In case you weren’t aware, the Miami Heat are just better than every other basketball team on the planet. Not just because they’ve been to the NBA Finals three years in a row, and won the Finals two years in a row. And not just because they have Dwyane Wade,…
Former PGA champion and sometimes Palm Beach Gardens visitor Steve Elkington did that thing athletes and celebrities do and said some dumb things on his Twitter. Specifically, Elkington ripped ESPN’s coverage of openly gay Missouri defensive end Michael Sam, calling the sports network’s reportage “embarrassing” and attempting what was a…
In case you’ve been trapped under something heavy, Arizona is looking to go all-in on being terrible with a proposed bill that would allow business owners of that state to refuse service to gay and lesbian consumers based on religious grounds. The news of Arizona going all Alabama Circa 1963…
On Tuesday, a West Palm Beach federal jury heard all about a Margate man’s masterful plot to try and murder his lover’s husband by blowing him up with a homemade iPhone-controlled car bomb he learned how to build from watching YouTube. Shockingly, things did not go according to plan. Richard…
It feels like just yesterday Justin Bieber was in our neck of the woods allegedly blocking off a Miami Beach roadway, drag-racing with R&B singer Khalil and being snarky with the po-po. The Biebz was placed under arrest for failing a field sobriety test, resisting arrest, and driving with an…
God bless our local TV newscasters. They hustle day in and day out to bring you all the locally relevant information that you need to know. They tell you what the weather is going to be, where the latest car-jacking took place, and how much the watermelon that won the…
Bitcoin is a nascent digital currency that people both love and fear. It can be easily transferred around the world but subverts established banks and monetary institutions. (We explained it here recently.) Proponents say Bitcoin can empower poor people in developing countries who don’t have access to banks and capital…
The United States Association of Reptile Keepers wants the government to lift the ban on bringing invasive snakes and reptiles into places like the Everglades. According to a lawsuit filed by the Keepers, the science behind banning people from introducing snakes into an ecosystem they absolutely do not belong in…
About 50 or so protesters showed up at Marco Rubio’s offices in Palm Beach County to show the senator their support and protest the Venezuelan government. On Monday, Rubio took to the floor and gave what is probably the best speech of his political career, as he condemned Venezuelan President…
Broward County could be opening at least one Vegas-style casino thanks to a new gambling proposal introduced via the Florida Senate on Monday. The new proposal would give both Broward and Miami-Dade counties one new casino each, as well as give other casinos across the state a boatload of new…
A big-ass brawl with a machete and pool cues apparently broke out at a Davie bar on Sunday. There were also bar stools involved in the melee. According to police, the fight broke out at the Big Dawgs Sports Cafe, located at 13010 W. St. Road 84, after a patron…
Ladies and gentlemen, we have ourselves a huge d-bag. John McNally, 43, is no friend to the elderly, and he probably hates dogs, little kids, baseball, the Olympics, and America too. The Boca Raton resident was out driving with his wife and 4-year-old daughter on Sunday when he flipped his…
Yesterday, 80 environmental activists from Earth First! protested at the Juno Beach headquarters of Florida Power & Light. Their mission was to bring attention to a proposed power plant in Hendry County. But there’s another concern about FPL: possible problems at the nuclear plant in St. Lucie. Tubes inside generators…
Every second Saturday of the month, hordes of people make the trek down to Wynwood in Miami for its art walk. It’s hip, urban, and usually overshadows FAT Village’s ArtWalk in downtown Fort Lauderdale. But it shouldn’t. Since Wynwood’s art walk is on the second Saturday and FAT Village’s is…
Five protesters from the radical environmental group Earth First! this morning chained themselves together at the entrance to FPL headquarters in Juno Beach in an attempt to disrupt company operations and protest FPL’s plans to build a massive new power plant on 3,200 acres of land adjacent to the Seminole…
A preliminary result of Ryan Uhre’s autopsy indicates that his death was accidental. According to the Leon County Medical Examiner, Uhre’s death may have been the result of him falling from the second story of the building where his body was discovered last week. Uhre’s body was found on the…
A Florida man decided to catapult himself into first place as Worst Human Person on Earth after he allegedly slathered his girlfriend’s 3-month-old puppy with hot sauce because it was making too much noise. According to a Sarasota Police report, the Dachshund/Chihuahua mix named Gizmo was having a seizure and…
The Sting, 48 Hours, The Odd Couple, Dumb & Dumber. Apparently 20th Century Fox thinks the friendship between Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong-un are on par with these classic buddy comedies, because someone, somewhere actually pitched this as a movie and someone, somewhere actually gave the project the green light…
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…
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…
Two men and a boy had to evacuate a sportfishing boat they were on when the vessel caught on fire and sank on Sunday morning. The 46-door Sea Lion caught fire around 7:30 a.m. as it sailed off the Hillsboro Inlet. An hour after the distress call was made, the…
Sharks are apparently going to be replacing weathermen soon, because according to this report, hundreds of them have been tagged with special satellite links that scientists are hoping will be forecasting information of oncoming hurricanes. Scientists at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science began tagging…
