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 ...

The infamous photograph of Stacy's death might be one of the few visual accounts of a lynching in Florida, but a new report from the Equal Justice Initiative about lynching across the American South ...

Alan Amron is suing for $400 million and says he, not 3M, invented the Post-it Note.

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 ...

Judge Matthew Destry has handed down extremely harsh or extremely random sentences, frustrating both the attorneys who appear before him and the defendants who seek his mercy.

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 ...

Jeffrey Dahmer killed Adam Walsh. That's right. The most infamous cannibal in American history murdered one of the most publicized child abduction victims of the past half-century, the 6-year-old son ...

Fred and Ceil Feldman sat down for coffee and toast inside their snug beachside condo just before 8 one morning. From their kitchen table, on the sixth floor, the elderly couple gazed in comfortable ...

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 ...

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 ...

Being a "zoophile" in modern American society, Beck says, is "like being gay in the 1950s. You feel like you have to hide, that if you say it out loud, people will look at you like a freak." Now Beck ...

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- ...