A Salvadoran immigrant detained at a GEO Group facility in California died from cancer only three days after being admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with cancer. And now an immigrant advocacy group is calling for an investigation into the death, which they say happened after several weeks of warning…
A Piper PA-31 crashed into a wooded area near Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport Sunday afternoon. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, all four passengers aboard the twin engine plane were killed. FAA officials say the pilot declared an emergency moments before the plane crashed into a nature preserve along the…
The stain continues to spread in the Fort Lauderdale Police racism scandal. Late Thursday the Broward State Attorney’s office announced they were dropping more than 40 cases involving the Fort Lauderdale police officers who were recently booted from the department for racist behavior. 12 felony cases, 30 criminal misdemeanor cases,…
At long last. The weekend is here. It’s been a long work week and Tax Day is around the corner and Kip from accounting has been a total douche lately. Time to watch the clock, wait until 5:00 and then unwind with some drinking and reveling. You deserve it. You…
Broward County Commissioners have agreed to propose new measures for ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft that would require more thorough background checks for potential driver’s, as well as more stringent inspections for vehicles. Commissioners also want to have drivers fingerprinted. The County Attorney’s Office will prepare the requirements into…
The Environment Florida Research & Policy Center released a new report showing that a good amount of wetlands remain in the flood-prone areas of the state to hold enough rain to cover Broward and Palm Beach in more than four feet of water. And the group is calling on the federal…
It looks like gay couples will finally be able to adopt in Florida, thanks to one measure being approved and a last-minute intervention by Former Senate President Don Gaetz in a separate measure. The state’s gay couples have not been allowed to legally adopt for 38 years. But on Wednesday, the Florida…
The good news: only two percent of Florida bridges are structurally deficient — making ours the state with the lowest percentage of problem bridges of all 50 states. The bad news: two of the ten most heavily-traveled stressed bridges in the state are in Broward County — the one on…
Fort Lauderdale City Commissioners approved to add $2.1 million in costs for the new aquatic center. The center is already costing roughly $33.7 million. The contractor, Recreational Design and Construction, were hired to build a complex over the old one which has sat on the Intracoastal Waterway on Seabreeze Boulevard for…
On the same day a white South Carolina police officer was charged with murder after shooting an unarmed black man, the Florida Senate Criminal Justice Committee unanimously passed a measure that would have police agencies to establish policies and procedures addressing the proper use of body cameras for their officers. The…
The Deerfield Beach City Commission voted to allow a 69-townhouse development to be built on land that once held a black cemetery and which could still have human remains, despite public outcry against the project. Out of five members voting on the city commission, three voted in favor of the…
April: forget about poetry or pleasant showers or even the opening day of baseball season. What the month really means to your average American: taxes. Times to find those mustard covered receipts under the couch and pray you actually left that W-2 where you think you did. Luckily for Floridians,…
For a night, at least, the Miami Heat’s playoff hopes live to see another game. The Heat entered Tuesday nights home game against the Charlotte Hornets with their postseason plans on life support, but the 105-100 victory provided some much needed CPR to their season. The win snapped a four-game…
Count archeologists among those who oppose All Aboard Florida. According to a 44-page lawsuit filed by Old Vero Ice Age Sites Committee, a nonprofit archeology group, the U.S. Department of Transportation illegally approved funding for the high-speed rail project that will run 32 express passenger trains a day from Miami,…
Opening Day came and went on Monday. All of America tuned in to watch first pitches across the nation. The stars were out in full force. Mike Trout homered in his first at-bat. As it is every year, it was a special day. Yet all people can talk about is…
Palm Beach Police nabbed two women in a prostitution ring being held at The Breakers hotel in West Palm. According to probable cause affidavits, the Palm Beach Police Department’s Organized Crime, Vice & Narcotics Unit set up the sting via the website Backpage.com. Undercover agents answered an ad in the…
Life is hard and everything sucks. Racial tension is escalating, murderous militant extremists are running rampant, our white politicians lie about what race they actually belong to, and we’ll stab each other in the neck over the color of that goddamn dress! Stress is pervasive in everything. Our lives have…
Last December, just before the New Year, Palm Beach county was rocked with a report of a tragic helicopter crash involving two people in Lantana. The crash on the 29th resulted in the serious injury of Jonathan Desouza, a student earning his certification, and the death of the pilot, instructor…
The word shot out on the police wire: Be on the lookout for a Ford Focus, black female at the wheel. The driver is waving a handgun at other cars. That muggy afternoon on July 10, 2012, a Fort Lauderdale community service officer coursing through a grid of industrial streets…
In the late 1980’s, young punk rockers in Cuba, known as “los frikis,” were so fed-up with the stifling life of the communist regime that they chose to inject themselves with AIDS so they could live in a sanitorium and be free from constant police-state harassment. And today, two survivors…
Just a few paces from busy Brickell Avenue, Ishmael Bermudez crouches behind his little clapboard house and drinks serenely from a hose lowered into the ancient bedrock. Skyscrapers drape his property in shadows. Across the street, a Metrorail train clamors to a stop at an elevated station. All around, construction…
Brent Betterly of Oakland Park, one of three men associated with Occupy Fort Lauderdale who were arrested in Chicago on terrorism charges in 2012 on their way to a NATO protest, is being let out of state prison in Illinois this Thursday, his supporters have said. They are raising money…
