A lot has been said about the Supreme Court challenge to “Obamacare,” the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. One thing, though, that’s gotten lost in the shuffle is that the case is called Health and Human Services v. Florida — it was filed by Florida’s then-attorney general Bill McCollum,…
Florida has landed in fifth place in the annual beachwater quality rankings from the Natural Resources Defense Council. While some counties had as many as 13 percent of their water samples exceed federal bacteria standards, Broward County’s number was down at 2 percent; Palm Beach and Miami-Dade were both at…
People are always whining about how Congress doesn’t do anything, pointing out annoying “statistics” like that its approval rating is at negative 3 percent or whatever. But Republican Rep. Bill Posey and Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson are doing something, don’t you worry. They’re taking a noble stand in the 2013…
A 99-year-old Fort Lauderdale woman thought she was paying Angela Byrd about $15 an hour for in-home health care. At 60 hours a week, that’s around $46,800 a year — which means it’s kind of questionable that she allegedly received $275,000 in 2008, $167,000 in 2009, and $34,500 in the…
Last week, we told you about Allen West’s assertion that federal student loans are communist, something found “in a book written by Marx or Engels called The Communist Manifesto.” He said in a video posted June 14 that “it’s called the state control of education.”Well, two days after that video…
Indianapolis man John Gross says he’s the victim of yet another poorly trained TSA agent using made-up screening procedures — this time, on his dead grandfather.He was flying out of the Orlando airport with the ashes of his grandfather, Mario Mark Marcaletti, he says, when a TSA agent open his…
Hold onto your crucifixes — this one’s ridiculous.A Tampa judge has decided a lawsuit can go forward against the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office after a female rape victim accused a prison guard of refusing to give her a doctor-prescribed emergency contraception pill because “it was against the guard’s religious beliefs,”…
Scharonis Wright was an illegal immigrant who was about to be deported back to Haiti: He was wrapping up a four-year sentence for armed robbery and aggravated assault and needed a way to stick around — so he told investigators he had some dirt on a 2008 shooting in Deerfield…
Patrick Murphy has a great campaign tactic to use in the District 18 race against Rep. Allen West — he can always point out that he isn’t Allen West.Murphy followed West to District 18 after the congressman announced he wouldn’t be running in his home district, ol’ number 22. Murphy’s…
It started about two weeks ago: Miami Herald political reporter Marc Caputo wrote a blog post criticizing the “sloppy, trashy Tampa TV reporting at WTSP” about the Jim Greer corruption trial — more specifically, criticizing reporter Mike Deeson, who Caputo said “seems more determined to file tendentious reports to show…
The above photograph, which Bay News 9 shared on its Facebook page, is of an alligator. It is a very large, very stupid animal. Seriously. A 400-pound alligator has a brain the size of about three olives. It’s pretty much just swim/kill/sleep for old Mr. Gator.But the above photograph is…
Louis C.K. has done it again: After ditching the corporate model and putting out a comedy special on his own (he financed it himself — and sold 110,000 copies in three days) the New York comedian is now striking out for an independent comedy tour too.”I’m going on tour this…
If you couldn’t make it to today’s parade celebrating the Miami Heat’s NBA championship, we’ve got a big pile of photos from the event — there are players, there are fans, there are T-shirts that reference the “Miami zombie.”View photos from the Miami Heat 2012 Championship Parade here…
Just a heads-up, motorists: This Thursday, police will be on the 1300 block of South Dixie Highway in Deerfield Beach, checking cars for “defective safety equipment” and checking motorists for valid license, registration, and insurance paperwork.BSO officers will be conducting the checkpoint between 6 and 10 p.m. Best get to…
We had a four-story package a few weeks ago that looked at Arizona’s SB 1070, the controversial law that would turn local law enforcement into immigration officials — the controversial law that was just gutted by the U.S. Supreme Court.The court said this morning that Arizona was not allowed to…
For the first time, Egypt held a democratic election. Mohamed Morsi was named president-elect of the country, which ousted President Hosni Mubarak last February as part of the “Arab Spring” of democratic protests. Morsi is a former member of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood — which worries some people even in…
There is a serious problem brewing in Fort Lauderdale. No, it’s not the privately run charter schools in academic and legal shambles or the ever-growing list of Broward police officers accused of gross misconduct.No. The problem, you see, is that the utility companies are marking underground lines, and… it’s ugly.A Sun-Sentinel…
Former Deerfield Beach Commissioner Sylvia Poitier doesn’t want anyone to think she “doesn’t respect government.” It’s important that she pointed that out, because you might mistakenly come to some other conclusion when you heard about she polluted land with dry-cleaning chemicals, then wouldn’t submit the government-required report about the pollution, then…
Do you looove the First Amendment? Are you a fan of Woody Harrelson movies? Do you want to ask someone why Hustler magazine published a photo of a conservative columnist with a photoshopped penis in her mouth?If so, good news! Porn mogul Larry Flynt is coming to town tonight. Unpack…
A lot of crime news today, but it’s not every Friday somebody gets indicted on charges he mailed white powder to government offices.The FBI says that’s exactly what Justin Burton Lane did sometime between Christmas and New Year’s — there isn’t a lot of information available yet, but we know Lane…
Listen, pervs. If you’re on BoyAhoy, the “fastest growing gay dating app” for the “hottest, newest, and most fun way of meeting singles mobilely,” just assume every underaged boy is a cop and stop offering to give them blowies.Last week, a 26-year-old Boca man was arrested on charges he sent…
Bloomberg had an interesting scoop yesterday: The Mitt Romney campaign asked Gov. Rick Scott to tone down his bragging about Florida’s economy because it was interfering with Romney’s message of economic apocalypse under Barack Obama. The report also said Scott “was asked to say that the state’s jobless rate could…
