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This just in from the Broward Sheriff’s Office: At 6:41 a.m. on May 5, “a man who orchestrated a murder on Interstate 95 ‘pocket dialed’ 911 just before [a] fatal shooting. On a recorded line, Scott ...

During his sophomore year in high school, Cody Beck finally got fed up with hearing homophobic cracks. If his classmates thought being gay was weird (Beck was openly bisexual), he had a confession ...

In this week’s cover story, “The Chef and the ‘Amigo,'” New Times goes behind the scenes at Palm Beach’s oldest country club. When Esdras Cardona, a Guatemalan immigrant and dishwasher at the ...

Alan Amron’s living room on Evernia Street in West Palm Beach is barely wider than the white sofa that dominates it. The kitchen is too small to eat in, so a tiny rectangular table is crammed into the ...

Reuben Stacy, a 37-year-old black man, hangs from a tree on Old Davie Road in Fort Lauderdale, blood trickling down his body and dripping off his toes. Behind him, a white girl, about 7 years old, ...

Seven years ago, Louis James Vestal and Robert Lineberry interrupted their friend Bryan Loudermilk performing one of the most extraordinary sex acts to occur on Florida soil. Lineberry, a drifter, had ...

Broward County is a step closer to having more lax penalties for anyone busted for minor pot possession. On Tuesday, county commissioners unanimously voted to draw up an ordinance to lessen penalties ...

He was 16 and scared. Jason was a newcomer at Growing Together, a boot camp-style drug treatment center for adolescents in downtown Lake Worth. During the day, he attended group therapy at the program ...

Fort Lauderdale Police Officer Victor Ramirez gained widespread infamy when he slapped a homeless man suspected of trespassing in a public bus terminal last month and video of the incident went viral.

The mayor of Lake Worth and a handful of commissioners walked out as an atheist was about to give an invocation before a meeting last week. Like many cities, the commission allows a religious ...

On Monday, an animal rights activist traveled into rural Hendry County in his 4×4 SUV in search of a primate breeding complex that is expanding its facilities to accommodate thousands of monkeys that ...