Illinois

Man on Honeymoon Busted for Soliciting a Prostitute

A man from Illinois was honeymooning with his new bride in Orlando when he allegedly decided to leave their honeymoon suite at the Omni Hotel in Champions Gate to go pay another woman for sex. The newlywed woman had noticed her man had gone missing and called the cops. She would soon learn that her ... More >>

Beer Float Recipes From Florida Brewers, Bartenders, and Beer Aficionados

Can you remember the first time you had a root beer float? It was probably summer, and your mom decided to give you a special treat. Just one taste of that combo of carbonated, sugary-sweet soda with cold, creamy vanilla and you were hooked. No matter how old you are, it's still a damned good comb ... More >>

Hardcore TKO

I'm Not Voting Today, and I Don't Know Why

Today I will not vote. I didn't vote early or by absentee ballot either. I am 29 years old and have never voted. Worst of all, I can't explain why. I'm not a political junkie, but I'm certainly not apathetic or undecided. My blood boiled when Mitt Romney made a joke of climate change during his ... More >>

Barnes & Noble Stores in South Florida Breached By Identity Thieves

If you recently made a purchase at one of ten different Barnes & Noble stores throughout South Florida, you may want to check your bank statement for any unusual purchases. You may also want to change your PIN number. According to the FBI, identity thieves breached PIN pad devices at s ... More >>

Jimmy John's is Bringing Back the Sprouts (and Moving Some of its Operations to Florida)

Know how everyone can be having a good time, hanging out, eating their beach club sandwiches, and all of a sudden, bam, E. coli shows up all Scumbag Steve-like and ruins the party? That's sort of what happened earlier this year when multiple food poisoning outbreaks caused national sandwich franchis ... More >>

World-Wide Bacon Shortage Imminent, Say Pork Party Poopers

Bacon lovers -- which, judging from the entirety of the internet, covers roughly 95 percent of you -- were majorly bummed when earlier this month, 40,000 pounds of bacon were ruined in a highway accident in Illinois. In light of information from Britain's National Pig Association (NPA), that homeg ... More >>

40,000 Pounds of Bacon Get Ruined in Accident (Video)

What do you call an accident that leaves 40,000 pounds of bacon just sitting on the side of a highway? If you said "massive fail," you'd be correct.That's what happened in Peoria, Illinois, when a Wenger Trucking Co. semi overturned, spilling its precious porcine cargo all over the median. According ... More >>

Steven Feagin, Accused of Rape in Pompano Beach, Convicted of Rape in Illinois

A former Deerfield Beach High School football star was convicted today of the rape of a woman who was attending the University of Illinois, where he also played football. It took the jury less than an hour to find him guilty.Prosecutors said 42-year-old Steve Feagin raped a UI senior at gunpoin ... More >>

Florida Public Corruption Ranks Fourth in U.S.

​It turns out Florida is pretty damned good at letting the easily corruptible get into positions of power. Since 1976, the state's federal courts have handed out nearly 1,800 public corruption convictions, the fourth highest in the country. That's an average of 49 public corruption conviction ... More >>

Florida Worst State in Study of Long-Term Unemployment

​More than 53 percent of Florida's unemployed residents went six months or more without work last year -- the highest rate in the country, according to a study from the Hamilton Project, run by the Brookings Institute, a D.C. think tank.To compare, the average unemployed worker between 2004 and 20 ... More >>

Newt Gingrich Quoting Abraham Lincoln in Broward Leads Us to the Facts (and Some Dirt)

​After Rep. Allen West attributed one of Ronald Reagan's anti-abortion quotes to Abraham Lincoln earlier this week, you'll have to excuse us for being a bit skeptical when another politico comes to town attempting to channel Honest Abe.That said, we went straight to the experts at the Abraham Linc ... More >>

Energy Kitchen's November Opening Pushed to April

​Why come up with a creative, health-conscious concept when what we really want are burgers and fries that don't kill us? This appears to be strategy behind Energy Kitchen, whose recent signage highlights ostensibly healthy burgers and fries under 500 calories.Energy Kitchen touts grass-fed b ... More >>

Rape Charge Against Steven Feagin Dropped Due to Alleged Victim's Credibility

Broward Sheriff's OfficeSteven Feagin​Sexual assault charges against Steven Feagin -- the former Deerfield Beach High School football standout who went on to play running back at the University of Illinois -- were dropped due to the credibility of the alleged victim, according to a closeout ... More >>

Ryan LeVin Gets Eight Months in Illinois Prison

Ryan LeVin​Briton-killing douchebag Ryan LeVin will spend the next eight months up the river, according to the Chicago Tribune.When LeVin decided to go to Florida to face charges related to killing two men in Fort Lauderdale with his Porsche 911 Turbo, he didn't tell authorities in Illinois that h ... More >>

Ryan LeVin Headed to the Slammer

Ryan LeVin​Brit-killing dunce Ryan LeVin is headed up the river for a bit, although unrelated to making roadkill out of two men with his Porsche.LeVin is scheduled to turn himself over to the cops in Chicago this morning due to a parole violation related to pummeling three other people with his ca ... More >>

Illinois Department of Corrections Wants Ryan LeVin To Serve Prison Time

Ryan LeVin​Amid the accusations of Ryan LeVin's escape from prison time as an example of "checkbook justice," he'll get another shot at the slammer.According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Cara Smith -- the chief of staff for the Illinois Department of Corrections -- gave a call down to Broward Cou ... More >>

