Tamarac

Florida Highway Patrol Busts Soup Bandit Who Nabbed $75,000 Worth of Broth

Eusebio Diaz Acosta made it all the way to Tamarac with his stolen tractor-trailer full of soup, but that is where his dream of soup-filled days would end -- until soup day in jail, that is. In the most un-Goodfellas heist ever, Acosta is charged with stealing a tractor-trailer full of $7 ... More >>

Buju Banton: Five More Years in Jail

Okey Dokey, Russian Grocery Chain, Plans South Florida Expansion

Supermarkets are the fabric of American food consumption. Here in South Florida, you can't drive more than a couple of miles without seeing one of the behemoth retailers. Seeing the potential for growth, Russian food retailer Okey Dokey, and its parent company AgroTrade, is planning a major expansio ... More >>

Oneal Morris, Fix-A-Flat Butt Doc, Gets $150,000 Bond

Following her arrest yesterday on manslaughter charges related to the death of a former patient, Fix-A-Flat Butt "doc," Oneal Morris, had her bond set at $150,000 by a Broward County judge this morning.If she posts bail, she will have to forfeit her passport and wear a GPS-monitoring device to ensur ... More >>

Fix-A-Flat Butt Doc Oneal Morris Arrested for Manslaughter

Oneal Morris, the back-alley "doctor" who has been arrested several times on charges related to illegally injecting silicone concoctions cut with substances including cement and Fix-A-Flat, was arrested and charged with the manslaughter of Shatarka Nuby today. Nuby died in March due to complications ... More >>

Buju Banton is innocent

Buju Banton Received Ten Years in Prison Thanks to a Shady Snitch With Money Woes

Seven months after a judge sentenced Grammy-winning reggae artist Buju Banton to ten years in Miami's Federal Correctional Institution on drug charges, an appeal by Buju is raising concerns that the feds entrapped the iconic and controversial performer. In this week's New Times, an investigatio ... More >>

Funeral Home Employee Arrested for Stealing Cash From Dead Man

​Being dead is no excuse for making sure you're not scammed by one of South Florida's shady characters. Not even death can protect you from grand theft.Miami resident Armando Sardina, 56, sits behind bars after stealing hundreds of dollars from the home of a dead man. Sardina had been employed by ... More >>

Buju Banton Gets Ten Years in Federal Prison on Drug Convictions

Buju Banton's mug shot.​Reggae superstar Buju Banton will spend the next decade in federal lockup, a judge in Tampa ruled this morning. The sentence comes after Banton -- who played to a packed crowd at Bayfront in January and won a Grammy this year -- was convicted of trying to engineer a cocaine ... More >>

Volteo verde de Walmart: Los trabajadores pagan el precio

Walmart greenwashing: Workers pay the price

Shatarka Nuby Gets 2 1/2 Years For Stealing ID to Get Boob Job and Lipo

via Broward County Sheriff's Office​Shatarka Nuby already had breast implants, but they weren't big enough. And her arms! They needed liposuction, stat! The only problem: Nuby didn't have $9,000 to pay for all that work.So that's when the 29-year-old lifted a college application out of a mailbox, ... More >>

Buju Banton Wins Ruling For Release

​Reggae star Buju Banton, who faces a February retrial on a criminal charge of conspiring to buy cocaine from an undercover police officer, could soon be released from Tampa jail. He has been locked up for the past 11 months. On November 4, Federal Judge James S. Moody Jr. denied assistant U.S. At ... More >>

Buju Banton Rides Drug Trial Up the Charts As Fans Demand His Release

​Just ask Tupac, Lil' Wayne, or, hell, even Jim Morrison: sometimes a good stint behind bars is just what the spin doctor ordered for selling a ton of records. You may as well add Buju Banton to that list, because even as the reggae star languishes in a Tampa-area jail awaiting retrial on federal ... More >>

Buju Banton Trial Starts As Singer Testifies He Didn't Mean To Visit Warehouse Full of Coke

​Buju Banton, it seems, has a gaping, cavernous mineshaft of a hole to dig out of in federal court in Tampa: the feds have hours of taped conversations with the reggae star talking about cocaine, quoting detailed worldwide prices for cocaine, and even visiting a warehouse and sampling a few kilos ... More >>

New Music: Kie Money Adds Another Worthy Regional Anthem With "Welcome to Broward County"

Listen to "Welcome to Broward County" at least twice, says Kie Money​When it comes to making a regional song into a global phenomenon, gotta hand it to Jay-Z. "Empire State of Mind" isn't disappearing from the airwaves any time soon  (although we're partial to his "Brooklyn's Finest" featurin ... More >>

The murder of Stevie Febonio: South Florida's marijuana grow houses can be a deadly business

Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter threatened at gunpoint by her father, Tamarac mayoral candidate Ed Portner

Letters from the Issue of March 19, 2009

"Here's hoping community journalism finds new and sturdier outlets."

Plax Sued By Miami Woman For Ramming Her Probe With His Benz

Poor Plax. Just a year ago, the Giants wide receiver was riding pretty damn high -- Superbowl champ, massive contract, best ridiculous name in professional football.How did it all fall apart? How, damnit?! Oh yeah, you shot yourself in the leg at a nightclub, then drove around bleeding for a couple ... More >>

Fraudsters Arrested For Selling Native American Tribe Membership To Illegal Immigrants

Unlucky Number

A Miami Artist becomes an accidental witness to manslaughter.

Orange Bowl Adios

The crazy weirdness of the OB is what we’ll really miss

British Ex-Millionaire Fights for Freedom

Krishna Maharaj went from the high life to a life sentence — for a crime he might not have committed

Dr. G Spot

By 7:00 she was begging her boyfriend for sex

Letters from the Issue of February 3-9, 2005

Hospital attacks, Mad Doggie Disease, art liquor, Cali memories

Soul Glow

South Florida's Soulfuric gets the beats off

Cashed

Labors to legalize bud in Florida have gone sour as week-old bong water

Something From The X-Files

They're calling the Asian snakehead "the Frankenfish"

Anatomy of a Quarantine

State officials are spending millions of your tax dollars to stop citrus canker. And they're making a mess of it.

Donato's Closet

When an INS officer confronted el Pescador and Elian, he didn't know what he was facing

Dish

Sandwich Comes of New Age

Politics and Spirits

Miami city worker Caridad Rios swears she's never practiced Santera. Try telling that to the many politicians who befriend her -- or fear her.

Letters

How Green Is Too Green?

Bulldozers. Pesticides. Fertilizers. If you live in South Florida, golf's threat to the ecosystem might get you teed off.

A Major Bad Hair Day

Bleached scalps. Chipped nails. Rotten perms. If state officials deregulate the beauty industry, things could get ugly.

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