Democratic presidential candidate Wayne Messam has condemned Joe Biden, who has been accused of inappropriately touching women. But during his tenure as mayor of Miramar, Messam supported two top city administrators who have also been accused of harassing women.
A new analysis by the American Addiction Centers determined there have been 877 meth labs in Florida over the past decade. The company has released an interactive map for people to see how far they live from sites formerly used to manufacture methamphetamine.
Tortuga Music Festival, live music by Boz Scaggs and the Bouncing Souls, a comic book-themed art exhibit, and more of the best things to do in South Florida this week.
Besides the public’s opposition to arming teachers, there’s plenty of evidence it can be downright dangerous. New Times has identified a litany of troubling incidents involving Florida educators and guns, including many that have gone previously unreported.
He was deeply isolated from the world, scored below 100 on IQ tests, was listed as developmentally delayed, and was diagnosed with ADHD, but newly released personal writings show that 20-year-old Parkland mass murderer Nikolas Cruz has mastered the talking points of President Donald Trump.
Eric Swalwell’s first stop on the campaign trail will be a town hall at the BB&T Center in Sunrise with Parkland families.
Jane woke up early. It was five days into the cruise, and the Celebrity Summit would be docked in Bermuda for the rest of the day before setting sail for New Jersey. The night before, the 19-year-old had gone to a show with her parents and her childhood best friend…
On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union cautioned immigrants and people of color about traveling to Florida. The travel advisory comes in response to two “anti-sanctuary” bills currently moving through the state Legislature.
In response to the Green New Deal, Rep. Matt Gaetz is proposing a competing plan, snarkily titled the “Green Real Deal.” The problem with the plan, however, is that it sucks. If America relies solely on the provisions in Gaetz’s plan, the planet will cook and the seas will swallow us whole.
Pastor Allen B. Jackson is one of the few community leaders who still support former Sheriff Scott Israel. But he has a very strong financial reason — $36,000 a year in taxpayers’ money to be exact — to praise the former sheriff.
Last month, GOP legislators introduced bills that would require offenders to pay back court fees before they become eligible to vote. The Florida ACLU will hold sit-ins to urge lawmakers to oppose any further restrictions on felon voting rights.
A Florida bill that would force minors to get parental consent for abortions passed the House Judiciary Committee yesterday. The ACLU warns the bill will hurt underage girls if enacted.
DMX gon’ give it to ya this week on the music front. So is Guster. The Las Olas Wine and Food Festival and Palm Beach’s Taste of the Nation will showcase some of South Florida’s best restaurant offerings.
On Wednesday morning, Parkland dad Fred Guttenberg posted a photo of the letter he received from the NRA condemning gun-control “extremists” who “threaten your individual liberties.” Guttenberg responded, “My daughter was the only one to lose freedom.”
A woman named Yujing Zhang was apprehended trying to get into Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Palm Beach mansion and resort.
Arguably the most important rule for visiting South Beach is this: Watch out for overzealous towing companies. Tow companies for years have preyed on unsuspecting tourists and residents alike — in 2013, New Times wrote in a longform feature that Miami Beach’s towing companies were orchestrating a “decades-long, politically sanctioned operation to hold people’s cars for ransom for hundreds of dollars” and were raking in millions each year by outright tricking drivers into parking illegally using all sorts of schemes.
A year and a half after Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico, the island is still recovering. Borinqueños continue to face power outages and water shortages. The agriculture industry is rebuilding from the storm’s damage to local crops. But President Donald Trump and Congress are sparring over aid. After Senate Democrats blocked a…
On July 19, 2015, detectives arrived at Ronald O. Schwartz’s secluded Jupiter Farms home and found him lying on his bedroom floor, his head haloed by a pool of blood. Two back doors were open, and the entire house had been ransacked. A .40-caliber shell casing lay near him. The 65-year-old retired gynecologist and multimillionaire was dead.
For years, South Florida detainees have told lawyers with the nonprofit Americans for Immigrant Justice about abusive and unlawful mental health treatment behind bars, including almost round-the-clock physical restraint and monitoring. Based on those claims, the Miami group in January 2017 requested contracts and other documents related to what goes…
Embattled political operative, Roger Stone, is scheduled to speak at Deerfield Beach’s TrumpFest rally and the Trump 2020 Team Florida fundraiser in Oakland Park on Saturday.
Owning various stages this week: Dear Evan Hansen, Debbie and Dentree and We Three. And, prepare for a burger (or five) at Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale Burger Battle X.
The modern anti-immigrant movement in America was largely created by white nationalists and eugenicists. One of the nation’s loudest voices is a group called the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, which was founded in 1979 by John Tanton, a doctor who believed in eugenics. Tanton received funding from his…
