On a sunny morning in 2011, Ellsworth Knowles Jr. was pedaling his bike through Fort Lauderdale, when plainclothes cops in an unmarked car rolled up. They wanted to know if he had proper registration for his bike. By then, Knowles, now 45, knew the routine. He says he and others…
Broward County has decided to stop its ambulance service on the one stretch of highway in South Florida with the least amount of lighting, where people statistically travel way past the speed limit, and where alligators, panthers, and snakes reside just off to the side of the road. Alligator Alley…
Hey, parts of Sunrise! There’s poop in your water! Probably. So please be advised that a boil water advisory is still in effect for you. According to city officials, several hundred Sunrise water customers are being asked to keep boiling their water, or to use bottled water, after a water…
Coral Springs is holding an Exotic Pets Amnesty Day on Saturday during which people can bring over weird animals not native to Florida and drop them off. Why? Well, because Florida has an invasive-species problem. There’s lionfish, pythons, dog-killing pythons, giant snails, a weird exotic lizard known as a tegus,…
Back in July, we told you about transgender nursing student Alex Wilson, who was told by administrators at Pinellas Technical Education Centers that she could not use the ladies’ restroom and was forced to walk across campus to use a single-person’s restroom instead. The school also allegedly threatened to press…
Miami-Dade Police pursued an armed gunman into west Broward, where a standoff ensued. Shots were fired on U.S. 27 near Griffin Road, according to police. Reports say the incident started Wednesday morning when two women were shot near the 12300 block of SW 190th Street in southwest Miami-Dade. Cops then…
Forbes.com released its list of the 400 People Who Have So Much More Money Than You, It’s Really Not Even Funny List for 2013, and Palm Beach residents are all over that thing. In all, 27 rich Palm Beachers made Forbes’ list, including the Koch Twins. David Koch, the 73-year-old…
Last week, we told you about how you needed to go ahead and not crash on Alligator Alley, because Broward was going to discontinue its one ambulance service into the stretch of highway due to budget cuts. Well, good news. You can crash on Alligator Alley all you want now,…
Maybe it’s because it was in the middle of a weekday afternoon. Or there’s the fact that the Florida Panthers will likely have a profoundly terrible season this year. Not to mention this is South Florida. And there’s little redemption for hockey fans here. A fact clearly on display Monday…
Texas Gov. Rick Perry last spring vetoed a bill that would have let victims of wage discrimination sue for back pay in state court. That shouldn’t have surprised anyone. The numbskulled chief executive has never been known as a friend of working folks. But when the news later broke that…
By now, you’ve surely heard about basketball great/inimitable superfreak/sometimes South Florida resident Dennis Rodman going to North Korea to meet with dictator Kim Jong-Un not once but twice. Vice magazine initially sent Rodman to get an “in” with the basketball-loving leader; then Rodman went back at the behest of an…
Last night, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz posted an open letter on the company’s website asking customers not to bring guns into the company’s coffee shops. He said that Starbucks employees had been stuck in the middle of too many uncomfortable incidents in the gun control debate. He also noted that…
In probably what is the least shocking news in the history of everything, former Chicago Bull and current TNT NBA analyst Steve Kerr says that the Miami Heat will fall short of a three-peat in 2014. In fact, he goes on to say that not only will the Heat not…
Back in August, when Florida’s State Board of Education named Pam Stewart interim president for the second straight year following consecutive epic fails by the acting education chiefs, we here at the Pulp threw out the idea that, hey, why not hire Stewart full-time? AND APPARENTLY THEY LISTENED! Probably. Anyway,…
A Miami Dolphins fan was arrested after he did what every Miami Dolphins fan dreams of but hardly ever actually acts on — he beat the shit out of a Jets fan with a PVC pipe. And before you judge the Fins fan, keep in mind that Jets fans are…
You sit around all day playing Candy Crush and bitching on Twitter about how Facebook sucks, so why not get paid a crapload of money while doing that? NASA is recruiting volunteers to lie in bed for 70 days to research the effects of microgravity on the human body. Volunteers…
The jury in the Gerard Lopes Belmonte trial started deliberations on Tuesday following a brief trial of a gruesome and tragic murder. On Monday, the jury heard the closing arguments and will now decide the fate of Lopes, who stands accused of raping and murdering his adoptive mother, Natalie Belmonte…
So is Stand Your Ground on the ropes or here to stay? Since the outrage boiling over after the George Zimmerman trial verdict, there’s been a lot of talk across the state about reforming the shoot-first legislation. But even if — somehow — the political will shifted toward dismantling the…
Ninety-five percent of scientists now agree that global warming is a scientific fact — and , as one particularly terrifying Rolling Stone article explained in June, “South Florida is uniquely screwed, in part because about 75 percent of the 5.5 million people in South Florida live along the coast.” We’re…
UPDATE, September 19: This story has been updated to incorporate responses from the Fort Lauderdale mayor and police department. The City of Fort Lauderdale has filed fresh charges against David Parker, who was one of two men beaten by bouncers at Dirty Blondes earlier this summer in a graphically violent…
So it’s come down to this for Tim Tebow. A Russian pro football team is reportedly offering the former Florida Gator star turned failed NFL experiment Tim Tebow $1 million for two games. And Tebow is said to be interested. Also, yes, there’s such a thing as Russian pro football,…
A recent study on bridges by the Associated Press found that 7,795 of the nation’s bridges have been designated both “structurally deficient” and “fracture critical,” meaning that almost 8,000 U.S. bridges are under an increased risk of collapsing. But the same study says Florida’s bridges remain among the sturdiest in…
