Amendment 2 got more votes than Rick Scott, Jeff Atwater, and Pam Bondi. More Floridians voted yes on 2 than they did no. Yet, Florida remains a state without legalized medical marijuana. Simply because it couldn’t get those final two percentage points to push it over the top. What did…
Rick Scott was able to win his reelection bid by 1 percentage point. Amendment 2 fell short by 3 percentage points. As predicted for months, the midterm election races in Florida ended up razor-thin close in the end. And thanks to lower-than-average turnout in Broward County, those races were ultimately…
A top Swiss banker accused of running a massive tax evasion scheme that helped superwealthy clients evade billions in taxes was acquitted in federal court in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday. He faced up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Prosecutors failed to prove that Swiss citizen Raoul…
Right now, Jeffery London is sitting in a quiet cell waiting for his second child sex abuse trial to start. Outside, the former charter school administrator’s actions are still resounding loud and clear. In September, a group of victims filed a civil lawsuit in Broward against a clutch of charities…
All Aboard Florida is a private company pushing a new train service between South Florida and Orlando. Though the project might relieve some traffic on the Turnpike, boaters are alarmed that their aquatic lives will be ruined because there could be fewer drawbridge openings if the tracks eventually get laid…
A voting horror story: If you live in Florida, you probably have one. An editor at the Sun Sentinel does. And a cursory scroll through Facebook shows that so do a lot more of you. Below are a few rants posted shortly after poll-closing time. Add yours!…
OK. This is it. The polls have closed, and it’s time to tally up them votes. After all the handshakes and ads and campaigning and the spending of millions upon millions of dollars, the time has finally come to announce who the winners are in Florida’s midterm election. We could…
Update, 5 p.m. Chris Wren returned a call and said he would be happy to meet the protestors but that they threatened his assistant. His comments have been added to the end of this post. Eight members from Food Not Bombs were reportedly arrested Tuesday after meeting at the Downtown…
The post-LeBron era has gotten off to a solid start for the Miami Heat. But while the new-look squad adjusts to a sans-James system and looks to fly under the radar as a competitive force in the Eastern Conference, one constant remains: Dwyane Wade. And now a video by NBA…
Spirit Airlines — the cheap-airfare airline headquartered in Miramar — has been widely known to piss off pretty much anyone who has even flown it. Be it on Twitter, Facebook, or the water cooler at work, people love to talk up how much Spirit has screwed them one way or…
As ever, Florida is at the center of Election Day for dubious reasons. This time around, it’s basically because no other state has spent more on elections this year than the Sunshine State. All told, the 2014 election cycle has raised a whopping $345 million, reports the Miami Herald. And…
Protesters Call Obama “Chickenshit” on Election Day from Voice Media Group on Vimeo. The sign Bob Kunst was waving on the street corner in front of the Torch of Friendship monument this past weekend reads “OBAMA IS THE ‘CHICKENS**T! JEW HATING JIHADIST.” Doozy is an understatement for Kunst, a practiced…
So it’s go-time for Sunshine State supporters of medicinal smoking. For the first time, Floridians are going to polling places weighing a choice on the legalization of marijuana. By this time next week, Florida’s weedscape could look drastically different — or unfortunately the same. With such a possible historical swing…
Greenacres Police Officer Jared Nash is accused of breaking a 14-year-old girl’s arm during an arrest attempt that was initiated because the officer attempted to view a video on her cell phone without a search warrant. The officer then arrested the teen for resisting arrest. The incident happened at the…
For a moment, it looks like the standup comedian is about to cry. From behind thick black glasses, he peers out — pupils contracted by the glare — at the roomful of strangers and says nothing. Then he turns away from the crowd and pulls a crumpled piece of paper…
Election Day has arrived, and while the big battle remains Scott versus Crist and whether you want to vote for medical marijuana, there are also some pretty important local races going down you may want to be aware of. While voting can be a time-consuming affair, no one should just…
Editor’s note: Evan Rowe is an adjunct professor of history at Broward College. Despite the campaign hype and advertising, despite the fact that this election will decide Florida’s governor and the legality of medical marijuana, the largest voting bloc this election cycle will be, as it was in 2010, the…
For more than a year, David Mech — formerly known as porn star and director Dave Pounder — has been tussling with the Palm Beach County School Board. In federal court, the Boca Raton resident charged that the district wrongly yanked down banners advertising his math tutoring business because some…
Tomorrow is the big day in the fight to legalize medical marijuana, and United for Care is calling for all hands on deck to help push the “Yes on 2” medical marijuana vote over the top. United for Care is asking any and all people willing to volunteer some of…
This past Friday night, a whole lot of people aboard the Bahamas Celebration cruise liner had little reason to celebrate, as the cruise ship ran aground just outside Bahamas Freeport Harbour. Seven hundred passengers and crew aboard a Halloween cruise got a scare to remember when they were forced to…
A 90-Year-Old and Two Reverends Cited for Feeding the Homeless in Fort Lauderdale from Voice Media Group on Vimeo. UPDATE: Arnold Abbott, the 90-year-old homeless advocate who was originally cited for feeding the homeless in this video, has once again been stopped from feeding the homeless and cited by police…
Sure, technically Halloween is for the ghouls and ghosts, but we know who’s really bumping out there in the night: people knee-deep into their worst behavior. To mark the festivities, we combed through recent arrests for a special Halloween edition of Mug-Shot Monday. Enjoy the drunk derp faces, failed costumes,…
