The International Swimming Hall of Fame, which has made its home in Fort Lauderdale since 1964, will be leaving the area when the lease is up in two years. Last week, the hall’s board of directors voted to stop contract negotiations with the City of Fort Lauderdale and pack up…
Marco Rubio has been opposed to Obamacare from the beginning. But now, he’s suddenly giving a fart or two about people who actually want Obamacare and are among the first to try and sign up for it. So much so that he’s introducing a bill that would delay the health-care…
A Florida man got into a verbal spat with his girlfriend, so he went and did what any man would do in any circumstance where his lady just won’t see things his way. He took her grandfather’s ashes and refused to return them until she paid the boyfriend some cold…
Last week, two inmates were able to escape the Florida prison system by having some papers forged that allowed them early release. And while the two men were eventually caught, authorities have found themselves with a kind of conundrum: These aren’t the only guys trying to get out of prison…
City officials want to extend the Henry E. Kinney Tunnel entrance on the north end of the tunnel and build a park-like plaza on top of it. The swanky new plaza would spruce up the bleak entryway to Las Olas and help the businesses there get better exposure. All fancy…
Mouse-mild, youthful, and nerdy but with an unnerving intensity to his gaze, Everett Stern sits in the booth of a local chain restaurant and announces, “I’m sure I’ll get capped eventually.” It seems melodramatic — especially in the Florida suburban setting — but the record is there: The former Wellington…
According to ESPN, it looks like after three years of a botched investigation, the NCAA has finally decided to hand down its punishment to the University of Miami over the Nevin Shapiro scandal. Joe Schad of ESPN is reporting that The U will lose three scholarships for the next three…
Shrimp with no eyes. Shrimp with bulbous tumors on their necks. Crabs with holes in their shells. That’s what fishermen around the Gulf of Mexico are still finding, three years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. BP, the oil company responsible for the spill, says it’s all natural, according to…
Three men who manufactured and then sold phony body armor at gun shows in Florida have been arrested, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Orlando Regional Operations Center. According to ballistics tests done on the fake armor, the jackets offered no ballistics protection. So, if someone purchased one…
Getting into a road rage fight can be a dangerous thing. You don’t know what the person you’re fighting with is capable of. They can come at you with an aluminum bat. Or a two-by-four. Or a tire iron. Or a gun. Or a sandwich…
The two convicts that were released from a Florida prison by accident were caught over the weekend, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced. Joseph Jenkins and Charles Walker were found at a Coconut Grove Motor Inn in Panama City Beach on Saturday evening and were immediately taken into custody…
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is looking less and less like a Republican lately. This time around, he’s calling Ted Cruz and the Tea Party folk’s tactics to defund Obamacare “embarrassing.” Meanwhile, Jeb!’s son, George P. Bush, has been all about Cruz, specifically saying he wants to keep the Affordable…
The organizers of an upcoming debate about the legalization of marijuana in Florida say that they are expecting overflow crowds, protests, and extra police. The head of Students for a Sensible Drug Policy will debate a UF professor who has advised three presidents. The event is set to take place…
When Sarah Orzechowitz walked through the doors at Nova Southeastern University on the first day of classes in winter 2012, she had her hopes pinned on a career as a nurse. But as the mother of two went through the Davie university’s program, higher learning turned out to be a…
Marco Rubio isn’t just the Golden Boy of the GOPer Dawn. He’s also apparently a soothsayer. Rubio, who shockingly voted against the debt deal on Wednesday, thinks people will eventually see things his way and actually revolt over Obamacare. His reason seems to be rooted in what experts call “butthurtedness.”…
Joseph Dragojevich scuba dove into a 510-foot sunken Navy ship, the USS Spiegel Grove, on Thursday and hasn’t been seen since, according to the Coast Guard. The ship became an artificial reef after it had been sunk in 2002. A search party has been looking for Dragojevich since his friend…
The Palm Beach Post was put on lockdown this morning following a scare with a suspicious package. Around 11:45 a.m. firefighters and HAZMAT teams were called into action at the paper’s building at 2700 S. Dixie Highway. There were reports that the doors were shut, the elevators locked, and employees…
A Boynton Beach woman hated her husband so much that she wanted to have him killed. So she gave a couple of cops credit cards to give to a potential hit man. The cops said they were cops. They were wearing tactical vests that said POLICE on them. They were…
A Jupiter couple is suing the Purple Lotus Kava Bar in West Palm Beach because they claim they’ve gotten addicted to their specialty drinks. The reason they’re addicted, they say, is because of a special ingredient in the drinks called kratom, which is actually an opium substitute. Mmmmm opium… Kratom…
You spoke, we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s Mug-Shot Friday, 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…
We know the city fathers and mothers of Palm Beach Gardens are licking their chops at the prospect of luring the Houston Astros to set up a new spring training facility in their burg. We know there may be as much as $100 million in public funds going into the…
Except for Cool Runnings and a few scenes from Blue Lagoon, Jamaica has never had much of a film scene. So when Shottas came out in 2002, it became a cult hit. The film, about two friends who grew up on the hard streets of Kingston and Miami, featured modern…
