Outside a $600,000 Coconut Grove condo, the pool glittered blue in the afternoon sunlight and tennis balls popped off a green asphalt court. Inside, a tornado hit. Sharon Cohen watched her heavily tattooed Spanish husband, Alvaro, slam his head over and over against a TV set. She’d recently filed for…
Classic rock artists and country music acts have been bailing on SeaWorld’s Bands, Brew & Barbecue music fest left and right ever since several Change.org petitions were launched in response to the documentary, Blackfish. And now, the park has finally issued a statement about the petitions and cancellations, calling the…
Rick Scott’s pollster, Tony Fabrizio, has some bad news for Rick Scott. According to the poll, either Charlie Crist or Bill Nelson would beat Scott in a mano-to-mano general election hoedown. The poll also shows that ex-GOPer/ex-Independent/Brand New Democrat Crist is suddenly a lot more governory than long-time Democrat Nelson…
The Florida Department of Education released its annual public high school grades for the state on Wednesday, and it was mostly good news for Broward and Palm Beach schools. Most schools in Broward received an A or B grade, while the three that didn’t didn’t get anything lower than a…
In pretty much the worst headline you’ll read all day: a man punched a puppy. He also threw it against the wall. And, according to an examination on the animal, it would appear that this wasn’t the first time this happened. Juan Camilo Florez, 26, of Coral Springs, was apparently…
Retired Miami Dolphins star Ricky Williams is alleging in court that his former financial adviser ripped him off to the tune of $6 million. According to a lawsuit filed in Houston, Williams trusted Fort Lauderdale-based Peggy Fulford with almost all of the money he made since 2007 — more than…
Yesterday, the interwebs went all haywire once again thanks to some George Zimmerman-related news. This time, however, it didn’t involve domestic violence. Turns out, this racist asshole wannabe tough guy person has found a way to deal with being the least liked person in the Republic: making terrible art. “Shitty…
Olivia Sprauer (AKA Victoria James), the 26-year-old English teacher at Martin County High School who was fired by the school for moonlighting as an “eyecandy model,” has landed on the cover of Hustler magazine, the publication has announced. Sprauer had said she wasn’t going to do porn, but obviously things…
A Deerfield Wal-Mart employee did the most Wal-Mart employee thing ever when a co-worker was chosen as Employee of the Month over him. He shot up his co-worker’s car. The two worked at the Deerfield Beach Wal-Mart store on South Military Trail, and when the Employee of the Month was…
Cocaine Megayacht Captain, Jonathon Costenbader, plead guilty to conspiring to import cocaine in federal court in West Palm Beach on Friday. Back in October, we told you about the 34-year-old Costenbader, who captained a 132-foot luxury megayacht called the Secret Spot. He was also apparently captaining around a literal boatload…
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a lieutenant general in the Confederate army that people who still think this is 1861 will tell you was a pretty awesome dude. His nickname was the Wizard of the Saddle. He was also apparently more than a wizard of the saddle, however. He was a…
All these times George Zimmerman has been arrested and then freed is hurting him financially, what with legal fees and all. According to some reports, George is about $2.5 million in the hole. So, Zimmerman has decided to sell an original work of art that he did on eBay. And,…
The poker player’s white Nikes had just hit the concrete outside New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport the night before Thanksgiving. The sky was bruising over with twilight. Terminal 5 was a hectic holiday beehive of passengers hustling for last-minute JetBlue hops. And there was Eric Riley, Jamaican-born, 32 years…
On November 11 — Veteran’s Day — 59-year-old Sunrise man Fredy Gutierrez climbed onto an overpass with a rifle as morning rush-hour traffic flowed below on I-595. Police scrambled to the scene. Miles of traffic stalled. For the next few hours, as Gutierrez drank a beer, put a noose around…
The 30-year-old Dolphin Research Center in Grassy Key is inviting people to bring holiday props such as Santa hats and reindeer antlers and get their pictures taken with a dolphin. One reader worried that the facility was inviting people to put reindeer antlers on the dolphins — and that this…
You know by now that commuting in Florida is about the worst thing you can do, next to having someone punching you in the crotch or slamming your hand into a plugged-in waffle iron. But now our driving horribleness as been documented and ranked. And the findings show that Florida…
Former Chicago Bull, children’s book author, and sometimes SoFla resident Dennis Rodman is reportedly headed back to North Korea on Thursday for a third time. Rodman, who has somehow nudged his way into the good graces of Kim Jong Un as the Unofficial Ambassador of WTF! to the United States,…
On Wednesday, Clearwater Police arrested a man after they found him driving a stolen vehicle. The man was wanted in connection to a break-in at a private residence in Safety Harbor. The home owner’s car had been swiped. It was a routine arrest, where they cuffed the perp, threw him…
We’ve been writing and writing about Rick Scott’s sudden drive to look like he’s getting things done lately, thanks to the fact that his first term is soon coming to an end and he wants to stick around for another four years. And now Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic National…
Your Miami Dolphins took down the New England Patriots 24-20 on Sunday, ending a seven-game losing streak against the Pats, bringing Fins fans everywhere a most welcome Victory Monday, and silencing a multitude if obnoxious douchebags all across New England. And the best part of all is that they were…
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…
Police responded to reports of a man who claimed to have a bomb strapped to his body at a bank on Dania Beach Boulevard. Police were called about a man trying to hold up the Chase Bank at 300 E. Dania Beach Blvd. by claiming he had a bomb at…
