If the return of culinary goliath South Beach Wine and Food Festival is any indication, we’ve hit peak tourism season, when an embarrassment of art and culinary riches fills the streets from Lake Worth to Miami Beach. What that also means: Parking woes everywhere, as cars converge on South Beach Wine and Food Festival’s Grand Tasting Village, the street parade in Fort Lauderdale’s growing Sistrunk neighborhood and the chalk-art bonanza in Lake Worth. Here’s everything you should know... Read More
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Judge allows Parkland dad Andrew Pollack to attend grilling of school watchman Andrew Medina
The father of a slain Stoneman Douglas High School student will be allowed in the courtroom when his lawyers question the former school watchman who saw the shooter, but failed to stop him from entering the campus last year, a judge ruled Tuesday. Former security monitor Andrew Medina wanted Broward Circuit Judge Patti Englander Henning to block Andrew Pollack from a deposition scheduled for next week. Medina is one of the defendants in a lawsuit Pollack filed over the wrongful death of his... Read More
Man accused of fatal shooting outside Sunrise nightclub
It was early on a Sunday morning when Akeano Lewis left the Hibiscus nightclub and restaurant in Sunrise. Following Lewis out of the bar as he took his last steps were four men, including one armed with a gun, police say. On Jan. 27, as Lewis, 22, reached a parking lot outside the club, at 6289 W. Sunrise Blvd., he was shot twice in his back. Lewis tried to run away, but after he fell, the gunman stood over him, continued to fire a black handgun and a third bullet struck Lewis, according to... Read More
Florida teacher who implied child should go back to Africa needs lesson on First Amendment | Editorial
A sixth-grader in Lakeland now has a police record for having refused to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance on Feb. 4. To hear adults speak about it, it isn’t because he exercised his absolute constitutional right to shun the pledge at Lawton Chiles Middle Academy. Rather, it’s because of what they called his disruptive behavior after the teacher, substitute Ana Alvarez, provoked him. Their excuse is pathetic. By the teacher’s own handwritten account, she goaded the boy after he... Read More
Bernie Sanders campaign map makes Florida look stranger than we already are
Outside Florida, people love to look at Florida as something funny — and on Monday presidential candidate Bernie Sanders actually made Florida look funny. The map he distributed along with the announcement of his 2020 presidential candidacy shows Florida with a strange bulge emanating from the Tampa Bay area, protruding into the Gulf of Mexico. “Who drew this map,” political data analyst Matt Isbell wondered on Twitter. Isbell, who tweets under the name @mcimaps, knows maps. And he... Read More
Judge orders Roger Stone to court over Instagram post portraying judge with what appeared to be crosshairs of a gun
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Roger Stone to appear in court to consider whether to revoke his bail after the longtime Donald Trump confidant posted a photo on Instagram of the judge with what appeared to be crosshairs of a gun. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Stone must show for a hearing Thursday afternoon and prove why she shouldn’t modify or revoke his bail or implement a full gag order in his case. On Monday, Stone posted a photo of Jackson with what appeared to... Read More
So much tequila: Where to get a deal on Margarita Day in South Florida
It’s time to get your salt lick on. National Margarita Day is Friday, Feb. 22 and — as you can imagine — anything commonly shaken with ice is a huge hit here in the subtropics. So we’ve gathered up a bunch of places in South Florida where you and tequila can become one. 222 Taco 1624 79th Street Causeway, North Bay Village. 833-222-8226. 222ta.co. 222 Taco (the name itself pays homage to Feb. 22) will debut Friday something they are calling La Margarita Shop. Starting at 12:22 p.m.... Read More
He had a pink baseball bat up his sleeve and larceny on his mind
There was nothing up his sleeve — except for a baseball bat. A man who initially appeared to be a customer at a Metro PCS store turned into a robber after pulling out a baseball bat that had been concealed in the left sleeve of his jacket. The robbery happened shortly after 2:30 p.m. Feb. 13 at the cellphone store at 1499 SE 17th St. in Fort Lauderdale. Surveillance video released by police Monday shows the man chatting up the clerk behind the counter before quickly pulling a pink,... Read More
Horse owner fights to keep barn after town says it’s too close to property line
For 20 years, a pretty little red barn has sat next to a home on Palomino Drive in Southwest Ranches, a rural paradise known for its “live and let live” approach. But now, the same barn that has given horses shelter and sanctuary is in the crosshairs of town officials, all over a matter of inches. Southwest Ranches officials say the barn is in violation of town code because it was built too close to the property line. If homeowners Brad McBride and wife Michele don’t move the barn or... Read More
Protesters decry Trump’s ‘fake crisis’ over wall funding
On Presidents’ Day, nearly 100 people turned out at the federal courthouse in downtown Fort Lauderdale to denounce President Donald Trump and his national emergency declaration to build a border wall. “We need to make a lot of noise!” Laurie Woodward, a volunteer organizer wearing a “Resist” T-shirt, told the crowd. She said she’s affiliated with the progressive activist groups MoveOn and Indivisible. Those who showed up were mostly middle age or older and included seasoned... Read More