Boos slice through the air as Dr. Red Roberts peacocks around the ring while snapping the straps of his red and white leotard. A comic-book-villain grin peeks out from a thick beard when he jabs his chin at the full house, each jut shaking his messy brushfire of red curls…
The day before Boca Raton attorney Timothy McCabe disappeared with more than $3 million of his Boca Raton firm’s money, he sent a cryptic email to his wife: “You never knew what I was doing, but after the bank took our properties I made a series of very bad business…
As the Heat gets ready to take the floor for Game Six of the NBA Finals tonight, some players may have more on their minds than championship aspirations. Like the possibility that they’ll be wearing a Miami jersey for the last time. We’re not talking role players here either –…
Marco Rubio was once hailed as the Golden Boy Savior of America’s Grand Ole Party and the next for-sure president of the United States. But now he’s suddenly making a lot of peeps in his own party super mad because of all this immigration reform talky-talk. The latest Angry GOPer…
A judge ordered the release of former Dolphins receiver Chad Johnson from his 30-day sentence in the clink after he apologized on Monday morning for smacking his lawyer in the ass in court last week. The Artist Formerly Known As Ocho Cinco had spent seven days in jail before today’s…
Rick Scott, in an apparent mission to blow up every possible bridge linking him to re-election in 2014, signed a bill on Friday banning paid sick leave for Floridians, because, as much as they love to talk up how they hate Big Government and Bengazziiii and TAXES BAD, the GOPers…
While most furniture stores can promise to furnish your home, not many can claim to furnish their buyers with love. IKEA is one of the few. The world’s largest furniture retailer hosted a very unorthodox marriage proposal on Saturday afternoon at its Sunrise location. The proposal, put together for Carlos…
An important early test of FAU’s leaders in the post-Saunders era will be the decision whether to renew the teaching contract of Dr. Deandre Poole. Dr. Poole was placed on leave in March after a dispute arose over his use of a communications class exercise in which students were asked…
Just as it was in Game 3 of these roller coaster NBA Finals, the San Antonio Spurs caught fire in Game 5, and torched the Miami Heat with a 60 percent shooting performance that has the world champs at the brink of total destruction. The series switches back to Miami…
Over the weekend, the word “JIHAD” in bold and black letters materialized on the side of 1-95 North near Delray Beach, without a word of explanation. Next, on SW Fourth Avenue, police found a sticker emblazoned with the word “Jihad” clinging to an electrical box. Was this all the work…
Ending a wild week of vitriol, in which Taylor Chapman became the most hated person on the Internet, she has been fired from her marketing position, according to a statement released by her former company at 1:30 a.m. this morning. PowerSales Team, which is based in Fort Lauderdale and has…
Jeb Bush, speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition in Washington on Friday, brought up his support for the passage of an immigration bill by arguing that it would be good for the U.S. economy because immigrants are more “fertile.” “Immigrants create far more businesses than native-born Americans,” Bush said…
The governing body of the Research Park at FAU will refer the matter of its board member Roxanna Trinka’s anti-Muslim and anti-gay Facebook posts to the Palm Beach County Commission, which appointed her to the board. See also: – Facebook Page Reveals FAU Adviser Fears Muslim Law, Gay Rights -…
On Wednesday came the news of a boil water alert for much of Broward County. And now officials are saying that the alert will be extended at least to Saturday. The reason for this is when inspectors checked out the county’s water well, the survey failed, moving them to extend…
FAU administrators today distanced themselves from the Islamophobic and homophobic Facebook posts, first reported here, of Boca Raton businesswoman Roxanna Trinka, an adviser to the school’s College of Engineering and Computer Science. See also: – Facebook Page Reveals FAU Adviser Fears Muslim Law, Gay Rights…
And just like that — poof — she’s gone. Taylor Chapman has gone into deep hiding, possibly to avoid the radioactive fallout that may occur after she nuclearly strikes Dunkin Donuts from Mars and pays them back for forgetting her receipt. But glimpses of her former life continue to emerge…
At the very moment public hysteria about government snooping has reached a new, fevered pitch, the radical environmentalists of Everglades Earth First! have decided to hold a very public workshop on the art and science of direct action. Non-violent protest that may involve civil disobedience, direct action often takes the…
Yesterday, a piece by FIU philosophy and women’s and gender studies professor Laurie Shrage inspired quite the Twitstorm — as well as one rebuttal, sure to be followed by more today. Titled “Is Forced Fatherhood Fair?” and published Wednesday morning on the New York Times’ philosophy blog “The Stone,” Shrage’s…
Law enforcement agencies aren’t exactly known as great bastions of workplace diversity — meaning that most of the faces you see in uniform are pale and pasty. Police forces across the country have paid a lot of lip service to idea of fixing that problem, but the stats remain pretty…
In case you’ve forgotten, Sunday is Father’s Day. And while you might be scrambling to buy your Dad that $2 sports calendar or getting him yet another card with a cheesy poem about him being there for you from the CVS down the street (again!), maybe you want to remember…
Here’s a good one. Remember that wayward Broward College student we told you about earlier this week who’s running for Broward County Commission, and has been arrested twice for impersonating a police officer? There’s more. Much, much more. See also: – Christopher Warnig, Candidate for Broward County Commission, Twice Arrested…
Remember when Dwyane Wade was a liability to the Heat in these Finals and we all wrote him off, like a bunch of assholes? Pffft. Wade dropped his pants, and then he dropped 32 points in Miami’s 109-93 Game 4 beatdown of the San Antonio Spurs to even the series…
