St. Petersburg

Florida Woman Illegally Rides Manatee Like a Horse in Siesta Key Waters

People can't seem to stop being stupid and treating manatees like they're playthings to jump on top of and ride like a horse. Just a day after two dolts jumped on top of a mother manatee and her calf, comes an WFLA report of a woman leaping on a manatee and trying to ride it like that kid does the ... More >>

Medicaid Expansion Bill "NegronCare" Passes in Florida Senate

House Bill 7169, the Florida Senate's alternate legislation to provide 1 million Floridians with needed health coverage, was approved by the Senate on a 38-1 vote. The measure is expected to head back the House, where it was already rejected and probably will be again.

Manatee Death Toll Has Already Surpassed 2012 Numbers

Manatees have been dying at a record pace in Florida this year, threatening their overall population. in just the first three months of 2013 alone, the number of sea cow deaths have already surpassed all of 2012. See also: -Manatees Dying Off Both Florida Coasts; Scientists Trying to Figure Ou ... More >>

Fishermen Catch Great White Shark Off Florida Coast (VIDEO)

With all the sharks appearing so close to Florida shores in the past few weeks, including two great whites swimming 15 miles off the shores of Jacksonville Beach and hordes of sharks riding the waves off Palm Beach, it stands to reason that shark and man would eventually clash. And they finally did ... More >>

Manatees Dying Off Both Florida Coasts; Scientists Trying to Figure Out Why

Scientists have been working diligently to figure why manatees have started to die at an alarming rate lately. While Red Tide -- which is basically blooms of poisonous algae called Karenia brevis that is deadly to fish and other sea life -- off the coast of southwest Florida has killed roughly 180 ... More >>

First Look: Over 100 Small Plates at Ceviche in Delray Beach

When you think of ceviche, think of Ceviche in Delray Beach. The restaurant recently opened its doors with a quiet grand opening last October, and we at Clean Plate Charlie think it's a crying shame we didn't know about them sooner. The family of Florida establishments has branded itself as an upsc ... More >>

Alleged Manatee Molester Cuddles With Animal, Lets Kids Ride It

Last October we told you about Ana Gloria Garcia-Gutierrez, the Pinellas County woman who was arrested for hopping on top of a manatee and riding it like it was a horse. See also: -Accused Manatee Molester Is on the Loose in St. Petersburg -Manatee Molester Ana Gloria Garcia-Gutierrez Arrested ... More >>

Marco Rubio and the Coffee Enema Couple Join Florida Tourism Board

The local personalities, egos, and public figures who swung through the news cycle this week, ranked by New Times' crack research department using a highly scientific algorithm (i.e., darts, board, hangover-shaky hands.)

Is Charlie Crist Florida's Next Governor?

Sperm Whale Riders Being Sought by Feds

On Monday, we told you about the 40-foot sperm whale that washed ashore in Deerfield Beach. Turns out, a couple of dudes were jumping on top of and riding the whale as it died off the shore of Pompano Beach. And now a federal investigation has been launched to find the unidentified men. Snapsho ... More >>

Man Kills Roommate Over Missing Corn Dog

A St. Petersburg man was arrested after he killed his roommate by stabbing him in the chest with a kitchen knife. The reason for the murder? A dispute over a missing corn dog. Corey Lamont Walker, 36, was arrested on a second-degree murder charge after he attacked Anthony Kimball Smith, 56, and st ... More >>

Manatee Molester Ana Gloria Garcia-Gutierrez's Family Doesn't Understand What All the Fuss Is About

The family of Ana Gloria Garcia-Gutierrez, the 53-year-old St. Petersburg woman arrested for molesting a manatee, is none too fired up about cops arresting her after she committed a crime. Police arrested Gutierrez at her job in a St. Petersburg Sears over the weekend on a warrant for violating ... More >>

Wireless Woe: Internetz Harm Kidz? Probably Not.

American Academy of Environmental Medicine Says Wi-Fi Makes Kids Sick: BS or Uh-Oh?

Gone are the days of chalkboards, abacuses, and dunce caps. Nowadays elementary-school students (of a certain social stratus) tote iPads and laptops and get shamed for their stupidity on social media.And while the prospect of Little Billy jumping on Plantation Middle School's wireless network to pol ... More >>

Giant "Mystery" Eyeball Discovered in Pompano Beach; FWC Investigates

What in the hell is going in Broward County these days? First a guy dies from eating too many bugs, then this thing washes up in Pompano Beach.The above picture is of a giant eyeball that a Pompano Beach resident discovered and turned over to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Manatee Molester Turns Herself In to Authorities

Yesterday we told you about a lady who tried dry-humping riding a manatee like a horse and then disappeared into the ether. Pinellas County Sheriff's deputies were not amused and announced that they were on the lookout for the manatee molester. "Go ride a Jet-Ski. Don't use animals. She needs to b ... More >>

Danielle Harkins Accused of Helping St. Petersburg Teens Exorcise Demons by Cutting Each Other

A 35-year-old teacher from St. Petersburg's Lealman Asian Neighborhood Center was arrested yesterday on child-abuse charges after police say she convinced several teens to hurt each other to get rid of demons.Danielle Harkins is accused of gathering seven kids around a campfire near the St. Pet ... More >>

