A Connecticut woman was parasailing tandem with her husband in Pompano Beach yesterday afternoon when the unthinkable happened. Her safety harness broke and she fell about 200 feet.The victim, identified as 28-year-old Kathleen Miskell, was taken to Broward Health North, where attempts to save her life were unsuccessful…
The results are in: Broward County just didn’t have a single crap to give when it came to the primary elections last night.According to the Florida Division of Elections website, Broward posted 10.69 percent turnout, which is pretty darned low, even for Broward’s traditional meh stance on primary election nights,…
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) recently announced changes to the harvesting on lionfish. Namely, that you no longer need a fishing license to catch one (when wearing certain gear).Which means you’re totally screwed, lionfish!Now before you go thinking this is some kind of act of animal cruelty,…
Last night’s episode of Hard Knocks featured gut-wrenching moments, scrappy white receivers, Sean Smith shutting people down, David Garrard getting injured, Chad Johnson getting fired, and rookies getting cock-and-balls-shaped haircuts.It was a jam-packed episode. Here’s your recap:…
Broward County cops are on the hunt for two dudes who have been running around stealing cigarettes from stores all over South Florida.The Nicotine Bandits first struck on August 5 around 3 a.m., when they hit a Publix at 1297 S. State Road 7 in North Lauderdale. About an hour…
Yesterday morning, Dolphins linebacker Karlos Dansby went on Sid Rosenberg’s morning show on 640 AM and said that the team releasing Chad Johnson is a bigger distraction than Johnson himself. Because Dansby figured the best thing he could possibly do to help avoid distractions was to go on sports talk…
Jose Canseco has a knack for always tweeting out interesting things to his 482,520 or so followers on a daily basis. And by “interesting,” we mean “batshit nutty.” Yesterday, the steroid-drenched slugger took to Twitter and tweeted out this ominous message:”Yes time travel is possible. Will explain later.”So the world waited…
He wasn’t picked to be Mitt Romney’s running mate, but that doesn’t mean Marco Rubio can’t do his part, damn it. Rubio will be introducing Romney on the final day of the Republican National Convention in Tampa on August 30.Because Republicans and tea partiers love a good latherin’ up via…
In what might be news to most people, Chad Johnson and his new wife, Evelyn Lozada, were supposed to premiere their VH1 reality show this September. But then Johnson learned the hard way that allegedly using your head to hit your wife in the face inside a Smart Car will…
A man who allegedly carjacked an SUV in Fort Lauderdale tried to get away from law enforcement this morning by jumping into the ocean and swimming away near the intersection of East Las Olas Avenue and A1A.Spoiler alert: He didn’t get very far.According to police, the suspect attempted to snatch…
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Mitt Romney is hitting Florida starting tonight for a fundraiser being hosted by his car-dealership-owning friends. It’s all part of his swing-state bus tour in which Mitt plans to make stops in St. Augustine and Miami and being interviewed by Spanish-language radio station Radio Mambi. Mitt canceled a planned event in…
Palm Beach County Deputy Eric Swiger is a former MMA fighter. And last week, Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies met with him for a three-day camp to learn how to fight MMA style and how to spot perps who are trained to fight MMA style. It makes sense. MMA is…
If you’ve found yourself thinking lately that your life has been sorely lacking in obnoxious troglodytic sports talk radio, today is your lucky day! After being fired from 560 WQAM-AM last April following a DUI arrest (broken by New Times) that apparently included weeping, curling up in a fetal position,…
A Walgreens receipt for a box of condoms and a head-butt inside a Smart Car have led the Dolphins to end the Chad Ochocinco/Johnson era in Miami. Just two months after joining his hometown team as a free agent, Johnson was released by the Miami Dolphins following his Saturday night…
Your Miami Dolphins open their 2012 season tonight when they host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a pre-season matchup FUCK YEA. It’s a whole new start (again!) for the Dolphins, as they unveil a new coaching regime (again!), a offensive scheme (again!), a new defensive scheme (again!) and a couple of new quarterbacks…
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A wild bobcat was spotted roaming the streets of a gated community in Boynton Beach recently.Stories of a bobcat walking around the neighborhood had been circulating for some time, but amateur photographer Thelma Myerson actually ran into it one sunny afternoon and took a picture of it.The cat stopped to…
The 2012 Summer Olympics just got COBRADICK’D.LeBron James went into yesterday’s quarterfinal match against Australia and dropped 11 points, 14 rebounds, and 12 assists in the 119-86 beatdown of the Aussies. His 12 assists tied Olympic records held by Phil Ford, Leon Wood, and some dude named Michael Jordan. And…
Former Chicago Bulls forward, local bar hopper, and occasional wedding-dress-wearer Dennis Rodman has apparently written a children’s book. The NBA Hall of Famer has teamed up with screenwriter Dustin Warburton, who penned the cinematic masterpiece Spiders 3D, to write Dennis the Wild Bull, slated to be released in September. A…
