George Ludwigsen will soon be sentenced for breaking into safety deposit boxes in Mississippi with a saw — and that’s not nearly the most exciting criminal caper the 40-year-old Hallandale Beach ...

Wellington pill mill “kingpin” Jeff George has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the overdose death of Joey Bartolucci in 2009. George, along with his twin brother, Chris, rode the pill-mill ...

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 ...

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 ...

Inside the conference room of the Hallandale Beach headquarters of Empire Musicwerks, the order is given to kill the lights. Label honcho Paul Klein, a barrel-bodied man with the requisite open shirt, ...

Standing barefoot in the center of the temple, Lochai uncoils a 30-foot length of rope. It’s new rope, not much thicker than his thumb, four-stranded and fibrous. All the better to bind Jolie with.

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 ...

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 ...

Hollywood is home to an incredible array of delicious restaurants, and no, we’re not talking about that Hollywood. We’re talking about Hollywood down in sunny South Florida, which has its own lineup ...

Before the songs, chanting, and heartfelt tears, the ceremony next door to a Palm Springs strip mall begins with speeches. A thin, deeply tanned man in a pin-striped suit is among the first to take ...

Detectives squinted at the abandoned station wagon they found in a remote patch of the Everglades. It had been shot up from both inside and out. Blood was splattered all over the doors. But there was ...

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 ...