This week’s New Times cover story looks at why coral reefs halfway around the world are being decimated for Florida’s curio trade. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at one group that’s working to reverse the trend. Ken Nedimyer looked up from his omelet and asked if I get seasick. “Never,” I answered…
Kate Lunz didn’t know what to expect as she piloted her white Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission truck to the Port of Tampa in July 2010. The day before, customs authorities had called the 32-year-old, PhD-toting marine biologist and asked her to inspect the contents of two 40-foot shipping containers…
Just a heads-up: The big to-do on the 1200 block of SW 25th Avenue in Deerfield Beach is a response to what the Broward Sheriff’s Office called a “burglary in progress” that sounds like it’s more complicated than just somebody climbing in a window — they report deputies have surrounded…
In a tweet this morning, Congressman Allen West linked to an article detailing a suicide bombing in Kabul, the Afghan capital that President Barack Obama had just departed from, and… took the side of the Taliban.”Pres flew into Afghanistan at night for 7 hrs,” West wrote. “As sun came up,…
James Talmage Stevens lives up on a mountain somewhere in Texas, where he has a few years’ worth of food, a well he can pump by hand, sturdy walls, and gardens for food. He’s prepared for just about anything.Stevens goes by the moniker “Dr. Prepper” on his weekly preparedness radio…
The man accused of killing 19-year-old Juliana Mensch in March will go to trial June 25 for first-degree murder. Police say 32-year-old James Ayers drove Mensch’s car to a friend’s workplace and said he’d strangled Mensch a week earlier; he was arrested at a rehab facility later that day.Ayers pleaded…
As the U.S. Supreme Court debates the Arizona law destined to make life miserable for brown-skinned people, advocates on both sides of the immigration-reform issue are freaking out. Senate Bill 1070 requires Arizona cops to detain immigrants they suspect are in the country illegally and check their status. Not carrying…
Last week, we told you about how seven species of coral found in Florida’s waters are “extremely likely” to go extinct by the end of the century. But coral reefs around the world, not just Florida, are increasingly imperiled.This week’s New Times cover story looks at how local shell shops and…
George Zimmerman might have shut down his bootleg website at therealgeorgezimmerman.com, but his new legal counsel has launched a professionally designed website at GZlegalcase.com to help with the public relations nightmare surrounding the February killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.”We understand that it is unusual for a legal defense to maintain…
A Fort Lauderdale yacht company is being sued over an internal email accidentally sent to job applicant Diane Melton that recommended against hiring her because she was “black and over weight,” which would make customers who wanted to discriminate against both black and overweight people feel uncomfortable.The Luxury Yacht Group…
A rock-wielding burglar broke into five Chinese restaurants in one night, according to police, who suspect him in “at least” 15 other burglaries.Surveillance footage shows the man using a rock to smash the restaurants’ glass doors, then taking all the cash (and coins) out of the registers and, in two…
The sentencing of convicted murderer John Goodman hit a wall yesterday during courtroom interviews Judge Jeffrey Colbath conducted to look into accusations of juror misconduct.Jurors were called in one by one and asked if jurors had said they’d made up their minds before the trial was over, if Goodman’s wealth…
Have you always wanted to ditch your biped friends and expose yourself to brain-controlling parasites but you just didn’t know how? Broward County Animal Care and Adoption is here to help.A new program from the county starts today and offers a free cat when you… adopt another cat.The two-for-one program…
Check out part two of our exploration of the connection between prepping, spirituality, and the Mormon church.In this week’s cover story about survivalists, I speak with a man who identifies himself only as “Bowreeguard,” who hails from hard-granite New Hampshire and says that prepping was a way of life for…
Rachael Barach and her fiancé spent months planning their dream wedding: a small ceremony on the remote Caribbean Island of Jost Van Dyke. Pulling it off would require some effort: flying from Fort Lauderdale to St. Thomas, then taking a ferry over to Jost Van Dyke; hiring a wedding photographer,…
UPDATE, 5/1: A new post is up with more information about the juror responses and the new court dates.Original post, 4/30:Expect much more soon (the hearing is still going on), but a juror in the John Goodman murder trial referred to as “Mr. St. John” just told Judge Jeffrey Colbath…
NOTE, 3:15 p.m.: The headline has been changed from “Is Acting Stupid” to “Was Acting Stupid,” as we can’t really tell how stupid they’re being at the moment.For the latest (hint: a juror said he was innocent), check out our latest post.Original post, 12:06 p.m.:If Wellington rich guy and convicted…
You’d need only one guess to figure out which congressman criticized President Obama for using college students as “political pawns” hours before going into Congress to use college students as political pawns.Explaining his vote on Friday’s extension of student loan interest rate cuts, Congressman Allen West spoke out against the…
It was raining all weekend, the second half of the Fort Lauderdale Air Show was canceled, and the falling wet stuff isn’t going away anytime soon. Rain in Florida isn’t anything new, but weather reports indicate thunderstorms hitting the area every day for the next week. Womp.Weather.com puts next Sunday…
On Wednesday, reporter New Times Chris Sweeney brought you an interview with St. Petersburg medical researcher Adam Ostrzenski, who says he may have discovered the fabled G spot in a dead 83-year-old.The peer-reviewed paper Ostrzenski wrote about it got a lot of attention in the interblags, but not all of it was…
For all their talk of small government, Florida’s Republicans sure do like a bill that would let Big Brother spy on all the stuff you’ve been doing online.The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act would remove the legal barriers between the websites that have your data and the government that wants…
He rode into the Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office promising to fight corruption, but in Riviera Beach, Michael McAuliffe failed spectacularly.Three years ago, McAuliffe charged three Riviera cops with felonies ranging from official misconduct to tipping off a murder suspect about an impending arrest. This was the ambitious prosecutor’s chance…
