A Fort Lauderdale woman with an outstanding warrant was arrested in Palm Beach over the weekend after cops found weed in her vagina. The woman had gotten into a heated dispute with a Palm Beach homeowner for “services.” And, according to one report, the home where the woman was arrested…
A 2,300-pound, 14-foot great white shark named Katharine was hanging around Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood Beach and is now making her way down toward the Florida Keys. According to OCEARCH ocean research group, Katharine has come into our neighborhood in recent days and appears to be making a trek either…
Update: Authorities have given the all-clear after no bomb was found on campus. Students have been allowed back into the school. Original post: South Plantation High School has been evacuated over a bomb threat Monday morning. Students have been gathered outside the school as a bomb squad and bomb-sniffing dogs…
Florida’s attempt to kill craft brewing almost succeeded because of… gasp… campaign money, a Montana think tank has found. During the past five years, the biggest supporters of Senate Bill 1714, which would have required small beer makers to — in effect — pay twice for their own beer, invested…
After putting together an impressive record across Florida over the past year, Atticus Palmer took his pinball game to the national stage this weekend. The Coral Springs wunderkind — profiled last week in New Times — was among the 25 competitors hitting the flippers yesterday at the International Flipper Pinball…
Well, that was rough. The Miami Heat dropped Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals to the Indiana Pacers 107-96 in a game in which Miami never even led. It was a swift and rough kick right to the pills from the get-go and featured one of the most frustrating…
A Delray Beach man had dinner at Dubliner Irish Pub in Mizner Park on Wednesday, and when his debit card was declined, he decided to skip out on the bill and get into his black Mercedes and make a run for it in. Two things went wrong with this plan…
“It’s my experience that most physicians are poorly educated when it comes to the anatomy of the normal male genitalia,” says Atlanta-based trial attorney and civil mediator, David Llewellyn. Llewellyn, who specializes in medical malpractice, particularly in the areas of genital injury, circumcision damage, and wrongful circumcision, for Johnson &…
Darden Restaurants, the Florida-based company that owns Longhorn Steakhouse, Olive Garden, Bahama Breeze, and Seasons 52, among others, has announced the sale of one of their bigger chains, Red Lobster. Darden announced on Friday that they’ve agreed to sell the restaurant and related real estate assets to San Francisco-based Golden…
An annual green event that started in Florida in 2010 now spans the globe, uniting people of many lands in a cry for energy sanity and environmental preservation. See also: – Rick Scott Says “I’m Not a Scientist” as He Continues to Ignore Climate Change Issue Hands Across the Sand…
If the web site Reddit is the front page of the interent, then the Florida sub-Reddit page is like the back screen door where all the mangy talk and stories about the Sunshine state sluice through. Popping in on any given day gives you a sense of what people online…
An anti-drug group looking to squash the legalization of medical marijuana in the state has released a website and an eight-minute ad that says that if Amendment 2 passes, marijuana will be legalized in Florida. In the video titled “The Devil is in the Details,” the group claims that Amendment…
Food and shelter are basic human essentials that are often taken for granted. But not everyone is fortunate enough to afford a safe place. In hurricane-prone South Florida, the area is fraught with roof damage. And the cost of repairs leave some living in shoddy conditions — with a leaky…
Last month, FSU star quarterback and Heisman winner Jameis Winston was accused of stealing crab legs from a Tallahassee Publix. Surveillance video of the theft was released Thursday. And, from what one can glean from the video, turns out Winston is not entirely a savvy thief. See also: Jameis Winston…
Former New England Patriot and Florida Gator Aaron Hernandez has been indicted on murder charges for the 2012 deaths of Daniel Abreu and Safiro Furtado. A search warrant filed in Connecticut in January placed Hernandez at the drive-by shooting in Boston, but on Thursday, prosecutors said Hernandez was the triggerman…
Gildas Dousset, a student at FAU, has filed suit asking an appellate court to recognize his same-sex marriage after he says he was denied in-state tuition. The appeal, filed in the Fourth District Court of Appeals, argues that the state’s laws barring recognition of valid out-of-state marriages of same-sex couples…
The world is filled with bitter little men who talk tough in legal filings, and Chris Sevier is a champ among them. Last month, the chronically annoying self-described “former Judge Advocate and combat veteran” tried to insert himself into a federal court case to see if Florida will acknowledge gay…
The Miami Heat clinched its Eastern Conference semifinal matchup against Brooklyn on Wednesday night, beating the Nets 96-94 in a thriller that saw Miami pull off a comeback led by LeBron James and Ray Allen. The Nets were not going to go quietly. Everything they threw toward the basket went…
Sunrise, Florida, is one step closer to being known for exactly three things: a byzantine shopping center that’s completely possible to get lost in, a giant-ass stadium that hosts hockey’s worst team, and an insanely large, billion-dollar development that sounds impossible to fill. On Tuesday night, City Commission members gave…
Suburbs don’t get much tidier than Coral Springs. The boxy patch of West Broward is made up of neighborhoods of modest ranch homes planted evenly on shady, manicured lawns. It’s Mayberry 2.0, a David Lynch movie before shit goes bad. Behind the front door of one such modest suburban house…
In the fall of last year, Colin Chisholm strode into a Citibank on Ventura Boulevard in Woodland Hills, California. Burning a hole in his pocket was a check for $120,000. He asked for cash in $100 bills, then hopped a plane to Minnesota with all the makings of an escape…
West Palm Beach has a new police chief. On Wednesday morning, Mayor Jeri Muoio named Assistant Police Chief Bryan Kummerlen as the city’s next police chief, pending city commissioners’ ratification later this month. Kummerlen, a 26-year veteran on the force, had been serving as West Palm Beach Police interim chief…
