Fort Lauderdale Fleet Week is here, which means Navy ships and all-around maritime awesomeness. Of all the ships coming into Port Everglades, the biggest star will undoubtedly be the USS New York, which was constructed from steel recovered from the wreckage of the Twin Towers. Coming in at 684 feet…
LENNARRRD! LENARRRRRD! SLAMMAAAAHHH!! ALONZO MOURNING WITH THE STUFFFAHHH!! Simply the greatest calls in Miami Heat broadcast history. The man and legend who made those calls, Dr. Jack Ramsay, passed away in his sleep Sunday night at age 89 after a long bout with cancer. Ramsay coached the Portland Trailblazers to…
Back in 2008, an elderly woman’s undiscovered body had decomposed so badly inside her apartment that it exploded. Fluid from the ruptured corpse began to seep through the floor and into the apartment below, which led the owner of that unit to sue her insurance company, claiming that it needed…
David Benjamin, the former Broward Sheriff’s Deputy accused of accepting more than $20,000 from convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, was charged Friday with accepting that financial help in exchange for using his authority to protect and aid Rothstein. Former BSO deputy Jeff Poole was also charged. Federal prosecutors filed criminal…
As Hurricane season approaches, we’re getting more and more sophisticated in the way storms are tracked. And while we’re still waiting for those Hurricane Tracker Sharks we were promised, there is some pretty cool news coming out of the National Hurricane Center. Staring this season, the NHC will be displaying…
Former Miami Dolphin great Earl Morrall has passed away, sources close to the Morrall family has told New Times. Morall, 79, had been in ill health for some time and was in hospice care in his Fort Lauderdale home. As Bob Griese’s backup with the Miami Dolphins, Morrall became the…
The many opponents of legalized marijuana in Florida have come and gone, defeated with facts and science and the power of the people. But, like a ferocious hungry hydra looking to devour the movement at every turn, opposition continues to rear its long, scaly talons at preventing medical weed from…
With the Legislature working on laying out harsher punishments on hit-and-run suspects and the justice system cracking down on this guy, it’s time once again to strap on the helmet, grab your bike, and hit up the streets of Fort Lauderdale with your brothers and sisters in bicycling to celebrate…
This week, our cover story in the print edition of New Times dispenses a ten-step program on how you can jump in on the medical marijuana craze that is expected to hit Florida soon and become a pot mogul. Or, not. Writer Francisco Alvarado went out and did all the…
Back in December, Axel Esteban Inostroza crashed his girlfriend’s black 2003 Mustang into a bicyclist in Fort Lauderdale and proceeded to drive for two miles with the cyclist lodged in the car’s rear window. Inostroza then drove into the woods and dumped the cyclist — who was still alive –…
Crime is down in Broward County. This, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. BSO saw drops in crime throughout 2013. Broward saw a 13 percent drop in violent crimes, and while there were a few more adults arrested, juvenile arrests were down almost…
The Miami Heat took a 2-0 lead in its first-round matchup against the Charlotte Bobcats with a 101-97 victory Wednesday night. While there are plenty of game recaps to peruse, we at the Pulp like to dig deeper and get into some specific stuff you may or may not have…
It looks like the Palm Beach County School Board wants in on the parents dress code debate after Broward County took the lead last week in calling for parents who pick up and drop off their kids to dress more appropriately. Broward County School Board member Rosalind Osgood called for…
The drive to get greyhound decoupling in Florida was on the cusp of being passed Tuesday when it met with an abrupt and swift death in the Florida Senate, thanks to a procedural vote. A rules challenge by Sen. Jack Latvala effectively killed the decoupling bill, even though the bill…
Senate Bill 424, a bill that would protect Florida gun owners from being discriminated against by insurance companies, is headed to Gov. Rick Scott’s desk to be signed into law after passing via a 74-44 vote in the state House on Tuesday. Much to the delight of gun advocacy groups…
All Aboard Florida, the private rail service that plans on running a passenger train from Miami to Orlando with stops in Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, has written a letter to its biggest South Florida critic, addressing some of the bigger concerns. Congressman Patrick E. Murphy has spoken out…
Palm Beach County gas stations will have to start posting the exact amount gas costs for both cash and credit prices, thanks to a new ordinance that passed Tuesday. At it stands, gas stations usually charge extra for gas when it’s paid for with a credit card, mainly because of…
In the wake of a bullying scandal that rocked the Miami Dolphins last season, the team has gone and hired an ex-FBI agent who worked in a joint terrorism task force to head its locker-room security. According to NFL.com, the Fins have signed 23-year FBI veteran Joe Cicini as their…
Two people have been arrested and one more remains at large after angry parents beat up a Palm Beach County bus driver last week. Shacaurra Burns, 25, and Ryan Beckford, 33, as well as a third person are accused of assaulting West Palm Beach elementary school bus driver Joseph Beauzile,…
Happy Earth Day, Florida! We’re all gonna die! Yes, today is the day we’re supposed to be conserving, planting trees, turning off the lights, and collecting all that recycling. But the reality is, things are not looking as green as they should in the Sunshine State. Florida is a land…
It looks like Gov. Rick Scott’s crusade to randomly drug-test Florida’s state workers has finally come to an end after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his request for a review of a lower court ruling that the policy was unconstitutional. Scott’s quest to have state workers urinate into a cup…
It looks like Pembroke Pines is joining the likes of Palm Beach and Boca Raton in offering domestic partner benefits for its gay employees. After an independent firm’s cost/benefits numbers were heard, the city’s five commissioners unanimously agreed to extend the same benefits to employees in domestic partnerships as those…
