Andrew Yogan entered this week’s Ontario Hockey League All-Star festivities rated as North America’s No. 65 prospect for the NHL Entry Draft on June 25 — putting him uncomfortably on the fringes, needing a standout performance this week to increase his fortunes.He got it. The 18-year-old Boca Raton native advanced…
In the days following the November 3 murder of 31-year-old Chad Fleming in Taunton, Massachusetts, the case seemed a hopeless riddle. A “friend,” Nelson Melo, had dropped a bloodied and beaten Fleming at a hospital — after Fleming had already been dead for several hours. Melo told conflicting stories about…
Your daily glance at the headlines in South Florida:The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office closed a 25-year-old cold case yesterday with the help of DNA evidence that linked a Fort Myers man to the 1984 murder of Vickie Lynne Long in Jupiter. The suspect, Todd Clayton Campbell, was 22 and lived…
Filings by state regulators reveal more evidence of fraud by Fort Lauderdale real estate agent Denny Hughes, who was jailed last month after he failed to deliver a down payment that had been entrusted to him by a homebuyer.That victim, Ronald Boyle, was from Buffalo, New York. This one is…
A Broward Sheriff’s Office sting aimed at catching a suspected thief turned into a gunfight this afternoon at the 19th Street Food Shop in Lauderdale Lakes. From the BSO release:The suspect, a man in his 20s, was the subject of an investigation by BSO and other agencies into several recent…
In a Washington, D.C., news conference Tuesday, Congressman Anthony D. Weiner declared Pompano Beach-based Cash4Gold “a golden opportunity for citizens to be ripped off.”Wait, you mean we can’t trust Hammer and deathbed-ridden Ed McMahon?Weiner’s news conference is a prelude to legislation he’s crafting to more closely regulate companies like Cash4Gold…
Looks like Boynton Police had the same hunch as Juice: that Dieuny Pasius, who was dumped at Bethesda Memorial Hospital with a gunshot wound on January 11, is the man who shot and killed 23-year-old Benton Lineau that same night.Lineau was shot at a vacant home along the 2000 block…
The long arm of the U.S. Marshals Service finally caught up to Angel L. Rivera, who was wanted for an August 2008 sexual assault of a minor in Boca Raton. Acting on a tip from South Florida, marshals swooped in to arrest Rivera at a home in Wilmington, Delaware.The news…
A glance at local headlines this January 20:A 6.0 quake rattled nerves in Port-au-Prince this morning, but there’s not much left to destroy in a city where the death toll is at 72,000 and counting. [Miami Herald]The Broward County School District has to trim $47 million from its budget, and…
Let’s give some recognition to the Boutin family of Fort Lauderdale for their heroic deeds in Haiti. Georges Boutin (Facebook profile here) is a 73-year-old orthopedic surgeon at Imperial Point Medical Center who is joined in Haiti by his daughter, Pier Boutin, and his physician son-in-law Mark Hyman. The group…
It’s hard to blame Jean Gianacaci for being frustrated. She’s the mother of Christine Gianacaci, one of the four people from Lynn University who are still missing in the rubble of the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince. That video posted today.Considering the scenes of devastation, I don’t know whether more troops…
This financial fraud fad just hit close to home, literally. Denny Hughes, a real estate agent awaiting trial on charges of felony theft, kept a Fort Lauderdale office at the corner of North Andrews Avenue and Northeast 4th Street — next door to the luxurious headquarters of New Times, Broward-Palm…
A Guatemalan immigrant in Jupiter is facing deportation after Federal Express employees in Riviera Beach opened a package, inspected its contents, then reported a possible illegal alien to immigration officials, who swooped in when a group of Guatemalans arrived to pick up the package on January 6.The case, which appears…
One week after an earthquake that devastated the Haitian capital, the Floridians for Immigration Enforcement (FLIMEN) are trying to pull off a very delicate public relations maneuver: stating their sympathy for the Haitian people, while also communicating in no uncertain terms that Haitians are not welcome here, no matter how…
Here’s what’s in the local news this Tuesday morning:Mereille Dittmer, the 50-year-old woman from Pembroke Pines who somehow survived for five days in a tiny space within a collapsed Port-au-Prince grocery store, told her amazing story to reporters Monday. [WPTV]The families of the four Lynn University students still missing in…
The University of South Florida residence halls have been the sight of two bizarre, terrifying sex crimes in the past three months, both involving young men who were visiting the school. Last week a 23-year-old woman was allegedly raped in her sleep by a man who was a friend of…
Looks like the zoophiles we interviewed for this New Times feature didn’t convince Sen. Nan Rich. The Sunrise-based state legislator has re-introduced a bill that would make it a crime for a human being to have sex with an animal.Last year, though, her bill’s first draft made human-animal sex a…
If you’re running for U.S. Senate like Marco Rubio, it’s hard to break the habit of speechifying, even if you’re just stepping outside your car and walking into a new campaign office in Clearwater. But just stick with it a few minutes. A few sympathetic people are bound to stop…
Every championship team needs overachievers — players who are performing far better than anyone could have expected. Players like Fort Lauderdale native Benny Sapp, who helped the Minnesota Vikings stomp the Dallas Cowboys this past weekend.Sapp, who was profiled this past week in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (story’s available only to…
