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Brian Krebs was $2 short. Last call was nearing on April 17, and the girls behind the bar at Fishtales just wanted 38-year-old Krebs to pay up and leave. He had $6. He owed $8. Krebs argued with the ...

Of all the murders that have been committed over the past five years, almost 100 were committed by people who were registered users of Stormfront, a West Palm Beach-based website for “white ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In order to be included on our list of most theatrical rock bands of all time, you must not simply be a great entertainer, you must put on a grand spectacle. We want to see some showmanship, people.

“I am going to war on teacher’s tenure,” says Melissa Barton, “and I will win. I’m going to eliminate it this year. By this time next year, tenure won’t be a word in the teacher union’s vocabulary.” ...

Editor’s note: To protect living members of Max Mermelstein’s family, his alias and certain names have been changed. Aspiring filmmaker Brett Tabor tops a medium popcorn with jalapeños, as is his ...

The bulldozers arrive at dawn on a Sunday. In the inky twilight of this crisp January morning, several bearded men creak open a barbed-wire gate to grant entry to the three Caterpillar machines. For a ...