A massive riot broke out at Avon Park Youth Academy juvenile detention center on Saturday night. The riot, which sparked two fires, and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage to several buildings throughout the facility, was apparently started over a couple of cups of soup, according to reports…
“I really don’t feel like I live the life of a typical sex offender,” Damian Garcia said on a recent evening on the back patio of his house in Lake Worth. With his small frame crumbled in a deck chain, the 31-year-old hispanic guy puffs on an electronic cigarette while…
Tired of the government spying on your Facebook messages and tweets? Wondering if you’ll ever dispatch another update without concern of government intervention? In that case, take out your phone, remove the batteries, and put it in the freezer. (The government could be listening right now.) See also: Everett Wilkinson:…
The Injury Gods dropped the hammer on the Miami Dolphins with the news that big-time free agent tight end acquisition Dustin Keller will miss the entire 2013 season with a knee injury. Keller suffered the injury during Miami’s Saturday night’s preseason matchup against the Houston Texans. Keller was among the…
Once upon a time, Marco “Golden Boy” Rubio was seen as the great Hispanic hope for the Republican Party — he fell perfectly in line with all the GOP’s wonderful ideas, like denying climate change and talking about how bad illegal immigrants were. But this January, he proposed a path…
For some time now, a massive, three-story building at 2119 S. Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach, formerly the site of Ragtops Antique Car Showroom and Museum, has been undergoing a sweeping renovation. Virtually every square inch of its space has been repaired, redone, patched and freshly painted. The project’s…
If you live in western Palm Beach County, you may want to be concerned about possible radioactive contamination in the area, the law firm of Searcy, Denney Scarola Barnhart and Shipley warned late Friday. In 2010, the Centers for Disease Control confirmed there had been a cluster of children living…
A Palm Beach County man allegedly murdered his roommate, dismembered the body, and then brought a friend over to see the corpse. According to police, Scott Tobiassen, 49, a man described as violent (ya don’t say!), and who brags about his fighting ability, murdered his roommate, Gerard Longo, 48, cut…
The Florida Department of Health issued a warning this week of a rare brain-eating amoeba that feeds off brain cells. The warning comes off the news of a 12-year-old boy affected with the parasite, currently fighting for his life in the intensive care unit at the Miami Children’s Hospital. Health…
A West Palm Beach court has set a December 17 trial date for tennis Hall of Famer Jennifer Capriati. Capriati, 37, was arrested in April and charged with stalking and battery on her ex-boyfriend, former Florida State University golfer Ivan Brannan, in February. Allegedly, she punched Brannan several times, sent…
A 41-year-old West Palm Beach woman is accused of sending a boy nude photos of herself, giving him beer at a party, and having sex with him multiple times. The woman admitted to Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies that the two did have sex, but that it was because the…
Back in July, we told you about the United For Care Campaign, a group run by People United for Medical Marijuana, who took up the fight to get legalized medical marijuana on the ballot in Florida in November of 2014 as a Constitutional Amendment. The group needed to collect 68,314…
Recently, FAU was called the “worst place in the United States to attend college.” It was called this by The Daily Caller. But, still. The main reason the school was called this by The Daily Caller was because of the school’s so-called “speech code” (more on that here) – specifically…
Let’s be honest: the political scene in this state is hurting. A real snoresville. Gone are the Tea Party glory days for 2010. Back then, any given morning might start with an outrageous comment or crime against human decency thanks to a Florida elected official. A lot of that stemmed…
The time has come. On Tuesday, August 20, the Fort Lauderdale city commission will vote in what promises to be one of most contentious meetings ever. The commission must decide: Will they say no to a well-connected developer and the apartment project that was designed by the hottest young architect…
Just a day after hearing was held where judge agreed to let Wellington polo mogul John Goodman go see his dying mother in Houston, a judge has agreed to let Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office deputies escort Goodman on a charter flight. Attorneys on both sides laid down some terms,…
Dylan Harrison and John Shealey, the head honchos behind Mr. Nice Guy, one of the largest synthetic-weed operations, received reduced prison sentences on Wednesday. Both men were facing serious time after being charged for unlawful distribution of controlled substance analogs. Just a few months ago, Harrison agreed to a plea…
A 7-year-old boy walked into his home’s lanai and found a black bear napping inside like it was all good. The boy, who was at home with a babysitter and his siblings, did what most people would do of they saw a giant-ass bear treating their home like a bed…
Well, better start stockpiling cans of OFF! The Florida Department of Health has confirmed three cases of dengue fever contracted in Florida. Dengue fever, which rarely ever hits the U.S., is an infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes that causes fever, headache, muscle pain and a measles-like rash on the body…
Jason Simione, the Dania Beach man accused of trying to hire a hit man to off his family and infant son, and for making threats about President Obama, apparently was all ready in case World War III broke out. After Simione was arrested, investigators found his home stockpiled with weapons,…
A follow-up from an old story: Collette O’ Neill (formerly Spears) claimed that in December 2009, Riviera Beach Police officers knocked on her door while she was in bed and said they wanted her to let them her house and into her backyard. A single woman, she said they could…
Late Friday night, two Southwest Ranches men climbed into their Hyundai Sonata after a dinner with friends when a red Ferrari 430 Scuderia came out of nowhere and rear-ended their car, spinning it out of control on I-75, just north of Norhwest 138th Street in Miami-Dade County. When the Sonata…
