Now that Tamarac Commissioner “Positively Patte” Atkins-Grad’s recall has been made official, it was time to wait for the recall election date to be announced. And that time is today. On Wednesday morning, Broward’s chief judge announced that the recall election will be held on October 15. It will be…
Twitter. It’s made for comedy gold. The Miami Dolphins. Also made for comedy gold. So it’s only natural to combine the two. And that’s exactly what Dolphins fans have decided to do on this work-weary hump day. To celebrate the Fins’ perpetual mediocrity, Dolphins fans @ben01 playfully tweeted about the…
Shellie Zimmerman, the wife of George Zimmerman, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor perjury charge on Wednesday after she lied during a bail hearing following George’s arrest for shooting and killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Shellie was facing a felony charge that would have put her behind bars for up to five…
A shootout erupted at an Oakland Park Days Inn hotel Wednesday morning. A Broward Sheriff’s deputy as well a hotel guest were shot. The suspect was shot and killed by police. The deputy and civilian who were shot are both expected to be fine…
Kids may want to stay out of the water in Volusia County, because the sharks there apparently keep trying to eat them. Back in May, on Memorial Day weekend, a shark bit an 11-year-old boy off the coast of Volusia County. The boy suffered only minor injuries. And now comes…
Another day, another tree-removal controversy in our neck of the woods. This time around, it’s the South Florida Water Management District that is planning to uproot dozens of oak and gumbo limbo trees that sit along a canal between Nob Hill Road and SW 101st Avenue along the C-11 canal…
So Robin Campbell of Maitland, Florida, decided to take his dog for a walk. Naked. When cops approached the 20-year-old and asked him what’s the deal with his walking the dog all naked, Campbell replied, “This is God’s house.” A sound explanation! Oh, and he was tripping ballsack on ‘shrooms…
Tom Rooney, your 17th Congressional District rep, isn’t too fired up about the U.S. possibly taking military action in Syria. Or, as the Palm Beach Post puts it, he’s “apprehensive” and “wary” of any action. “I’m pretty against getting involved in a Sunni-Shia civil war,” Rooney says. According to an…
A Pembroke Pines man with multiple aliases was arrested for allegedly punching two Cuban men, kicking their dog, and yelling obscenities about their nationality, police say. Alexander Gomez-Jimenez, 30, who reports say has a long rap sheet that goes back as far as 1999, allegedly approached the two men on…
Christopher Holmes, an American Airlines captain from Wilton Manors, has been arrested on a Texas complaint accusing him of transporting child pornography. According to a federal criminal complaint, Holmes allegedly used online chat services and email to exchange pornographic images of children bound and gagged. Some of the children in…
Maybe we should all just stay home from now on. On the heels of Hollywood Beach losing roughly 800 parking spots to make way for Margaritaville comes the news that parking at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea is about to get jacked up thanks to massive construction on Commercial Boulevard. So if you want…
Weston’s Cypress Bay High football coach, Mark Guandolo, has been suspended for two weeks for slapping quarterback Lucas Tellefsen on the helmet during a game Sunday. According to a Broward schools statement, Guandolo has been suspended from work for three days and two weeks from athletic activities. ESPN cameras picked…
Fort Lauderdale Police, with help from the Broward County Animal Care and Adoption Division, have rescued 11 female American Staffordshire Terrier/Lab-mix dogs that had been used for baiting and breeding in an alleged Lauderdale dog-fighting ring. The dogs, which were found living in deplorable conditions, were severely malnourished and had…
Hey, got an extra $70-plus million lying around? Because Celine Dion has put her giant Jupiter Island property/water park/mansion on the market and is asking $72.5 million for it. Cheap! What does a plethora of middling and annoying Canadian pop songs buy you? Why, a luxurious Bahamian-inspired estate with a…
Cleaning out cat litter is no fun. So what do you do when your wife, who is apparently responsible for cleaning out Mr. Whisker’s poop from the box, doesn’t carry out that responsibility? Why, you threaten to throw the cat against the wall and threaten to stab your wife to…
Driving on 595 and I-95 makes you want to light a pillowcase full of kittens on fire and punt it off the overpass you’ve been stuck on for the past hour. It’s atrocious. So, what’s the solution? REVERSIBLE LANES, OF COURSE! That’s right. I-595 will soon be opening reversible lanes…
A Fort Lauderdale man didn’t like a neighborhood pit bull wandering into his yard to check out his dog. So he decided to shoo it away. By throwing an artillery shell at it, injuring the dog so severely that its owner had to have it euthanized. See also: Pit Bulls…
Buffalo Bills running back C.J. Spiller’s step-grandfather reportedly went on a shooting spree in North Florida that left three people dead, including himself, and two others injured. On Saturday morning, Hubert Allen Jr. shot a man at the trucking company he worked for. Allen also went to the company owner’s…
A woman arriving at Fairway Elementary school in Miramar to pick up her child coming out of school, when her other child decided she was coming out of her. The woman, nine months pregnant, began to have contractions Thursday afternoon, just as she was arriving to the school at pick-up…
A teacher at Mavericks Charter High School in Pompano Beach — a school Joe Biden’s brother once called “a hope factory” that would “save the country” — was arrested Thursday for using Facebook to solicit sex from at least four students ranging in ages 15 to 17. According to a…
A Broward County grand jury has indicted the man who gunned down David Herr, the 36-year-old tow truck driver that tried to tow his illegally parked vehicle several weeks ago. According to a BSO report, the man, 31-year-old Triston Johnson of Lauderdale Lakes, pulled a gun and shot Herr several…
Broward officials have called for a review of whether the Jewish-oriented Ben Gamla charter school violates the separation of church and state. After an article that appeared in the Israeli newspaper, The Times of Israel, written by JTA, a Jewish wire service, about Ben Gamla founder, former Democratic Congressman Peter…
