Just before 11 p.m. this past Monday, Pinecrest police responded to a mansion just off Old Cutler Road to reports that a naked intruder was terrorizing the home’s owners. The cops found a 43-year-old man in the buff, and when he attacked police, they hit him with a Taser. He…
For 35 years, Diana Nyad has been pursuing one epic and possibly insane dream: Swimming non-stop the 112-mile gap between Havana and Key West without a shark cage. Four times she tried, and four times exhaustion, poisonous jellyfish, thunderous storms and impossible currents have forced her to quit. This morning,…
The Marlins had a decent shot of derailing the red-hot Washington Nationals last night, taking a 3-1 lead in the top of the sixth thanks in part to a Giancarlo Stanton bomb. But then the Marlins realized they are the sad clowns of Major League Baseball and ended up stumbling…
If you worked hard earlier this month to avoid the gruesome Facebook photo Derek Medina posted of his just-murdered wife, beware: The death scene is now plastered across a tabloid in the supermarket aisle. The National Enquirer has reprinted the bloody shot of 26-year-old Jennifer Alonso that Medina posted to…
It was another bucolic summer Sunday afternoon in a quiet suburb north of Orlando: the sun fading gently in the west, a distant thunderstorm rumbling in the distance, and 20-year-old Robin Campbell walking his dog down the block, completely butt-naked. When police came to check out what the nude dog-walker…
Flaunt state law by illegally spraying pesticide that destroys millions of bees, threatens a local ecosystem, and costs local beekeepers a quarter of a million bucks? Better think twice! If Florida regulators catch you in the act, you’ll have to cough up, uh, about $1,500. That laughable penalty has environmentalists…
Stand Your Ground isn’t the only state law set to stir controversy in the George Zimmerman case. The lesser-known Florida Statute 939.06 requires the state to pay all of a defendant’s expenses if he/she is acquitted of all charges. Zimmerman’s defense team has been tallying up the cost of expert…
Give the Florida trio of Carlos Rivera and Leandre and Jordan Green credit: They’ve reinvented burglary for the internet age. Instead of busting into a house and taking everything willy-nilly, the crooks broke in, took photos, and then advertised the house’s contents for sale online. When they found a buyer,…
Six weeks ago, Miami-Dade County commissioners refused to touch the property tax rate, knowing that without an increase they’d have to drastically chop services. County Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s solution — shuttering 22 libraries — was met with a rowdy public protest. This weekend, Gimenez told commissioners he’d found a way…
After a jury acquitted George Zimmerman in the death of Miami teen Trayvon Martin, his attorneys went to great lengths to keep his whereabouts secret so he could keep a “low profile.” But Zimmerman, it seems, wasn’t quite as interested in leaving the limelight. Three weeks after speeding through Texas…
Last month, ex-University of Miami slugger Ryan Braun was the first player to accept a suspension for his ties to Biogenesis, the Coral Gables anti-aging clinic exposed in a Miami New Times investigation as a source for performance enhancing drugs for pro athletes. But Braun didn’t specify what he’d done…
Will El Chacal de la Trompeta play her off the stage mid-speech? Will she be forced to endure questions while strapped up to the dreaded El Detector de Mentiras? Might she compete for a dance party crown in Póngale Ritmo? Sadly, the answer is probably no to all these burning…
As cases of cholera have recently spread across Cuba, possibly killing more than a dozen patients, the Castro government has been stone-silent on the epidemic, fearing news could hurt tourism. That see-no-evil approach will be more difficult starting today, though, thanks to an official U.S. travel alert that visitors are…
This year’s horrific Boston Marathon bombing sent a clear message to NFL security chiefs: Big public sporting events are still prime targets for anyone looking to wreak havoc with a bomb. Their response? Leave your coolers, large purses, zipped-up seat cushions, and oversize bags at home. Getting into Sun Life…
After a monthlong sit-in, threats of a national musician boycott, and impassioned pleas from the family of slain Miami teen Trayvon Martin, a legislator has taken the first step toward repealing Florida’s Stand Your Ground law. Rep. Alan Williams, a Tallahassee Democrat, has filed HB 4003, which would overturn the…
South Florida had to know that booting Allen West out of Congress wouldn’t mean an end to reading about Allen West’s antics. The guy almost immediately landed a gig on Fox News after leaving Washington, after all. Still, dealing with West’s rants about Muslims and Obamacare on Murdoch’s network is…
Florida is one step closer to getting a statewide public vote on legalizing medical marijuana. With powerful backers like Orlando super-lawyer John Morgan and funding from big Democrats around the state, the push by People United for Medical Marijuana is blazing ahead. The group announced yesterday that it’s already gathered…
Richard Millsap’s friends say his dream was to open a Crossfit gym where anyone could get ripped — or at least lose a few pounds — even if they couldn’t afford the program. The muscle-bound 33-year-old made that goal a reality last March, renting out a warehouse in Winter Garden…
UPDATE: Seven months after New Times published its investigation into Biogenesis and its founder, Tony Bosch, Major League Baseball suspended 14 players tied to the clinic. In August 2014, Bosch and nine other men tied to his steroid ring were charged with a variety of crimes in federal court. Bosch…
Flashing your junk on a public beach is already a dubious way to attract the opposite sex, but a man on Florida’s Space Coast has been taking that losing plan to the next level by leaving notes propositioning his victims. In one posted to Facebook, the man offers women “$200…
On Tuesday, Miami Beach Police Officer Jorge Mercado fired a Taser into Israel Hernandez’s chest following a chase that started with the teen getting caught tagging an abandoned McDonald’s. Hernandez died soon after Mercado used the electronic weapon, and MPBD has now put the 13-year veteran on leave while investigating…
Five hours into a flight from Moscow to Miami last week, Pavel Nesvat decided to start throwing jars of ice cream. That was only the beginning of his bizarre transatlantic rampage, which eventually included Nesvat yanking on the ears of flight attendants, whacking other passengers in the head, and strapping…
