Wyatt Duvall worked as a home delivery man for the Sun-Sentinel between April 2006 and October 2010. The business wasn’t new to him: when the Boca Raton resident had pulled stints hauling dead trees throughout his life, including runs in California, his native-Kentucky, and at the now-shuttered Boca News. With…
Catching a Burmese Python can be tricky. And then killing it is no simple matter. There are rules. Many, many rules. To kill the mighty Burmese Python, the untrained and knife-wielding explorer must be vigilant, brave, and apparently blood-thirsty. And — most importantly — must take a 15-minute tutorial. And…
The BCS title game is happening tonight. And there is not one single, solitary fuck we give about it. Because, as it turns out, the Football Gods deemed it necessary that two of South Florida’s most reviled college teams should be playing for all the marbles in our own back…
A couple of Sarasota homeowners got into a neighborhood dispute. So one of the parties involved in the ballyhoo decided to take things up a notch and got some spray paint and covered one of the homes with bright, neon-colored graffiti. Of course, the home covered in spray paint was…
A bit of a brouhaha between a Riviera Beach councilman and a retired Riviera Beach fire chief broke out yesterday. Nasty words were exchanged, particularly from councilman Shelby Lowe, who allegedly called Retired Riviera Beach Fire Chief Richard Wester that word that appears a lot in the latest Quentin Tarantino…
Remember when the House voted for a fiscal cliff bill way back when three days ago? Sure, this might mean some money being taken from your paychecks. But according to a Sun Sentinel report, Florida is one of the big winners in the whole fiscal cliff bill thing. According to…
Back in the early ’90s, shortly after the Fire Ant crash-landed in Palm Beach, we hooked up with some other malcontents and put out an alternative rag called Red Herring. It was an alternative that looked alternative, mainly because it depended on the largesse of a string of eccentric businessmen…
The local personalities, egos, and public figures who swung through the news cycle this week, ranked by New Times’ crack research department using a highly scientific algorithm (i.e., charting the hip jiggles of the 4 p.m. early-bird dancers at King of Diamonds)…
Arlene Mena was yelling at no one in particular while meandering about on the street outside her A1A condo building along the 1800 block of S. Ocean Drive, in a tank top, cutoff jeans, and knee-high boots, about 10:45 a.m. Wednesday. One witness says she looked like she was trying…
On December 15, the day Danielle Sachs and her boyfriend allegedly dined at a Fort Lauderdale Wendy’s, met a man there, went back to his house, and suffocated him, Sachs’ horoscope mood was “curious,” and she was told to “keep an eagle eye out for new people.” Apparently, she did…
After many House Republicans lost their shit over Speaker of the House John “It’s Not Pronounced Boner” Boehner helped them lose their fight over the fiscal cliff bill that was passed on New Year’s Eve, many began to make harrumph noises about whether he was fit for duty. So when…
The folks at the Miami Herald recently erected a paywall to charge people to read their stuff. They call it the Miami Herald Plus +. (We’re not sure if that should read Miami Herald Plus Plus or not, but we digress.) And what do you get for forking over your…
If you’re too busy still hating LeBron James, then you really are missing out on enjoying a player we pretty much haven’t seen in a long time, if ever. As he did last season, James is quietly dominating the NBA with his basketball awesomeness, earning his second-straight NBA Player of…
A water main broke at the intersection of NW 31st Avenue and NW 26th Street in Fort Lauderdale, and now Broward County Water and Wastewater Services is advising folks to boil their water from now until at least Saturday. So, if you live anywhere between NW 31st Avenue to the…
The great, well-oiled bullshit factory that is the National Rifle Association would have you believe the controversial Stand Your Ground laws have no drastic effect on a state’s homicide rate. Because really, why would loosening the restrictions on violent engagement do a thing like that, right? Right? Hello?In concept, the…
A bystander with a camera phone captured West Palm Beach Police kicking a man in the head and punching him with what appears to be a Taser gun in Clematis, the downtown district of West Palm Beach, in the early-morning hours of Sunday, December 12. The video shows a young…
About eight times a year, the Suncoast Gun Show takes place at Fort Lauderdale’s War Memorial Auditorium — city-owned property — and the next event is coming up January 12 and 13. Attendees are allowed to bring guns into the show, and kids get in free!, the website announces. (Admission…
Out in the East Everglades along the Tamiami Trail, on the thin strip of asphalt that runs between Miccosukee Resort & Gaming and Naples, plenty of dangers await the unsuspecting visitor. Alligators, pythons, cottonmouth snakes, and snapping turtles lurk in the marshes, ready to strike at a moment’s notice. But…
Javier Romero doesn’t notice the dancing midget in the turkey costume at first. Wearing a suit and sitting on a short stool backstage on the set of Sábado Gigante, the 47-year-old Cuban cohost, with a deceptively smooth face and brown hair seemingly sculpted into place, is taking a break. How…
Yup, this means the Rick Scott Embalming Academy, Marco Rubio Junior High, and the Chris Bosh Ballet and Tap School are all back on the shelf for the next couple of decades (hopefully) — at least in Broward County. After some past missteps in the Thickheaded Public Policy Department, the…
Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein’s wife, Kim Rothstein, was charged in September with conspiracy to commit money laundering after it was discovered that she and her pals concealed more than $1 million of jewelry from the federal government, including a 12.08-carat diamond ring worth 450 grand. Prosecutors say Rothstein, her former…
Armando Cantero-Chavez was driving his Ford Expedition around in a reckless manner inside the mobile home community where he lives on Tuesday afternoon. His neighbor, Lorenzo Sanchez-Bellot, did not like this. So he put a stop to Cantero-Chavez’s crazy driving ways. By stabbing him in the chest. Yep. That’ll do it…
