Have you seen the hysterical/apocalyptic “STOP OBAMA” billboard on southbound I-95 just past Palm Beach International Airport? It warns people that Greek-style financial armageddon is “COMING HERE SOON!” It’s complete with images of cities ablaze, cops in riot gear, and stone-throwing mobs of face-masked anarchists. Yikes!This disaster impends, the billboard…
Try as they might, the federal courts are failing at keeping developer Felix Sater’s shady criminal past a secret.Sater was a key promoter in the Fort Lauderdale beachfront Trump tower and helped rake in millions to fund the now-abandoned project. A petition from investors to the U.S. Supreme Court says…
Back in 2006, researchers from the University of Florida described for the first time a cryptic phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder, through which massive amounts of worker bees vanished.The problem has since been documented around the world. Everyone from esteemed entomologists to armchair scientists to crazy conspiracy theorists have…
Today’s egregious Florida gun crime comes to you from Port St. Joe, where police say 59-year-old Walton Henry Butler shot a man in the head last night, then sat down and ate dinner while the victim lay bleeding at his door. Police say he was upset because “he had only…
In a move I wish was slightly more surprising, Congressman Allen West has posted another petulant Facebook message that includes an entire Wall Street Journal column he didn’t write.”It seems the inept community organizer has failed. A second term? One must be stuck on stupid!” he wrote. “It is evident that…
Police say 30-year-old Brian T. Magan was riding a double-decker bicycle down Purdy Lane in West Palm Beach on Saturday night. He was wearing dark clothes and had his bike painted gray. He wasn’t wearing a helmet, and his mutant bike didn’t have reflectors.And he got hit by a van…
See also: Directors of Fort Lauderdale Airport Security Unlicensed; Company Ignored It, Investigators Say.Broward County Administrator Bertha Henry tried to downplay an investigation into the unlicensed managers of the company overseeing security at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and the Seaport, according to letters released this morning.A report from the Broward…
Update, 3:15: Added comment from AlliedBarton.See also: Broward County Admin Bertha Henry Doesn’t Care if Airport Security Managers Are Licensed.Two of the people in charge of security at both the Port Everglades Seaport and the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport weren’t even licensed Florida security guards — and one of them,…
The latest ruling in the upcoming corruption trial of former Florida GOP Chair Jim Greer: A four-page report of unknown embarrassing accusations is public record and might be admissible in court, a judge said yesterday, and there is no limit on the records Greer’s lawyers can subpoena from the party.It’s…
Twitter recently suspended the account of Independent reporter Guy Adams, who had been writing tweets critical of Twitter partner NBC’s coverage of the Olympics. The reason it gave? In one of the rants, he gave the corporate email address of an NBC executive. Twitter said it booted him for sharing…
A man in Pompano Beach was suspicious — he was on his way to cash his paycheck July 5 at a store on NE 33rd Street, and he was pretty sure a short man in a blue Ford F-150 pickup was following him. At the store, he confronted the suspicious…
Good news, Chick-Fil-A: Your attempts to rebuild public opinion of your company and its gay-hating president has another supporter: In addition to failed governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and failed senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum, both paragons of tolerance themselves, your company now also has the support of…
Good morning! Today New Times brings you a story making the rounds by merit of its own horrifying, senseless brutality. Last week, a 52-year-old man grabbed a gun and stood his ground right into the back of a door-to-door salesman’s head.The victim, 30-year-old Nick Rainey, worked for Blue Ribbon Steak…
Remember how the Palm Beach Post figured out that Florida covered up the worst tuberculosis outbreak in 20 years and that “the itinerant homeless, drug-addicted, mentally ill people at the core of the Jacksonville TB cluster are almost impossible to keep on their medications” and that they were stumbling all…
While plenty of candidates are going to be trying to make their opponents look like off-kilter, rhetoric-spouting do-nothings, it’s not likely any have an easier time of it than Patrick Murphy, the Democratic candidate aiming for the District 18 seat.He’s running against that velvet-voiced charmer Allen West, and, in what…
In the week after the horrific massacre of a dozen people at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, background checks for gun sales in Florida surged 14 percent from the prior week. All said, the Sunshine State recorded more than 2,300 background checks in the seven-day stretch that followed.Chris Mucha,…
Here’s a tip for future bank robbers: If you get picked up by the police, don’t tell them “You’ve got me red-handed” even if your hands and get-away car are soaked with red dye.Cedrick Shivers of Fort Lauderdale, according to the Justice Department, walked into a Wilton Manors bank earlier…
Nineteen-year old Michael Nicholas Russo was arrested by Palm Beach County cops last night and charged with mugging two elderly women last April with a buddy of his. What finally cracked the case? Russo’s alleged accomplice, Adam Bardisa’s iPhone had text messages from the two about the crime: “Yo how…
Your Miami Dolphins hit the practice field today for the opening of training camp for a whole new season of suck. Thus far, Matt Moore (aka THE PUPPET) has taken the first-team reps, while David Garrard is leading the second stringers.Conspicuously absent from the proceedings is first-round pick QB Ryan…
Details are sparse right now, but the Miami Herald’s parent company, McClatchy Newspapers, says it plans “to roll out a metered plan” later this year.Paywalls will control access to web and mobile content and can be bundled with print delivery subscriptions. The company will start with paywalls at five of…
Ozzie DeFarina, the GOP congressional candidate looking to challenge Democratic incumbent Debbie Wasserman Schultz in November, has been courting support from Log Cabin Republicans, a leading supporter for marriage equality.But then DeFarina did that thing that GOPers do and slammed his primary opponent in an email for being down with…
Cover story: Kids claim abuse at juvenile lockupOur colleague Lisa Rab has moved away from Broward County, but one of the most important issues she covered for New Times is still unresolved. Circuit court judges are still trying to figure out what to do about Thompson Academy, a privately run…
