Following a scathing judgment concerning a defamation lawsuit in Miami court last month barring a prominent Haitian-American journalist, Leo Joseph, from printing the name of the Haitian prime minister, Joseph has vowed to fight the ruling, calling it another manifestation of the politician’s corruption. Last August, Joseph published a series…
Last month, we told you about New Times regular Robert Platshorn’s latest effort to spread the word on medical marijuana. Since late 2012, the former drug smuggler turned activist has been buying up TV time on local stations for an infomercial. Provocatively titled “Should Grandma Smoke Pot?,” the spot aims…
Update, 10:34 a.m.: This post was updated with quotes from Anthony Losquadro, executive director of Intaction. Surely, President Clinton was a little freaked out last night when in the middle of his event — a Clinton Foundation Millennium Network talk in New York featuring the former president, Chelsea Clinton, and…
Twelve former Florida A&M University band members have been charged with manslaughter in the hazing death of 26-year-old drum major Robert Champion in 2011. Last May, the band members were charged with felony hazing, but prosecutors announced Monday that they had elevated those charges…
We all have been waiting for the day Casey Anthony shows her face in public since she was acquitted of murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. Today was that day (unless you count a possible spotting at a Lake Worth Flannies). Anthony arrived at the federal courthouse…
Even with Gov. Rick Scott reversing course on the good ship SS Teabaggery and supporting the expansion of Medicaid (even though he wanted to control how it would be privatized), his fellow Florida GOPers stayed the course. See also: -Rick Scott Now Supports Medicaid Expansion And by “stayed the course,”…
After dogging it out with Duke in a tough 76-79 loss on Saturday night, the University of Miami basketball team was ripe for a dip in this week’s polls. It happened — but the damage was minimal to the Hurricanes. According to the latest reports, UM has fallen from fifth…
And now for your bimonthly dose of bummer whale news: On Sunday, a whale and her calf had beached themselves at Jensen Beach, just north of Waveland Beach in St. Lucie County. Beachgoers spotted the whales in the water shortly before they beached themselves. The pair were identified as pygmy…
Unappeased by Friday’s charade of a “public forum” with FAU President Mary Jane Saunders, students opposed to the school’s pimping out naming rights to its athletics stadium to private prison operator GEO Group are using spring break to plan a spring offensive.See also:-FAU Is a $6 Million WhoreIn an email…
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The 25th-annual Arnold Classic — an event that began as an annual bodybuilding competition and morphed into a multisport extravaganza — took place in Columbus, Ohio, this weekend, and who totally dominated the ladies’ “Bikini International” competition? Thaassssss right — some Broward women. India Paulino of Pembroke Pines was runner-up in…
On a recent overcast day in downtown Fort Lauderdale, a cluster of reporters watched a tanned blond man sashay into the federal courthouse dressed like the Joker: orange pants, purple socks, red pocket square, and a Technicolored iPhone in his hand. Murmurs immediately. “Who’s that?” one reporter asked. “He’s definitely…
Better be careful with those glass pieces, because if one state rep has his way, you won’t be able to pick up a replacement anywhere in Florida. A new bill floating through the Legislature seeks to ban pipes and bongs from retail outlets. The legislation was filed last December. Right…
Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria took out a full-page ad in the local papers last week titled “Letter to our Fans,” (inexplicably, that letter failed to make its way to the New Times!) to explain why he and his team suck so hard. The letter was probably the most pedantic, lacking self-awareness,…
“To be the best, you got to beat the best.” That was University of Miami basketball coach Jim Larranaga’s message to his team before Saturday’s showdown with No. 3 Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C. And while the Canes couldn’t quite complete the regular season sweep, falling to the…
Speaking at a public forum today, in a twilight zone of denial, a meek and robotic FAU President Mary Jane Saunders stonewalled all questions of morality from critics of her school’s stadium naming rights deal with GEO Group, the global private prison operator. “It’s a done deal,” she told the…
Tommy Lee Jones is making a hard target search in every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse for a person to purchase his 52-acre polo ranch in Palm Beach. Jones has reportedly put the ranch on the market for a cool $26.75 million. It has a regulation…
When cops pulled Port St. Lucie resident Jayme Nicole Poma, 23, over for a traffic violation a few weeks ago, they found that there was an active warrant out for her arrest for failure to appear in court. So the cops hauled her off to jail. But this was only…
Florida state Sen. Jeff Clemens introduced a bill Wednesday that would allow patients with certain qualifying medical conditions to privately and legally possess medical marijuana. The bill, named after Florida Cannabis Action Network President and ALS patient Cathy Jordan, would allow patients to possess up to four ounces of marijuana…
Today, private aerospace company SpaceX will launch its second mission to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. The launch is set for 10:10 a.m. from Cape Canaveral. A Falcon 9 rocket will carry a Dragon capsule loaded with 1,200 pounds of supplies. If all goes as planned, the capsule will…
Sgt. Gary Morales was shot and killed Thursday morning during a routine traffic stop in St. Lucie. The 35-year-old husband and father, who had served on the force for 13 years, was shot multiple times and succumbed to his wounds at a Fort Pierce hospital not long after. Police say…
Earlier this week, Rick Scott decided a tweet just wasn’t enough. Nor was a Facebook message. Nor an email. Rick instead did something wild. He wrote a letter, slapped a stamp on it, and shipped it across the land to Barack Obama in the White House using something called the…
