The pain bit Jose Maldonado below the right ear, hot and searing. When the lanky, dark- haired Florida State University student snapped his eyes open, he was in the same Tallahassee motel room where he’d drifted to sleep earlier. But then, in the lead-colored hour before dawn this past December…

As we reported earlier this morning, Fort Lauderdale Beach saw some intense action yesterday. Police cracked down when festivities got out of hand, clearing out the streets in riot gear and making numerous arrests. The Instagram clips below capture the police state in full swing…

Yesterday the Memorial Day festivities got a little too hot and heavy in Fort Lauderdale. According to news reports flowing from multiple outlets right now, a large-scale police presence was needed to clamp down on unruly revelers. Both Fort Lauderdale PD and the Broward Sheriff’s Office were reportedly dispatched in…

South Florida’s best-known media brand is packing up for shinier digs elsewhere. Nope, not talking about the Miami Herald or the august New Times Broward Palm-Beach. The National Enqurier, the supermarket checkout rag that basically created the tabloid game 30 years ago, is leaving its longtime Boca Raton headquarters for…

The goat doesn’t want to wear the undies. Can’t blame him. Plus-sized, bleached-white tighty whities are not very chic. A tall man, blue shirt tucked neatly into his jeans, holds up the animal’s brown-and-white-mottled back end, while his teammate, a squat woman, tries to work the underpants on. The goat’s…

When the ribbon was snipped on the brand-spanking-new Dania Casino and Jai Alai in February, one of the biggest grins beaming during the ceremony belonged to Cristóbal López. The Argentine businessman had already cobbled together an impressive international portfolio of 29 big-money businesses, from waste management companies to oil refineries…

When the ribbon was snipped on the brand-spanking-new Dania Casino and Jai Alai in February, one of the biggest grins beaming during the ceremony belonged to Cristóbal López. The Argentine businessman had already cobbled together an impressive international portfolio of 29 big-money businesses, from waste management companies to oil refineries…

After putting together an impressive record across Florida over the past year, Atticus Palmer took his pinball game to the national stage this weekend. The Coral Springs wunderkind — profiled last week in New Times — was among the 25 competitors hitting the flippers yesterday at the International Flipper Pinball…

If the web site Reddit is the front page of the interent, then the Florida sub-Reddit page is like the back screen door where all the mangy talk and stories about the Sunshine state sluice through. Popping in on any given day gives you a sense of what people online…

Suburbs don’t get much tidier than Coral Springs. The boxy patch of West Broward is made up of neighborhoods of modest ranch homes planted evenly on shady, manicured lawns. It’s Mayberry 2.0, a David Lynch movie before shit goes bad. Behind the front door of one such modest suburban house…

This past legislative session was a rare productive period for your usually fractious Florida lawmakers. Not only did the state’s representatives pass meaningful legislation; they somehow managed to do so without going full tilt into the Red State shenanigans that usually make Florida a punch line on The Daily Show…

In the late innings of the legislative session, your elected government representatives were a busy hive of activity. One of the bills that passed is another National Rifle Association liberty defense that makes it illegal for kids to be punished for playing with imaginary firearms in school. YEAH, GUNS!…

It was a showdown for the ages: a drag queen facing off against a Ku Klux Klansman. And the battle weapon? A flaming tiki torch. No, this wasn’t the product of a febrile imagination but what Halloween revelers in 2012 watched unfold at the outdoor costume party at Georgie’s Alibi…

Sun Sentinel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning daily newspaper, wants to give you wood. If you happened to open up the paper this morning — maybe browsing the news with a cup of coffee at the kitchen table while your precious, innocent kids eat Cheerios — you might have noticed a banner…

It was a showdown for the ages: a drag queen facing off against a Ku Klux Klansman. And the battle weapon? A flaming tiki torch. No, this wasn’t the product of a febrile imagination but what Halloween revelers in 2012 watched unfold at the outdoor costume party at Georgie’s Alibi…

A Florida gay marriage case — known in the federal court system as James Domer Brenner et al., v. Rick Scott, which challenges Florida’s refusal to recognize gay marriages that are performed legally elsewhere (Brenner and his partner married in Canada) — is sure to be one of the landmark…

A US combat vet from South Florida with two tours of duty in Afghanistan under his belt is unfortunately stuck in another tough spot. On April 1, Andrew Tahmooressi steered his black Ford pickup over the border into Mexico. Now a month later, he’s reportedly chained to a cot in…

It ended with a boom: a 40-year relationship and two lives — one dead and gone, the other alive and alone. Jorge Arrojas and his partner, Miguel Larrieu, were heading home, fresh from a dinner party in Bal Harbour around midnight last August 10 on I-75 when a red 2009…

Wearing Broward County Jail khakis, a former black radical who hijacked an airliner in the mid-’80s appeared Tuesday at the Federal Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, hoping to finally close the door on the unresolved past. But a last-minute hold-up kept William Potts from officially entering his guilty plea…

It ended with a boom: a 40-year relationship and two lives — one dead and gone, the other alive and alone. Jorge Arrojas and his partner, Miguel Larrieu, were heading home, fresh from a dinner party in Bal Harbour around midnight last August 10 on I-75 when a red 2009…