New census data is set to be released on Monday — and New York and Florida will be jockeying for third and fourth place as the most populated states behind Texas and California. If Florida doesn’t surpass New York this year, it certainly will next year, experts say. Reasons for…
Last week, Sports Illustrated inexplicably named Peyton Manning Sportsman of the Year. But, on Thursday, the Associated Press was able to return order to the known universe and named LeBron James its Male Athlete of the Year. LeBron got 31 of 96 votes cast in a poll of news organizations,…
Thanks to Congress’ not adding an extension to emergency unemployment benefits into the budget deal that’s going to pass the Senate this week, roughly 73,000 Floridians will lose those benefits come Saturday. This is in addition to the 1.3 million in other states who will get ganked when the federal…
An old man was arrested after he pushed his elderly wife of 33 years to the ground and broke her hip after she busted him looking at a dating website, officially making this the most Florida sentence you’ve read all year. According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office arrest…
A nondescript office building in downtown Lake Worth now houses the headquarters of Prison Legal News, one of the nation’s most aggressive and effective, if lesser-known, human rights organizations. The publication relocated to South Florida this summer. Fittingly, the new offices sit directly across the street from the city’s police…
So a man who was pulled over during a routine DUI checkpoint in Hollywood on Christmas Eve apparently had a body in the trunk of his car. The body belonged to a buddy of his. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers were performing a sobriety test on the man…
Why, it was just a couple of years ago that we had to wait for the paparazzi’s film to get developed, for magazines to be shipped off to the printer, and then wait for the mailman to bring our People magazine to find out that stars — they’re just like…
Few journeyman NBA ballers have come to the league packing as much braggadocio as Damon Jones. The Houston native played on 11 teams in as many years, earning a reputation as a deep three man… who came through occasionally (.407 lifetime field goal percentage). But meh stats can always be…
The jockstrap arrived at 2:31 a.m. like a foul-smelling firebomb. Jorge heard the glass shatter and pedaled over. The gray-haired security guard pulled up on his Huffy just in time to see a Ford Bronco disappear in a cloud of burnt rubber. A fat, pale middle finger wagged out the…
The Miami Heat’s first ever Christmas Day game was in 1997 when they lost to Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls. Since then, the Heat have played 9 other times in the NBA’s annual X-Mas game, going 7-2 in that span. The Heat will face the L.A. Lakers today at 5:00p.m. for…
In an effort to quell the negative backlash from Blackfish, last Friday SeaWorld took out a full-page ad in major U.S. papers, including the Orlando Sentinel, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, in an all-out PR campaign designed to combat the allegations brought on it by the…
Zach Flamberg’s prognosis is not good. Since 2009, the 57-year-old has been locked in a bloody cage match with large b-cell lymphoma, and his time is running out. “My fate is sealed, the doctors have told me,” he says. “With me now, it’s a day-to-day thing.” But since losing his…
With the passing of another year comes those requisite year-end lists. The top records of the year, as discerned by some fresh-out-of-college kid in his parents’ basement, or the year’s best books culled by a puffed-up out-of-touch critic high-browing life in his Upper West Side apartment. Blah blah blah. Come…
It looks like those who work for minimum wage in Florida will be seeing an extra 14 cents on their paychecks come January 1. This means that the old rate of $7.79 an hour will be going up to $7.93 an hour as the New Year becomes official. The minimum…
This just in: Florida LOVES guns. Last month came the figures that showed Florida was on its way to breaking an all-time record in statewide gun sales. And with gun sales come background checks. Sometimes, anyway. According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, a record 1 million background checks…
Dwyane Wade got on one knee and popped the question to his longtime girlfriend, actress Gabrielle Union, over the weekend. The event went down as a Heat Christmas party Saturday night. As it is with everything these days, the news was revealed through social media, as the two took to…
Few journeyman NBA ballers have come to the league packing as much braggadocio as Damon Jones. The Houston native played on 11 teams in as many years, earning a reputation as a deep three man… who came through occasionally (.407 lifetime field goal percentage). But meh stats can always be…
Just two days after SeaWorld took out a full-page ad in several prominent U.S. newspapers to try to quell the damage being done over the Blackfish backlash, a string of activists showed up to the park in Orlando to protest outside its gates. Guests driving into the park were met…
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…
As shown in the following video, the City of Deerfield Beach has put up a manger scene, along with a few other holiday props, on public property at the city’s fire station. Chaz Stevens, an activist and self-described “militant atheist,” says he warned the city that he would sue if…
Since Christmas falls in the middle of the week next week, you’re likely going to be hitting up the majority of your holiday parties this weekend, starting tonight. And that means gifts, friends, family, co-workers, egg nog, fruit cake, Secret Santas, and getting totally SLOSHED. So, there’s a DUI checkpoint…
After calling the several petitions launched through Change.org “digital harassment” following the controversy of the documentary Blackfish, SeaWorld is now putting the full-court press on its critics. The Orlando-based theme park has placed a full-page ad in several newspapers across the country, including the Friday editions of the Orlando Sentinel,…
