After the NAACP passed a resolution declaring the tea party to be a “racist” organization, you knew that Allen West would have something to say. After all, he’s one (if not the only?) tea party-backed congressional candidate who’s African-American. If the tea party is racist, then West’s own tea party…
The news in Broward and Palm Beach for this Monday morning:Services were held Sunday in Deerfield Beach for Paulette Noel, the 68-year-old Haitian woman who was killed Saturday night when the van she was riding in crashed on Florida’s Turnpike near Yeehaw Junction. Noel was returning from a day trip…
I don’t usually do national (or in this case, international) news, but this video is so astounding that I had to share it with you. It’s in Taiwanese, but one of the many beauties of this report is that it can be clearly understood by all — it rises above…
Watching this critique of an anti-Bill McCollum ad, you wonder if all this nonstop politricks hasn’t finally driven Michael Putney off the reservation, but you gotta keep your sense of humor. It’s Sunday, so this is a comment cleaner. Inside, read an amazing political story from 1988 that proves…
Two porn actors accused of murdering a New Port Richey tattoo artist spent the weekend before the crime partying in South Florida. Jason Andrews, a bisexual Chicago DJ and gay porn star, and Amanda Logue, a married blond prostitute from Georgia who’s also made adult films, posted to Twitter often…
Did you go to college right after high school?Yes, I attended Jackson College in Jacksonville, I graduated in 2006. I did the ROTC program, and I got commissioned the day I graduated.How long are you in the Gulf of Oman for?For as long as we’re needed, sir. Everyone’s just doing…
Budget shortfalls and projected layoffs haven’t gotten in the way the Broward Sheriff’s Office buying a brand-new toy. It’s a Eurocopter EC135 made in Germany. Estimated cost: $4 million. See this link on the purchase of a new audio system for the new helicopter. Don’t make a mistake: The sheriff’s office…
As part of the Navy’s ongoing Hometown Interview Project, New Times landed an interview with Navy Lt. j.g. Charles Sonntag, a native of Boca Raton and a 2002 graduate of Spanish River High School. According to the Navy news release, Sonntag is currently deployed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Truman, supporting…
Here is a heartbreaking video from YouTube, posted by an activist group known as Sea Turtle Oversight Protection. It’s called “Ten Minutes in the Night of a Rescue Volunteer.” The date of the clip is the evening of July 10, and a map shows the location where it was shot:…
It’s shaping up to be a bad month for national fast-food franchises. First Pizza Hut gets a visit from a pair of towel-wearing banditos. Now this.A very similar crime happened Monday at the McDonald’s just west of I-95: Another dude with a gun places his order, as in orders a…
The three-day suspension for FLPD Sgt. Steven Greenlaw for bodyguarding Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein is a joke but not unsurprising. The department was up to its ears in Rothstein, from his good buddy Chief Adderley on down. Forty-nine officers worked the off-duty Rothstein detail, spokesman Francis Sousa among them, and they pulled…
Woke up this morning, looked at the news, felt like sharing. Yes, brothers and sisters, can I get a witness?A dead whale in Hallandale Beach. Pretty much sucks for the whale and for the poor vet who had to euthanize it. Not much to tell except it was a baby…
Earlier this week, Money magazine named Coral Springs the 44th best “small city” to live in of 2010. Not too shabby, eh? Coral Springs beat out Coconut Creek (48) and Wellington (72), the only other Florida locales to make the top 100. Mayor Scott Brook says the city’s sweet 44…
Once there, he donned a blond wig, a silver purse, a pair of earrings, and a red dress. The cross-dressing Mendez prepared to go out — he also worked part-time as a dancer for a Lake Worth club called Tenampa. His stage name was “Gaviota.”He never arrived. And when he didn’t…
Among the South Florida congressional delegation, only Rep. Alcee Hastings consistently votes to change U.S. policy in Afghanistan. He’s probably done his history homework. He knows trying to win a fight with that country is much like using a Kleenex during a hurricane: pointless, frustrating, and ineffective. Plus, at the…
Since 1998, more than 50 children have died after being left or forgotten in cars in Florida. More than 150 more have been injured. Nationwide, there are, on average, around 30 deaths a year, according to KidsAndCars.org, a Kansas-based group that compiles statistics on such cases. The punishments, when adults…
South Florida abounds with tropical fruit, crazy, exotic fruit many American citizens have never seen (or smelled). You’ve no doubt encountered guava, carambola, dragonfruit and guanabana — all yummy fruits, to be sure.But a recent report from Southeast Asia generated some worry: what if weird, fruity goodness starts getting too…
These days, politicians are probably better off in a sex scandal than tied to BP. That’s why state Sen. Dan Gelber, who’s running for attorney general, just can’t seem to shake his connection to the company responsible for wrecking the Gulf.Gelber, a Democrat from Miami Beach, used to work for…
Like the photo of him above, Pembroke Pines Commissioner Angelo Castillo isn’t always so clear. It’s not always easy to see what he’s actually up to or who’s propping him up from behind his nice suits. Never has his slippery quality been more obvious than in a video put up this…
