Regular Florida folk like yourself have been a big help in keeping the Florida Panther safe and its population intact, even if most of you apparently can’t tell a panther from a monkey. But, hey. It’s working, so… Last year, the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission launched a website…
When a Florida man was stopped and searched by cops, he tried to conceal the crack pipe he was carrying. Since cops tend to look in pockets and hats and shoes and pants, the man hid the pipe in the one place they wouldn’t be able to spot during a…
Corey Graham Jr. learned his fate from a Palm Beach County circuit judge after being found guilty of shooting and killing Belle Glade grocery shore owner Jimmy McMillan in January 2012: Life in prison, plus 15 years. A jury convicted the former Glades Central High School offensive lineman last month…
He’s won world championships, Olympic gold, MVPs, made commercials, obliterated Jason Terry, and has been a cartoon. And now, LeBron James is adding sitcom producer to his résumé. And, just as he did with Dwyane Wade, LeBron is joining forces with another who has been a force in his respective…
The fratboy thug mentality runs deep on the political right, from the acned James O’Keefe to the buffoonish, belligerent Andrew Breitbart (may he rot in hell). Boca Raton conservative activist Jack Furnari is cut from the same crude cloth. Just yesterday, for instance, Furnari made an ass of himself with…
Police in Fort Lauderdale responding to a domestic call at a South Federal Highway motel were handed a bonus prize this weekend: a small-scale meth lab. The cops were called to the Relax Inn yesterday, where apparently no measure of relaxation was going on (FALSE ADVERTISING?). A women and two…
As President Obama has weighed the decision on whether or not to use military force against Syria, and is looking to rally support from Congress, Florida polticos have been somewhat silent about the issue (except for Rep. Tom Rooney, who is none too fired up about the idea of military…
War is hell, everyone knows — even if you’re supposedly fighting it with unmanned drones, surgical strikes, and big-ass warships. If you’re one of the many getting that icky feeling in your stomach about possible impending military action in Syria, you might want to grab some posterboard and a Sharpie…
According to our spywitness, fast-rising singer Austin Mahone was at the AMC Theatre at the Aventura Mall yesterday catching an afternoon showing of This Is Us — the documentary / live concert film featuring massive British boy band One Direction. Everybody knows this is major — because just last week,…
The name Booby Trap Love Stuff connotes a certain level of trashiness. Although it’s shaped like a cottage and customers enter through castle-esque wooden doors, they have to flash an ID before they can behold rows of phallic objects and feather boas. But the Fort Lauderdale store, located 397 feet…
A pack of angry gay strippers ain’t nothing to mess around with. That’s the takeaway from the story Miss Stonewall 2013 is telling right now. The woman handed top honors at this year’s Stonewall Summer Pride event in Wilton Manors says she was just trying to enjoy a night out…
Growing up in the westerly suburbs of Fort Lauderdale, I learned to accept that much of my adolescent and young adult life would be flat: low, flat stretches of land covered in Malvina Reynolds’ “little boxes” that all look just the same; strip mall plazas filled with chain restaurants and…
So apparently there’s a guy walking around Tamarac, and knocking on people’s doors pretending to be a utility worker. According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the man has been spotted going door-to-door and trying to get into people’s homes by claiming he was there to “check the water system.”…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS has ruled that it will recognize joint tax returns of gay married couples. And yes, this also includes Florida. The ruling, which came down Thursday, says that legally married same-sex couples will be treated as married for federal tax purposes. According…
Former players for a Cuban baseball team were scheduled to have a special reunion game at FIU’s baseball stadium on August 10th and 11th. But, the game was abruptly canceled. An anti-Castro group calling themselves “Vigilia Mambisa” claimed responsibility for the cancellation, saying that they had “won a fight against…
Thousands of dolphins, including those that swim off the coast of Fort Lauderdale and other parts of South Florida, could be killed within the next five years via Navy military tests. According to a recent environmental-impact statement from the military, dolphins living off the East Coast, the Gulf of Mexico,…
Brittney Sierra, who was charged with child neglect in connection with the death of her 5-month-old baby, wants a judge to let her out of jail. So she can give birth to another baby. The remains of the baby, who had been missing since July 2011, were found in the…
The epic task of restoring and preserving the Everglades faces a major new hurdle in the coming weeks, as a draft report on implementation of the Central Everglades Planning Project (CEPP) comes under review by the general public and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Finalizing the plan in timely…
Ah Florida. We have criminals, just like every other state. But we have our own special kind of criminal. Namely, dumb ones. And, because we’re never in short supply of dumb criminals, we present to you our latest series of the dumbest Florida criminals of the month. August was special…
C’mon — you’ve got to be mad at Rick Scott about something! Leaving Stand Your Ground intact? Decimating the Department of Environmental Protection? Not showing up at his own education summit? Making baldness sexy? What started out a protest against oil drilling has morphed into a catch-all event. People from…
Heads up, people that commute the East Las Olas Boulevard Bridge. Due to construction, the bridge will be closed Thursday night to Friday morning. So you may want to take the detour, or find another route if you travel through and around Ft. Lauderdale beach…
Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott is walking that fine Donald Trumpian line of being kinda racist without coming out and saying totally racist things. Basically, Scott doesn’t think it would be a swell idea to have hip-hop artist Ludacris perform at Florida Gulf Coast University’s Eaglepalooza this year. Because Ludacris…
