The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida has announced that they have arrested a 22-year-old Palm Beach woman with importing and possessing with attempt to distribute flakka. DEA Agents stationed in London received information from British authorities over several packages that had been intercepted from a chemical…
Barack Obama is an obvious reader of New Times. Because he apparently took our Earth Day advice and openly called out Gov. Rick Scott on the ridiculous ban on the term “climate change” from all Department of Environmental Protection reports, emails and memos. “Climate change can’t be denied, edited out…
Palm Beach County Commission has decided not to pursue their months-long quest to enact an ordinance that would force kava bars to put up warnings about kratom. Kratom and whether it should be banned has been in the headlines ever since the death of a 20-year-old Boynton Beach man named…
A man was lit on fire in an alley in Lake Worth Tuesday night. According to the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office, two men splashed a liquid on the victim and threw a flame on him, setting his face and upper torso ablaze. Police say they responded to the report in…
President Barack Obama is in our own backyard today to talk up climate change and Everglades restoration. It’s the first time the president visits the Everglades, which he has talked about spending $2 billion to restore. He’s going to use the opportunity to talk about the dangers of rising sea…
Yesterday, Patricia Montes, one of two girls accused of being involved in a brutal beating and rape of a Hollywood teen, was sentenced to to four years in prison, and two years probation after agreeing on a plea deal with prosecutors. Today, her accomplice, Erica Avery, was sent back to jail…
Back in early February, a Lake Worth man stripped naked, climbed up on top of his apartment building with a handgun, and began to threaten to shoot himself and others. After hours of negotiating with the man, authorities say the man admitted to them that he was high on flakka…
On November 1, 2013, Patricia Montes, then 15, and her friend, then-16-year-old Erica Avery, invited an estranged friend over to a home in Hollywood. There, they allegedly stripped her, beat her, and held her down as she was raped by a 19-year-old man. On Monday, Montes, now 17, was sentenced…
Miami Heat President Pat Riley held his annual post-season-state-of-the-franchise press conference Monday morning (albeit, a tad earlier in the year than what we’ve grown accustomed to around here), and talked about the team’s past, present, future and draft pick. Oh and he also threw a subtle, yet not so subtle,…
Awww yea. It’s that time of year again. 4/20. And while everyday is 4/20 for most of you, it’s important to recognize today as Stoner’s Christmas. Because, why not, man. So, in order to commemorate and celebrate this righteous occasion, we present out annual list of best places in Broward…
A federal judge magistrate ordered that Palm Beach eye doctor Salomon Melgen be detained before trial. Melgen, who was was indicted on Thursday for Medicare fraud, has been called a flight risk by prosecutors. Melgen is tied to New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez’s corruption scandal after the eye doctor allegedly…
National child welfare advocates held a joint presser to speak out against the so-called Indiana-style bill (HB 7111) that’s been moving rapidly through the House that would allow private adoption agencies to turn down applications for adoption based solely on the agencies’ religious beliefs. This, the opposition says, would allow…
As a bill that would set rules on police body cameras makes its way through the Florida Legislature, Hallandale Beach decided to start its own pilot program for their officers to wear the body cams for at least a year. Police body cams have become a hot topic of discussion…
Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office announced that they have arrested a 14-year-old kid for the double-homicide shooting deaths of two Boynton Beach men. In the early morning hours last Monday, Ricky Taylor Miner, 23, and Andrew Vincent Laudano, 21, were found shot dead inside a Dodge Charger off Verona Lakes Boulevard…
The four Fort Lauderdale cops fired for their role in racist videos and text messages are trying to get their jobs back. Alex Alvarez, 22, Jason Holding, 31, James Wells, 30, and Christopher Sousa, 25, who sent out messages about “killing niggers,” and produced a video of a mock movie trailer…
The Miami Heat did all it could to not win Wednesday night, in order to secure that top-10 pick. But they were ill prepared for the juggernaut of losery that are the Philadelphia 76ers. Any time the Heat tried to suck the joint up, the 6ers took it up a…
The Miami Heat are visiting the Philadelphia 76ers tonight in the final game of the NBA regular season. And it might just be the weirdest/worst/most ridiculous game ever played. Because both teams, ideally speaking, need to lose on purpose. Because tonight, the loser wins. Since being officially eliminated from the…
Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office Deputy William D. Wheeler wrapped his hands around an inmate’s neck and threw his head up against the walls inside the medical unit of the Palm Beach County Detention Center in Belle Glade. Wheeler had kept a nurse from seeing the inmate’s medical wristband before trying…
Former Florida Gator and New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez has been found guilty of first degree murder. The former star tight end had been charged with killing Odin Lloyd in June 2013. Lloyd, who had been dating Hernandez’s fiancee’s sister, was shot six times in an industrial park near Hernandez’s…
So Marlins aren’t off to such a hot start. And that sucks, because expectations were large — especially after an offseason that featured giving Giancarlo Stanton the fattest contract in pro sports history, and because the Fish actually went out and got good players. The Marlins are off to an…
Sea Turtle Oversight Protection’s Richard WhiteCloud has taken up the old Warren Zevon mantra of Lawyers, Guns & Money. Well, maybe not guns, but the Broward-based sea turtle conservation group promises to meet Fort Lauderdale officials with litigious aggression should they take up an agenda to try and move sea…
Broward County Commissioners will be voting today on imposing new regulations on ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft. Among them, having more thorough background checks for potential drivers, including fingerprints, and inspections for vehicles. The ordinance also includes having Uber and Lyft to obtain commercial vehicle licenses, meaning divers would…
