Florida has rightfully earned the honor of being called the weirdest state. And 2012 has provided some of the stranger news stories this planet has ever read. Florida in 2012? Insanity! This state, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sheriff Ken Jenne’s 34-year career in public service always seemed like a steady, inexorable march upward. He climbed from hotshot assistant state attorney to a high-profile member of the Broward ...

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 ...

The selection of new members of FAU’s Board of Trustees is usually not controversial, passing easily from nomination through confirmation to installation. That may not be the case with Gov. Rick Scott ...

Pompano Beach Commissioner Susan Foster didn’t know she was meeting with a former cocaine kingpin. She thought Sam Frontera, who was creating a nightclub near Foster’s Cresthaven neighborhood, was ...

With less than a month to go before Election Day in 2002, Buddy Dyer was trailing Charlie Crist in the race for Florida attorney general. Dyer, who was then a state senator and is now mayor of Orlando ...

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 ...

At her home in the tiny village of Palm Springs, just outside Lake Worth, Anna Mae Kiger started each morning the same way. After rising around 7, she walked down the driveway to pick up her newspaper ...

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 ...

In what may be the most significant corruption arrest in Broward to date, the State Attorney’s Office has arrested School Board Member Stephanie Kraft, 54, and her husband Mitch, a former Tamarac city ...