The wall: a six-foot stack of blue bricks. The mission: go up and over it, the first hurdle in a 16-part obstacle course. Me: suddenly, surprisingly nervous. The vertical lift has resurrected some anxiety from seventh-grade gym, where the prospect of flinging my pear-shaped, hormone-chemistry set through a public display…
Bull sharks are known for being aggressive toward humans, and there have been numerous accounts of bull shark attacks in Florida. They are an ornery, pugnacious species that should be avoided at all costs. And with that comes news out of Gasparilla that a fisherman jumped out of his boat…
Kaitlyn Hunt has been offered a new plea deal. Hunt, 19, is facing two counts of lewd and lascivious battery and one count of transmission of material harmful to a minor. But prosecutors are offering a deal in which she would have to agree to stay in jail until December…
Tomorrow, Rep. Patrick Murphy a 30-year-old Democrat from Jupiter; and Congressman Trey Radel, a Republican from Fort Myers, are scheduled to hold a public briefing to members of Congress regarding the massive pollution that’s flowing from Lake Okeechobee through the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers to pollute estuaries as far…
In case you hadn’t heard, Florida’s texting while driving ban went into effect today. But as it stands, the law is kinda hard to enforce. But on the day everything became official, Democrats and Republicans are coming together to call for a tougher law — one that would actually make…
Florida is suing Georgia: What you are witnessing is real. The participants are not actors. They are states with a case pending in the U.S. Supreme Court. The suit, which was filed by Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi, is over Georgia’s consumption of freshwater in a river…
Authorities captured a ten-foot albino Burmese python that ate two cats in a Martin County neighborhood. According to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office, a Salerno resident called them after they spotted the snake in his yard. When cops arrived, they found and nabbed the ten-footer. The regurgitated carcasses of two…
Michael Jordan was interviewed about which of today’s players could take him one-on-one in his prime, and he answered by showing what a salty, bitter old man he’s become. Namely, he took yet another shot at LeBron James — the one guy who is a legitimate threat to overtake MJ…
Gus Boulis’ green BMW was pinned between two cars. One had halted directly in front of him as he pulled out of his office building’s parking lot. The other appeared from the opposite direction as a dark blur in the vacant Fort Lauderdale street. Boulis’ killer was facing him from…
No one disputes that Dylan Bouscher, editor in chief of FAU’s student newspaper, University Press, approached the scene of an August 24 suicide on the school’s Boca Raton campus. There are two versions of what he did there. Police say he “showed a total lack of respect for FAU PD…
A local website has popped up with the stated mission of publicly shaming journalists in Broward and Palm Beach. The site says it will also be a place for people to air grievances about bad landlords and ex-boyfriends/girlfriends, but so far, it’s just journalists. Last week, DeadBeatLink.com published a stack…
Maybe you don’t know Tom Rooney. We wouldn’t blame you. It’s easy to forget the face of one ubiquitous, white, Southern conservative in a whitewashed mishmash of ubiquitous, white, Southern conservatives. But Tom Rooney, more than just about anyone else in Florida, is to blame for the government shutdown…
Bruce Lowerre had a simple but soaring dream. “I want to finish my plane,” he wrote on his blog. “I’ve been building since 1977… and my plane hasn’t flown yet!” Sadly, that dream came to a terrible end on Saturday when Lowerre fatally crashed his home-built seaplane into Lake Okeechobee…
Well, of course, there’s the dating pool. Without even counting that, the Center for American Progress — an independent, nonpartisan, left-leaning organization — last week managed to come up with a bunch of reasons it totally bites to be a woman in Florida. Oh, it wasn’t called that. The organization…
In case you haven’t heard, the U.S. government is about to shutdown as politicians fight about Obamacare and yell loud things at each other and do things that politicians generally do. For the most part, people aren’t happy about it. And, on Monday, some took to going after Marco Rubio…
The Sharkpocalypse is ever closer with yet another report of a person being bitten by a shark in Florida over the weekend. This time, a shark bit a surfer in the hand near Aquarina Beach and Country Club in Brevard County. According to Brevard County Fire Rescue Lt. Gary Windham,…
You may want to get all that texting while driving out of your system today because, come tomorrow, it’s going to be illegal in Florida. (JUST KIDDING, DO NOT EVER TEXT AND DRIVE PLEASE DO NOT INUNDATE OUR EDITORS WITH ANGRY EMAILS. THANKS.) The law, which passed the House and…
A small, unmanned, boat washed ashore onto Ft. Lauderdale beach early Monday morning. And while boats washing ashore is nothing new to South Florida, this particular boat had several bales of pot on board. Come to think of it, boats washing ashore with bales of pot in them is nothing…
For legislators – especially the ones looking to earn tough-on-crime points – it’s open season on sex offenders. Following a Sun Sentinel investigation that found a high number of re-offenders among the worst of the worst, Tallahassee has elbowed everything else to the side, clamoring to find new ways to…
On a cool November night, just days before Thanksgiving, a spaceship landed on the corner of Collins Avenue and 16th Street. In an instant, traditional gawker fodder cruising through the streets of South Beach — the Lamborghinis,Bentleys, Bugattis — were made irrelevant by comparison. In terms of strangeness and complexity,…
The Miami Marlins ended what was an otherwise historically horrendous season in the craziest, most improbable way imaginable: with a walk-off no hitter. Pitcher Henderson Alvarez threw his first career no-hitter. But, because these are the Marlins, it couldn’t be just your run-of-the-mill no-hitter. No, this one was almost blown…
According to a police report, between 7:30 and 7:35 p.m. on September 23, $870 worth of “Lacie panties” were stolen from the Victoria’s Secret at City Place in West Palm Beach. “The items” — weirdly categorized as “clothing/furs” — “were last seen at 1930 hours,” the report states…
