If George Orwell and Stan Lee sat down to dream up a superdevice for trashing personal freedom and privacy, they’d probably come up with something like the Stingray. The device, manufactured in Melbourne, Florida, allows police to target suspects based on their cell phone signals. If that isn’t enough to…
When it comes to cities, what separates your desirable A-list locales and the lesser-than B team? Your Denvers from your Grand Rapids? World-class public transportation? Sports teams? Museums? Sure, sure, sure. But what about a big, glossy, superfluous, high-society magazine? If that be the case, then Fort Lauderdale has taken…
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The Chicago-based megachurch leader with serious ties throughout Florida and in Broward has lost his flock due to a sex scandal. Since the ’60s, Bill Gothard has been preaching a submit-to-authority brand of Bible that excoriates rock music and free thinking: Listen to your parents, obey your husband, toe the…
No single debate is as overstuffed with bloody history and hot feelings like the Israeli-Palestinian standoff. With U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry expected to unveil a plan to settle the century-long tug of war this spring, the heat is only rising. And now, stumbling into the picture, here comes…
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Back home in Bolivia, Col. Mario Fabricio Ormachea Aliaga’s gig at the Bolivia National Police was to root out corruption — supposedly. In an irony that makes perfect sense in the Caribbean, Ormachea has been sitting in U.S. federal custody since September on charges he tried to extort money from…
Alphonso Davis had no business being around kids, and the Broward County School Board should have known it. That’s the basis for a lawsuit filed in February by a local mother-daughter duo who claim the sexual assault suffered by the latter could have been prevented. According to the court filing,…
The evening was sliding toward midnight, but the students were still hanging out. It was February 9, 2013, and the five members of Florida International University’s Muslim Student Association had finished their evening prayers in the room they used daily at the Graham Center, the student union on the school’s…
When a buddy asks you to do him a solid and pick up something he left somewhere — no big deal, right? If he lets slide that it’s a laptop and there might be some illegal stuff on that laptop, run. Run far. That was the situation that led to…
The woman behind the largest case of fortunetelling fraud ever to hit a courtroom has finally been sentenced. Rose Marks, the Manhattan and Fort Lauderdale psychic accused to bilking her longtime clients using a bag of tricks and mental manipulation common among fortunetellers, will go to prison for a little…
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Florida has its share of strange animal stories — from huge pythons to invasive lizards — but this tale is so common, it’s scary. In August, a man from Lakeland named Ronald Resse came home complaining of a spider bite. Six months later, he was dead. It all happened because…
Thanks to a lot of hard workers hawking petitions in parking lots, not to mention the shifting pop cultural sands, it looks like Florida has a fighting chance for legalizing medical marijuana. Come November, we’ll find out. But as with any political movement, despite best intentions and hopes, it’s money…
Ladies and gentlemen, we have ourselves a huge d-bag. John McNally, 43, is no friend to the elderly, and he probably hates dogs, little kids, baseball, the Olympics, and America too. The Boca Raton resident was out driving with his wife and 4-year-old daughter on Sunday when he flipped his…
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Last spring, a legal tussle started over the past life of a Palm Beach-area math tutor. David Mech — known around Boca Raton as “The Happy/Fun Math Tutor” — called foul when school officials pulled down signs advertising his services. What was behind the move? Mech believes it was because…
Landlubbers may not be aware of a current epic sea battle: shrimpers v. sea turtles. The reality is that we have very little idea what kind of impact the former has on the latter endangered critters. In part, that’s because the federal government is dragging ass about conducting meaningful studies…
UPDATE: Thanks to Charles Ogletree — the Harvard law professor who stepped up on Banton’s behalf — the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta agreed to hear his case. The court has yet to schedule a date to hear the arguments. Back in 2009, a series of boneheaded decisions…
Cold fluorescent light bounces off the slick white floors of the hallway. Doors slam; girls scream in the distance. A half dozen police officers march across the tile. Staffers wrapped in blue hospital scrubs trot behind. Outside, 20 cop cruisers and two ambulances paint the parking lot with their reds…
A Florida animal rights activist who’s fresh off a stint in prison has a new target in her sights — the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, which funds projects at the University of Florida. Camille Marino, from Wildwood, in Central Florida, is a longtime, hard-core activist. She’s the…
A Florida animal rights activist who’s fresh off a stint in prison has a new target in her sights — the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. The organization tosses around millions of dollars a year, and some of that money has landed at the University of Florida. That’s…
