Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is not attending Rick Scott’s inauguration today. Instead, he’s out in New York putting together his new PAC, Right to Rise. Bush announced the news of his new PAC on Twitter and Facebook with two videos shot in both English and Spanish. And, in another…
Virginia Roberts, the sex slave Palm Beach financier Jeffrey Epstein “loaned” out to billionaires and, allegedly, to Prince Andrew when she was underaged, is writing a tell-all book that promises to present undeniable evidence of the Duke of York’s involvement. In December, a lawsuit was filed saying that Roberts –…
The Love Burn — South Florida’s own Burning Man-style festival — is returning for a second year after last year’s successful inaugural weekend. Not only is the festival expanding exponentially but organizers are hosting a fundraiser — or in burner-speak, FUNdraiser — this Friday to both raise money and begin…
On a Sunday evening in November 2012, three teenagers crept up to the sliding glass door at the back of the Palm Beach home belonging to Robert Boody, a Florida highway patrolman they knew was out on the job. On the other side of the glass, a vicious, cantankerous German…
Video by Mitchel Worley In 50 years — when we’re all commuting via hoverboard and drinking the carbonated beverages of our wildest dreams — we’ll likely wonder: How? How could it take us so long to legalize gay marriage? And — in the same way we look upon the grainy…
A reptile store owner was arrested for slapping his employees with a bearded dragon lizard. And you hate your boss when he gives you gruff about stuff. According to a Broward Sheriff’s Office arrest report, Benjamin Siegel, 40, owner of Ben Siegel Reptiles Inc. in Delray Beach, was arrested on…
Update, 1:30 p.m.: According to a press release, Once Judge Zabel lifted the stay, Miami-Dade County Clerk Harvey Ruvin stated marriages can begin immediately in the county. Couples have already begun receiving their marriage licenses. Judge Zabel has agreed to marry the plaintiff couples who wish to marry today. Karla…
As gay marriages begin just after midnight tonight, it’s a historic day for Florida — and particularly for Fort Lauderdale, which according to 2012 Census data, has the highest percentage of same-sex households in America, 2.8 percent. South Florida has come a long way in acceptance of gay rights. In…
Update and CORRECTION: The earlier version of this post reporting of a mass wedding on Fort Lauderdale Beach was incorrect. There will be a mass wedding at 3 a.m. Tuesday, but it will be held at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale. The courthouse wedding will take place on…
A family vacation pretty quickly turned into a nightmare over the weekend as the cruise ship Oasis of the Seas was pulling anchor out of Port Everglades and leaving South Florida on Saturday. The ship quickly turned around after reports leaked out that a little boy had almost drowned in…
With Florida on the cusp of same-sex marriage being legalized, in-all-probability-going-to-run-for-president-in-2016 Jeb Bush has come out and said he’s not necessarily in agreement with the law being decided on by a judge. Briefly stopping from a round of golf on Sunday, Bush told the Miami Herald that gay marriage should…
Craig Attebury launched his retail shop, GayMart, in 1994 in Laguna Beach, California, and opened another outlet in Wilton Manors in 1997, just as now-legendary gay bar Georgie’s Alibi started getting popular. “The plaza was quite empty back then,” he remembers. In the intervening years, Wilton Manors and the surrounding…
Oakland Park brothers Sheheryar Alam Qazi and Raees Alam Qazi are set to go on trial this year on terrorism charges, and prosecutors are planning to use secretly recorded phone calls between one of the men and his wife as evidence against them. The defense says the phone conversations were…
Local documentarian Billy Corben has claimed on his Twitter and Facebook feeds that the Broward Sheriff’s Office twitter account blocked him over a tweet regarding a story of one of their deputies being arrested for shoplifting. The issue came up late Thursday night after Corben tweeted a story linked to…
Saying he “heard God’s call” after being moved by a television report about minority Yazidis trapped by ISIS fighters on Mount Sinjar, Dean Parker, 49, originally from West Palm Beach, decided this past November to join the Kurds in their fight against the ISIS jihadists in Syria. Parker, who has…
It’s been almost a decade since Palm Beach financial guru Jeffrey Epstein was first accused of having sex with underaged girls at his Palm Beach mansion. Epstein, now in his 60s, eventually took a plea deal and served 13 months of an 18-month sentence on just one prostitution charge. However,…
While everyone was getting ready to ring in the new year on Wednesday, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush was busy making more moves signaling that he’s closer to making the inevitable announcement that he’s going to run for president. On Wednesday, Jeb cut ties with businesses he’s been involved in…
Now that 2014 is officially in the rearview mirror, you are probably, like us, suffering from an epic, earth-shaking hangover. But shakes and spewing and headaches aside, it could have been a lot worst. For some folks it sure was. Here are the highlights of the mug-shots that filtered through…
Yesterday U.S. Federal Court Judge Robert L. Hinkle stated that his preliminary injunction in Brenner v. Scott has statewide effect, meaning all Florida clerks may issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples beginning Tuesday. See also: Judge Rules: Gay Marriage Can Proceed in Florida Tuesday (But His Decision Is Being Appealed)…
FSU’s dreams of repeating as National Champions were rebuffed with extreme prejudice Thursday night after the Noles were demolished by Oregon in the Rose Bowl by the score of 59-20. It was the end of what has been a tumultuous run by the Seminoles and their polarizing star QB Jameis…
U.S. Federal Court Judge Robert Hinkle today made it clear that all clerks of court in Florida should begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Tuesday. This announcement was a clarification in the case of Brenner v. Scott. See also: The Couple Whose Case Brought Gay Marriage to Florida…
Ah, Florida. We have criminals, just like every other state. But we have our own special kind of criminal. Namely, dumb ones. And because we’re never in short supply of dumb criminals, we’ve decided to scour through our Floriderp files to present to you the nine dumbest criminals for all…
