Accidents and Disasters

Flash Flood Warning For Eastern Central Palm Beach; School Dismissal Delays Expected

So. Much. Rain. So much in fact, Park Vista High School in Palm Beach was forced to cancel classes today due to access roads closed thanks to all the flooding. No other schools have canceled classes, though they have had their parking lots turned into lakes, and their access roads into rivers. An ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival Given The OK To Start After Stage Collapse

Last night, our sister paper Miami New Times reported about a stage collapsing during sound check for Ultra Music Festival at Bayfront Park. Three men were reportedly injured and rushed to the hospital in critical condition after an LED screen fell on them, causing the stage collapse. One of the me ... More >>

Hurricane Sandy Bringing Lots of Wind and Rain Today

If you've been outside yet, you've noticed a couple of things. It's raining. It's windy. It's a little chilly. And it's raining. Mostly, though, it's raining. Yes, the crappy weather this morning and pretty much throughout the rest of today is courtesy of Hurricane Sandy, who is right now plowing t ... More >>

Man Drives Car Into a House While Avoiding Gunfire

Nothing like being woken up in the middle of the night by random gunfire and then having a car slam into your house. That's what happened in Pompano Beach on Tuesday morning, when a car was being shot at. The vehicle swerved to avoid the bullets and crashed into a house in the 100 block of NE 35th ... More >>

Tropical Storm Isaac Not Looking So Tough Anymore

Oh, hey, good news for those of you who didn't want a hurricane to come and screw up your week. Tropical Storm Isaac's path has nudged towards the west, once again justifying our total lack of concern whenever the news people tell us a giant compacted storm with 100 mph winds is heading right f ... More >>

Satellite Images Show First Glimpse of Cuba's Offshore Drilling Rig in Florida Straits

Earlier this year, Spanish oil giant Repsol YPF announced that a massive drilling rig had started operating  in "ultra-deep water" in the Straits of Florida, somewhere between Cuba and the Keys. One of the more problematic aspects of the operation is the dearth of information about where the ri ... More >>

Fill a Bowl, Feed the Children

Here's How Climate Change Will Flood South Florida: A Foot-by-Foot Visual Analysis

Scientists all over the world are warning about rising sea levels -- a problem that could cost Broward billions down the line. ​Last week, we looked out how a sheet of ice covering most of Greenland could threaten Broward and Miami in the distant future if it melts. The gist is that a jump in ... More >>

More Than a Dozen Killed in South Florida Car Accidents

​If you saw the Miami Herald story this morning about the ten South Floridians killed in car crashes between Saturday night and Sunday night... it gets worse.In addition to the six deaths in Miami-Dade and four in Broward, there were three people killed in Palm Beach County over the weekend as wel ... More >>

Boynton Beach Cops Released From Hospital; Burglary Suspect Still Missing

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeIf you see Markell Hollis, call the cops.​All three of the Boynton Beach Police officers injured during Officer Rachel Loy's third car crash have been released from the hospital -- including Loy herself -- but one of the suspects from the burglary they were respon ... More >>

This Guy Is Good

Florida is a Great Place For a Walk -- If You Want to End Up Dead

nj.com​Fact of the day: You're more likely to wind up dead while on a walk in Florida than in any other state.That's according to what an advocacy group called Transportation for America released Tuesday, with Florida taking the cake for the highest "Pedestrian Danger Index" rank in the nation, an ... More >>

The Golden Ticket: Win a Spa Getaway at the Four Seasons With a Chocolate Easter Egg from Buddha Sky Bar in Delray Beach

Buddha Sky Bar​Charlie has a tip for a decadent Easter treat -- and it's one that you surely won't feel one bit guilty about. Just head over to Delray Beach's newest hotspot, Buddha Sky Bar, which is celebrating this Easter by giving back by putting its own twist on the traditional choco ... More >>

Rick Scott: Forget the Oil Spill -- Let's Go Fishing!

