Broward County Circuit Court’s Jeffrey Streitfeld really took home the “activist judge” belt when he presided over Lucinda Naugle’s 2009 lawsuit against Big Tobacco. The sister of a former Fort Lauderdale mayor, Naugle was a smoker whose 25-year habit led to emphysema. She asked the court to put Philip Morris…
Police have closed the turnpike’s southbound lanes at Okeechobee Boulevard, as well as the entrances to the southbound turnpike at Okeechobee Boulevard, PGA Boulevard and the Beeline Highway, after a fatal crash there this morning. According to officials, a woman’s car was struck from behind when she tried to avoid…
You know what the worst thing in the world is? When some yuppie New York schmuck wearing designer Gucci-whatever tells you how shitty you look. Worse still, when that New York douche bag has access to a wide audience to critique your awful appearance. And you know what makes us…
A Boynton Beach woman’s day went from bad to pretttaayyy craptacular (and deservedly so — allegedly!) when she pulled the stolen car she was driving into a parking lot filled with cops. Tesia Cain allegedly stole herself a car that just happened to have a LoJack tracking system. She also…
Yesterday we told you about a dead man that was found behind an Advance Auto Parts store in Hallandale Beach. Police had taken two teens that were spotted fighting with the man in for questioning. According to Hallandale Police Chief Dwayne Flournoy, Juan Xolo, 17 and Jose Carlos Llano, 14…
Over several weeks in early 2010, then-Governor Crist unleashed a series of tweets condemning President Obama’s prospective health care reform bill. To Crist — yes, the other Crist — enacting ObamaCare would only constitute “the beginning.” He said “Americans deserve better than this.” He launched a petition to stop “health…
An guy hired to install alarms to protect homes stands accused of robbing a customer’s home where he was installing an alarm. A 50-year-old Boca Raton woman allegedly caught Jason Michael Adams, 37, a worker for an alarm installation company, robbing her of $40,000 worth of jewels and other valuables…
On Tuesday night, some 11.3 million people watched The Voice finalist Cassadee Pope perform on-air CPR. One of the four finalists in NBC’s blockbuster song-off, the West Palm Beach native took up a lifeless Keith Urban song, pumped that sucker full of actual artistic juice, and miraculously came out with…
Hey good news, everybody! In only a matter of days, Florida will officially be number one in the most people with concealed weapons permits in the country! According to Florida’s Secretary of Agriculture Adam Putnam — who seemed so proud of the milestone, he thought it would be neat to…
New Times Broward Palm Beach editor Chuck Strouse and managing editor Deirdra Funcheon almost came to blows over this week’s feature story, Balloon Boy 2012: Three years after the hoax, Falcon Heene fronts a metal band. What follows is a stolen transcript of a conversation the two had over IM…
Balloon Boy 2012: Three Years After Hoax, Falcon Heene Fronts a Metal Band
A Festivus Pole Arises Next to Jesus’ Manger in Deerfield Beach
Federal Terror Suspect Seems More Frat Boy Than Deadly Mastermind
Coral Springs Pig Battle Rages On
Politicians have to be All-Pro when it comes to shouldering hits from the sideline about job performance and bungled expectations. But it’s still got to be a little bit embarrassing when the electorate decides to trash your term in office on the White House’s front steps, electronically speaking. That’s what…
Thomas Mathew Hahn was cooking up some pork chops Tuesday night. His inebriated roommate then got home and told Hahn he didn’t like they way they were being cooked. The two got into a heated argument over it. Hahn then responded as any rational person would when their drunk roommate…
A dead body was found behind the Advance Auto Parts store along the 100 block of North Federal Highway in Hallandale this morning. Two teens — a 14 and 17-year-old — were taken away by police for questioning. Police were called in at 4:30 a.m. about an altercation going down…
Last week we told you about a stereotype-filled racist Obama “joke” posted on Facebook by Cooper City City Commissioner John Sims. He took the comments down from his Facebook page, but through the magic and wizardry of the Internetz, the world was still able to see what Sims wrote: “Just…
As first reported on this here bloggy blog by Bob Norman back in 2010, Tamarac City Commissioner Patricia “Positively Patte” Atkins-Grad was arrested and charged with bribery, official misconduct, receiving unlawful compensation, and conspiring to commit unlawful compensation after she threw herself one helluvan election victory party. Nothing wrong with…
Dear Reader, We at the New Times rarely have essential life advice to depart, but this is one of those occasions. If there is ever a circumstance in which you’re charged with some sort of salacious crime — like, say, HAVING SEX WITH YOUR STUDENT — please, for the love…
You wondered what “Balloon Boy” family had been doing in the three years since they transfixed the entire nation, reporting that six-year-old Falcon Heene had floated away in a homemade flying saucer. And we told you in this week’s feature story, which catches up with the Heene family in their new…
A Lakeworth man is facing armed robbery and aggravated assault charges after the two men he allegedly robbed recognized him on Facebook. Dondrae Mathew Pink, 18, was picked up by Palm Beach County cops on December 7 after two 17-year-old victims pointed him out to police as the man who…
