It’s no secret that Florida’s craft beer industry is experiencing a bit of a boom — belated, sure, compared to other states around the nation, but better late than never. This legislative session, your elected representatives have been kicking around legislation that ostensibly would help the industry. This being the…
Amanda McClure, the woman accused of driving drunk and killing Patriot Guard Rider John Regan on I-95 near Palm Beach Gardens in September, is back in jail. McClure, 25, of Palm City, was arrested Saturday night on charges of violating her probation, according to Palm Beach County Jail records. At…
Caught between developers on one hand and environmental preservationists on the other, Palm Beach County Commissioners Tuesday postponed any decision on opening the county’s Agricultural Reserve to greater commercial development. See also: – Developers Trying to Build in Everglades Agricultural Reserve For now, that is. The board voted to move…
Cedric Gervais lounges by the pool of his Biscayne Point bungalow in nothing but a pair of small white swim shorts and sunglasses. He is buff and bronze, with cheekbones like cliff ledges. House music ebbs and swells around him. It is 75 degrees and sunny. Add a couple of…
There aren’t many places more sublime than Augusta National Golf Club on an early April morning. Dew sparkles on the greens, delicately raked sand traps beckon, and the best golfers on Earth stroll around the fairways, imagining the strokes they hope will lead to the Masters’ green jacket. April 9,…
The Florida Senate passed the Aaron Cohen Act Life Protection Act which, if it becomes a law, will make it tougher for drivers to leave the scene of a fatal bicycling accident. The measure passed the Senate with a unanimous 39-0 vote on Wednesday. The bill is named after Aaron…
The Miami Seaquarium’s orca, Lolita, who has been crammed inside what is the smallest whale tank in North American for the past 40 years, is the closest she’s ever been to being set free and reunited with her family. Back in January, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced that it…
While some Broward teens are getting national attention for snagging a 14-foot hammerhead shark off Boca Raton, one Boynton Beach man has one-upped them by hooking his kayak up to a hammerhead and letting it drag him around for a joyride on the ocean for several hours. The 22-year-old man…
If George Orwell and Stan Lee sat down to dream up a superdevice for trashing personal freedom and privacy, they’d probably come up with something like the Stingray. The device, manufactured in Melbourne, Florida, allows police to target suspects based on their cell phone signals. If that isn’t enough to…
An 80-year-old man from Century Village in Deerfield Beach expecting to hook up with a female prostitute he met online instead was met by a man and then got robbed. According to Boca Raton Police, the man had met a hooker named “Amy” on the internet. The two made plans…
Former South Palm Beach Mayor Marty Millar killed himself over the weekend, according to authorities. The once-troubled ex-mayor and former police officer reportedly shot himself at a storage facility in Lantana on Sunday afternoon. Millar reportedly left a suicide note behind, but details on what it says have not been…
We’re not sure what socialite Paris Hilton has been doing since her 15 minutes ran out, but apparently it was doing good things for animals. Because Hilton is in Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday to receive an American Humane Association award for her charity work, and yes, you read this right. At…
The offices to the Delray Beach Police Department have reopened after an unidentified man suffering from stab wounds walked into the lobby around 7 a.m. Tuesday. The courthouse garage and area around the courthouse, off of Atlantic and NW Third avenues, had been closed off but are now open again…
When it comes to cities, what separates your desirable A-list locales and the lesser-than B team? Your Denvers from your Grand Rapids? World-class public transportation? Sports teams? Museums? Sure, sure, sure. But what about a big, glossy, superfluous, high-society magazine? If that be the case, then Fort Lauderdale has taken…
Well, it took long enough, but television’s beloved and terrifying anthology, American Horror Story, is finally heading to the place that invented the very idea of American horror: Florida…
Don’t panic. Those military aircraft and soldiers you see down the street are only a drill, says the Broward Sheriff’s Office. According to a BSO advisory, the U.S. Department of Defense will be conducting routine training throughout Broward County until Thursday. Officials say the training areas were selected specifically to…
A Palm Beach man was arrested for impersonating a police officer after he angrily told a Burger King drive-thru worker he was a cop when they messed up his order. The man, Riviera Beach Police say, was so upset about getting the wrong order, he refused to leave the drive-thru…
Richie Incognito apparently doesn’t know when to quit. And while his heart may (or may not?) be in the right place, it looks like he’s not ready to quit on publicly apologizing to everyone he seemingly angered or offended or hurt. On Twitter. The past few weeks have seen Incognito…
South Florida prison reform and immigrant rights activists are mounting a vigil this evening at the Boca Raton home of GEO Group CEO George Zoley, in support of hunger strikers at the global private prison company’s Tacoma and Houston-area immigrant detention centers. See also: – GEO Group Earns Over $600,000…
Rand Hoch, Florida’s first openly- gay judge, predicted that marriage equality would come to the state — and the rest of the U.S. — no later than by the end of June, 2016. The prediction came during Hoch’s remarks at the marriage equality demonstration in Lake Worth on Sunday. The…
Business interests pushing for looser restrictions on commercial development within Palm Beach County’s Agricultural Reserve — 21,000 acres of specially protected, environmentally sensitive land — have lead the County Commission to reconsider zoning in the area, causing alarm among members of the local environmental community. See also: – Way of…
You spoke; we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s Mug-Shot Monday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, derp faces, and femmes fatale…