Florida Governor's OfficeSlick Rick catches his own BP Special.​On the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster that spilled 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, Gov. Rick Scott celebrated by going fishing.Sounds strange, but Slick Rick didn't have much choice. He favors ... More >>

Art Hearts Japan

Five Suggestions for Your Severe Weather Awareness Week Posters

Flickr: dmguzMake sure to use a cool lightning graphic on your poster.​Florida's Division of Emergency Management and the American Red Cross want you to participate in the 2011 Severe Weather Awareness Week.They want you to make a poster for each day of the awareness week (January 31 to February 4 ... More >>

Video of Tornado, Damage in Boca Raton

In this era of cell phone cameras, a twister doesn't have a chance of scoring a touchdown without being recorded by some brave soul, and the one that hit Boca Raton Saturday was no exception. There's actually several videos of this mini-cyclone, but I found the one recorded by folks who were close e ... More >>

Dennis Rodman's Manager Says He's "Fine" After Serious Car Wreck

flickr.com​The South Florida-based manager for Dennis Rodman said this morning that his client is "fine" after a car Rodman was riding in flipped at least three times on I-95 in Broward County this weekend."He called me right after it happened," the manager said. "He was going to the hospital, but ... More >>

Tropical Storm Bonnie Update From Idiot Who Decided to Drive South

by Lisa RabThe soggy scene at W. Hillsboro Boulevard and S. Dixie Highway in Deerfield Beach.​Brilliant idea to drive south from Lake Worth to Fort Lauderdale, straight into the path of the season's first real tropical storm. But hey, I had a haircut appointment that couldn't be missed.Things star ... More >>

Surfer Blood Tops Oil.Spill.Benefit Lineup at Propaganda

Morning Juice: Feds Turn Tables on Nigerian Scammer; Tropical Storm Brewing Near Bermuda

​Here's what's happening in Broward and Palm Beach this morning:A nonprofit environmental firm says that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf is similar to the one that occurred over 30 years ago in Mexico's Bay of Cempeche. Those experts have faith that advances in technology will make it ... More >>

Oil-induced Tourism Slump: No Match for our Pun-tastic Slogans

Flickr: [ jeremy ]Yes, yes. Love that beautiful Florida beach.​As a general rule, people like going to the beach and splashing around in the ocean, but they tend to get fussy when they emerge covered in toxic tar sludge from an exploded BP oil rig. Strange, I know--but decidedly true.Although the ... More >>

Water… Sans Tar Balls!

Lauderdale Lakes Man Killed After Teen Driver Runs Red

Taj Michael Harris, a 28-year-old man from Lauderdale Lakes, was struck and killed Wednesday afternoon by an Infiniti that ran a red light at the intersection of Rock Island Road and Forest Boulevard in North Lauderdale.The driver of the Infiniti has been identified as Markita Bynes, an 18-year-old ... More >>

VIDEO: This Footage From Post-Earthquake Haiti May Keep Two UF Film Students From Graduating

This is a short clip from a documentary by two University of Florida film students. The students, Roman Safiullin from Fort Lauderdale and Jon Bougher from New Hampshire, were in Haiti in January when the big earthquake hit. Despite a university travel ban, the students went back to Haiti several d ... More >>

In Broward and Palm Beach Hospitals, 266 Patients Treated for Injuries from Haiti Quake

Flickr: IFRC​After the earthquake struck Haiti, there wasn't time to decide exactly what role South Florida hospitals would play in treating victims. Nor was there time to figure out how those facilities would be paid in instances where the victims were Haitian citizens. But three weeks after the ... More >>

UPDATED: Haiti Earthquake Jolts Local Charity

A scene from LW's "Women helping women" program​Jon Pace, a boardmember of local charity  Living Water Ministries of the Palm Beaches told us by phone this morning that Executive Director Pastor Etienne Jacklin's house in the Bon-Repos area north of Port au Prince was destroyed, and his wife' ... More >>

A Bridge Life Follows Josh Grossberg as He Tries to Rescue Hurricane Katrina Victims

Bike Fatality on A1A in Fort Lauderdale

Photo: Google MapsThe Fort Lauderdale intersection that was the site of a traffic fatality early this morning​A 59-year-old man was struck and killed by a car just after midnight today on A1A in Fort Lauderdale, according to a police department news release.Daniel Colotte was riding a bicycle nort ... More >>

[CORRECTED] Bicyclist Badly Hurt in Lauderdale Traffic Accident

A 2008 Toyota Scion​A bicyclist sustained life-threatening injuries this morning in an accident that occurred on West Davie Boulevard. A Fort Lauderdale Police news release says that a Toyota Scion involved in the accident was driven by Taisha Gonzalez from Coconut Creek.According to police, Gonza ... More >>

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Publix Where working can be lethal

Five workers have died in Publix's Deerfield Beach warehouse in the past eight years. Has the workplace gotten safer? Apparently not.