Rick Scott's Emails Magically Go Missing

Yeah, you can find those emails next to the Columbia/HCA memos. LOL!​Gov. Rick Scott loves to tout how open his office is to records requests -- never mind the outrageous price tag -- but it gets a little tough to acquire public records when they magically disappear.That's what happened to the ... More >>

State Legislator Proposes Bill to Regulate 411-PAIN and Other Referral Services

www.kriseman.comKriseman wants the doctors and lawyers to reveal their financial relationships.​One of the great mysteries about businesses such as the 1-800-411-PAIN Referral Service is whether the lawyers and doctors involved in the network have a financial incentive to refer car accident victim ... More >>

Lawyers Complain to Florida Bar About 411-PAIN Ads

Facebook.comSome lawyers find this unethical.​The Florida Bar is finally paying attention to the 1-800-411-PAIN Referral Service, in part because other lawyers have been complaining.411-PAIN is a Broward-based network of chiropractors and lawyers that solicits clients who have been in car accident ... More >>

Still Moving

Holocaust Rail Car Restoration is Another Train Project that Rick Scott Won't Fund

A rail car used in the Holocaust​The whole country knows that Governor Rick Scott turned down $2.4 billion in federal stimulus money for a high-speed train between Tampa and Orlando (and many are blaming that move for his current dismal 29 percent approval rating). But another train project, this ... More >>

Florida Company Accused of Paying Homeless Men to Let Women Brutally Beat Them

shefights.net​A Florida pastor and a group advocating for the homeless is accusing a Florida-based website of offering homeless men money to get tortured on camera. The site, shefights.net, offers customized videos of attractive young women beating the holy fuck out of men, often until the men are ... More >>

Pants Save Man From Gator: A Tale From the Brotherhood of the Sagging Pants

via thekruser.comThe varying degrees of bagging sagging pants.​Criminal! Dropout! Maverick of personal style! What do your baggy pants say about you? Survivor?! (Maybe... read on.)State lawmakers have been on a tirade against baggy pants for well over a year, but one St. Petersburg teen says if hi ... More >>

Don't They Look Happy Together?

​ During Obama's State of the Union speech last night, Florida Senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson sat together to show unity in light of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting.  But enough about our dysfunctional Congress, let's move onto our dysfunctional Florid ... More >>

VersaEmerge's Alt-Rock Crunch Coming to Revolution

Marco Rubio Has Risen With Lightning Speed, but Conservatives Alone Can't Carry Him to the White House

UPDATED: Florida Bong Ban Passes (Does Not Puff Puff)

flickr.com​Despite organized opposition from smoke shop owners across the state, the Florida Senate passed a bill that will effectively shut down most headshops in the Sunshine State. Under the so-called "Bong Bill," the only shops allowed to sell water pipes will be stores where the sale of tobac ... More >>

Chill Out at Chillounge Night

Photo by Silvia Feuerbach​Take six truckloads of South Beach-style lounge furniture and custom lighting, food and booze booths, live music, a fashion show and samba parade, dump them all on the Great Lawn in downtown Delray, charge everybody $15 to get in ($20 at the door, $75 for VIP tickets) and ... More >>

A Full House (or an Empty Bank Account)

Cash Dries Up in Key Races for Dems

house.govA painting of Bill Young, whose congressional career may have pre-dated the invention of still photographyOn paper, the congressional district of Rep. Bill Young of St. Petersburg would seem to be one of the best chances for the Democratic Party to pick up a seat. Although Young has kept th ... More >>

Floridian High Culture

Rep. Hasner: Taking From Teachers, Giving to Jewish Museum

We didn't set out to make this Pick on Adam Hasner Week here at the Juice, but after Monday's heads-up that the Jewish state representative from Delray Beach was supporting a controversial anti-Islam conference, we stumbled across this item from the St. Pete Times showing that Hasner introduced an a ... More >>

Paparazzi Unimpressed by Ambiguously Straight Gov

Don't you feel just a little sorry for the gawkers of St. Petersburg / Tampa? They've been waiting to get their place on the celebrity map forever! But no, Anna Nicole had to croak in the that other Seminole Hard Rock hotel. Today's Charlie Crist-Carole Rome wedding was supposed to be the cities' Bi ... More >>

Letters from the issue of December 11, 2008

Because A Regular Wedding Wouldn't Be Uncomfortable Enough

Love is a beautiful thing, especially when it happens 180 feet above a casino parking lot. As if the issue of marriage weren't contentious enough in Florida with all the votes, rulings and appeals, now a straight couple from Boca Raton has decided to flaunt their legal ability to wed in the cl ... More >>

Green Eyeshade Award Winners

Truthier Than Thou

Is honesty the best policy? Just ask the members of Underoath, a fractious hardcore Christian band that lit up the Billboard charts.

St. Pete Picks Up Crist Story -- And Drops It

Dark Lords of the Six String

Metal Crusaders Tour

Supergrass

Road to Rouen (Capitol)

Bone Appétit

The Hospital on the Hill

A mean-spirited VA medical center director has patient care playing distant second to the bottom line

A Dog Day

A movie for mutts

Uh-Oh

A consultant arrives at SoFla's top newspaper, and old hands cry foul

Bowowow --yippyoyippyay!

The Norton Museum takes the phrase "dog days of summer" quite literally

Dr. Strange Train

Or: How I learned to start worrying and hate the bullet train

This Bad House

The Nuisance Abatement Board’s war on blight has had some unintended casualties in West Palm Beach — most of them poor