Businesses looking to hire you want to be able to get all up in your Facebook and Twitter accounts to see if you’re worth hiring. That’s right. You want a job? You may have to allow someone to look through your Tweets and those vacation-to-Hawaii pics. But Florida state Sen…
The Experts, a Fort Lauderdale-based computer security firm, raked in about $60 million a year — until one of its employees, Aaron Alexis, went on a rampage at the Washington Navy Yard and killed 12 people September 16. The Experts made about half its money doing subcontract work — like…
A Florida man decided to end a verbal argument with a woman in the most reasonable way possible: by dousing her with gasoline and threatening to light her on fire with a blowtorch. The man had asked the woman to move her car, so he could exit the Shell gas…
Just because you hate Rick Scott, that doesn’t automatically mean he won’t win reelection next year. (And we can, at this point, agree, that most of you hate him.) Let’s break down how and why: 1. This is Florida. 2. He Has Really, Really, Ridiculously Filthy-Rich Friends. 3. But, mostly,…
If you’re looking to take Junior out for some angling in the wilderness, you might want to steer clear of Loxahatchee. Last week, some people fishing a remote sliver of water out in the western edge of Palm Beach County stumbled upon a horrific find: the leftovers of a horse…
A 98-year-old Florida woman had a bit of a pest problem. And by “pest,” we mean bees. And by “a bit,” we mean she had thousands and thousands of bees growing a bee empire inside her attic and awning. It was 20,000 bees, to be exact. Basically, the woman’s house…
On Saturday morning, 55-year-old Wanda Keating McGowan got stuck on a Fort Lauderdale drawbridge that opened while she was crossing it. That bridge over the New River is for trains. She held on for her life and dangled in the air until firefighters arrived with a 24-foot-ladder and rescued her…
Florida GOPer Dennis Baxley, the same GOPer Representative that proposed ending a ban on guns in state schools following the Newtown, Connecticut tragedy, has now come out and said some awful things about lesbian mothers. SHOCKING, WE KNOW. During a panel about how to improve Florida’s middle schools, Baxley basically…
It appears that three players of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been diagnosed with MRSA. And now the staph infection outbreak is threatening to cancel the Bucs’ game against the Philadelphia Eagles this Sunday. On Thursday, the Bucs announced that guard Carl Nicks was diagnosed with the staph infection in…
A Fort Lauderdale man walked over to his grandmother’s house with a shotgun, said “he had something for Grandma,” and then shot her German shepherd mix. The dog was hospitalized but eventually died from her wounds. Police have no motive for the shooting, other than the man saying he had…
It looks like something called the Boca Raton Bowl is a thing now, thanks to ESPN. And it will be played every year before Christmas at the stadium formerly known as Owlcatraz at FAU. On Friday, ESPN announced the new bowl game, which will be played at least for the…
Ever get so angry at an ex for dumping you that you go out, get wasted, and then develop the nerve to call them and drunkenly rant at how angry you are that they ruined you, and what a total jerk they were to do that, and then you laughed,…
You spoke, we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s post of the Broward-Palm Beach edition of Mug-Shot Friday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, and femmes fatale…
Forty-five states, including Florida, were all ready to implement the Common Core standards in public schools until a few factions got all riled up about it this year. Gov. Rick Scott abruptly abandoned the plan, and chaos erupted in the education system. Common Core standards have been in development for…
Florida’s longest-serving member of Congress, Rep. C.W. Bill Young, announced he’s retiring when his term ends in 2014. Young, who is roughly a billion 82 years old, cited wanting to spend more time with family as the main reason he’s calling it quits. Better late than never, we guess…
A Broward sheriff’s child protective investigator allegedly wrote up fake reports about the children she was supposed to check up on. Police say that, instead of going to the homes of the five children assigned to her, she merely asked the parents to send her pics of the kids to…
Omar Trevino, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s dispatcher who got into his female coworker’s cell phone that she left lying around so he could email himself pictures of her flashing her breasts, has resigned from his position. Back in July, the female employee claimed that Trevino, 31, swiped her phone…
Donald Trump tweets like a preteen girl. But that’s all part of his never-ending quest to pretend that he’s going to run for president and to shell out everything that has the name TRUMP on it. He also takes advantage of the social media platform to not only pander to…
With the government shutdown entering a full week and no end in sight, Americans’ already unpopular view of Congress is reaching ludicrous speed. Florida Rep. Alan Grayson took to the floor Wednesday to introduce a resolution declaring the government shutdown a “mark upon the dignity of the House” by asserting…
Governor Evil’s Rick Scott’s secretary of state, Ken Detzner, hit Ft. Lauderdale yesterday on the last stop of his “Project Integrity” road show, which the state describes as an effort to “[protect] the voting rights of eligible voters from those who may cast an illegal vote.” Voter fraud is common…
For years now, it’s been easy to see if a sex offender lives near you — an online database of registered offenders addresses has been publicly available since 1997. Now, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement has also made it easy to see if a sex offender is going to…
It feels like we’re living in a Cocaine Cowboys installment this week in South Florida. Why, just yesterday we had news of a yacht captain ferrying 600 pounds of coke from the Bahamas. Today, we have $700 K worth of yeyo just floating in a burlap sack…
