Muslim “honor killings” are among the most deplorable religion-based crimes and in this week’s New Times feature story, Paul Rubin tells of an Iraqi father who brutally murdered his 20-year-old daughter after she left the family home.In the dining section of this week’s issue, critic John Linn enjoys the sliver…
Lake Worth environmental activist Panagioti Tsolkas was one of many locals who banded together five years ago to protest the Scripps Biotech development on Mecca Farms. Some of those same activists, including members the Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition and Everglades Earth First, are hoping to use similar tactics to…
Leadership Florida released its fourth annual Sunshine Survey yesterday, and already supporters of Hometown Democracy Amendment 4 are crying foul. The survey, conducted by Nielsen ratings, suggested that the constitutional Amendment 4 that supporters have fought to get on the ballot in November 2010 may not muster the 60 percent…
It’s well-known that Debra Villegas and Melissa Britt Lewis were best friends. They ate lunch together, texted every night, vacationed together in the Keys. They nicknamed themselves Lucy and Ethel, and according to Debra, some people in their office at the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler firm joked that the two women…
That’s the intersection in Oakland Park, looking north, where 14-year-old Cara Dyan Catlin was killed in January in a collision with a Broward Sheriff’s deputy who was speeding in response to another deputy’s call for backup at a traffic stop.In the screen shot, you can see the left turn lane…
Some blog commenters have questioned whether Tony Villegas, the man charged with killing attorney Melissa Britt Lewis in 2008, was really as angry and abusive as his estranged wife, Debra, claimed. But police documents and New Times interviews suggest that close friends and relatives of Melissa were aware of Tony’s…
Glen Johnson has some thoughts about this weekend’s big fight in Las Vegas, the long-awaited (some say it’s coming years too late) rematch between boxing’s former favorite son (and Florida native) Roy Jones Jr. and spry statesman Bernard Hopkins. And when it comes to these two fighters, Johnson knows what…
Local headlines for this Thursday morning:Divers along Alligator Alley discovered a submerged minivan that contained human remains, apparently those of Nelta Jacques, a 27-year-old Tampa woman who disappeared along with her two daughters during a 1999 visit to her father in Fort Lauderdale. [Sun-Sentinel]Jim Greer, former head of the Florida…
It might have been gentler if Keith Olbermann just said: “Marco Rubio, you’re a little bitch.” Olbermann, MSNBC’s most outspoken political commentator, was ruthless in his message to Rubio last night, a response to remarks Rubio made yesterday during a speech in West Palm Beach. In a two-minute-long “Special Comment,”…
Editor’s note: The writer obtained unreleased police records for this story. The narrative is also based on interviews, court documents, and internet comments. Noor Almaleki typed a text message to a friend. “Dude,” she wrote at 1:06 p.m. last October 20, “my dad is here at the welfare office.” Noor,…
‘Price was twelve, bruh.’ ‘Say bruh. Them twelve hundred was for eight pieces.’ A deal’s going down, yeah. But not the sort we’re used to witnessing between black men on a television show set in an American city. Certainly not a David Simon drama on HBO. Yet before even a…
How HBO’s “Treme” Can Get New Orleans right
Robert Payton, who started as a garbage man with Miramar 34 years ago and rose all the way to city manager, took the stand in the Fitzroy Salesman trial today and showed us how weak and ineffective leadership in government can enable corruption. Payton didn’t commit a crime during the Salesman saga, or at least it…
In what appears to be another crushing setback for downtown Hollywood, a lender this week filed to foreclose on WSG, the developer of ArtsPark Village, a 23-story condo tower that was to be built on the southeast corner of Young Circle.It’s the second time that Hollywood officials gave a developer…
It almost looks like CGI, but it’s real. And sort of mesmerizing. More videos by Scuba Tom, here…
The car involved in a nearly fatal hit and run Tuesday in Hollywood has been identified as an Oldsmobile Achieva by Hollywood police, who released the photo on the left in hopes of locating the driver.According to the department’s news release, the driver of the Achieva ran a stop sign…
This poll by Daily Kos came out a few weeks ago, but there’s a statistic buried near the bottom that deserves more attention: Roughly one-third of registered Republicans likely to vote in Florida’s August primary believe that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States — and another…
Note to Federal Bankruptcy Judge Raymond Ray: When it’s a tossup, side with the First Amendment over secrecy. Especially when it comes to Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein cohorts like his former law partner Steven Lippman. Lippman, who is being sued by the bankruptcy court for $3.8 million in alleged Ponzi funds he…
Here are your local headlines for Broward and Palm Beach:Broward Judge Ana Gardiner will be tried by the Judicial Qualifications Commission in September over allegations that she displayed a “lack of candor” in answering questions by the commission about her relationship with attorney Howard Scheinberg.[Sun-Sentinel]The online communities that have formed…
That’s the satellite view of the ten-day Caribbean voyage aboard The Oasis of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, which had a celebrated debut last year and docks at Port Everglades. I wonder whether passengers feel a twinge of guilt about the poor, earthquake-ravaged Haitians who get a peek…
