On August 8, the Broward Sheriff's Office announced that a lucky break had led them to solve a grisly three-year-old murder. DNA taken in a South Beach drug bust had connected a muscular, 26-year-old ...

Jack Nelson's swimmers have called him a second father. South Florida newspapers call him an icon. His lawyer says he's "a national treasure." And Diana Nyad, his former swimmer, says Nelson was a ...

On July 31, a man called the Boynton Beach Police Department to report that a friend named "Delilah" was planning to kill her husband. The informant had once known Delilah well. She was lithe and ...

Under any other circumstances, the girl sitting in the oversized red chair might be screaming for help or begging for mercy. A tall, pale young man — his eyes lined in black — inches ...

That terrible morning, Antonio Balta dropped off his girlfriend, Michelle Bashford, at the Gulfstream Park Racetrack in Hallandale Beach, where she worked as a waitress and he as a horse groomer. The ...

A new Fort Lauderdale speakeasy-themed cocktail bar opens today, but you won't be bellying up to the bar at this South Florida establishment without some extra info: your own personal door code. Sure, ...

It's standardized-testing season in Florida's public schools, which means that parents, grandparents, students, teachers, administrators, and classroom goldfish are probably in a bad mood. Every March ...

In the Atlantic Ocean, 17 miles southeast of Miami and 100 feet under the surface of the water, Lazaro Cabrera reaches the sunken remains of a steel freighter and swims inside. The lean 41-year-old, ...

Sean Cononie is accustomed to interruptions — ringing phones, questions from staff, resident emergencies — but this wrench in the day was different. In August, as he worked at his paper- ...

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 history of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church, a Romanesque brick building with stained glass windows, dates back nearly a century. In the 1920s, it was built as St. Anthony's, the first ...

But enough of that. We're here to tell you that iguanas are actually good eatin'. In parts of the Caribbean, it's not unusual to see young boys with a stack of skewered iguanas, taking them home to ...