Daytona Beach

Michelle Braun: Notorious L.A. Madam's South Florida Adventure

Michelle Braun, Hollywood Madam to the Stars, Crashes and Burns Out In Boca Raton

In the waning afternoon light, the five-foot-nine blond with Tina Turner lips and Pamela Anderson breasts opened the doorway of her cramped apartment on Boca Place Drive and began to scream. Standing there beneath the palm trees in the sprawling parking lot was a darkly handsome man with thick, mea ... More >>

Pit Bulls Maul Florida Woman as She Protects Her Daughter

A Daytona Beach woman was attacked and mauled by a pack of pit bulls as she shielded her 6-year-old daughter from the animals. Brandy Bookamer, 27, went for a stroll with her daughter by their home on Holly Lane in Daytona North on Sunday evening when they were suddenly and viciously attacked by fi ... More >>

Florida Couple Getting Amorous In Car Drive Into Someone's House

Asia Walker and her boyfriend, Charles Phillips, were driving down Continental Drive, near Nova Road and LPGA Boulevard in Daytona Beach at 5:30 in the morning when they decided that this was a good time to start making out and getting super affectionate with each other. And you'll be shocked to le ... More >>

I-4 Corridor Predicts Florida for Romney

Obama and Romney Hitting Up Florida For The Home Stretch

Polls are tight in Florida as the presidential election mercifully grinds down to its final days, and anything can and will happen in the Sunshine State, because that's just how we roll. A Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News Poll have Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in a virtual tie in Flori ... More >>

Pizza Guy Refuses to Give Up Pies to Would-Be Robber, Despite Getting Stun-Gunned

A robber tried to take some pizza from a Papa John's delivery guy in Daytona Beach on Monday. But the pizza guy refused to give up the pies, even while being shocked by a stun gun. Movie of the week? Movie of the week. Christopher Dondre Collins, 19, apparently ordered two pies from his local P ... More >>

A Big Piece of FLIFF: Gregory von Hausch Keeps Broward's Film Scene Alive

Publix ATM Skimmers Had a Wealth of Information at Their (and Your) Fingertips

Momma always told you to be careful at ATMs, so you hide your PIN from strangers and use the machines in a well-lighted area. But what if the machine itself is stealing your information?A gang of high-tech thieves has allegedly been traveling up and down Florida's east coast, hacking those "Presto!" ... More >>

Surfing Exhibit at FAU Should Be a Lot More Fun Than It Is

Darrel Horne Requested That Sheriff's Deputies "Taser Me, Bro" -- They Did

​It's been more than four years since Andrew Meyer's famous "Don't tase me, bro" moment at the University of Florida, but on Friday, bro, Darrel Horne wanted the Taser.According to Brandon Haught of the Volusia County Sheriff's Office, Horne's moment came after diving naked into a lake in an attem ... More >>

Cops: Babysitter Puts Kid in Stroller, Loads Him Onto a Truck Bed and Goes for a Ride (Video)

Volusia County Sheriff's OfficeKeyona Davis​The Daytona Beach cops got a few 911 calls yesterday when they happened to notice an 8-month-old boy in a stroller hanging out in the bed of a pickup truck that was cruising around town.According to an arrest affidavit, 23-year-old Keyona Nichole Dav ... More >>

South Florida Lags Woefully Behind in Spring Break Dangers

​In a recent survey of the most dangerous spring break destinations in the country, Fort Lauderdale -- birthplace of the modern spring break -- didn't even crack the top ten. West Palm Beach ranked fifth and Miami was tenth. The survey, conducted by the website lawyer website avvo.com, looked at c ... More >>

Exclusive: Feds Eyeing Lobbyist Ron Book, Fort Lauderdale Housing Authority

In Broward and Tallahassee politics, influence peddling comes in countless forms. Here's one currently under investigation by the federal government: A powerful lobbyist, seeking to curry favor with a state senator and benefit a major client, helps to secure the senator's boyfriend a job at th ... More >>

