A group of five Palm Beach firefighter/paramedics took home the first-place team title at the Scott Firefighter Combat Challenge world championship in Myrtle Beach yesterday. Their win marks the first time in the history of the sport for a team to win both nationals and worlds in the same year, Palm…
A group of five Palm Beach firefighter/paramedics is among the fittest and most agile rescue teams in the world, and this week the local rescuers set out to prove their strength, endurance, and speed at the Scott Firefighter Combat Challenge world championship in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The local team competed…
Earlier this week, crews posted a billboard on I-95 in Hallandale, near Hallandale Beach Boulevard. “Don’t Let Diabetes Cut You Off at the Knees,” the billboard warns. The image used to drive home the message? A Barbie-type doll (naked, of course!) with her leg chopped off…
A tipster sent us word that Lauderdale Lakes has a very thin wallet these days — so thin that the city hasn’t paid the Broward County Sheriff’s Office in months, leaving the police no choice but to reduce services. It turns out our tipster is right: Lauderdale Lakes is in…
ProPublica, the “independent non-profit newsroom” that won a Pulitzer this year for investigative reporting, recently released an ongoing investigation (Dollars for Docs) into doctors’ compensation from pharmaceutical companies and the effect it has on patient care. The investigative team crunched and organized numbers into a database that makes this information easy…
The amendment that would have given voters the right to directly approve land development projects was rejected yesterday by an overwhelming majority in both major parties. It seems the proposal was so riddled with unanswered questions and gray areas that it left voters no choice but to say “no!”…
Florida is stuck in a gubernatorial election rut, and voters on Twitter have been spewing their frustrations all day, making us question which is more severe: mud-slinging campaign ads or social networking rants. Regardless of which is more extreme, both are decently provocative and mindlessly entertaining — but very concerning…
Since invading public consciousness years ago, the words West Nile instantly make people shudder. In fact, some of the most cautious people in Palm Beach have probably been wearing pants and long sleeves in the balmy days since October 26, when the county’s health department issued a mosquito advisory, the…
The epically named Allure of the Seas, whose home is in Fort Lauderdale, made headlines today after it cleared a bridge in Denmark by less than the height of a toddler. And it didn’t crawl underneath; it gunned it to get a little lower since the squeeze was as tight as…
At least this proves she has follow-through as a political stunt artist, has a respectable level of endurance (she’s a triathlete and marathon runner), and knows how to stay in shape while giving someone a metaphorical bitch-slap. That summary nails down Loranne Ausley’s campaign platform as projected by her recent…
We crossed our fingers before checking the most recent unemployment data, but the preliminary numbers crunched by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and released today reveal that September was just more of the same, with unemployment in Florida at 11.9 percent, up slightly from August. Only California, Michigan, and Nevada…
Both Halloween and the election are fast approaching, making this a very spooky week, with unexpected twists and turns lurking ahead. Far in advance of the October 31 holiday, Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Party candidate for Delaware Senate, revealed “I am not a witch” (provoking awesome parodies), and now the…
Fake pot, it’s the new thing, sort of like real pot in the ’60s, cocaine in the ’80s, and heroin in the ’90s — not that any of those ever actually receded from the landscape of mind alteration. Recently, you may have read one of the ubiquitous “officials want to…
In case you didn’t catch the news Friday, a New Jersey car dealer awarded a new car to Terry Jones, the Gainesville preacher who threatened to burn thousands of Muslim holy books on September 11. The gift, a 2011 Hyundai from Brad Benson, was in fulfillment of his promise to…
The Gainsville preacher who named September 11th “International Burn a Qur’an Day” and threatened to burn thousands of Muslim holy books before deciding against it last-minute is in New Jersey to pick up, in the words of Bob Barker on The Price is Right…A BRAND NEW CAR…
Proof that journalism, even newspaper journalism, still matters: This Miami Herald article about readers’ complaints that the word ‘Obamacare’ is a “pejorative” with partisan connotations. The Miami Herald changed the recent headline, “Obamacare arrives Thursday,” to “Obama-led healthcare arrives Thursday” after many readers filed complaints and the paper agreed that…
via icanhascheezburger.comWith Halloween fast approaching, the plight of black cats is pretty grim. Several Palm Beach shelters are putting the temporary kibosh on black-cat adoptions out of fear that the animals will be ritualistically tortured or used at a party like a rented monkey. New Times caught up with representatives…
Surveillance shot via NBC MiamiClick to enlarge.Occasionally, on a very rare and special day, a crime demonstrates almost enviable prowess in feminine grace and agility. Well, South Floridians, today became one of those momentous occasions as a surveillance video surfaced of a woman and her accomplices robbing almost $4,000 worth…
