In Lake Worth, some residents fear that private developers will be given too much power in controlling the city’s beachfront. Lake Worth beach has always been one of the coolest in South Florida — awesome for people-watching, surfing, and chilling. You could grab breakfast at John G’s, fish off the…
Manatees are the cute-looking sea cows that bring on Florida tourists like iron filings to a magnet. But now a group of environmentalists has alerted the federal government it plans to sue on behalf of the critters. In particular, the group wants the USA to implement a look-don’t-touch (or swim)…
The day they came for Sandra Lopez, she was working the line inside Moreno Farms’ packing house. Cool air blasted through the cavernous building in a remote field outside Felda, a tiny hamlet nine miles from Immokalee. Lopez and 70 other workers, mostly Mexican and Central American women, stood in…
Today marks the eighth anniversary since Robert Levinson, a Coral Springs private detective, vanished from Kish Island in Iran, where he was researching a cigarette-smuggling case. And now FBI Director James B. Comey has announced that the reward for information leading to Levinson’s location, recovery, and return has been increased…
Rick Scott has an abysmal environmental record. So the latest report revealing that Scott ordered the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to ban the term “climate change” from all emails and reports should be the least shocking thing you’ve ever heard in your entire life. Scott has, from the word…
A homeless man was arrested for stabbing another homeless man to death this weekend shortly after buying a new shirt to replace the bloody threads, according to BSO. David Edward Shaw, 42, faces second-degree murder charges for killing an unnamed, 37-year-old man. The attack occurred late Saturday in a Burger…
It should be a given among criminals that if you get yourself in a pinch with the law, keep your mom and dad out of the mess. But a Boca Raton man who was busted for illegally selling firearms at gun shows only compounded his headaches by roping his parents…
Welcome to Fort Lauderdale! How was the flight in from [insert boringly shaped state here]? We hope the humidity didn’t catch you off-guard. It’s a very wet heat down here in South Florida. Also, it’s one of the hit-and-run capitals of America. But we don’t need to talk about that…
In the last week, the goalie position for the Florida Panthers has become like being a drummer for Spinal Tap. Anyone who gets between the pipes for the Cats has inevitably met with an injury. It’s been so bad that the Panthers are not only down to their third-string goalie…
The Big Aristotle loves him some Israel. Former Miami Heat center Shaquille O’Neil has officially endorsed BSO Sheriff Scott Israel for 2016 as an honorary cochair for the sheriff’s reelection. Israel, who beat out Al Lamberti in 2012 for the top-cop position at Broward Sheriff’s Office, filed his reelection papers…
Heather Hironimus, the mother of the 4-year-old boy caught in the middle of a circumcision case, has been ordered to appear before Judge Jeffrey Dana Gillen of the 15th judicial district in Palm Beach County on Tuesday or be found in contempt.
On a weekly basis, stacks upon stacks of letters from Florida prisoners filter into the Lake Worth headquarters of the Human Rights Defense Center, a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of the human rights of people held in U.S. detention facilities. Some of the letters are simple thank yous…
Lolita, the orca at the Miami Seaquarium, has been in captivity for decades. Now, in addition to the animal rights groups that have long been calling for her release, another groups of people are demanding her retirement. Several Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest, where Lolita was born, are…
Over the past two years, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement has more than doubled the amount of investigations of police shootings and use of deadly force incidents, going from 50 in 2013 to 103 in 2014. WFTV news reports that the increased number is due to local police departments…
According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, since December, police had been receiving complaints from women that a stranger had touched them inappropriately when they were walking in the Rock Creek subdivision of Cooper City. Tuesday night, police were in the area investigating when 911 received a call from a woman…
Since the car service Uber began operating in Palm Beach in August, county commissioners have been working on details to regulate the ride-sharing service, two bills have been introduced in the state legislature to legalize it, local cab drivers have been expressing their frustration over it, and at least two…
In a major shift on how it conducts its entertainment business, Feld Entertainment Inc., the parent company of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, announced Thursday that it will remove Asian elephants from its traveling circus performances. The plan is to have Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus phase…
On Tuesday, Florida Rep. Frank Artiles’ restroom bill passed the House Civil Justice Subcommittee on a 9-5 vote. It was one of three subcommittee votes the bill will have to get through in order to get to the House floor. Still, it was a symbolic defeat for LGBT activists and…
Is it possible that Rick Scott 2.0 will be a kinder, gentler governor? Uh. Maybe? In a first term that was filled with dickhead moves, Rick Scott’s primo dickhead policy position was probably his push to drug-test welfare recipients. Grounded in the imaginary conservative bogeyman that welfare recipients sit around…
Fort Lauderdale Police Officer Victor Ramirez gained widespread infamy when he slapped a homeless man suspected of trespassing in a public bus terminal last month and video of the incident went viral. But internal affairs files show that the “slap heard around the world” definitely wasn’t the first time Ramirez…
Jeff Weinberger is an activist who works on homeless issues. If Fort Lauderdale officials, including newly reelected and now three-term Mayor John P. “Jack” Seiler, are as serious as they claim to be about working with the multitude of food sharing groups that provide daily meals to the city’s homeless…
Students at Parkway Middle School, located at 3600 NW Fifth Court in Lauderhill, were evacuated Wednesday morning after an apparent bomb threat. While Lauderhill Police are not revealing the specifics, they did say that it’s being treated as a “credible threat.” According to police, a resource officer at the school…
