Palm Beacher Doanld Trump tweeted this morning: It is outrageous and disgusting that families of U.S. MILITARY personnel killed in action will not be given money for burials. SAD!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 9, 2013…
Broward Beat reports that it’s not all sunshine and roses among the nine women who make up the Broward School Board. In fact, the site reports, it’s just like the movie Mean Girls. “That would be okay if they were only concerned with shoes, hair products and boys. Like high…
In 2010, a Florida man named Craig Robert Wiggen started the website Florida.arrests.org — after he himself had done three years in prison for stealing credit card numbers in Tallahassee. He began collecting free mug shots of people who had been arrested. His intention was not to humiliate people, he…
Yesterday afternoon, Rep. Patrick Murphy gave us a shout to talk about the briefing he’s holding in Washington, D.C., today for members of Congress regarding the nasty pollution that’s flowing from Lake Okeechobee through two rivers and killing everything all the way to the east and west coasts of Florida…
Tomorrow, Rep. Patrick Murphy a 30-year-old Democrat from Jupiter; and Congressman Trey Radel, a Republican from Fort Myers, are scheduled to hold a public briefing to members of Congress regarding the massive pollution that’s flowing from Lake Okeechobee through the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers to pollute estuaries as far…
Well, of course, there’s the dating pool. Without even counting that, the Center for American Progress — an independent, nonpartisan, left-leaning organization — last week managed to come up with a bunch of reasons it totally bites to be a woman in Florida. Oh, it wasn’t called that. The organization…
According to a police report, between 7:30 and 7:35 p.m. on September 23, $870 worth of “Lacie panties” were stolen from the Victoria’s Secret at City Place in West Palm Beach. “The items” — weirdly categorized as “clothing/furs” — “were last seen at 1930 hours,” the report states…
So…. the real estate website Movoto has ranked the Best-Dressed small cities in America, and Boca Raton has come in at #2 on the list — beating even Miami! It’s not because of your grandma’s pink flamingo-print Lily Pulizer ensemble, but because of cold, hard real estate statistics. So, thanks…
A Republican state senator from Lakeland, Sen. Kelli Stargel, and a Democratic state rep from here in Plantation, Katie Edwards, cosponsored legislation Wednesday that would try to keep sex offenders who are on probation from accessing pornography. Edwards says her bill was the result of a Sun Sentinel article about…
On Monday, New Times writer Allie Conti posted a blog item about PalmCon, a comic book convention in Palm Beach County. This post upset a lot of people from the comics/cosplay community. Let us provide a little background and a sincere mea culpa from the editors. Our blogs are a…
On Friday at 4:55 p.m., Broward County sent out a press release lauding vice mayor Barbara Sharief for her role in saving county taxpayers $11.5 million. The state and county had been fighting about which of them would pay disputed costs for Medicaid. The state sent Broward a bill for…
Tico Torres, longtime drummer for Bon Jovi and also a resident of Jupiter, has been having a rough few weeks in Mexico City, where the band was touring. Torres had his appendix removed on September 10, and on Friday it was determined he also needed emergency gall bladder surgery. The…
On Sunday, Lion Country Safari’s wildlife director, Terry Wolf, was checking up on a momma wildebeest who was giving birth when the 20-pound baby was finally pushed out — but then, as it struggled to stand, it fell into a canal. As the Palm Beach Post explains, Wolf intervened: “Like…
According to its website, The Experts, a Fort Lauderdale company, is “a global provider of IT, engineering, telecom and business process solutions” with operations around the world and “personnel supporting the war fighter abroad and domestic policy at home.” Apparently, one of those personnel members, 34-year-old Aaron Alexis, went on…
A Central Florida man named Mark Schmidter is being celebrated among libertarians after he was arrested September 14 while protesting red light cameras at an intersection in Apopka. According to a police report Schmidter posted online, officer Robert Campbell saw him in the intersection. The officer claims Schmidter was walking…
By now, you’ve surely heard about basketball great/inimitable superfreak/sometimes South Florida resident Dennis Rodman going to North Korea to meet with dictator Kim Jong-Un not once but twice. Vice magazine initially sent Rodman to get an “in” with the basketball-loving leader; then Rodman went back at the behest of an…
Last night, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz posted an open letter on the company’s website asking customers not to bring guns into the company’s coffee shops. He said that Starbucks employees had been stuck in the middle of too many uncomfortable incidents in the gun control debate. He also noted that…
Ninety-five percent of scientists now agree that global warming is a scientific fact — and , as one particularly terrifying Rolling Stone article explained in June, “South Florida is uniquely screwed, in part because about 75 percent of the 5.5 million people in South Florida live along the coast.” We’re…
The hit Showtime series Dexter is totally addicting, and it’s extra fun to watch here in South Florida, because a lot of scenes are shot here. Any local will have fun picking out sites like the 17th Street Causeway in Fort Lauderdale, or the waters of Biscayne Bay. It’s easy…
A reporter from the Forum Publishing Group — part of the Sun Sentinel — was caught on camera having a “meltdown” during a meeting of the West Boca Forum Council. According to bizpacreview.com, and the YouTube video below, chiropractor-slash-political adviser Andre Fladell was lamenting the modern-day press during the meeting…
The Pantry’s Facebook page makes it very clear: “Calling all supporters,” it reads. “We have NO FOOD on our shelves. We are in need ASAP of an emergency donation of funds or food or our clients will NOT EAT in September.” The Pantry of Broward helps seniors who are on…
Alligator wrestler John Carlos Martinez, a lifelong animal lover, a Marine, and a character on the reality show Gator Boys, died on September 3, New Times has learned. He was 30 years old. The show focuses on “the only bare-hand nuisance animal trapping company in Florida” — guys who trap…
