Michael Minardi is on a mission to make recreational marijuana legal in Florida next year. Asked how he would do that, considering that a ballot measure to legalize even medical marijuana didn’t pass in 2014, he says, “We’re going to use science, and we’re going to use stats.” Minardi is…
We’ll take it! The Miami Dolphins managed to simultaneously have the biggest sad trombone sound game, and glorious comeback game in one fell swoop on Sunday, when they outlasted Washington 17-10. Entering the game the Fins were the talk of the NFL as a strong up-and-coming team that was going…
Broward and Palm Beach Counties are doing their part today to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The American Legion is hosting a free 9/11 Memorial Concert at ArtsPark at Young Circle, located at 1 North Young Circle in Hollywood, tonight. The concert, which will feature…
Holy smokes it’s finally upon us. FOOTBALL SEASON OMAH GAHH. More to the point, the Dolphins are back. And this time, they’re armed with a heck of a whole lot of analysts and experts picking them to actually, seriously, for-real make the playoffs this season. Some have even predicted them…
Fifty seven counties and 394 municipalities across Florida have yet to move forward with prohibiting discrimination against the LGBT community. But last night, Wellington — the largest village in Florida and the fifth largest municipality in Palm Beach County — unanimously voted to enact an LGBT-inclusive civil rights ordinance establishing that the…
The Palm Beach Kennel Club have banned a greyhound trainer and his kennel assistant for life after one of their dogs suffered a critical injury during a race and was left to die, according to an investigative report filed by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. The dog,…
The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office hit up social media to show video of a woman saying. “No wonder you people get shot” to a deputy who had pulled her over for speeding. The video, which PBSO posted on their Facebook and Twitter accounts, show a traffic stop video shot by…
Donald Trump remains ahead of Jeb Bush in just about every poll — and by wide margins. This has been moistly thanks to Trump’s relentless attacks on Bush and the fact that the media can’t stop showing Trump’s face at every turn (guilty!). At every opportunity, Trump has gone for…
Hialeah Police Officer Nelson Enriquez, who killed two police dogs in Davie when he left them in a hot police SUV all day, will not be charged criminally, the Broward County state attorney’s office said on Tuesday. In May, Enriquez’s K-9 partners Jimmy and Hektor were found dead inside his police…
Jayvon Woolfork has been openly defiant and insistent that he was innocent in the gang rape and beating of a Hollywood teen but on Monday, a jury didn’t found him guilty of sexual battery and kidnapping. In 2013, Woolfork, and three other teens — two girls and two boys — invited…
A viral video posted by the website Photography Is Not A Crime that appears to show a suspect being bitten by a Delray Beach police dog has prompted some to make threatening phone calls to Delray Beach Police PD. The video, which was shot by an onlooker and uploaded onto Facebook…
The Florida Supreme Court has rejected a 90-day suspension without pay for Broward Circuit Judge Lynn Rosenthal in order to keep from getting any disciplinary action pursued against her by the Judicial Qualifications Commission. Rosenthal had agreed to the suspension last month. In May of last year, was busted for driving…
Even with DUI checkpoints and saturation patrols by Broward Sheriff’s Office over the last couple of days, Labor Day weekend still ended up being a deadly one with two fatal accidents occurring, and at least one of them likely caused by an impaired driver. In the early morning hours Monday,…
The Port Everglades is currently the third busiest cruise port and 11th busiest freight port in the nation. And it’s about to get busier with plans for deepen and wide the port under way. In 2007, the Broward County Board of County Commissioners approved the Port’s Master/Vision Plan, which included a…
While Arby’s is offering free food for all police officers throughout Broward and Miami-Dade Counties today in response to a Pembroke Pines officer being denied service because she was a cop, there as been more serious fallout over the incident. Arby’s has confirmed that the manager from the store located…
The three-day Labor Day weekend is just about here. But before you venture on out, there are a couple of DUI and driver’s license checkpoints that the Broward Sheriff’s Office will be conducting that you should know about, starting Friday morning into late Sunday. First, a heads up for anyone…
A Jamaican woman was caught with mounds of cocaine inside her bra as she tried to walk through customs like it was all good. The woman was arrested at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on August 2, according to a news release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The woman was…
Did you know that Labor Day is one of the busiest travel days on the road of the year? It’s true! And this Labor Day weekend will have the most travelers on the road since 2008, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. And that means the likelihood of…
We’re officially living in a world where Donald Trump is very likely going to be the GOP nominee. So it might be time to fighting it, and simply become part of the xenophobic rhetoric and the women-hating, and the insults, and get on the Trump bandwagon by showing your support…
You might soon be able to legally smash a vehicle window in order to free an animal from the confines of a hot locked car. The Florida Senate is reviewing a new bill that would allow not only first-responders and animal control officials to break a window to free someone’s…
A Pembroke Pines officer was denied service at a local Arby’s Tuesday night simply by virtue of being a police officer. According to the Pembroke Pines Police Department, the uniformed cop went to get some food at the Arby’s located at 11755 Pines Blvd., but was told by a worker…
Broward commissioners voted on Tuesday to have a final vote for a new lax law that would allow Uber to return to the county. As has always been the case whenever the commissioners meet to discuss the ride-sharing app company’s operations, many showed up to voice their opinion, with the…
