If you’ve been outside yet, you’ve noticed a couple of things. It’s raining. It’s windy. It’s a little chilly. And it’s raining. Mostly, though, it’s raining. Yes, the crappy weather this morning and pretty much throughout the rest of today is courtesy of Hurricane Sandy, who is right now plowing…
Two Activists Infiltrate a Facility Where Illegal Immigrants Are Held
Two Activists Infiltrate Broward Transitional Center, Where Illegal Immigrants Are Held
Gay Athletes Go Public
A couple of weeks ago, we told you about how 60,000 Palm Beach County absentee ballots got screwed up by a printing error, and how said ballots had already been mailed out to voters, and visions of the nightmare that was the election of 2000 are dancing in everyone’s heads…
If you recently made a purchase at one of ten different Barnes & Noble stores throughout South Florida, you may want to check your bank statement for any unusual purchases. You may also want to change your PIN number. According to the FBI, identity thieves breached PIN pad devices at stores in…
College students have a lot of sex. This much you already knew.But what you might not have known is that they’re being smart about it. Especially here in Florida.Safe sex awwriiight!!Trojan Condoms did their annual rankings how healthy college students’ sex life is on 141 U.S. colleges and universities. And,…
A “mystery man” with press credentials gave the middle finger to hundreds of thousands of Fox News viewers on Monday. Former General and presidential candidate Wesley Clark was being interviewed by pundit Shepard Smith at Boca’s Lynn University. At about 2 p.m., Clark was answering questions from Smith about that…
Deaths in Florida caused by oxycodone dropped nearly 18 percent, yet the pain drug remains one of the top killers in the state, according to a report from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.The report, released Wednesday, shows that deaths from benzodiazepines jumped 13 percent in 2011 and were the…
Donald Trump will be making a “very, very big” announcement today that might change the course of the presidential election but probably won’t because Donald Trump is an attention-whoring dipshit. But that isn’t keeping us from talking about it because everyone loves to stare at a train wreck. Particularly a…
Both Obama and Romney have promised to overhaul the country’s cumbersome and costly immigration system. Yet there was little talk about how they would actually do so over the course of three debates.The Dream Defenders were one of the groups protesting the debate at Lynn University, and they sent along…
Hey, everybody! More rain on the way! Yoopeeee!! The National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm watch from Jupiter Inlet down South Florida’s east coast to the Keys. No need to grab those flashlights and board up the house, but it is going to get crazy wet. Forecasters expect storm…
Twenty Palm Beach County young-professional organizations have come together to host a pretty impressive roster of local and state political candidates for a free evening of schmoozing and stumping tonight in West Palm Beach.It’s probably worth stopping by if you’re interested in politics, as long as you RSVP beforehand. Guests…
A day after taking a horse to Mitt Romney (or was it a bayonet?) in the third and final presidential debate, President Obama hit up Delray Beach for a Romnesia party. Barry Barack held his rally at the Delray Beach Tennis Center, where he harped on Romney’s forgetfulness and flip-floppery…
In keeping with the long and storied tradition of blaming the managers and never, ever the decision-making by the ownership and front office, the Miami Marlins have announced that they have fired manager Ozzie Guillen. Marlins baseball operations President Larry Beinfest released a statement: “After careful consideration following the disappointment…
Back in July, Wayne Treacy was found guilty of attempted first-degree murder after he attacked 15-year-old Josie Lou Ratley with his steel-toed boots after she taunted him by making fun of his dead brother in a text. Ratley suffered permanent brain damage after the attack. The prosecution presented text messages…
Back on October 9, the Broward County Commission debated on instituting a Wage Recovery Ordinance that would help unpaid workers recover their wages when their employers don’t pay the correct amount (or, in some case, don’t pay period). The vote was delayed until Tuesday, October 23, at 2 p.m. This…
The Palm Beach County Human Rights Council, a group dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, have released their list of candidates they’re endorsing. Among them, President Barack Obama, West Palm Beach Attorney and police officer Dave Kerner, Susan Bucher, Patrick Murphy, Alcee Hastings,…
Round three of the presidential debates was last night. And people who went in expecting to have their asses blown off with the two candidates going at each other for a final climactic showdown were mildly disappointed. No asses were blown off here, unfortunately. The main take-aways from the debate:…
As the lights came down in the debate hall at Lynn University, the co-chairman of the Commission on Presidential Debates, Frank Fahrenkopf, took the stage.See Also:- Live Blog: Rumble in Boca 2012, Obama and Romney Presidential Debate! – Photos: Final 2012 Presidential Debate at Lynn UniversityHe thanked us all for…
It wasn’t just Obama and Romney who had something to say last night in Boca Raton. Hundreds of citizens (and some non-citizens) showed up to speak their minds on the election and the issues of the day. Fifteen of those who spoke out went to jail for their troubles. It…
Move over Jonah Lehrer, Gerald Posner, and Jayson Blair. There’s a new plagiarist in town.Last week, New Times revealed that a help-wanted ad on Craigslist from a nonprofit in Pensacola for a Bigfoot researcher was a well-crafted prank. We tracked down Tyler Reeves, the alleged brains behind the ad, and…
Always easy to gore someone else’s ox, and Palm Beach County business interests have long been ready to take a knife–or a bulldozer–to Kennedy Estates, part of Jupiter’s 100-year old black community, Limestone Creek*.Developers plans for a road adjoining the neighborhood’s park (a humble enough scrub of land as it…
