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Coral Springs Pig Battle Rages On

Thomas Mathew Hahn was cooking up some pork chops Tuesday night. His inebriated roommate then got home and told Hahn he didn’t like they way they were being cooked. The two got into a heated argument over it. Hahn then responded as any rational person would when their drunk roommate…

A dead body was found behind the Advance Auto Parts store along the 100 block of North Federal Highway in Hallandale this morning. Two teens — a 14 and 17-year-old — were taken away by police for questioning. Police were called in at 4:30 a.m. about an altercation going down…

Last week we told you about a stereotype-filled racist Obama “joke” posted on Facebook by Cooper City City Commissioner John Sims. He took the comments down from his Facebook page, but through the magic and wizardry of the Internetz, the world was still able to see what Sims wrote: “Just…

Dear Reader, We at the New Times rarely have essential life advice to depart, but this is one of those occasions. If there is ever a circumstance in which you’re charged with some sort of salacious crime — like, say, HAVING SEX WITH YOUR STUDENT — please, for the love…

You wondered what  “Balloon Boy” family had been doing in the three years since they transfixed the entire nation, reporting that six-year-old Falcon Heene had floated away in a homemade flying saucer. And we told you in this week’s feature story, which catches up with the Heene family in their new…

People around the world were collectively glued to their TVs on October 15, 2009, when Richard and Mayumi Heene called the Federal Aviation Administration and a Colorado TV station and reported that their son Falcon had accidentally floated 7,000 feet into the sky in a homemade experimental flying saucer. Of course,…

A teenage ticket-taker at a Boynton Beach movie theater has been arrested after it was determined that she was the author of a note that threatened the movie theater with a bomb. The girl, who remains unidentified due to her age, called in the threat, claiming a man had handed…

With the holiday season rolling in fast, everybody could use a few extra dollars in the bank. For some, that means cutting back on spending or picking up a second gig. For others, the move is to grab next month’s rent payment, sacrifice some chickens to the right patron saint,…

In April of 1986, the body of Daisy Ricard was found in a secluded wooded area in Hialeah. She had been shot in the head by two different .22 caliber pistols. The following day, the body of her boyfriend, Ramon Alvero, was discovered in the trunk of a car about…

After spending craploads of money to win a second term in congress, and then not winning the election, and then having his request for a recount denied because he lawfully didn’t have the numbers to get one, and then getting a partial recount only to have that recount reveal that…

A man police picked up three separate times for huffing dust cleaner in public has died, making this both the weirdest and saddest sentence you’ll read all day. Patrick Henderson’s decomposing body was found lying face-down in the backseat of a Ford Explorer in the parking lot of a T.J…

It’s a pleasant Saturday afternoon at the Max Planck Florida Institute by the FAU campus in Jupiter. There are food trucks in the parking lot and a jazz band on the stage by the main entrance to the laboratories. Who knew neuroscience could be so hip? Then again, considering the amount…