What started with a routine police stop on Christmas Day 2008 ended with a backseat beating. Short and simple, that’s the ugly account Maria Paul lays out in a recently filed federal lawsuit targeting the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. But it turns out the cop Paul ran into was…
Let me just say that no one keeps a grudge going like a Clevelander. I know; I’m from there. We keep whetting that angst well past the usual expiration date. There’s nothing we can do. It’s in the blood. (By the way, two words, LeBron: Delonte West.) Just so we…
Anyone passing by a nondesrcript warehouse facility in Doral won’t be seeing a familiar sight anymore: dozens of protesters shouting at the cars coming in and out of the building. A controversial company that’s been a longtime target for animal-rights activists quietly packed up their Miami location recently. Activists are…
First off: Sure, we’ve been there. You push that many words per week out into the world, you’re going to see a couple of typos and mistakes. But last week’s Sun Sentinel carried a pretty glaring error in its print edition. And it’s noteworthy not so much because the recent…
Boos slice through the air as Dr. Red Roberts peacocks around the ring while snapping the straps of his red and white leotard. A comic-book-villain grin peeks out from a thick beard when he jabs his chin at the full house, each jut shaking his messy brushfire of red curls…
Boos slice through the air as Dr. Red Roberts peacocks around the ring while snapping the straps of his red and white leotard. A comic-book-villain grin peeks out from a thick beard when he jabs his chin at the full house, each jut shaking his messy brushfire of red curls…
Law enforcement agencies aren’t exactly known as great bastions of workplace diversity — meaning that most of the faces you see in uniform are pale and pasty. Police forces across the country have paid a lot of lip service to idea of fixing that problem, but the stats remain pretty…
Former Tea Party posterboy Allen West has a deft touch when it comes to names. Sure, some of this is luck. First off, you’ve got his legal tag, a double-barrel insta-brand for a Republican legislator — “Allen,” reeking of everything rock-solid and GOPish about middle-management America; “West,” with ’90s summer…
While putting together this week’s cover story on the world of fortunetelling fraud, some of the information we gathered ended up on the cutting-room floor. Still, it’s interesting stuff worth your eyeballs and brain waves. The main area we didn’t have the space to explore was the dynamic currently playing…
So last night didn’t exactly go as planned. Thanks to some Globetrotter gymnastics on the part of Tony Parker, San Antonio took the lead in the NBA finals 1-0. Something certainly kick-started the old-ass Spurs on the court. It might have just been the fact that they were playing for…
After months of hot and sweaty speculation, we”re finally getting some answers out of the Koch Brothers about their interest in the media game. This week in the Wall Street Journal, the Tea Party plutocrats indicated they are in fact interested in purchasing the Tribune Co., a portfolio of newspapers…
This week’s feature story in the dead tree edition of New Times gives you a crash course in the world of fortunetelling fraud. Inside, you’ll get a basic field guide on the emotional games, legerdemain, and mindfuckery used to convince otherwise rational folks to willingly part with their money. Sure,…
The voice on the other end of the phone, spiky with trans-Atlantic static, told Iiyah that if the curse were lifted, one day she’d be worshiped like a god. The key step now was to build a temple in Egypt that would clear out the dark energy. Sitting in her…
It’s getting to be put-up or shut-up time for the NCAA and their investigation into the University of Miami. Two years since Ponzi con Nevin Sheprio opened his mouth with allegations of widespread misconduct, the showdown between the school and oversight gurus has just gotten weirder and weirder. The latest…
Looking back two years later, Occupy Wall Street now looks like one big social justice sparkler: it cooked hot and bright before going dark quick. But in those heady days of 2011, it seemed downtowns across the country were clogged with folks aiming ire at the bad guys in business…
For a certain brand of South Florida outdoorsy-type, nothing beats blasting through the great outdoors on a giant off-road vehicle – wind wiping your hair, bug guts painting the windscreen, huge tires below mulching up the turf. But questions about where backwoods cruising should be allowed in Big Cypress National…
This is obviously why it takes three years to get through law school: the courts are whack as hell. Case in point, today’s decision coming out of the federal appeals court on whether Rick Scott can pee-test state employees for drug use. Following the announcement, both sides of the dispute…
For some people, a past stint in porn might be a career-wrecker. Not so for David Mech, who strutted his stuff on camera under the screen name Dave Pounder before becoming a math tutor. Earlier this month, the Boca Raton tutor’s history as a porn star made headlines after the…
Since 2006, attorney and courthouse muckraker William “Bill” Gelin has been shaking up the judiciary on his popular site JAA Blog. Whether sounding off about potential corruption and racism in the courthouse ruling class or even about its work habits, the 46-year-old Oakland Park attorney hasn’t held back his opinions…
Uh. Day Two of this short week just might be harder to get through than Tuesday. Right? After that glorious three-day weekend, it’s a death march just getting back into the everyday swing. Powering on the ol’ desktop, pouring a cup of the office black-tar coffee, buttoning the cardigan against…
Don’t count Indy down and out just yet. They have an annoying knack for squeaking out Ws, which is exactly what they’ll have to do tonight if they don’t want to put any chance at the Finals in the rearview mirror. So today, on the day of make-or-break home court…
Sure, for some a past stint in porn might be a career-wrecker. Not so for David Mech, who in a past life strutted his stuff on camera as Dave Pounder. Earlier this month, the Boca Raton math tutor’s porn history was revealed after Palm Beach School District pulled the ads…
