Although Belize is best-known as the birthplace of chewing gum, it’s really similar to Jamaica in a lot of ways. Both are English-speaking Caribbean countries that used to be British colonies. And even though Great Britain legalized homosexuality in 1967, both have anachronistically retained their former oppressor’s anti-sodomy laws. According…
Belinda Slaughter’s doctor set her chances at around 1 percent. The 46-year-old Orlando woman still harvested her eggs and fertilized them with her husband’s sperm. Miraculously, one of the embryos is now a baby boy. Jackson Slaughter was born last September. But an article just published in a journal for…
Every Memorial Day, thousands of people flock to South Beach for a celebration of hip-hop culture. But just before the weekend-long festival kicked off, rap kicked the bucket. Remember when you had to rap to be a rapper? Those days are officially over, even if none of the Urban Beach…
At least he won’t have to deal with any other mosquitos for a while. That’s the silver lining for one Florida man who has Palm Beach County officials scrambling to remove any and all bugs from his home. The reason he has professional fly swatters at his beck and call…
By 2018, American ground troops might be able to do anything but fly. People weirded out by the concept of Google Glass will probably get the heebie-jeebies when hearing about the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, or TALOS for short. The Army project will definitely be bulletproof. But it also…
Irene Secada sat in the back of the campaign headquarters doing mental math. About 80 people were crammed and sweating inside of a Weston shopping mall suite to see Nan Rich, the 72-year-old former state senator and lifelong Democrat, open her gubernatorial campaign headquarters. Although the majority of the Nan…
Sunrise, Florida, is one step closer to being known for exactly three things: a byzantine shopping center that’s completely possible to get lost in, a giant-ass stadium that hosts hockey’s worst team, and an insanely large, billion-dollar development that sounds impossible to fill. On Tuesday night, City Commission members gave…
On May 1, a customer entered a Pompano Beach Subway looking nervous. He paced back and forth across the eatery’s lobby before asking employee Joaquin Zapata to ring him up for a soda and chips. Apparently changing his mind at the register, he then inquired instead about the price of…
When’s the last time you called your mother? No, seriously, pull out your phone right now and take a look. You realize we’re talking about the person who gave you life and ostensibly molded you into the person you are today, right? For shame, dear reader. For shame. Mother’s Day…
Sebastian Gonzales is a 28-year-old former defensive end at Florida International University who knows how to eat. And when it comes to fast food, his allegiances are crystal-clear. “I was obsessed with Chicken Kitchen and addicted to their food,” he says of the South Florida chain. “I was eating there…
Sebastian Gonzales is a 28-year-old former defensive end at Florida International University who knows how to eat. And when it comes to fast food, his allegiances are crystal-clear. “I was obsessed with Chicken Kitchen and addicted to their food,” he says of the South Florida chain. “I was eating there…
Laura Flynn remembers the first time she met a Scientologist. Living in Clearwater — also known as Flag Land Base or Mecca by L. Ron Hubbard’s acolytes — she had unknowingly come into contact with them countless times. The 56-year-old, who describes herself as “good country people,” didn’t ask questions,…
Florida sure knows how to get caught up in a good drug scare, especially when it comes to substances that are on the cusp of becoming illegal or are downright fake in the first place. Our residents have seen some synthetics drugs’ most horrifying effects, and our law enforcement officials…
To some neighborhoods of Fort Lauderdale, Larry Daughtery was known as the local ice cream man. Yesterday he was introduced to jurors as an ice-cold murderer. If what Broward prosecutors are saying is true, Daughtery’s tale is like a real-life and way-less-campy version of the Clint Howard flick Ice Cream…
If you’ve ever been to the Panhandle, it was probably during spring break. That’s the one week per year in which Pensacola and Panama City become tourist hot spots. After the college hordes leave, those cities are again discarded and forgotten by out-of-towners like so many Natty Ice cans on…
Between Passover, Easter, and 4/20, it’s been a mad rush of holidays in the past week. First people were getting cabin fever in their parents’ houses, subsisting off of matzo and trying to think if the adage about never forgetting how to ride a bike applied to driving a car…
She was 46 to his 82. Perhaps that’s why Michelle Nicholas was so appealing to John Deam. After eloping in the Keys, the wealthy older gentleman bought his beau a 2006 Lexus and a $13,000 Rolex. That probably endeared him a little more to her. Nicholas and Deam might have…
Eric Lee runs Florida’s sole sea cucumber harvesting plant in Ramrod Key. But now his business is pretty much set to fail. Back in February, we wrote about the state’s clamoring to place limits on the amount of sea cucumbers that could be collected at one time. The reason? People…
Inside the Colonial-style monolith that houses Beggs & Lane, Pensacola’s oldest law firm, sits Sonya Dobbs, a thin-lipped paralegal from Birmingham, Alabama, with a button nose and long black hair. The perfectly coifed, 52-year-old mother of three pastes user name after user name and password after password into an array…
Jesus told Terri Frana it would be all right. That’s what the 44-year-old Lake Mary woman told reporters about Saturday night, when she was attacked by a black bear inside her garage. “[The bear] started pulling me toward the woods,” she told WESH-Channel 2. “I just thought, ‘God, please, this…
Despite the warm weather, Florida is one of the worst places to be homeless in the country. Almost every year, the state gets ragged on by the National Coalition for the Homeless for being one of the “meanest” in the union. Cities like Miami, Sarasota, Pensacola, and St. Pete have…
Seminole County is the bear-attack capital of Florida. Residents of the sylvan subdivisions lining Markham Woods Road frequently see the creatures in their backyards and know to watch out for deer on the drive home. Wildlife is just part of the neighborhood. But now, wildlife officials say, the bears there…
