Environmental tests have proven that sonar exercises performed by the U.S. Navy confuses marine life, specifically whales and dolphins, so severely that the animals end up either stranding themselves, going deaf, or suffering organ hemorrhaging. Sonar confuses them, often making them swim in different directions and disrupting their foraging and…
Eric Lee runs Florida’s sole sea cucumber harvesting plant in Ramrod Key. But now his business is pretty much set to fail. Back in February, we wrote about the state’s clamoring to place limits on the amount of sea cucumbers that could be collected at one time. The reason? People…
Today a 28-year-old Royal Palm Beach man will appear before a federal judge. According to prosecutors, Jesse Lewis was responsible for nothing less than a reign of terror involving sex-trafficked homeless women, running them out of Hollywood and Dania Beach motels. Dubbing himself “King” and demanding his women call him…
Department of Environmental Protection officials earlier this week told a state judge that they have no authority to deny a Texas oil company’s plans to drill in the Everglades, in an area adjoining the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge. See also: DEP Advisory Committee Says No to Oil Drilling in…
The 2013-14 NBA regular season finally came to an end Wednesday night, and the playoff matchups are all set. The Heat will begin its quest for a third-straight title on Sunday when it hosts the Charlotte Bobcats at the American Airlines Arena at 3:30 p.m. (EST). It’s been a harrowing…
The police station burned bright as a bonfire. As cars hissed past on the Caracas highway, flames consumed the roadside structure as if it were kindling. Black smoke belched into the night sky. By the time dawn broke over the Venezuelan capital April 1, nothing was left of the building…
Inside the Colonial-style monolith that houses Beggs & Lane, Pensacola’s oldest law firm, sits Sonya Dobbs, a thin-lipped paralegal from Birmingham, Alabama, with a button nose and long black hair. The perfectly coifed, 52-year-old mother of three pastes user name after user name and password after password into an array…
Remember Allen West? The former congressman and always defender of freedom who repped the 18 district by saying things such as “Women have been neutering American men and bringing us to the point of this incredible weakness” and called the Democratic Party a plantation and called President Obama a Marxist?…
Now that the Florida Supreme Court has approved to have a constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana on the ballot this November, the group responsible for getting it there, United for Care, is all about getting the word out. This week alone, the group has a daylong campaign scheduled to…
Two of the biggest Florida-based companies — SeaWorld and Publix — are pushing for changes in the full-time worker standards for Obamacare. Basically, with Obamacare, companies with 100 or more full-time employees must provide minimum essential coverage or pay a penalty of $2,000 to $3,000 per employee starting in 2015…
The New York Times published an in-depth report on how the Tallahassee Police Department handled the Jameis Winston rape case this past November. And while there are no new game-changing revelations and a lot of what the report covers we wrote about here on the Pulp, it does go into…
Jesus told Terri Frana it would be all right. That’s what the 44-year-old Lake Mary woman told reporters about Saturday night, when she was attacked by a black bear inside her garage. “[The bear] started pulling me toward the woods,” she told WESH-Channel 2. “I just thought, ‘God, please, this…
Under the banner of environmental preservation and with leading participation by the Independent Traditional Seminole Nation, Earth Day will see protests against FPL’s plans for a power plant in the Everglades on the border of the Big Cypress Reservation. See also:Welcome to the Everglades Ranch Where FPL Might Build a…
The Florida Panthers have been the Miami Heat of sucking for as long as most hockey fans can remember. But alas, it would seem that all that constant sucking has paid off, because the Panthers won the lottery and have earned the right to the first overall pick in the…
A Florida watchdog coalition, headed by the nonprofit group Integrity Florida, is scheduled to hold a news conference in Tallahassee on Wednesday morning to remind lawmakers of their promises to bring ethics reform and transparency to the Sunshine State’s government. Joining Integrity Florida will be the First Amendment Foundation, Common…
The Fort Lauderdale chapter of the Tea Party is planning to protest Charlie Crist’s new Broward field office, which is opening this weekend. On Monday, it was announced that the Crist field office at 320 S. University Drive in Plantation will have its opening at 12:30 p.m. Saturday. The office…
A man went on a violent rampage at a Greenacres grocery store, fighting off police officers with what they say was an “inhuman strength” and shouting that he wanted food. Officers even tried Tasering him, but that did little to subdue the man, who was described as having veins bulging…
Sadly, it seems the only way you can catch a glimpse of an endangered and beautiful Florida panther is by spotting a dead one on the road. Unfortunately, two panthers were found dead in the span of a couple of days. On Friday, a hiker walking through the Picayune Strand…
Extra bag? Hand over the credit card. In-flight soda? Fork it over again. On time? Ha. Right. Need to use the bathroom in flight? Gimme that card again. Ladies and gentleman, welcome to Spirit Airlines. If you’ve booked a flight on the fast-growing discount airliner in the past few years,…
Despite the warm weather, Florida is one of the worst places to be homeless in the country. Almost every year, the state gets ragged on by the National Coalition for the Homeless for being one of the “meanest” in the union. Cities like Miami, Sarasota, Pensacola, and St. Pete have…
It’s kind of amazing that there’s anyone left in Scientology, given all of the bad press this so-called religion has received — from Tom Cruise’s couch-jumping, revelations about Xenu, and some high-profile exits from the church. But one drive past the organization’s headquarters — a historic building called “Flag” in…
Christopher George, the onetime Broward/Palm Beach pill mill kingpin who was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison last year, saw that sentence reduced on Friday thanks to his role in snitching against two doctors. During a hearing on Friday where George was not present, U.S. District Judge Kenneth…
