In case you didn’t hear, AIG almost sued the government for $25 billion because their former Chief Executive, Maurice Greenberg, claimed that the terms of the $182 billion bailout wasn’t fair to AIG shareholders, even though the government literally saved the company’s ass from the brink of collapse during the…
Collier County deputies were called about a disturbance at around 2:00 a.m. by neighbors who say a woman was frantically knocking on doors with her 8-month-old son in her arms, saying she had been beaten by her boyfriend with a bunch of oranges. The reason her boyfriend allegedly pelted her…
Turns out James Tracy, the Florida Atlantic University professor who theorized the Sandy Hook massacre might be a mass media conspiracy, has a history of paranoid weirdness.Students say the guy went off in class. And his academic work hints at how someone could go so off the tracks. In a…
Ft. Lauderdale resident Van Lawson Williams, 49, was convicted by a jury to five life terms in prison for sex trafficking of minors and attempted sex trafficking of a minor, following an October trial. According to federal prosecutors, Williams preyed on runaway girls between the ages of 12 and 16,…
Remember when Rick Scott began to soften his stance against Obamacare and said there should be a conversation about it? Yea, scratch that. Scott did the math and well, the numbers just don’t add up. So. No Obamacare for you, Florida! Oh. Sure. He still walks around like he’s all…
On paper Mavericks High School has all the makings a good charter school. Catchy name? Check. Celebrity endorsements? Hell yes. Political pull? Right into the White House. So what exactly is the problem? Well, there’s the whole issue of proper usage of government funding, but does that really matter? Did…
Americans have long tolerated if not wallowed in conspiracy theories. Lee Harvey Oswald wasn’t alone when he shot Kennedy. Aliens landed in Area 51. We never got to the moon, etc. etc. But quite possibly the most despicable and callous of all conspiracy theories recently rose from South Florida. James…
This week, Broward County commissioners will debate whether the county should change its name. Comissioner Chip LaMarca is behind the idea, and bothered that no one outside of Florida has heard of Broward (unless they accidentally Google: weather in hollywood, and our Hollywood popped up). We agree with LaMarca. The…
Two great white sharks have been spotted off the coast of Jacksonville Beach, according to the OCEARCH ocean research group. One of the sharks, which is 16 feet long and weighs in at 3,456 pounds, is named Mary Lee and was tagged on Septemper 17 off the coast of Cape…
Robert Levinson, a Coral Springs private detective, disappeared in March of 2007 while visiting Kish Island in Iran while researching a cigarette-smuggling case. In March of 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the U.S. State Department had received indications that Levinson was being held somewhere in southwest Asia,…
Nick Saban won his fourth National Championship last night (his third overall with Alabama) after his Crimson Tide laid the smackdown on Notre Dame 42-14. During a day-after presser on Tuesday, Saban told the media that his time coaching the Miami Dolphins was so difficult, that he was eventually forced…
In case you haven’t noticed, as kickass as the Miami Heat has been this season (23-9 so far), they’ve been refried ass when it comes to rebounding. The World Champs rank among the worst in the league in rebounding. To fix this, team President Pat Riley worked out former Denver…
More than 400 people have decided to step up and take on Florida’s 2013 Python Challenge, where they’ll be competing for $1,000 to snuff out evasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades this weekend. No hunting license, or snake-killing experience is required. Only your dedication to hitting the swamp and beheading…
Glock 17, Free to Good Home.Responsible owners wanted.Should be able to provide proper housing. Previous gun ownership preferable, but not required.A movie theater might give out free passes to a new film. Pet stores might adopt out a free cat with the purchase of cat food and a litter box.When…
Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies fatally shot a woman who was holding her boyfriend at knife-point during a domestic dispute. According to spokeswoman Teri Barbera, police were called to the home in a duplex in the 1400 block of North J Street around 2:30 a.m. by the boyfriend, who said…
There are plenty of passages in the Bible that tell us not to lie, but they don’t say jack about fudging invoices or grant applications! On December 21, a Deerfield Beach pastor, Anthony Davis, was hit with $50,000 in civil fines for having overbilled the government. Davis’ organization, Brotherly Love…
Diane Carle is not an agreeable person. She’s irritable. She’s reclusive. She’s slovenly. But according to Carle, who imprisoned 141 dead and dying cats inside her urine-washed home in one of the largest cases of cat-hoarding in Palm Beach history, she’s no criminal. “I have no record,” Carle of Lake…
Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross met with local media on Monday to discuss the state of the franchise. And it was filled with clichés, talking points, and the nonsensical ramblings of a hobgoblin. In other words, it was exactly what you’d expect from a team that has gone 7-9, 7-9,…
Shawn Day and his pal Patrick Webster pulled into the parking lot of the Budget Inn at 1600 N. Federal Hwy. in a 1995 Mitsubishi. As they did, cops noticed that they might be up to no good. And the cops were right. The area is known as a busy…
Wayne Clark was arrested after cops say he threatened a couple of Walmart employees with a “blood bath” over a bag of cat food and a case of soda. Clark, who is reportedly a transient, tried to scam the store into giving him a cash refund by going to the…
Christopher Petterson, a 67-year-old Jupiter dentist, is facing drug trafficking and fraud charges for writing up fake prescriptions under his patients’ names and then filling them at pharmacies for himself, according to police. Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office says things began to look a tad shady when the office manager…
[jump] In an email to New Times, Planck Chief Operating Officer Ivan Baines stated that its research–regarding “fundamental questions about the biology of the brain”–cannot be done by computer simulation and “requires the use of laboratory animals.” He stated that the institute “is and has always been committed to maintaining the…
