The statewide push to get a solar power proposal on the 2016 ballot recently hit a milestone. Backers of the proposal announced last week that they’d secured enough initial signatures to send the proposal to the Florida Supreme Court. It’s an important first step for backers of the proposal, which…
The Lake Worth-based Human Rights Defense Center is urging the federal government to adopt rules that would regulate the practice of issuing debit cards instead of cash or check to prisoners just getting out of captivity. Third-party companies that issue the cards charge exorbitant fees, HRDC says, which heavily impacts…
With more than 1,800 miles of coastline in Florida, debris washes onshore up daily — everything from plastic bottles to discarded diapers. But Rudy Socha, who says he’s a veteran of the US Marine Corps, is worried about treated wood from piers and docks. The Ohio-bred, South Carolina-inhabiting Socha has…
(Note: on reports, investigators have alternately spelled his name Ahziya and Ahizya) Someone, or something, struck Ahziya Osceola in the abdomen so hard,the injuries eventually killed him. According to the Broward Medical Examiner’s findings, detailed in Analiz and Nelson Osceola’s arrest warrants, their three-year-old son died from “blunt impact abdominal…
Ex-Fort Lauderdale Police Officer Alex Alvarez, the racist cop sitting center-stage in the scandal that’s engulfed the department, once broke a suspect’s arm while taking him into custody. Despite the incident, an Internal Affairs review of the use of force found there was “no apparent violation” of department policy, according…
The state has decided not to press criminal charges on three Pembroke Pines minors who posted nude photos of other minors onto an Instagram account. Instead, the three, a 13-year-old girl, and two 12-year-old boys, will do community service and go to therapy. The three were arrested and charged…
Florida is already home to dozens of invasive species that have been damaging our environment. But things are about to get really insane now because the two most destructive termite species on the planet have decided to join forces and make baby super termites — in Florida. According to University…
On Thursday night in Deerfield Beach, residents of the city gathered to hear the case of Rob Kassab, a Boca Raton businessman who wants to build townhouses on land that was once home to a black cemetery. The topic is an emotional one for people here and several expressed their…
Both the biological mother and father of Ahziya Osceola (note: on reports, investigators have alternately spelled his name Ahziya and Ahizya) have extensive criminal records, according to a review of court filings and police reports. Those charges range all over the spectrum, from possession of cocaine and organized fraud to criminal…
In the legal world, it’s forbidden for a judge to discuss a case with one of the parties in the case without the other party’s knowledge. Doing so is called ex parte communication, and because it could unfairly favor one party over the other, judges who have been found to…
“No child should ever endure what little Ahizya had to endure during his life,” Hollywood Police Chief Frank Fernandez told a gaggle of reporters as he announced the arrest of the father and stepmother in connection to the death of three-year-old Ahizya Osceola Wednesday afternoon. Police say when Ahizya’s body…
Big Time in Hollywood, FL, Comedy Central’s latest sitcom, is neither big time, nor Hollywood, FL. The show, which premiered its first episode Wednesday night, is funny, if you’re into dick jokes, ultra-violent gags, and slacker humor. It’s a sort of mix between It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Workaholics. What it…
It has been less than a week since the Fort Lauderdale Police Department pulled back the curtain on a racism scandal among its own ranks. Last Friday four officers — James Wells, Christopher Sousa, Jason Holding, and Alex Alvarez — lost their jobs with the department after racist texts and…
Fort Lauderdale Police have arrested the father and step mother of three-year-old Ahizya Osceola, who was discovered dead and stuffed in trash bags in a box inside the woman’s laundry room last week, According the Fort Lauderdale Police, Osceola is being charged with aggravated manslaughter, and child neglect. Osceola is…
“We have decided to leak 100 addresses so that our brothers residing in America can deal with you,” said a website purportedly linked to militant group Islamic State of Iraq (ISIS) that says it has a “kill list” targeting several U.S. military personnel living in America. Since then, the Pentagon…
Despite some progress here and there, Florida has, for the most part, been pretty crappy about LGBT rights. Particularly in the workplace. But now, thanks to a new study from Equality Means Business, that discrimination has a dollar value. And it’s pretty steep. According to the study, discrimination against LGBT employees…
This past Sunday night, a group of friends decided to check out some of the cheap drink specials during Fort Lauderdale’s spring break scene at Off the Hookah. But the fun took a nosedive when one member of the group noticed something on the t-shirts worn by several people at…
Analiz Osceola, the step mother of deceased three-year-old Ahizya Osceola, stuffed the boy’s body inside a box in her home’s laundry room, say court documents. Osceola claims that she heard the boy making grunting sounds at 4:00 a.m. the night before he was reported missing. She said that when she…
Yesterday, an animal rights activist traveled into rural Hendry County in his 4×4 SUV in search of a primate breeding complex that is expanding its facilities to accommodate thousands of monkeys that will be imported from Africa and used for lab testing. He hoped to bring attention to what he…
Spring Break is upon us. Which means booze, sun, surf, good times and countless people getting a swirly henna tattoo on their sunburned shoulder. But, the Florida Department of Health has issued a warning over black henna tattoos. Black henna, contains a chemical known as P-pheylenediamine — or PPD — which…
A Broward judge has ordered that the two siblings of Ahizya Osceola, the three-year-old Native American boy who was found dead in his Hollywood home last week, be temporarily taken from Ahizya’s father and step mother until police could interview one of the kids. Nelson Osceola was in court Monday…
After last week’s bombshell revelation of racist cops in the Fort Lauderdale Police ranks, the Broward criminal justice system is still reeling. The termination of three officers and resignation of another — James Wells, Christopher Sousa, Jason Holding, and Alex Alvarez, respectively — for racist text messages and other idiocy…
