David Lee Edwards, the ex-felon from Kentucky who won the $27 million Powerball in 2001, has died broke, and in hospice, reports the Daily Mail. As reported by New Times in 2007, Edwards had managed ...

We’re not exactly fashion mavens here at New Times, but according to sources in the know, Judith Ripka is a big deal in the jewelry world. The New York City-based designer has 120 stores around the ...

Normally, I try not to make fun of people in love. Even cynical, egotistical journalists have their limits, and I’m afraid there’s a special, celibate hell for those of us who ridicule the mysteries ...

David Benjamin, the former Broward Sheriff’s deputy accused of accepting more than $20,000 from convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, was sentenced to five years in federal prison in Fort ...

Iron wires dangle from a boat in a cool brown river deep in the Everglades. On this breezy April morning, a few hundred volts crackle through the metal strands into the water. Barron Moody sweeps a ...

After a Gulfstream II jet carrying four tons of cocaine went down in Mexico, suspicion fell on Fort Lauderdale aviator Clyde O’Connor, who had bought the $2 million aircraft just two weeks before. But ...

The owners of one of South Florida’s most popular strip clubs have agreed to settle a big-time class-action lawsuit filed by former dancers over pay. The parent company that’s behind Scarlett’s ...

Jose Padilla, the Fort Lauderdale-based jihadist who was convicted in 2007 on charges of supporting Al Qaeda and terrorism conspiracy, was handed a new 21-year prison sentence. The ruling came on ...

Commenters on this blog have been asking about Michael Dippolito’s arrest record in his native Philadelphia. At this point, we don’t know much, except that there is an active bench warrant, issued in ...

On a spring morning two years ago, Kimberly Peck saw something shocking in the hut where her daughters were sleeping. Peck, then a member of the Twelve Tribes religious cult, lived with her family in ...

Fort Lauderdale may be best known for its quieter boat-laden canals and sun-kissed sands, but once the sun dips, the city’s nightlife kicks it into high gear. From high-energy megaclubs to niche ...

Plastic surgeon Richard B. Edison is a dubious doctor who has been hit with a lot of life-altering allegations over the years. Five patients at the medical facility he directs in Hollywood have died ...