As the rap and South Florida panorama emerges from the Rick Ro$$ drama, the Miami native has got some heavy soul-searching to do. One minute, he was making it sprinkle at LIV nightclub puffing jeezies with Luda and Diddy for his 37th birthday, and then: Pow! As MTV eloquently wrote…
A group of eight Democratic senators and Republican senators have decided to stop it already with all the bickering and do some bipartisan work and have released an immigration reform framework that includes a “path to citizenship” for undocumented immigrants — a day earlier than when Obama is supposed to…
President Obama welcomed the Miami Heat to the White House on Monday afternoon to honor the team for kicking everyone’s ass in the 2012 NBA Finals. Obama cited a pickup game some of the members of the Heat participated in with the president on his birthday as the real reason…
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department has confirmed that the Bawse was behind the wheel of the Rolls-Royce that crashed into a downtown storefront following gunfire on Monday morning. The police have also ID’d who was riding shotgun: Shateria L. Moragne-el. A quick dip into the backwaters of pop-culture gossip shows…
Escambia County cops busted 22-year-old Marquis C. Baldwin after he spent three months entering four different businesses with a rifle and demanding money from the employees. Baldwin allegedly nicked a Kangaroo gas station a Waffle House and another Waffle House with a rifle that turned out to not be a…
As you may have heard, the Miami Heat are kind of a big deal. In that the team eradicates anyone and anything that gets in its way of winning basketball games. And, as you may have heard, the Miami Heat won the NBA title last year. So, as is custom…
Update: Police confirm he and his girlfriend were shot at this morning. No suspects as of yet. Update 2: 50 Cent thinks the incident was staged.Rick Ross almost got Biggie’d, apparently. During the wee hours of 5 a.m. Monday, a Rolls-Royce crashed into a restaurant near the 1500 block of…
Andre “Loki” Barbosa, who has taken over a $2.5 million mansion in Boca Raton by exploiting the Byzantine nature of foreclosure Florida property law, may, in fact, be the biggest tool ever. There are many reasons for this conclusion. But the most obvious might be his “about me” on his Facebook page:…
Last week, we told you about an appeals court throwing out two of Casey Anthony’s remaining convictions of lying to police during the investigation into her daughter Caylee’s disappearance. Well, it appears that as soon as the appeals court was done making its ruling, Casey walked over to federal court…
We’re pretty much at the middle mark for the first-ever Florida Python Challenge, the dubious public service free-for-all the state cooked up to control the dangerous number of Burmese pythons slithering around the state. The challenge started January 12, when some 800 hunters went head-first into the Glades looking for…
Two charges down, two more to go — that’s the tally for Casey Anthony the horrible human being Florida mother woman who wiggled her way out of murder charges related to the death of her 2-year-old daughter. Today an appeals court tossed out two of Anthony’s remaining convictions, charges for…
He’s baaaaaaack! Allen West, the outspoken Palm Beach Gardens Tea Party Republican congressman who lost his reelection bid late last year, has shuffled hundreds of thousands of dollars in leftover campaign money to seed the Allen West Foundation and American Legacy Guardians…
When someone pulled David Armstrong’s rainbow flag off of the front of his trailer, the first thing he did was tell his landlord, who instead of investigating the matter told him some residents complained about the flag and that he should display it in back of the property. Why not…
Jean Robb, who’s running for Deerfield Beach mayor against incumbent Peggy Noland, called the Broward County Election Supervisors Office the other day with a strange question: Could she open and manage her own absentee-ballot drop boxes? The answer was yes. But it was a slow yes…
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., “Is that a rhino in the Magic Eye? Can you see the rhino? No, not a kiwi, a rhino. Just give me…
The widow of a Keiser University dean who was run over by his own car while trying to stop it from being hauled off is suing the tow truck company, which has been accused of being overly aggressive while towing cars in the Lauderhill neighborhood. Calls to Superior Lock and…
Not even Don King, the unflappable cartoon-like boxing promoter, was safe from the long paper trail following Scott Rothstein’s $1.4 billion Ponzi scheme. He settled a $700,000 lawsuit for $30,000 this week. Herbert Stettin, trustee for Rothstein’s closed law firm, Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, sued King’s Deerfield Beach-based Don King productions…
When Palm Beach County two years ago awarded a subsidiary of Kellogg Brown & Root a share of a $668 million contract to build a new waste treatment facility, the company’s anti-union ways were no secret. But KBR’s was the cheapest of three competing proposals, so commissioners gave the firm…
Update, March 20: Lozman disagreed with the characterization of him in this story. he says “I fought so that ten thousand floating home owners in the country didn’t have to go through what I went through. If I do get paid, great. If not, I’m a big boy. I can…
With three of the league’s biggest egotistical asshats superstars filling out its roster, not to mention a fresh championship, you would think the Heat would at least land in the top five when it comes to the highest valued NBA franchises. Almost, but not quite, or so says Forbes. According…
Update February 4, 2013: Heather Ray disputes Goehrig’s version of events. She contends that she first wrote e-mails to the city announcing her intention to get a therapy pig, and the city told her it was not allowed. She claims she then researched the Americans with Disabilities Act and spoke…
Apparently carnival workers didn’t have a bad enough reputation, so Gregory Matthew Bruni decided to add yet another story to the stereotype and “attack” a Fort Myers couple’s home using only his bodily fluids and craziness as a weapon. The naked 21-year-old reportedly climbed on top of Tony and LaDonna…
