Inside a conference room at a Sheraton Hotel in Miami, Bob Calkin paces in front of a small stage, holding a microphone. The 50-year-old Los Angeles cannabis hustler with ’80s rock-band hair flies around the United States, charging folks $299 a head to learn how to make a fortune dealing…
It looks like the Palm Beach County School Board wants in on the parents dress code debate after Broward County took the lead last week in calling for parents who pick up and drop off their kids to dress more appropriately. Broward County School Board member Rosalind Osgood called for…
The drive to get greyhound decoupling in Florida was on the cusp of being passed Tuesday when it met with an abrupt and swift death in the Florida Senate, thanks to a procedural vote. A rules challenge by Sen. Jack Latvala effectively killed the decoupling bill, even though the bill…
Senate Bill 424, a bill that would protect Florida gun owners from being discriminated against by insurance companies, is headed to Gov. Rick Scott’s desk to be signed into law after passing via a 74-44 vote in the state House on Tuesday. Much to the delight of gun advocacy groups…
If you’ve ever been to the Panhandle, it was probably during spring break. That’s the one week per year in which Pensacola and Panama City become tourist hot spots. After the college hordes leave, those cities are again discarded and forgotten by out-of-towners like so many Natty Ice cans on…
Last Wednesday, the Hollywood commission approved the Community Redevelopment Authority’s request to expand its Downtown Hollywood Mural Project (DHMP), according to Jorge Camejo, the CRA’s executive director. Currently, the mural district occupies two streets, Harrison Street and Hollywood Boulevard. The expansion would triple its size and span Federal Highway and…
All Aboard Florida, the private rail service that plans on running a passenger train from Miami to Orlando with stops in Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, has written a letter to its biggest South Florida critic, addressing some of the bigger concerns. Congressman Patrick E. Murphy has spoken out…
Palm Beach County gas stations will have to start posting the exact amount gas costs for both cash and credit prices, thanks to a new ordinance that passed Tuesday. At it stands, gas stations usually charge extra for gas when it’s paid for with a credit card, mainly because of…
In the wake of a bullying scandal that rocked the Miami Dolphins last season, the team has gone and hired an ex-FBI agent who worked in a joint terrorism task force to head its locker-room security. According to NFL.com, the Fins have signed 23-year FBI veteran Joe Cicini as their…
Two people have been arrested and one more remains at large after angry parents beat up a Palm Beach County bus driver last week. Shacaurra Burns, 25, and Ryan Beckford, 33, as well as a third person are accused of assaulting West Palm Beach elementary school bus driver Joseph Beauzile,…
Between Passover, Easter, and 4/20, it’s been a mad rush of holidays in the past week. First people were getting cabin fever in their parents’ houses, subsisting off of matzo and trying to think if the adage about never forgetting how to ride a bike applied to driving a car…
Happy Earth Day, Florida! We’re all gonna die! Yes, today is the day we’re supposed to be conserving, planting trees, turning off the lights, and collecting all that recycling. But the reality is, things are not looking as green as they should in the Sunshine State. Florida is a land…
Critics of oil company plans to drill in the Everglades saw some of their worst fears realized late last week when the Florida Department of Environmental Protection revealed it had sanctioned Texas-based Dan A. Hughes Co. for unauthorized fracking in Collier County in an area surrounded by the Corkscrew Swamp…
It looks like Gov. Rick Scott’s crusade to randomly drug-test Florida’s state workers has finally come to an end after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his request for a review of a lower court ruling that the policy was unconstitutional. Scott’s quest to have state workers urinate into a cup…
It looks like Pembroke Pines is joining the likes of Palm Beach and Boca Raton in offering domestic partner benefits for its gay employees. After an independent firm’s cost/benefits numbers were heard, the city’s five commissioners unanimously agreed to extend the same benefits to employees in domestic partnerships as those…
Update: The Delray Beach Police Department has given the all-clear. Students have been let back into the school, and authorities are investigating the threat. According to the Delray Beach PD, a search of the school with help from Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office bomb-sniffing dogs turned up no threat, and students…
She was 46 to his 82. Perhaps that’s why Michelle Nicholas was so appealing to John Deam. After eloping in the Keys, the wealthy older gentleman bought his beau a 2006 Lexus and a $13,000 Rolex. That probably endeared him a little more to her. Nicholas and Deam might have…
Face it: The glam days of air travel are dead and buried. Now, it’s $50 for that carry-on, $6.75 for water from the cart — plus tax — though attitude from overworked flight attendants is gratis. According to a lawsuit filed in South Florida, one air carrier went overkill with…
In the summer of 2011, Boynton Beach cop David Britto — a former Marine and 2010 Officer of the Year — was arrested on charges of possession and conspiring to traffic methamphetamine. Authorities suspected him of running a drug ring with several other men. But Britto famously cut off an…
Last week, the Broward County School Board, led by Dr. Rosalind Osgood, announced that it wants to enforce a dress code for parents. “We have dads showing up in sagging pants,” she said, according to the Sun Sentinel. “It’s hard for me to tell a child not to show up…
Do you remember the first time you got high? Who were you with? How did it feel? Were you nervous? Excited? Did you suddenly realize just how weird fingernails are? Most of the 47 percent of Americans who have smoked weed probably have a lot to say about their first…
Kimanie King, the 18-year-old senior at Piper High School who was arrested for stabbing another student on Thursday, appeared at his first court hearing Friday morning. King is facing attempted murder and possession of a weapon on school grounds charges. During the hearing, William Barry Paul, King’s attorney, said that…
