PGA golfer Dustin Johnson is the latest to lay down some big money for a big house in our neck of the woods. Johnson, who has earned over $5.2 million in the last year swinging the golf club, has bought himself a waterfront house in Palm Beach Gardens worth $4.95…
Blackstone Labs is a heavy hitter in the weight-room-supplement game. The company is fronted by two social-media-savvy beefcakes who often take to YouTube to hawk and explain their company’s wares. But Arizona-based Nutrition Distribution, a supplement company that competes with Blackstone, claimed in an April lawsu it (filed in California)…
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump was a guest on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert Tuesday night, and was given the opportunity to move on from his “birther” status by the late night host — and he turned it down. Before he became the face of the Republican party, and the…
Entering last week’s second GOP Presidential Debate, West Palm Beach’s own Ben Carson was making serious headway. According to a CNN poll, Dr. Carson had surged ahead of fellow Florida and once-favored candidates Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, shooting into second place behind current frontrunner Donald Trump. Following the first…
Palm Beach County Commissioners have unanimously voted to expand civil rights protections for minorities by redefining “places of public accommodation” in the Palm Beach County Ordinance for Equal Opportunity to Housing and Places of Public Accommodation. The vote, which passed in 6-0 decision, was held on Tuesday morning. Specifically, the…
Two hours before her redeye Greyhound was scheduled to snort out of the lot, Valerie Bozeman walked into the bus station in Oakland, California. She was traveling light: $93 in her pocket, a tote bag full of underwear and toothpaste courtesy of the Bureau of Prisons, and the blessings of…
Jaime Nicole Lewis, a Palm Beach Woman who was arrested on importing and possessing with attempt to distribute flakka from China charges last April, has plead guilty. Lewis, 22, appeared in West Palm Beach federal court on Monday where she plead guilty to conspiracy to import flakka. In a story…
Monalisa Weber remembers a 16-year-old boy standing in a Broward courtroom with a blank stare. He had broken his probation. A judge asked the boy why he didn’t attend the mandatory boot camp, and when the boy didn’t answer, the judge sentenced him to prison. “The streets raised him. You…
Even when they’re not in town, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue are hero-ing it up. While a group of firefighters were up in Colorado attending the Fallen Firefighter Memorial over the weekend, they decided to climb some rocks there — because, Firefighters. During the climb, they heard a woman’s scream from…
Ndamukong Suh has gone rogue, maybe. The Miami Dolphins suffered an embarrassing 23-20 defeat to the usually inept Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday. And while losses like that seem to magnify the larger issues going on with a team (and there are plenty with the Dolphins), perhaps no issue was more…
One of the great wrongs in comic history has been made right, meaning one Broward woman will finally get to see her grandfather get the credit he deserves. Bill Finger was the shy genius who was the creative engine behind Batman. Along with illustrator Bob Kane, Finger cobbled together the…
Just weeks ago, a group called Regulate Florida unveiled the “Florida Cannabis Act” — a proposed law that would legalize recreational marijuana — and began collecting petitions to get it on the ballot in November 2016. Now, the opposition has come out to try to shut things down. Antidrug organizations…
After debating the state of Uber in Broward County for seven hours Thursday, commissioners couldn’t come to a definitive agreement on a new set of regulations for the ride-sharing company, and postponed a final vote for next month. Taxi cab company and Uber reps, as well as drivers, attended the…
“Can all kids do the things that I can do?” It was a simple enough question Logan Bratter had for his Mom on a drive home from violin practice: could other kids get to enjoy the after-school things that made him so happy? No, said his mom, Rebecca — “not…
Before he was the frontrunner for the Republican Party nomination, Donald Trump was one of the most vocal “birthers” out there. In 2012, Trump went so far as to challenge Barack Obama to prove his U.S. citizenship for charity, and demanded the president hand over his college transcripts to prove…
The South Florida Wildlands Association says that twenty Broward County municipalities have passed resolutions that oppose Kanter Realty’s application to drill for oil in the Everglades. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection, meanwhile, has requested more information from Kanter before the DEP can “fully consider whether the applicant’s proposal conforms to…
This spring, we reported on a troubling trend breaking out in some protected waterways in Florida: manatee abuse. Now, everybody loves the not-so-little sea critters. That’s the problem. In waterways around the state, various “swim with manatee” tours are potentially interfering with the manatee’s habitat — a possibility highlighted most…
Marco Rubio addressed the climate change issue during last night’s debate by saying that America is not a planet. Sea levels are on the rise, which os predicted to cause great peril to his home state, but Rubio continued to be flip about the environment, kicking off Wednesday night’s GOP…
Lots of things have transpired between the first two GOP Presidential debates. Things that most folks would never dream seeing. And one of those things is that West Palm Beach neurosurgeon Ben Carson has been surging in the polls. In fact, he’s actually lapping other Florida GOP candidates Jeb Bush…
West Palm Beach Mayor Jeri Muoio has taken the blame for the city’s posting of sensitive information on the city’s website that detailed information on local and federal law enforcement investigations. The main issue with the posting was that it compromised undercover officers involved in the investigations, as well as…
Just when you thought it was safe to not care about hurricanes, the National Hurricane Center is saying that there are not one, but two, systems out there with a good chance of development. Of special note is the first system that just came off the coast of Africa, which…
Fred DeLuca, Fort Lauderdale resident and cofounder of Subway, has died, the company announced on Tuesday. DeLuca had been diagnosed with leukemia in 2013. He was 67. “DeLuca was an active member of the International Franchise Association, a recipient of numerous awards and accolades,” a statement from the company reads…
