You spoke, we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s post of the Broward-Palm Beach edition of Mug-Shot Friday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, and femmes fatale…
The wall: a six-foot stack of blue bricks. The mission: go up and over it, the first hurdle in a 16-part obstacle course. Me: suddenly, surprisingly nervous. The vertical lift has resurrected some anxiety from seventh-grade gym, where the prospect of flinging my pear-shaped, hormone-chemistry set through a public display…
The wall: a six-foot stack of blue bricks. The mission: go up and over it, the first hurdle in a 16-part obstacle course. Me: suddenly, surprisingly nervous. The vertical lift has resurrected some anxiety from seventh-grade gym, where the prospect of flinging my pear-shaped, hormone-chemistry set through a public display…
A local website has popped up with the stated mission of publicly shaming journalists in Broward and Palm Beach. The site says it will also be a place for people to air grievances about bad landlords and ex-boyfriends/girlfriends, but so far, it’s just journalists. Last week, DeadBeatLink.com published a stack…
For legislators – especially the ones looking to earn tough-on-crime points – it’s open season on sex offenders. Following a Sun Sentinel investigation that found a high number of re-offenders among the worst of the worst, Tallahassee has elbowed everything else to the side, clamoring to find new ways to…
It took a jury only five hours Thursday to weigh the evidence stacked against Rose Marks, the matriarch of a Fort Lauderdale Roma family accused of running a $25 million fraud. In what turned out to be a dramatic climax to the well publicized case, jurors found the psychic guilty…
This guy. Thoughtful Second Amendment proponent. An example of prudent race relations. Stellar husband. A Great American. Epic a-hole. After calling it splitsville with her husband, Shellie Zimmerman probably deserves to milk her 15 minutes for all it’s got. She was, in the end, the only Zimmerman to face legal…
With his system overloaded with cocaine, amphetamines, morphine, and opiates, William De Jesus went on a bloody spree at a Deerfield Beach RV park in February 2012. He shot and killed a 76-year-old Canadian man, then locked himself inside a trailer with his family. By the time police broke through…
Hiya, Broward, how goes it? Good, good. End of summer treating you right? Great, glad to hear. Look, thanks for coming today, but I’ve gotta lay something heavy on you. This is a touchy one to talk about, but listen: Next time you’re in the shower, you need to, um,…
LeBron and the newly minted Mrs. James are honeymooning right now in Italy, no doubt hanging out in coastal villas, riding through the countryside on white colts, bathing in 100-year-old wines, and doing whatever else the 1 percent does when they’re on a European vacation. But as we already told…
Last Friday, New Times broke the story about the Broward Public Defender’s Office stepping up to challenge the Fort Lauderdale Police Department on the practice of using the city’s bike ordinance to stop African-Americans in a disproportionate number. “Biking while black,” as Howard Finkelstein called it, is a clear case…
On a sunny morning in 2011, Ellsworth Knowles Jr. was pedaling his bike through Fort Lauderdale, when plainclothes cops in an unmarked car rolled up. They wanted to know if he had proper registration for his bike. By then, Knowles, now 45, knew the routine. He says he and others…
The grin was a dead giveaway. Bob Sellers spotted the smile on his friend’s face as he pulled up to the end of the tarmac. Bill Warner was still straddling his race bike, a ‘roided-up 1,000-horsepower Suzuki Hayabusa. The black Bell helmet was sitting on the gas tank. Warner’s bathwater-blue…
So is Stand Your Ground on the ropes or here to stay? Since the outrage boiling over after the George Zimmerman trial verdict, there’s been a lot of talk across the state about reforming the shoot-first legislation. But even if — somehow — the political will shifted toward dismantling the…
Wedding bells, tearful vows, big-ass diamonds, white doves, Beyoncé, etc: It was a big weekend for King James in San Diego, where he tied the knot with longtime gal pal and the mother of his two kids, Savannah Brinson. All the gossip sites online are going code red with happy…
On a sunny morning in 2011, Ellsworth Knowles Jr. was pedaling his bike through Fort Lauderdale, steering for the Midway Food Market at NW 11th and NW 1st Street. Before the outspoken African-American commercial painter hit his destination, plainclothes cops in an unmarked car rolled up, he says. They wanted…
Remember: Don’t pet the wild monkeys. One of the more bizarre natural phenomena here in Florida — besides huge pythons, dangerous mosquitoes, biblical floods, and bone-crushing diseases — is the state’s population of rhesus monkeys. It’s a mystery how the animals actually got here, but according to state officials, there…
We all go through these small-scale personal ceremonies on days like September 11. You might light some candles or call up a buddy whose brother died when the towers tumbled. Terry Jones, the riot-inducing Florida pastor with the 19th-century facial hair and ninth-century sense of religious conviction? He loves to…
As if the court case up in West Palm pitting a fortuneteller against her former clients couldn’t get any weirder, this week the Rose Marks trial went to warp speed. Jude Deveraux — the bestselling romance novelist at the center of the $25 million fraud allegations — took the stand…
After an eight-month investigation, a dance instructor from Coral Springs has been arrested for having a sexual relationship with one of her male students. On Friday, Jennifer Efre Deberry was booked on felony lewd and lascivious battery by police. The 30-year-old allegedly started her relationship with the unnamed student when…
Exhibit 3,304,034,098 of how South American political intrigue crash lands in South Florida: this week, a top-rung Bolivian police official made an appearance in a Fort Lauderdale federal court. Mario Fabricio Ormachea Aliaga – known (no kidding) by the perfect Bond-villain moniker, “the Colonel” – is accused of coming to…
Even George Zimmerman’s own wife hates him. According to ABC News, Shellie Zimmerman has bailed on her marriage. In a recent interview with the same network, she said the fall-out from the 2012 Trayvon Martin shooting put a serious strain on the household bliss. No shit…
