Florida Power & Light Co. has announced plans for a new solar partnership pilot program. The program would include FPL installing new solar-powered generating facilities in Florida communities, including Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. But it would be funded by voluntary contributions — $9 a month — from FPL…
Candlebox hasn’t been spending too much time dominating the pop charts lately, but unlike a lot of alternative-rock acts that rode the grunge wave to popularity in the ’90s, the band is still alive and kicking. 2013 was supposed to be a big year for the ‘Box. Band members were…
Cecilia Cortes crossed the Tijuana border into San Diego on a Sunday morning this March. The 34-year-old curly-haired brunet, with her 3-year-old son, Jonathan, and her 6-year-old daughter, Alexa — both U.S. citizens — walked a pedestrian bridge into the Otay Mesa Port of Entry station controlled by U.S. Customs…
Palm Beach County is a dump. Or, at least, it’s going to be, after county commissioners voted 4-3 vote to seek bids from waste haulers from all parts outside of Palm Beach just so they can land some big money for a new incinerator. The commissioners argue that the money…
The Florida Department of Transportation is warning people about a mail scam involving a fake letter asking to pay an overdue toll fine. The letter, which comes from the official-sounding but extremely fake Toll Enforcement LLC, or TELC Inc., is trying to dupe people into sending a cashier’s check for…
Kayla “2 Drunk 2 Care” Mendoza made her first court appearance Tuesday afternoon after having been arrested and formally charged with the deaths of Marisa Catronio and a passenger, Kaitlyn Ferrante, in a wrong-way car accident on the Sawgrass Expressway last November. Broward Judge John “Jay” Hurley set Mendoza’s bond…
Salomon E. Melgen lives in a 5,000-square-foot North Palm Beach mansion. He travels by private jet to the Dominican Republic with New Jersey senators. He’s the subject of not one but two current FBI investigations. The 59-year-old eye surgeon has yet another claim to notoriety now, the New York Times…
Pagans are unorthodox but they do have their limits, apparently, and rumors that some of their number have crossed the line by advocating pedophilia have cast a cloud over the Florida pagan community’s big annual May Day shindig, the Florida Pagan Gathering. See also: – Local Pagans Get Down With…
Candlebox hasn’t been spending too much time dominating the pop charts lately, but unlike a lot of alternative-rock acts that rode the grunge wave to popularity in the ’90s, the band is still alive and kicking. 2013 was supposed to be a big year for the ‘Box. Band members were…
Feel free to keep your doors unlocked from now on, Fort Lauderdale! (*Just kidding; don’t do that.) Because of 239 cities with a population greater than 100,000, Fort Lauderdale ranks as the 19th city that invest the most resources in public safety. This, according to NerdWallet.com, which crunches numbers on…
It seems like 27-year-old Josh Krasner spends more time upside down than right-side up. His Instagram (@krasnation) is chock-full of his signature inverted stance, where he balances on his forearms, his legs shooting up in the air. “It’s a whole bunch of yoga moves, depending on where I place my…
Melanie Carter, wife of former Miami Dolphins and Hall of Fame wide receiver Cris Carter, apparently got head-butted Tuesday morning after fighting with another woman over a tennis match. According to a Boca Raton Police Department incident report, Melanie was playing a doubles tennis match with a couple of other…
The recent news that Bob Coy, charismatic founder of Fort Lauderdale’s Calvary Chapel, abruptly resigned over what the church is calling a “moral failing,” has rocked believers and parishioners everywhere. Under Coy’s leadership, Calvary Chapel became the second-largest megachurch in Florida and the 14th-largest megachurch in America. But Florida is…
If there is dish in South Florida, Jose Lambiet is your best server. The founder of GossipExtra.com has been covering all things juicy and scandalous in Palm Beach, Broward, Miami and beyond for the better part of a decade. Armed with a baldhead full of stories about everything from Trump’s…
Last week, we reported how in the span of 24 hours, 9,000 Floridians signed a petition to get Uber in Florida. But what appears to be a revolutionary way of melding technology and getting a cab is also a major potential threat to cabdrivers and the taxi industry as a…
101 Cantina in Boca Raton has made consistent headlines since it was revealed there have been 98 arrests at the joint since it opened last June. Of those arrests, 78 were for underaged drinking — and many included great debauchery: peeing on curbs, punching police in the back, and taking…
Seat belts — click it, or ticket, right? But when a police officer is pulling you over for not putting safety first in the driver’s seat, is it a race-based call? Recently, the Broward Public Defender launched a complaint at the Fort Lauderdale Police Department. Howard Finkelstein is alleging African-Americans…
More than four months after Kayla Mendoza allegedly (and drunkenly) careened into two young women on the Sawgrass Expressway, she has been arrested and formally charged with their deaths. In a story that went absolutely bonkers on the internet last November, New Times reported that the 21-year-old Mendoza had Tweeted…
Although there was just one call for help made in September 2010 for e-cigarette poisoning, there were more than 200 such calls made to poison help hotlines in February of this year, according to a report released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). There’s been…
And you can meet Dave Barry, you guys. On Tuesday, April 8, the Broward Bulldog — a nonprofit dedicated to hard-hitting investigative pieces — is hosting a night with best-selling author and Miami Herald columnist Dave Barry at Nova Southeastern University’s Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale. The 6:30 p.m…
The Coconut Creek Police Department has confirmed that it’s found skeletal remains inside the green Ford Thunderbird it pulled out of a murky canal in Coconut Creek over the weekend. It’s believed that the remains belong to William Naylor, a man who had not been seen since February 2005. The…
That DUI checkpoint we told you about last week ended up nabbing a few impaired drivers, one person with drugs on their person, and a bucketload of citations and warnings. All this, even though our story was tweeted out more than 50 times and shared by more than 5,000 people…
