Despite the rising contempt for Gov. Rick Scott, this one kind of flew under the radar. With the exception of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, our local media outlets seem determined not to notice that the credibility of Gov. Scott’s education adviser has been grossly undermined by a cheating…
Miami Beach police arrested LeBron James’ mother, Gloria James, early this morning at the Fontainebleau hotel on charges of simple battery and disorderly intoxication. According to the arrest report, shortly before 5 a.m., James belligerently argued with a valet worker and then slapped him across the right side of his…
This may come as a bit of a shocker, but a new poll shows that almost half of Florida voters think Gov. Rick Scott is doing a bad job. The survey, conducted by Quinnipiac University, found that the number of Floridians who disapprove of Scott’s job performance has more than…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office released this sketch today of the suspect who they say beat and robbed an elderly woman during a home invasion last week. Last Tuesday, shortly before 10 p.m., the suspect busted into the Pompano Beach home of 88-year-old Pearl Patrinos, punched her in the face, threatened…
Rick Scott may have pissed off a lot of people with his plans for mandatory drug testing of all state employees and welfare recipients. He’s been verbally thrashed for hypocrisy and scrutinized for conflict of interest. Now, a group of Key West residents will send a giant sample of their…
Looks like state employees aren’t the only ones who will have to pee in a cup before they get a check.On Thursday, a bill that would require welfare recipients to pass a drug test before they could receive state benefits advanced in the Florida Legislature. The proposed law also requires…
Despite resistance to federal health care reform and the governor’s refusal of a federally funded high-speed rail project, President Barack Obama maintains slightly favorable approval ratings among Floridian voters. And the most formidable of his potential Republican opponents is a former governor who once drove to Canada with the family…
Update: Police recently released a sketch of the suspect.It doesn’t get much lower than this. On Tuesday night, an unidentified goon busted into the Pompano home of 88-year-old Pearl Patrinos, punched her in the face, stole some jewelry, and threatened to kill her if she didn’t give him money. He…
Chad Pennington, the two-time NFL Comeback Player of the Year, would surely make a third run at the award if he returned to the field next season. But that doesn’t seem likely now. The former Dolphins quarterback, and current free agent, tore his ACL while playing a game of pickup…
Two Republican officials blasted Florida today for refusing to move its primary date, which is set for January 31, in violation of the rules of both Republican and Democratic parties. It’s some of the toughest talk we’ve seen so far in the fight over Florida’s 2012 primary date, but Florida…
Even with all the news coverage of the disaster in Japan, it can be easy to forget about the suffering going on half a world away. We’re bogged down in our daily grinds and have to worry about our own severe weather warnings. But students and faculty at Nova Southeastern…
On Monday, the same day that the New York Times shocked the world and erected a paywall on their website, Maer Roshan, founder of the failed Radar Magazine, launched TheFix.com, “addiction and recovery, straight up.” With everyone so indignant about paying for the Times, the free website went up almost…
Florida falls below the national average in quite a few significant measurements that reflect its quality of life. And healthy residents is one of them. But if you live in Broward or Palm Beach, chances are you’re a little healthier than most Floridians.In the sickly Sunshine State, Broward and Palm…
You probably remember that ridiculous story yesterday about Jose Canseco sending his twin brother, Ozzie, to fight in his place at a celebrity boxing match. Well, like the Tiger Woods scandal, Charlie Sheen’s antics, and many other ridiculous stories about American celebrities, the folks at Next Media Animation put together…
Yesterday the Sun-Sentinel ran a story about how some painters and grass cutters who work for the Broward County School District make more money than highly educated teachers with decades of experience. Well, it may get worse. The Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy released its State of the…
These pill mill doctors may have misunderestimated Gov. Rick Scott but he’s gon smoke em out. And he doesn’t need no Office of Drug Control or a geeky little database to track dealers of mass destruction. He’s got a “strike force,” to target the unscrupulous doctors, wholesalers, drug manufacturers and…
A few weeks ago, Rick Scott reintroduced Florida to Jim Crow-style voting laws, which essentially disenfranchise a large percentage of African Americans and just so happen to boost Scott’s chances at reelection. The law brought back draconian restrictions on felon’s voting rights that Florida’s two previous governors worked to reform…
Jose Canseco, the steroid-abusing snitch who keeps slinging mud at former teammates, may have pissed off his last few fans on Saturday night. About 400 people sat disappointed at a Hollywood casino, when Canseco’s celebrity boxing match was scrapped because he had secretly sent his twin brother Ozzie to fight…
Somewhere between two abortion bills and anti pill mill legislation, the Senate Health Regulation Committee, later today, will take up a proposed law that prohibits doctors from asking their patients about gun ownership and could fine them up to $100,000 if they do so. The bizarre piece of legislation passed…
Yuriokis Gamboa has the quickest hands in boxing, after Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacqiao. Unlike those superstars, however, the featherweight has a much better pool of competition. So, with that and the knockout power he displayed last night, he’s arguably the most exciting fighter in the sport. …
In the second South Florida pill mill bust this week, federal prosecutors charged 57-year-old Dr. Selwyn Carrington, of Miami, with illegally distributing massive amounts of narcotic pills through two different pain clinics. The feds nabbed Carrington on Friday, just one day after local authorities arrested Delray pill peddler, Dr. Barry…
U.S. Marshals surrounded 48-year-old Lyndell Davis as he did yard work in front of a Tallahassee home on Wednesday, and arrested him for the rape and robbery of a 16-year-old girl in Miami, which he allegedly committed 23 years ago. On May 23, 1988, the teenage victim had noticed…
