On Saturday, Oprah Winfrey aired a segment about catching up with the family of Richard and Mayumi Heene, who were both prosecuted in Colorado in 2009 after they reported that their then-six-year-old son Falcon had flown away in a homemade flying saucer. Turned out, Falcon was hiding in the attic,…
A harbor seal who obviously made a wrong turn somewhere, ended up in our neck of the woods over the weekend. The Florida Fish and Wildlife were called on Sunday about reports of a seal swimming around near the Lake Worth Inlet. Swimmers spotted the seal swimming about, and reported…
At first, the body of a 23-year old woman discovered in room 108 of The Grand Motel at 3:23 a.m. on Valentines Day was reported as a suicide. But when detectives arrived on the scene, things didn’t match her boyfriend’s story. Carlos Cadavid, 23, had called the Broward Sheriff’s Office…
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 greyhound racing industry has always had considerable influence in Tallahassee. The passage of the 90 percent rule (a rule that allows dog racing tracks to add gambling tables only if they maintain 90 percent of the races the track ran in 1996) might be its greatest feat since greyhound…
Last week, we reported that The Color Run had filed a lawsuit against an FAU student who photographed one of its races and later saw his image used on the company’s marketing materials. The student, Max Jackson, had agreed to let the company use his picture on Facebook but did…
Clarification 2/16, 3 p.m.. This article initially called Penn State “Penn” on one reference. The mistake has been fixed. The Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting that Florida State University president Eric J. Barron is leaving to take the helm at another football-mad school — Penn State, home of the Joe Paterno/Jerry…
SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc. are all set to release their fourth quarter and year end 2013 financial results when the market closes on Thursday, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern. In what is sure to be a spectacle where big wigs talk about how much money they’ve made even in the face of…
Grandmas are the best. They bake cookies for you. They take you to the park. They babysit you. They give you candy. They sew you nice sweaters. They try to smuggle you out of the country so you can avoid doing prison time. You know, just the best. Well, at…
UPDATE Monday 2/17/14: The parties have settled. Read more from each side here. NOTE: The Color Run has repsonded. Scroll to end of post for the response, pasted in full. The Color Run is a race during which people wear white and get paint dumped on them along the course…
Ted Wells’ independent report on the Miami Dolphins has been released, and according to the findings, Richie Incognito and at least two other players did, in fact, bully Jonathan Martin. The 148-page report says Incognito, along with teammates John Jerry and Mike Pouncey, were involved in not only bullying Martin…
With great fanfare, Gov. Rick Scott last month announced the latest trophy in his campaign to get corporate America to relocate to Florida. Infelicitously calling it a “one-way ticket to the Sunshine State,” Scott hailed the Boca Raton arrival of Cancer Treatment Centers of America and the “more than 200…
Gov. Rick Scott is in Orlando on Friday making what his office is calling a “major jobs” announcement. What that announcement is remains a mystery wrapped in a serpenty grin. What is certain is that the governor is going to be unveiling the new tourism-traffic figures, which are expected to…
University of Central Florida student Sean Shahid is a millennial. The 20-year-old has 674 followers on Twitter and 745 on Instagram. He also snapchats and posts Vine videos. And when Shahid’s ex-girlfriend was approached to testify in a case Shahid was involved in, Shahid threatened to post comprising photos of…
Craigslist can be a shady place. While it may be good for purchasing a used ottoman or a bicycle pump and also good for the occasional missed connection hook-up, it can also be a great place to go if you want to get properly mugged. That’s what happened to at…
Stop. Collaborate. Listen. The Wellington Chamber of Commerce has decided that, of all 55,584 people who live there, former rapper, former reality-TV star, former Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle dancer, former Hero-Not-Zero Vanilla Ice will be named its Outstanding Citizen of the Year. Today is February 13. Wellington does not mess…
Things quickly went from terrible to GAHH!! for a Broward couple and their dog earlier this week when a woman inadvertently lit both the dog and her husband on fire. On Tuesday, Telma Botcherby was cleaning fleas off her dog with Adams Flea & Tick Spray. According to a BSO…
In 2007, 15-year-old Amber White was parasailing in Pompano Beach with her sister when winds picked up, the tow line broke, and White slammed into a building and died. Last year, 17-year-old Alexis Fairchild was parasailing in Panama City when again winds picked up, the line snapped, and she and…
The South-East Zoo Alliance for Reproduction & Conservation (SEZARC) is “asking the public to lend a hand to their sperm collecting efforts,” it announced yesterday. “Every day, all throughout the animal world, millions of sperm are going to waste, swimming their way to fruitless oblivion. This sperm, if properly harvested…
With Valentine’s Day coming Friday, let us warn you:The OkCupid dream is even more fictional than the American dream. Opening an account sounds great — it’s free, all your friends have one, and you have nothing to lose. At first, you trust those personality questions will compute into some top-secret…
Smell that? No. It’s not David Beckham’s metallic musk. It’s love. Valentine’s Day is here. Buckle up. We’re all going to get laid. Well… some of us. Truth is, Valentine’s Day doesn’t mean as much in a world of Snapchat dong shots and Grindr nookie. That lovey-dovey Hallmark crap? It’s…
For 51 years, Chris Reyka seemed proof of some higher power. A clean-cut, churchgoing former Marine with snow-white hair and a strong jaw, Reyka was an incarnation of the American dream. He had overcome tragedy to build a family and career as a police officer. Every day he pinned a…
