So. Much. Rain. So much in fact, Park Vista High School in Palm Beach was forced to cancel classes today due to access roads closed thanks to all the flooding. No other schools have canceled classes, though they have had their parking lots turned into lakes, and their access roads…
Uh. Day Two of this short week just might be harder to get through than Tuesday. Right? After that glorious three-day weekend, it’s a death march just getting back into the everyday swing. Powering on the ol’ desktop, pouring a cup of the office black-tar coffee, buttoning the cardigan against…
Hi. Hello. How are you? Have you voted in the New Times Readers’ Poll yet? Because if you haven’t, you’re dead to us. Ha. Ha. Just kidding. You’re the best! No, seriously. Go vote for South Florida’s best restaurants, bars, shops, drag queen, Heat player (LOL it’s LeBron!), best pool,…
Thanks mostly to the Heat’s role players shooting the basketball like it was a bag of piss, some putrid rebounding, strong play from the Pacers’ Roy Hibbert, and a crapload of atrocious officiating from the referees, your 2013 Eastern Conference Finals is all knotted up at 2-2. After cracking the…
Our favorite reformed pot smuggler and marijuana legalization activist, Bobby Platshorn, is at it again, with an ingenious scheme to bring the good word on maryjane to the attention of legislators and the general public. And once again he’s drawing on support from an unexpected quarter of the population –…
Looks like Florida has finally joined in on the texting-and-driving-ban palooza after Gov. Rick Scott officially made it illegal to do so. Scott signed the bill on Tuesday, making Florida the 40th state to enact some sort of text-while-driving ban. Florida drivers will not be able to write or read…
John Farrell, a math and statistics teacher at Cardinal Gibbons Catholic High School, was arrested on Memorial Day for allegedly having a sexual relationship with one of his students According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Farrell, 25, is facing multiple counts of unlawful sexual activity with certain minors. The BSO…
Amy Beth Bennett, a photographer for the Sun-Sentinel , and Joe Cavaretta, gave birth to their second child over the weekend at Boca Raton Regional Hospital. But Bennett never made it inside the hospital, because baby Sienna Grace wasn’t going to wait. So she was born in the parking lot…
Two Sanford Papa John employees didn’t appreciate the tip they got from a customer. So, they butt-dialed the customer and sang a song filled with racial slurs into his voicemail. Unfortunately for them, however, the customer knows how to use the YouTube, and was able to post the message on…
Don’t count Indy down and out just yet. They have an annoying knack for squeaking out Ws, which is exactly what they’ll have to do tonight if they don’t want to put any chance at the Finals in the rearview mirror. So today, on the day of make-or-break home court…
Memorial Day is all about relaxing, hitting up the beach, and grabbing some food. It is for sharks, anyway. According to reports, a shark bit a boy swimming in Ormond Beach in Volusia County on Memorial Day…
Listen up, sexy hot teachers: Tired of your job? Students stressing you out? Just want to get away? (Disclaimer: This is only for sexy hot teachers.) There are opportunities to be had. For starters, you could pull an Olivia Sprauer, a local Stuart English teacher who began moonlighting as a…
Man, college what a wild time! Remember when Joey got blasted on Jager shots and vomited on your iPhone or that time your tenured professor told you the Newtown shooting never happened? Or remember when another professor asked students to step on Jesus’ name and that pissed off a lot…
Sure, for some a past stint in porn might be a career-wrecker. Not so for David Mech, who in a past life strutted his stuff on camera as Dave Pounder. Earlier this month, the Boca Raton math tutor’s porn history was revealed after Palm Beach School District pulled the ads…
On Friday, the Indiana Pacers took Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals in a 97-93 win against the Miami Heat. While LeBron James poured in 36 points, and was a one-man basketball avalanche, his teammates’ play could only be described as refried ass. Things were tense leading up to…
Jason Friedman, a family man and father of three, saw Loki Boy, the 23-year-old Brazilian man that squatted into a $2.5 million mansion by means of “adverse possession” and apparently thought to himself, “Well now that looks like a fantastic idea!” and moved his family into an abandoned 3,400-square-foot home…
It looks like Florida’s texting-and-driving ban, which was at one point was almost derailed by the House added some frivolous amendments to it last month, will become a thing when Rick Scott signs it into law next week. The bill barely made it to the governor’s desk thanks to an…
A Port Charlotte man woke up to discover a black bag with an unlocked safe inside it. What could be in this safe that magically appeared on the man’s lawn as if it were a gift from the heavens? Money? Gold? Jewels? A treasure map? Nope. It was drugs. A…
Kaitlyn Hunt, the 18-year-old high school student facing felony charges in connection to her arrest after she had a same-sex relationship with a younger student, was offered a plea agreement of two years house arrest and one year probation. She has refused the plea deal. See also: – Kaitlyn Hunt,…
A bathroom wall at Wellington High School had a message scrawled on it which warned that a student or students would “blow up the school” this Friday. As a result, school administrators have banned backpacks and large purses from school grounds for the remainder of the school year. Police, meanwhile,…
In an emblematic victory for clear thinking and common decency, the Boy Scouts of America yesterday voted an end to their long-running policy that denied membership to openly gay youth. Meeting in suburban Dallas, the 1,400 members of the group’s national council enacted new standards, including this statement: No youth…
Since 2006, attorney and courthouse muckraker William “Bill” Gelin has been shaking up the judiciary on his popular site, JAA Blog. Whether sounding off about potential corruption and racism in the courthouse ruling class, or even its work habits, the 46-year-old Oakland Park attorney hasn’t held back his opinions. But…
