioners will vote on whether to allow the moving of a 100-year-old tree and the building of a massive, three-tower apartment complex called Marina Lofts right along the New River — legendary Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan…
Kaitlyn Hunt was booked into the Indian River County Jail Monday night, the same day prosecutors revoked a plea deal. Hunt had been scheduled to meet a judge for a hearing on Tuesday to address the prosecution’s allegations that she violated her pretrial release court order when she sent thousands…
In this week’s print edition of New Times, you’ll find a feature story on the warring opinions over Florida’s sex offender registry. It’s also not the only piece of journalism around town this week diving into the issue. Over the last three days the Sun-Sentinel has dropped a large-scale investigation…
The disappearance of almost 800 parking spaces from Hollywood Beach might be a death sentence for some business owners, who say they can’t survive the 30 months until Margaritaville is completed and some of that lost parking returns. “People are going to come and turn and turn and turn for…
The Fort Lauderdale City Commission will vote tonight on whether to allow a nearly 100-year-old tree to be moved so a developer can build a 960-unit apartment complex called Marina Lofts on the New River. The site is west of the Broward County Jail and the Downtowner saloon, near the…
The Miami Dolphins just recently lost their big-time free-agent acquisition, tight end Dustin Keller, to a horrific injury that tore the ACL, PCL, and MCL in his left knee. It’s just the latest in many horrific blows that have nut-punched this team for more than a decade. Some would say…
Looks like the Margaritaville Hollywood is building in place of a 630 space garage is going to enjoy its groundbreaking ceremony this week. Almost 200 city officials, dignitaries, and VIPs are expected to show up to the special event this Thursday morning at the Johnson Street bandshell. The one person…
Update: According to the Jupiter Police Department, the body found in the home belongs to an unidentified male who died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The man did not live in the home, and was not related to the homeowners. Tequesta Fire Rescue responded to a shooting that was…
The plea deal that would have kept Kaitlyn Hunt out of jail has been withdrawn by the prosecution. In addition to having her charges reduced to misdemeanors, the deal would have also kept Hunt off the sex offender registry. But now the prosecution contends that Hunt violated her pre-trial release…
Last month, the Florida Fish and Wildlife set up a bait trap deep in the Everglades and put up a camera to film what would happen. A lot did. A raccoon came sniffing by, and then, seconds later, a battle straight out of National Geographic unfolded pitting an alligator against…
State officials have underestimated how much people hate the crap out of sitting in jammed up traffic on I-95. So much so that they are now looking to propose raising the maximum toll rate from $1 to $1.50 a mile. The initial idea for charging a toll on the express…
