It’s terrifying when your kids can’t walk down the halls of school without ducking a possible sexual assault. Over at Blanche Ely High, one underaged girl was allegedly assaulted in a hallway bathroom by a fellow student Tuesday. Now the 18-year-old boy is in custody. The whole thing went down…
Just a month or so back, Fort Lauderdale’s black community was good and mad about what’s in a name. The moniker in question was “Sistrunk Boulevard,” the strip that runs through the city’s historically black neighborhood. The debate pitted white yuppies in a neighboring gentrifying area against an older African…
If you haven’t already, add coral snakes to your mental list of Florida critters you don’t want to mess with. Hard to miss thanks to their distinct yellow, black, and red pattern, the snakes — micrurs fulvius to all you nerds out there — are usually found hanging around the…
Well, folks, they did it. They brought back home the title for Uncle Sam. This weekend, if you happened to stroll by Haulover Beach, you probably caught sight of a giant pasty mob of gravity-racked flesh bobbing on the tide. South Florida Free Beaches — the local group advocating for…
You spoke, we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s Mug-Shot Friday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, derp faces, and femmes fatale. In the spirit of Halloween, this week we tried to round up the scariest…
Back in March, we unrolled the story of how a seemingly no-name guy from small-town Pennsylvania turned up in Key West with a 150-pounds of emeralds found on the bottom of the sea floor. Almost immediately people in the treasure hunting world began questioning Jay Miscovich’s 2010 find. Three years…
Huffing home on her green beach cruiser, Lekeithra Smith was already edgy about what might be hunkered down in the dark, waiting. It was near 9:30 p.m. in late April 2011. The 22-year-old was pedaling just a few feet behind her high-school-aged cousin Deadra, coming back from a party at…
I’ll never forget Halloween when I was seven years old. After a night of picking up the goods going door-to-door in the neighborhood, I immediately dump my new stash out on the living room floor. A Baby Ruth first. I take those first delicious bites. Suddenly, a sharp pain blitzkriegs…
Let’s just get this out of the way first. OK, that’s better. Now, last week, a familiar face on the Boca Raton party scene was taken into police custody after allegations of sexual assault arose. When we say party scene, we’re not talking about nightclubs. Jesse Coursey is a dance…
You spoke, we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s Mug-Shot Friday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, derp faces, and femmes fatale…
Now that the economy seems to be soldiering on, we tend to forget that just a few years back the banks were basically endless conveyor belts of foreclosures. But the aftershocks of the mess are still sounding. John Lebeau’s case puts that in stark relief Last week, the North Palm…
When Sarah Orzechowitz walked through the doors at Nova Southeastern University on the first day of classes in winter 2012, she had her hopes pinned on a career as a nurse. But as the mother of two went through the Davie university’s program, higher learning turned out to be a…
Last Friday night, Passion Nightclub was looking to make one lucky girl’s dreams come true. The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino’s bump-and-grind palace held a “Free Melons” contest. It was not a produce giveaway. The top honors included a free augmentation. The winner wasn’t walking away with just any…
When Sarah Orzechowitz walked through the doors at Nova Southeastern University on the first day of classes in winter 2012, she had her hopes pinned on a career as a nurse. But as the mother of two went through the Davie university’s program, higher learning turned out to be a…
You spoke, we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s Mug-Shot Friday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, derp faces, and femmes fatale…
Damn, that was close. Sixteen days of government shutdown. An endless sound-bite tug of war. Negotiations that had less intellectual substance than a debate over who could bench more, the Hulk or the Thing. It’s all over. Late last night, at the 23rd hour, Congress finally hammered together a deal…
If you’re looking to take Junior out for some angling in the wilderness, you might want to steer clear of Loxahatchee. Last week, some people fishing a remote sliver of water out in the western edge of Palm Beach County stumbled upon a horrific find: the leftovers of a horse…
You spoke, we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s post of the Broward-Palm Beach edition of Mug-Shot Friday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, and femmes fatale…
Life was in a tailspin for a Connecticut real estate investor named Stacy. Once married, she was now divorced. Once the owner of a beautiful $6 million mansion, she now bounced from rental to rental. She still paid the bills — but made only a fraction of her old salary…
Life was in a tailspin for a Connecticut real estate investor named Stacy. Once married, she was now divorced. Once the owner of a beautiful $6 million mansion, she now bounced from rental to rental. She still paid the bills — but made only a fraction of her old salary…
Back in June, a 15-year-old Boca Raton teen collapsed on the beach after downing some type of psychedelic. The speculation that snowballed after Zach Denaro’s sad end included a lot of dud info, confusion, and anxiety. One of the more believable rumors floating online was that the teen had swallowed…
The person (or persons) behind an online shame campaign against South Florida journalists has released a video explaining why. For the past three weeks, DeadBeatLink.com has gone live with the home addresses and phone numbers of Broward and Palm Beach’s Fourth Estate. The video, which was passed along late last…