Proposed Miami Skate Park Pits Skaters Against Preservationists

South Florida Homes Safe From "Worst Cities for Real Estate Investing" List

Flickr: lexlevinradApparently in Port St. Lucie the foreclosure bus will come foreclose on your house in a hurry.Want to invest in some real estate? Don't start looking in Florida.Forbes.com writer Francesca Levy published a list recently called "The Worst Cities for Real Estate Investing." Out of t ... More >>

Burial at Sea Backfires After Corpse Surfaces

FlickrBurial at sea: One of those things the Navy's better at.​Daniel Lasky's dead body was dumped in the sea, but not because he was murdered -- though that's what investigators first feared.Rather, the 63-year-old Lasky died of Lou Gehrig's disease last week and was given a burial at his sea by ... More >>

Skarhead Holds Nothing Back at Ballers Rock Bar

Star Is Born Thanks to Comedy Miracle in Fort Lauderdale

It's been decades since a young aspiring comedian named Brian Regan took the stage at an open-mic night in a Fort Lauderdale comedy club. He knew that his debut might be tough, but he never imagined a worst-case scenario like the one that occurred that night.

Statewide Tebow Crush Now Officially Creepy

Flickr User: jgirl4858Tebow, standing akimbo. ("Teebows" not pictured.)Florida is utterly besotted with Florida Gators QB Tim Tebow. The latest demonstration is Tebow's being appointed by Gov. Charlie Crist to co-chair the Council on Physical Fitness. It's gotten so bad, that I defy you to get a per ... More >>

Death by Silicone

She served time for illegally performing plastic surgery. Now Donnie Hendrix tells her tale

Nonpoint Announces U.S. Headlining Tour, But Skips South Florida

Save Me

One newly illegal substance, two short trips, and a different approach to the war on drugs

The Mayor's Private Dick

Al Capellini takes the Nixon route against his rival on the commission

Where the Kids Aren't

Hitter Miss

Three little South Florida girls make costly bids to be America's next tennis champ

Dred Scott!

Spring Bling

What Would Bruno Eat?

Austria sits down with Italy at Josef's.

Letters for August 24-30, 2006

Crush Me, Kill Me

To understand Florida's most bizarre unsolved murder, it helps to wear stiletto heels.

Dangerous Designs

That temporary tattoo could be with you for a long, long time

Pulp Nonfiction

A whistle blower alleges that U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney might have rigged the election in South Florida

Hall in Flames

Strife at swimming's prime shrine threatens to wash away a local icon

Grinders

With bigger pots at stake in the track poker rooms, the workaday pros are lining up to get in

Tennis and Tight Pants

Scarred survivors of the 1980s rock scene, unite!

The Life and Crimes of Bam Jones

Henry Lee Jones is accused of two murders. That's only the beginning.

Twice Busted

A Pompano man and his family bum-rush a judge on sentencing day

Rock in a Hard Place

For South Florida's independent concert promoters, bringing cool music to town can be a losing proposition

Down and Dirty

The Dirty South documents the triumph of down-home hip-hop

Bandwidth

DJ Catalyst, Brian Renda, Cat Stevens, 'NSync, Gonemad appearing with Lost and Headway, Bandit, and the Fearless Records Tour

Letters to the Editor

Letters for March 16, 2000

No Bird Is an Island

Conservationist Paul Reillo has waged a one-man campaign to save Dominica's parrots from extinction

Titillating Talk

Ear Infection

Swamp Water in the Veins

Connecting Dots

Allman Joy

Party Till Someone Gets Decked

Hungry for that excessively drunk and occasionally violent spring break ambiance? It lives on at the Bermuda Triangle.

Letters

Cleared for Takeoff

If Fort Lauderdale wants to keep the Baltimore Orioles in town for spring training, it just needs to come up with $36 million