Late last year, an Oxbow executive named Kirby Martensen arrived at an isolated splash of mountainous land near Aspen to tour Bill Koch’s “19th century western town.” Bear Ranch, he soon learned, was accessible by only one road and didn’t have cell-phone reception. No way in or out. The entire…

UPDATE: Florida Wildlife Spokesperson Carli Segelson said the python hunt has, in fact, accomplished its intended goals. Organizers primarily wanted to raise public awareness concerning the Everglades’ python epidemic. “We definitely had success,” she said.ORIGINAL POST: For the heat and hyperbole, who knew it was going to be this bad?…

Everyone, lay off Dan Marino. So he’s got a love child. Who doesn’t these days? Man + random woman = love child is an equation that’s deeply rooted in the annals of human history. Going all the way back to the nation’s founding, love children came, and love children went…

Hidden among the shadows in a cavernous banquet hall, Florida’s most notorious backroom politician sips his third cup of complimentary coffee and begins to cry. Jim Greer, the 50-year-old embattled former state Republican chairman, is confessing. Sitting cross-legged on a cushioned chair at the Delray Beach Marriott, he’s bearded and…

As the rap and South Florida panorama emerges from the Rick Ro$$ drama, the Miami native has got some heavy soul-searching to do. One minute, he was making it sprinkle at LIV nightclub puffing jeezies with Luda and Diddy for his 37th birthday, and then: Pow! As MTV eloquently wrote…

Andre “Loki” Barbosa, who has taken over a $2.5 million mansion in Boca Raton by exploiting the Byzantine nature of foreclosure Florida property law, may, in fact, be the biggest tool ever. There are many reasons for this conclusion. But the most obvious might be his “about me” on his Facebook page:…

Update, March 20: Lozman disagreed with the characterization of him in this story. he says “I fought so that ten thousand floating home owners in the country didn’t have to go through what I went through. If I do get paid, great. If not, I’m a big boy. I can…

Late last year, a Deerfield Beach High School teacher named Juliet Hibbs was hurled into the international spotlight when a set of parents accused her of encouraging their daughter to become a lesbian. Soon, her name materialized in the Huffington Post, the U.K.’s Daily Mail, and the National Examiner. Hibbs…

Following a day of rambling testimony, tales of cocaine and hookers, accusations of subterfuge and sprawling CIA conspiracies, Thor Holm Hansen was convicted yesterday of a 1981 bail-jumping charge after he walked out of his own trial, sailed a boat to the Bahamas, and caught a plane to extradition-free Norway…

Brittney Sierra wasn’t a good mother. According to one neighbor, she did drugs in front of her three children while cursing them with “nasty words,” was often accompanied by four or five drug-addled men whom she was sleeping with — and, finally, allegedly covered up the extremely suspicious death of…

Last month, seemingly overnight, thousands of razorbills arrived all along the Florida peninsula in what appeared to be a sweeping abandonment of the Northern tundra for something a little nicer. They flocked along Fort Lauderdale’s beaches, swimming in the waters of Boynton Beach, delighting bird watchers — and, finally, dying…

Meris Kott has a thing for gold. The Boca Raton woman wonders if her daughter would like gold for her birthday. She studies gold use in other countries. She’s got one of those old-timed gold obsessions we hear about in stories — in which pirates whisper there be GOLD –…

In the wake of yesterday’s damning and international condemnation of James Tracy’s allegations that the Sandy Hook massacre hadn’t happened — though apparently our commenters agree with him — one group has flocked to the embattled professor’s aid: his students. Yesterday, his former student, Ryan Cortes, who’s taken three of…

Days before this past November’s election at a cramped deli off Biscayne Boulevard in Aventura, a new yellow Camaro glided into the parking lot and hummed to a rest. An Obama 2012 sticker was pasted onto its bumper. The driver was five hours late. But inside Mo’s Bagels, none of…

Americans have long tolerated if not wallowed in conspiracy theories. Lee Harvey Oswald wasn’t alone when he shot Kennedy. Aliens landed in Area 51. We never got to the moon, etc. etc. But quite possibly the most despicable and callous of all conspiracy theories recently rose from South Florida. James…

Diane Carle is not an agreeable person. She’s irritable. She’s reclusive. She’s slovenly. But according to Carle, who imprisoned 141 dead and dying cats inside her urine-washed home in one of the largest cases of cat-hoarding in Palm Beach history, she’s no criminal. “I have no record,” Carle of Lake…

Catching a Burmese Python can be tricky. And then killing it is no simple matter. There are rules. Many, many rules. To kill the mighty Burmese Python, the untrained and knife-wielding explorer must be vigilant, brave, and apparently blood-thirsty. And — most importantly — must take a 15-minute tutorial. And…