Well, here’s something you can fine under An Idea That Has ZERO Chance of Getting Passed but Is Totally a Great Idea Anyway: A Florida senator has filed a bill that would allow people to smoke weed for recreation.Sen. Dwight Bullard (D-Miami) filed SB 1562, a bill that, if passed…
This past September, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz stole the national spotlight for a hot minute — OK, 21 hours — when he took over the Senate floor, giving a speech that included a full reading of Green Eggs and Ham. Cruz promised to filibuster to delay a vote on a…
Marissa Alexander, the Florida woman who was arrested for firing a warning shot to ward off her abusive estranged husband, may now be looking at 60 years in prison because of a weird law that would add 20 years to each charge. The Florida Times-Union is reporting that the Office…
Well now, this is something. Michael Yormark, the Florida Panther’s polarizing team president, is leaving the franchise to join… Jay Z. According to multiple reports, Yormark is leaving to run the business side of Jay Z’s agency, Roc Nation…
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…
Ah, Florida. Sure, we have criminals, just like every other state. But we have our own special kind of criminals. Namely, dumb ones. And, because we’re never in short supply of dumb criminals, we present to you our latest series of the dumbest Florida criminals of the month. February was…
James Schiltz never went to spring break in Fort Lauderdale. The recent Iowa State University graduate hasn’t even been to Florida. But that didn’t stop him from writing an elaborate 120-page master’s thesis last year on the rise and fall of spring break in Fort Lauderdale. “I was really fascinated…
A SWAT team put down a gunman who forced the lock down of the Moore Justice Center in Viera, as well as Viera High School, and Viera Charter School in Brevard County on Friday afternoon. Palm Bay police officers had cornered the man in an area near the courthouse around…
UPDATE, 3/4: The Ambassador of the Dominican Republic has responded to this article. The Ambassador’s statement is posted in full at the bottom of this post. UPDATE 2, 3/4: Mayor Sharief has also issued a response, which is posted below. On February 23, Enterprise Florida led a group of local…
Meagan Simmons’ attractive mugshot made her a sort of internet sensation for a while. That is to say, people thought she was totally hot and decided to make her face a meme. She didn’t mind it so much. She even bragged about it. But now that a background check website…
Florida has its share of strange animal stories — from huge pythons to invasive lizards — but this tale is so common, it’s scary. In August, a man from Lakeland named Ronald Resse came home complaining of a spider bite. Six months later, he was dead. It all happened because…
LeBron James is the hero Miami deserves. It was exactly one week ago that James broke his nose against the Oklahoma City Thunder. And after missing one game in between, LeBron returned to the night to fill his enemies with dread like Batman. Literally. Much to the delight of the…
A federal judge in two California cases has swatted away Donald Trump’s efforts to defeat claims of fraud, financial elder abuse and racketeering. In San Diego last week, Judge Gonzalo Paul Curiel held that California, New York and Florida residents who were students at Trump University could proceed as a…
From Burmese pythons to Lion fish to rock pythons to giant African snails, Florida is home to a plethora of invasive species. And now, the latest animal threatening to eat all of the things in the Everglades and other parts of the wild, is a particularly jerky thing called the…
The NFL is close to implementing a new rule where the use of the N-word will be banned. This is more a less a reaction to the Dolphins’ bullying scandal where Richie Incognito and others used racial slurs to taunt other players and a team trainer. The NFL rule would…
The University of Miami community was saddened to hear that former football player Jojo Nicolas died around 5 p.m. Wednesday after a horrific crash involving a semi-trailer truck on the MacArthur Causeway Tuesday. Fans, students, and Nicolas’ former teammates took to Twitter to send their prayers and communicate their grief…
Thanks to a lot of hard workers hawking petitions in parking lots, not to mention the shifting pop cultural sands, it looks like Florida has a fighting chance for legalizing medical marijuana. Come November, we’ll find out. But as with any political movement, despite best intentions and hopes, it’s money…
Update: According to TMZ, Incognito smashed and dented the car himself. The Scottsdale Police Department say that Incognito admitted to them that he was the one that took a baseball bat to his own Ferrari, though police aren’t saying what set him off. So, it’s official, Richie Incognito bullied his…
Just south of Oakland Park Boulevard on I-95, drivers turn to stare at an eye-catching billboard. It shows a picture of an adorable golden retriever and this striking web address: KillThisPet.com. The website offers the same picture with a devilish choice: You can either save the pup or kill it…
Florida Power & Light could soon be allowed to run power lines through Everglades National Park. They would deliver power from Turkey Point nuclear power plant to points north. The National Park Service is accepting public input on the matter until March 18. Here’s the backstory, as explained by Matt…
The brunt of winter is over, and the median age of South Florida’s population is in for a sharp decline. The snowbirds are migrating north, and college kids are coming south, ready to embark on a week of sunshine and binge drinking. Even though Fort Lauderdale Beach is a shell…
A stage visionary redefines the way South Florida sees theater. A thrift-shop connoisseur turns his love of collecting into an art career. A musician describes himself as “half Cuban Native Indian, half German Anunnaki wolf.” You can say a lot of things about 2014’s MasterMind Award finalists, but you can’t…
