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, ...

“I’m dangerous,” 23-year-old Garrett Holeve warns as he bounces around a bedroom in his parents’ suburban, single-story house, throwing punches and kicks. A pungent combination of protein-powered ...

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 ...

Alan Amron’s living room on Evernia Street in West Palm Beach is barely wider than the white sofa that dominates it. The kitchen is too small to eat in, so a tiny rectangular table is crammed into the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seven years ago, Louis James Vestal and Robert Lineberry interrupted their friend Bryan Loudermilk performing one of the most extraordinary sex acts to occur on Florida soil. Lineberry, a drifter, had ...

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 ...

Back in 2003, building a streetcar in downtown Fort Lauderdale seemed like a great idea. Las Olas Boulevard and the Riverfront area were growing more and more popular. It looked like it was only a ...

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 ...