Richard Couto borrows his looks from Mr. Clean: bald and intimidatingly muscular. He seems more comfortable in full combat gear than a pair of Dockers. But as tough as he appears, inside of this ex-Blackwater contractor lurks a major soft spot —- an all-consuming passion for animals. Last week, Couto and…
In the grand tradition of such notable celebrities like Tracy Morgan and Jim Belushi, Nick Cannon has been named the 2015 Grand Marshal of the Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade. Last year’s Grand Marshal, Flo Rida, announced his successor during a press conference Monday. Cannon, who has made his name…
On Monday, news broke of the shooting death of 31-year-old Corey Jones. Jones, a well known black local musician, was reportedly shot by a by a Palm Beach Gardens police officer on Sunday evening. On Monday, Palm Beach Gardens Police identified the officer as Nouman Raja, and said in a new release…
Life easily could have been over for James Joseph Richardson in 1967. A black orange picker from Arcadia, in central Florida, he was convicted that year of the gruesome murders of his seven children – murders he didn’t commit. It would take more than two decades of false imprisonment before…
At 7:30 in the evening, Terri Frana noticed two black bears gallop through the backyard of her 10-year-old, $725,000 house in Lake Mary, just north of Orlando. Frana, a 44-year-old banker with brown bangs and a kind face, was used to seeing the beasts around her woodsy neighborhood, but she…
Former Miami Heat forward Lamar Odom has reportedly awoken from his coma and checked out from the Las Vegas hospital he had been in since being found unresponsive at a Nevada-area brothel. According to multiple reports, Odom came out of his coma over the weekend, and has moved to a…
Fidel Lopez, the Sunrise man who made national headlines last month for disemboweling his girlfriend, has plead not guilty in a Broward court on Monday morning. According to the Sun-Sentinel, Lopez, 24, has been assigned a new attorney after his original lawyer withdrew himself from the case. Lopez was arrested…
Besides the big question of who will be president, marijuana legalization may be the most hotly debated issue in Florida going into the 2016 election cycle. United for Care is working to get a medical marijuana measure onto the November ballot, while two other groups are looking to get recreational…
Since 2010, Jillian Pim has been laying out spreads of vegan dishes weekly at a pavilion in Stranahan Park in downtown Fort Lauderdale, sharing food with others who might not be able to afford a healthy meal. Pim is part of Food Not Bombs, a grassroots group that believes society…
Well, it appears that Dan Campbell has scared the suck right out of the Dolphins. After a sluggish start to the season that saw Miami eek out one win in four tries, the Campbell Era took off like a phoenix rising from the ashes and then grabbing a bazooka and…
On Tuesday, Palm Beach County commissioners are expected to give a final approval for an ordinance that will decriminalize marijuana in that county, joining Broward, Hallandale Beach, Miami-Dade and Key West as areas in South Florida where those caught with a certain amount of pot will be fined rather than…
Anyone who’s graduated from their college/party years to real, job-having adulthood knows how difficult it can be to make new friends as a grown-up. Work friendships can get complicated. Compliments to other women can be misconstrued as flirtation. And we all just feel kind of shy sometimes. Yet you see…
The image was hard to shake: a smoke-spewing fireball swallowing a Lake Worth trailer. As the on-the-scene footage began cycling through the news coverage this week, the worst-case scenario was confirmed: when the Piper PA-28-180 plane dropped out of the sky on Tuesday afternoon, smacking into the Mar Mak Mobile…
On a night where the Miami Heat played their annual Red, White & Pink inter-squad scrimmage, thoughts and hearts were heavy as former Heat forward Lamar Odom remains in a coma at a Las Vegas hospital. The game, which is held every year to raise money and awareness for breast…
Back in May, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue officials rescued a 7-foot, 400-pound juvenile female manatee that had gotten stuck in a pump station that ran from Broward Boulevard to the New River. On Wednesday, the manatee, named Piper, was finally released to back into the wild at George English Park located at 101…
Notch this one down as a win for . . . well . . . um . . . guess it’s hard to exactly tell who this is a win for . . . Florida, along with a gaggle of 31 other states, has temporarily fended off the implementation…
More details have emerged in the raid of three Loxahatchee farms earlier this week after it was discovered that animals were being tortured and killed at those facilities. Videos used in the investigation, as well as arrest reports, reveal brutal animal abuse that went on at the farms. On Tuesday, Palm Beach…
Development group Diplomat Golf Course Venture LLC has had its eye on building a 935 condo-hotel suites and a 262-unit condo tower near the Diplomat Hotel and Country Club in Hallandale Beach, and now that might become a reality. On Thursday, the company will unveil its plan in the city’s…
Daniel Agnew wants to redirect thousands of dollars from Walmart to small businesses run by black people. He has a plan: this Black Friday he hopes to organize a pop-up marketplace of 100 vendors at Betty T. Fergusson Park in Miami Gardens. It’s less half a mile away from the…
Former Miami Heat forward and fan-favorite Lamar Odom was rushed to a Las Vegas hospital Tuesday after he was found unconscious at a Nevada-area brothel. According to an initial report by TMZ, Odom, 35, was found unresponsive by a woman at the Love Ranch South, a legal brothel located in Pahrump, Nevada…
Ride-sharing company Uber, which had ceased operations in Broward County in July, will be begin operating in the county again beginning Thursday. On Tuesday, Broward Commissioners voted a looser set of regulations for Uber, which had shut down apps in the county after refusing to adhere to regulations set forth…
Palm Beach County authorities conducted the largest raid in extreme animal cruelty operations in U.S. history Tuesday when Animal Recovery Mission (ARM), the Palm Beach County State Attorneys Office and Palm Beach County law enforcement raided three alleged illegal animal slaughter farms. These farms, authorities say, have been involved in selling…
