The evening was sliding toward midnight, but the students were still hanging out. It was February 9, 2013, and the five members of Florida International University’s Muslim Student Association had finished their evening prayers in the room they used daily at the Graham Center, the student union on the school’s…
Republican state senator in Florida Alan Hays is just a vessel of amazing ideas. The man who once filed legislation to keep public buses from stopping on streets because one time he got stuck in traffic behind one and who once called Sharia law a “dreadful disease” that needed vaccination,…
Fort Lauderdale used to be the spring break capital of the world and still draws a hearty crowd, and Miami has Winter Music Conference coming up in two weeks, but if you’re a college kid making Palm Beach County your destination, ain’t no shame in it. Partiers have grown a…
Last night, a JetBlue flight headed from Boston to Fort Lauderdale had to land in Jacksonville because an unruly passenger was disrupting the flight. Witnesses on the flight say a man who claimed to be a U.S. serviceman screamed and tried to light a cigarette. Passengers and crew locked him…
Ebony Wilkerson, the pregnant mother who drove a minivan filled with her children into the ocean earlier this week, has been booked into jail with attempted murder and child abuse charges. On Wednesday, Wilkerson drove her minivan into the Silver Beach surf, which is in Daytona Beach. According to two…
You in the market for a new home? How about, instead of buying a house with a pool and a white-picket fence, you buy yourself and your family a prison that used to hold female serial killers? It’s plenty spacious! And it has a yard! Apparently the old Broward Correctional…
As expansion of hunting at wildlife refuges around the nation has gone underway, it looks like Palm Beach County’s Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge has approved an alligator hunt as well. Alligators thought they would be safe after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was inundated with over 1,300 from around…
A Texas oil company’s request for official permission to drill a wastewater disposal well deep into the Big Cypress watershed is the latest flashpoint in South Florida’s enviro-wars. Next Tuesday, in Naples, EPA officials will hold public hearings on the proposal, with activists statewide planning to converge there and confront…
Remember that racist in Boca who brazenly flew a Ku Klux Klan flag, along with a Confederate flag outside his home and was all, nobody is gonna make me take down this flag because white people need to stop marrying black people! and was invoking his God-given right as an…
Another day, another poorly thought-out article: Are Alt-Weeklies Over? That the New York Times published this drivel yesterday is proof the Gray Lady is just as “over” as any news outlet. Let’s get a few things straight…
Apparently we’re under a tornado watch. And by we’re, we mean THE WHOLE FRIGGIN’ STATE. The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for roughly 20 or so counties in Florida, including Broward and Palm Beach. Said watch is scheduled to be in effect until 7 tonight. So be…
Flagler High School Principal Peter Nicholson has been arrested after allegedly raping a female employee at the charter school. According to Broward Sheriff’s Office Special Victims Unit detectives, Nicholson, 55, sexually assaulted the victim back on October 26 during working hours at the school, located on 1951 W. Copans Road…
In case you didn’t know, President Obama is hitting up Florida this weekend, giving terrorist fist bumps shoutouts to Dania Beach ice cream shop owners and looking to push his health-care initiative. But if the proverbial crap begins to hit the proverbial fan in the Ukraine, POTUS may well cancel…
When a buddy asks you to do him a solid and pick up something he left somewhere — no big deal, right? If he lets slide that it’s a laptop and there might be some illegal stuff on that laptop, run. Run far. That was the situation that led to…
Audrey Winkelsas is a junior at the University of Miami. She was just 7 months old when she was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy, a form of muscular dystrophy. She studies biochemistry and helps conduct research for the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. She hopes one day to find a…
Here’s a story both quite Florida and quite repulsive. On Wednesday morning, a Florida man apparently decided What the hell, I’m just going to go ahead and bang my dog on my front yard. So, in broad morning daylight, for all to see, the man dropped his trousers and began…
How do you inject culture into a city? Do you hire children to ride their bikes around the neighborhood flinging black-rimmed glasses onto suburban doorsteps in the early a.m.? Do you replace the national anthem with Neutral Milk Hotel at all local little league games? How do you make people…
Inside the jam-packed arena, thousands held their breath and waited to learn the identity of the shadowy “Investor.” In Total Nonstop Action Wrestling’s twisting narrative, the mysterious character had been wreaking havoc for weeks with his nefarious behind-the-scenes plots. And now, millions watching at home would finally learn the truth…
Late in the evening on a hot November night, a blue Dodge Challenger rolled to a stop outside a two-bedroom yellow house in Hollywood. A 16-year-old girl with wavy hair and brown, sad eyes sat in the passenger seat. A Samsung Galaxy glowed in her hands. Watching her send text…
The internet was abuzz earlier today with the news about a woman who was in a van that had been submerged into the ocean. The headline was pretty grabby — woman in a van has to be rescued from the water. But an update to the story revealed a darker…
ESPN Large Talking Head Person Keith Olbermann went on his show last night to wag his tsk-tsk finger at the media for hyperboling LeBron James’ 61-point performance on Monday night. In a segment called “The Greatest Game Ever Played… for One Day,” Olbermann comes full circle on GRANDPA IS MAKING…
U.S. Congressman firebrand nutter Alan Grayson is being accused by his wife of pushing her during a fight over the weekend. He, of course, is denying the allegations. In a statement released by the congressman, Grayson says he never touched his wife and says she physically attacked him. See also:…
