At Jacques-Imo’s Cafe in New Orleans, you can order shrimp and alligator cheesecake for an appetizer. It’s just the sort of wild, exotic, Cajun-Creole-Bayou-style eats you’d expect from a ...

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 ...

The SWAT team snakes behind a one-story pink and yellow house an hour before dawn breaks over a silent working-class block in Hallandale Beach. As the heavily armed cops in black military gear pour ...

June Clarkson went to Ernie’s Bar-B-Q in Fort Lauderdale to have lunch with her supervisor, Bob Julian; and some coworkers. It was a Friday in May 2011, the end of a hectic workweek at the local ...

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 ...

Dawn has yet to crawl up in the east, but 30-year-old Jason Genova is awake. No alarm need pluck him out of his sleep cycle. The first thought forming in his fuzzy-topped head is the same one that was ...

A key question regarding Scott Rothstein’s fraudulent scheme that until now has gone largely unanswered: How did he lure so many rich and powerful locals to pour tens of millions into the estimated ...

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 toward her with a ...

If there is a driving force behind Riviera Beach’s $2.4 billion redevelopment project, if there is one person who is imprinted on the effort like a cattle brand, it is Michael Brown. The city’s “weak” ...

A former long-serving federal inmate living in South Florida says the real reason for the proliferation of cell phones in prisons has more to do with privately owned institutions gouging inmates and ...

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 ...

If you feel at all sorry for Fort Lauderdale businessman George Levin for apparently losing a great deal of his money — or other people’s money — in Scott Rothstein’s Ponzi scheme, you can stop now.