On January 11, 2010, 12 students and two teachers from Boca Raton’s Lynn University traveled on a service trip to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. On January 12, six of them were killed in the massive earthquake that hit the island, in what the school calls “the darkest day in the university’s history.”…
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 mug shots from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, and femmes fatale. Check out Miami New Times’ Riptide blog for the Miami-Dade edition…
Fabulous news, everyone. All-around nice guy Rush Limbaugh has found a new way of disseminating the cheery and good-natured messages he conceives every day from Palm Beach. Limbaugh, whose radio show became one of the most popular in the country through a ceaseless commitment to intellectual honesty and civil discourse,…
Update, 3/20: Comment from American Airlines to ABC News has been added.Original post, 3/15:Gailen David, a snarky, Miami-based American Airlines flight attendant behind several videos making fun of the company, has been fired, according to a post on his Facebook.David’s website, DearSkySteward.com, is a mix of travel “jetiquette” (airplane elbow…
An Ohio television interview scheduled to air Sunday will feature Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio reiterating that he isn’t interested in the vice presidential nomination.”I’m not going to be the vice president, and I’m not running for a national office,” Rubio told the Ohio News Network. When asked if he…
Welcome to the inaugural post of our Allen West Fact Party series, in which we take claims made by the District 22 Republican and attempt to figure out whether they have a basis in reality.Today’s Fact Party analysis comes to you from the world of finance. Congressman Allen West was…
Update, 4:28 p.m.: PBSO reports he’s returned home. Still waiting for more details.Original post, 6:13 a.m.:The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office sent out a message late last night asking for help finding 48-year-old South Bay man Dennis Palmer, who officials said has the mental capacity of a 10-year-old and was…
Many people who don’t have to file returns still have federal income taxes taken out of their paychecks — in many cases, too much. In 2009, up to $1 billion in tax refunds went unclaimed in the U.S., including as much as $67 million in Florida alone. And the IRS is actually…
Hollywood fortuneteller Olivia Evans was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison Monday and ordered to pay her scam victims more than $400,000. She tried to apologize and reportedly made a relatively big scene in the courtroom, saying, “I was guided in the wrong way of life, and now I realize…
The new Miami Marlins stadium has a backstop that could only have originated in South Florida — rather than have a normal-people brick wall or those nice green pads, the stadium will have 40 feet of aquariums separating the area behind home plate from the first row of fans.Though Marlins…
Former President Bill Clinton is taking his “Embracing Our Common Humanity” tour to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts next Tuesday, where he will “explore the challenges of globalization, our growing interdependence and ways toward a common future based on shared goals and values,” according to a release.Tickets are…
The blogosphere has been all a-flutter today about photographs of Eric and Donald Trump Jr. that surfaced on an African hunting website showing the brothers in a Lion King-themed nightmare: big guns, dead Zimbabwean animals all over the place, and one elephant tail, sans elephant…
Update, 10:20 a.m.: I messed up. The Sun-Sentinel does carry Doonesbury, but on the page opposite most of its other comics. They’ve got today’s “slut” strip, and I’ve left a message for comment to see if the rest of them are running too.Update 2, 2:30 p.m.: The Sun-Sentinel’s Mary Helen Olejnik…
Oneal Morris was arrested in Miami last November on charges that she gave back-room plastic surgery to several people using mixtures of super glue, cement, mineral oil, and Fix-a-Flat tire fluid. She told Entertainment Tonight that “I really am innocent or whatever,” and Miami court records indicate she had a…
Tanya Calvin was just trying to do her job yesterday, serving breakfast out of the Burger King takeout window at 666 W. Broward Blvd. A guy pulled up, she took his money, and then 31-year-old Edwin Walker came jumping in through the window like a cat burglar with a balance…
Attention, high schoolers: Your days of toiling away for minimum wage are over. Emperors Gentlemen’s Club (& Steak House) is looking to give you a much higher-paying gig. So throw away that ice cream scooper and pick up some clear, platform heels, because a strip club wants you.The Riviera Beach…
Who the hell knows where former Colts quarterback Peyton Manning is going to end up. With sports reporters wildly repeating whatever their perpetually unnamed sources are telling them, we’ve heard the Miami Dolphins’ hopes of landing the star are “losing steam,” that it’s a two-horse race between the Arizona Cardinals…
The Daily Kos’ David Waldman is tweeting up a storm about major GOP donors (and someone on Rick Perry’s “favorite plane”) having a secret meeting at the Koch brothers’ Aspen compound this weekend, and Gov. Rick Scott has taken his first three-day weekend since last September. After the “maybe he…
If you were wondering, Congressman Allen West supports the flat tax. If you want to know why, though, it has, ah, something to do with Charlton Heston.West posted a video of himself speaking on the House floor last week under the title, “Why the Flat Tax Works.” It’s a curious…
The stars of 2004’s Some Kind of Monster documentary are taking another sojourn into theaters. Except this time it’s in 3-D, and instead of being directed by acclaimed documentary filmmakers, it’s in the hands of Nimród Antal, who directed 2010’s Predators. (If you haven’t seen it, it’s about monsters, not sex offenders.)Metallica will start…
Elton John With His BandBankAtlantic CenterFriday, March 9, 2012Better than: Any of your mom’s other favorite live acts.He played “Tiny Dancer.” He said it was for the ladies, but I know that deep down, he was playing it for me.The rest of Elton John’s impressive 29-song set list Friday night might…
A sampling of the weekend news you might have missed:Give it time?: While overcrowded schools in western Broward are bursting at the seams, there are 26,000 empty seats farther east — and Superintendent Robert Runcie is doing almost nothing to alleviate the issues for the coming school year, saying a “broader…
