Update: Malika has returned home safe. Pembroke Pines Police have suspended their search for Malika James, a 28-year-old woman who went missing during Art Basel over the weekend. On Tuesday night, the Police Department released three photos of James that were taken at a Chase Bank in Winter Haven. According…
Last Friday during Art Basel in Miami, Pembroke Pines graffiti artist Delbert Rodriguez Gutierrez — AKA Demz — was struck by an unmarked Miami Police Department car while fleeing from cops. Demz had run from the officer after he was spotted tagging a building in Wynwood. The accident caused severe…
Lake Worth Mayor Pam Triolo’s decision to walk out of a commission meeting before atheist Preston Smith gave his invocation last Tuesday is causing a ripple effect. In response to Triolo’s walkout, atheist and blogger Chaz Stevens has now asked the city for permission to give a satanic invocation at…
The mayor of Lake Worth and a handful of commissioners walked out as an atheist was about to give an invocation before a meeting last week. Like many cities, the commission allows a religious invocations to be given before holding their meetings. But as atheist Preston Smith walked up to…
As with his first trial, convicted polo magnate John Goodman’s retrial wasn’t without drama. Among the bigger issues was over a Vermont con man who offered to screw up the trial for big cash. The man, James Perron, 48, allegedly texted a witness and Goodman confidant Kris Kampsen saying he’d…
If same-sex couples can get married in Florida, like everyone else, they can get divorced too. That’s what Broward Judge Dale Cohen essentially ruled on Monday when he overturned the state’s ban on gay marriage while presiding over the divorce of a same-sex couple who had been married out of…
Tallahassee attorney Seven Andrews has been on a crusade to prove that Gov. Rick Scott used his private Gmail account to circumvent around Florida’s public records law. Andrews convinced the courts to have Google subpoenaed to turn over basic information about Scott’s private email accounts. And now, just a couple…
Back in October, New Times published a feature on people doing hard time for marijuana. One of the men profiled in the piece, Richard DeLisi, was sentenced in 1989 to 90 years for marijuana-related crimes, including trafficking and conspiracy to traffic. Aging and in declining health, the 65-year-old DeLisi’s fate…
Several people were airlifted to Broward County hospitals following a bizarre and deadly accident that involved a black bear and multiple vehicles out in the Everglades According to reports, a Cadillac SUV traveling on Big Cypress Seminole Reservation struck a black bear Sunday evening. Tragically, three people who were traveling…
A Broward graffiti artist is reportedly in critical condition after being hit by an unmarked Miami Police Department car Friday morning. The man, 21-year-old Delbert Rodriguez Gutierrez of Pembroke Pines, was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital after he was seen tagging a wall in Wynwood. Wynwood is the site in…
Planting Peace, the group best-known for trolling the Westboro Baptist Church bigots with its rainbow-colored Equality House in 2013, has come up with a similar campaign to go after an Arizona pastor whose antigay rhetoric from a sermon he delivered has gone viral. Pastor Steven Anderson made headlines this week…
The 2014 Miami Dolphins season is well underway! And while lots of other sites will be breaking down each game and listing reasons the Dolphins will or won’t win while analyzing players, coaches, and match-ups against their respective opponent week to week, we won’t. Not us. Not here. Instead, we’re…
Last year, Deerfield Beach activist, blogger, and self-proclaimed “militant atheist” Chaz Stevens made headlines when he put up a Festivus pole in the Florida Capitol rotunda. Now Florida officials have approved Stevens’ request to put up the pole in the rotunda again this year. Last year’s pole — which was…
Broward County has sent a letter to Uber and Lyft, warning the companies that their drivers are facing arrest and having their cars impounded. The letter outright tells them that they must “cease operations in Broward County” until their drivers fall in line with county taxi laws and transportation regulations…
Back in May of 2011, Rick Scott signed into law a bill requiring that Florida’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) welfare recipients pass a drug test. That’s right. Scott wanted poor people needing government assistance to first piss into a cup before begin granted said assistance. This, in turn,…
Undercover Sunrise Police officers posing as drug dealers have been luring people down to South Florida with the promise of cocaine deals and have apprehended several suspects — one of them, a New York Police officer who was once named “Officer of the Year” at his precinct. According to reports,…
The 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida has denied Pam Bondi’s request for an extended stay on same-sex marriage in the state, which means same-sex marriages may begin as soon as January 5. The stay, placed by U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle upon request from Bondi, expires on that date. Back…
After being rebuffed by officials last holiday season, the Satanic Temple has been given the green light to erect its holiday display in the Florida Capitol rotunda this year. According to the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Florida’s Department of Management Services has agreed to allow the…
West Palm Beach native and former mega movie star Burt Reynolds recently announced he is auctioning off memorabilia from his own collection. And while it’s natural to assume this is another case of a washed-up, cash-strapped star needing some dough, Reynolds insists he’s not going broke. The 600 or so…
Update: Moore has been captured. According to the FBI, Moore was caught at the Mangonia Park Tri-Rail station in West Palm Beach at around 3:15 p.m. Wednesday afternoon. Moore is being held in federal custody and is facing federal charges. He is scheduled to appear in court Thursday morning. Original…
Polo mogul John Goodman has been convicted — twice — after being found guilty — twice — for DUI manslaughter in the 2010 death of 23-year-old Scott Wilson. Two weeks ago, Goodman was sentenced to serve 16 years in prison — the same sentence he received the first time he…
Broward Judge Thomas Lynch has issued a temporary ban on arrests or citations for violating the controversial Fort Lauderdale ordinance that essentially banned feeding the homeless in public. The ordinance, which was passed in October, made it unlawful for groups to feed the homeless in public areas unless they provide…
