New Times Broward-Palm Beach is looking for writing interns for both the summer and fall semesters. Here’s your chance, truth-speakers and blog-typers, to get some genuine newsroom experience, write about pretty much anything you want, and drink as much free coffee as you can fit into your face.Requirements: Be a…
On Tuesday, we had a story looking at suspicious use of a Belle Glade garbage truck — the mileage records were a mess and seemed to suggest something shady was happening that caused the use of the truck to skyrocket earlier this year while gas use was suspiciously low.Well, we’ve…
On May 9, Facebook’s upper brass had a meeting with financial analysts to tell them the company’s revenue should be on the low end of projections, according to the Associated Press. That was bad news, especially considering Facebook was about to sell stock publicly for the first time. The analysts…
Every Friday for the past few years, Food Not Bombs has been gathering at Stranahan Park in downtown Fort Lauderdale to pass out food to the homeless, hungry, or just plain bored. Our cover story on the group last year found the local chapter bracing for a local crackdown on…
Aside from the kids in the Palm Beach County jail, tenth-grade students at Mavericks High in Palm Springs fared worse on the FCAT reading test than any of their peers in the county, according to data released last week by the state Department Education. Only 7 percent of the 54…
Spanish oil giant Repsol YPF recently announced that its exploratory drilling efforts in “ultra-deep” waters off the coast of Cuba were unsuccessful. To drill the test well, Repsol leased the massive Chinese-built Scarabeo 9 drilling rig from Sapiem, an Italian company. The embargo has pretty much blocked U.S. companies from getting…
Roger Gonzalez Jr. guides the car full of thieves through the Redland, past the groves of mango trees glowing blood red against the evening sky, toward a beige building with a large yard and a black Mercedes-Benz parked in front. He slows down. His father, Roger Sr., calmly checks the…
Update, 1:17 p.m.: Added comment from Patrick Murphy, his Democratic opponent in the District 18 race.Allen West’s unpredictability quotient is through the roof these days. The whole “communists in Congress” thing was off-the-wall, but it was at least in line with the rest of his statements. Ditto when he lied about it…
Took a little while to get to because Quinnipiac University’s website is being duct-taped together today, but here are the results of its latest poll, taken May 15 to 21 with a 2.4-percentage-point margin of error.Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads President Barack Obama 47 to 41 percent in the…
This is one of those times when the documents speak for themselves; I could rewrite and paraphrase the claims made by the Securities and Exchange Commission, but that wouldn’t be better for either of us.The short version of the story: The SEC says Fort Lauderdale-based hedge fund managers George Levin and…
Broward Sheriff’s Office Det. Anthony Costanzo faces charges of witness tampering, evidence tampering, disclosure of confidential information, and felony use of a two-way communication device, all of which could theoretically put him in prison for life.But a review of county personnel files shows Costanzo as a 13-year officer who, once he…
An early-morning message from Village Voice Media:Every week, writers for New Times Broward-Palm Beach and our parent company, Village Voice Media, produce elegant magazine-style feature writing — a gritty portion of which comes in the form of true-crime stories.Now VVM has collected some of its best recent true-crime yarns into…
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has filed a complaint against two of the men who provided investors for Scott Rothstein’s Ponzi scheme.The SEC says George Levin and Frank Preve helped Rothstein raise more than $157 million in his billion-dollar scheme by getting investors to purchase discounted…
Pill mills might be a South Florida trademark, but a 78-year-old Boca Raton man is accused of taking the trade to points north.Gerald Wiseberg posted bond Friday after being arrested on charges that he ran a narcotics operation outside of Baltimore, Maryland, according to the Baltimore Sun…
Believe it or not, the Council on American-Islamic Relations might actually have something in common with tea party members. It’s about last year’s National Defense Authorization Act, which a federal judge ruled last week is vague enough to potentially allow for the indefinite detention of American citizens.Tea partiers (and libertarians…
How many uses could there possibly be for a gigantic garbage truck, and how hard could it be to fill out a little tiny form when it gets filled up with gas? According to data coming out of Belle Glade, the answer to the first one is “more than one,”…
The batting stud formerly known as Mike Stanton hit his second grand slam in eight days last night, busting a bunch of lights on the Marlins left-field videoboard in the process. If he’d swung a moment earlier, he could have destroyed that home run statue instead. Ah, what could have…
The Fort Lauderdale city commissioners must be patting themselves on the back right now for hiring Lee Feldman as city manager: Turns out he’s a master at rooting around the couch cushions of city budgets for money that’s gone missing.Bucking the trend of cities like Lauderdale Lakes and Hollywood that…
Two weeks ago we introduced you to the ambitious, endearing world of competitive jump rope in South Florida. There are speed drills, tears, backflips, and Olympic aspirations.You can read the cover story — including my stint…
Hector Picard was making his rounds through Hollywood on a typical day of work in 1992 when something went terribly wrong. The then-25-year-old electrician stepped into a fenced-off area to inspect a substation transformer — a hulking, two-story-tall structure that processes electricity and distributes it to entire neighborhoods. Before Picard could…
Newt Gingrich’s campaign for the Republican presidential campaign is over. Done-zo. Finished. The guy is walking around his home state wearing a Mitt Romney sticker.But the former speaker of the House isn’t even close to concluding the dealings surrounding his campaign, as documents filed over the weekend show. Gingrich owes…
A federal judge has found that the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office “had a policy of threatening hospital staff” who refused when ordered by police to take blood samples in DUI cases, finding that “this policy directly impacted the Fourth Amendment rights of hospital employees… the Sheriff’s Department knew or…