Huge Dogfighting Bust Went Down Only After Cops Brought Their Pit Bulls to the Fight

Lee DeWyze Leads "American Idol Live!" Tour at BankAtlantic

Choose the Glam for Your Hamburger

The Cheesecake Factory's Memphis, Monterey and blue cheese BLT "Glamburgers"​Unleash your inner Jeffrey Steingarden and decide whose hamburger, er. . . Glamburger will reign supreme (but you don't have to be a dick about it) in The Cheesecake Factory's "Great Glamburger Challenge." For six weeks i ... More >>

Morning Juice: Dissention in the BSO Ranks; Boca Inventor Wins $3 Million Judgment

​Let's see what's happening in South Florida this Tuesday morning:After financial struggles led to the closing of Westgate Tabernacle's homeless shelter last week, Palm Beach County commissioners are wrestling with the question of how to care for the region's transients. [Palm Beach Post]Scott Rot ... More >>

The Wings at Roosters in Margate Lose Something in Transition

Cooper City Woman Convicted in Sex Abuse of Illinois Relative

Mateo​Ana Mateo, a 29-year-old woman from Cooper City charged with sex abuse based on a Facebook dialogue she had with a 15-year-old relative in Illinois in 2007, has been convicted by a Will County, Illinois, jury. The Facebook posts were discovered by the boy's mother in June 2008. The victim to ... More >>

Basketball Star's Mother Trusts New Coach With Son's Hoop Dreams

Flickr: Nick Carlson​Back in May, Juice did a two-part series on Deon Thomas, the former high school phenom and University of Illinois star who after a lengthy career playing pro ball had retired to Pembroke Pines where he had been coaching a junior varsity team and running clinics on the weekend. ... More >>

Midwest Hoops Legend Leaving South Florida

C. StilesThomas, pictured with his two daughters and their friends from their Pembrokes Pines neighborhoodDeon Thomas, the former University of Illinois basketball star who had retired in South Florida and who started a new career coaching junior varsity at The University School in Fort Lauderdale, ... More >>

One Cool Cat

Fresh-faced Boca chanteuse Cat Shell expands her reach.

Vontae, You're Gonna Love Your New Home

Flickr User: dakinderThe Champaign, Illinois, Daily Illini newspaper has a report on the Fins' first-round round pick:Former Illini football player Vontae Davis was arrested (Or was he? See update below.) on June 9 in Champaign for unnecessary vehicular noise and driving without a valid license.Ther ... More >>

For This Deon, Prime Time Is Overdue

Deon Thomas was a Chicago hoops legend. He would become one of the University of Illinois' all-time basketball greats. And for the last decade-plus, he was a globe-trotting, championship-winning professional basketball star. Now he's a JV coach in the Broward 'burbs.Specifically, Thomas is the absur ... More >>

Did Sun-Sentinel Blow the Cops' Case in Porsche Hit-and-Run?

LeVinA source close to the Porsche hit-and-run investigation suggests that a Sun-Sentinel story may have hindered police efforts to make an arrest in the case.Locals were shocked when two British businessmen were killed in the early-morning hours of February 13. Craig Elford, 39, and Kenneth Watkins ... More >>

Murder Victim's Infiniti Missing

The Broward Sheriff's Office is hoping that the public will help solve a murder. Last night, friends of 68-year-old Larry Ellison wondered why he didn't show up for a planned dinner. They stopped by his townhouse on NE 19th Street in Wilton Manors only to make a terrifying discovery -- his body.&nbs ... More >>

Morning Juice: DCF Protects Children with Racists, State Beats Legion of Doom for Most Corrupt

The children of DCF.DCF Managers Use Racial Slurs That You'll Need to Look UpEmployees at the Department of Children and Families office in Tallahassee apparently like to throw around racial insults. An internal DCF audit found that six employees, even supervisors, were throwing around words, like " ... More >>

Illinois Most Corrupt State? Nah, Florida's Still Got It.

The New York Times' Bill Marsh found the statistics. When it comes to corruption, Florida crushes Illinois in terms of raw number of convicted officials. We're No. 1, with New York a rather distant second. Chicago's state falls all the way down the list to the seventh spot. Yeah. That's what I thou ... More >>

Restaurant Preview 2

Michelle Bernstein's Sra. Martinez will be debuting this Monday in the  Design District. On Tuesday the Wynwood hood, which has been quiet as an empty canvas concerning food, will finally have a restaurant: Joey's, a contemporary Italian café at 2506 N.W. 2nd Avenue. Developer Joey Goldman and ... More >>

Former Football Star Charged With Rapes

Heimlich Maneuvering

Thousands of South Florida schoolkids were taught a faulty lifesaving technique

One Cool Cat

Boca's Cat Shell channels a classic sound with soul and savvy

Julie Black

Four Flavors of Emo

Helping a young genre grow up.

Sufjan Stevens

Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)

Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!

Volcano, I'm Still Excited!! (Polyvinyl)

Letters for December 18, 2003

Four-wheeled cops

Sweatin' to the Oldies

The Joggers race toward perfect harmony

Beware of Falling Rock

Them Midwest boys really knock you out

Cheap Shots

Rick Nielsen is not content to pull his old hat tricks anymore

Meals Behind the Wheel

Broward County's drive-thru joints are diverse both in ethnicity and quality

The Straight Dope

The Straight Dope

The Straight Dope

The Straight Dope

The Straight Dope