Back in April, honor student Kiera Wilmot, made some waves when she was arrested for felony charges after she conducted a science experiment where she mixed some toilet bowl cleaner and some tin foil in a bottle and blew the cap off on school grounds. The experiment caused some smoke,…
Photo courtesy of Mercy for AnimalsOne of the nearly 3,000 pigs at Country View Family Farms in Fannettsburg, Pennsylvania. The far mis a supplier for Hatfield Quality Meats, which is sold in twelve Northeastern states.This week’s story, “The Ag Gag War,” goes behind the scenes of the guerilla fight between…
Update: The Boy Scouts voted today to allow gay youth to participate. 61 percent of the voted in favor. Cue the trumpets and fanfare: today might be the day when the Boy Scouts of America finally cross into 21st Century. Sure, it’s a little belated. For the last few years,…
UPDATE: The original post to this story reported that that worker that was killed was a Port of Palm Beach employee. However, the man was working at the port, but was not a Port of Palm Beach employee.A man working at the Port of Palm Beach was killed in barge an…
Natasha Myers is a beacon of street justice. She looks out for the every day working stiff who put their lives on the line by walking Florida streets and roads teeming with dangerous inconsiderate drivers. And when Natasha sees a driver not yielding to pedestrians, AS IS THE LAW, they…
Tow truck driver Ronald Tyler lets nothing get in his way when it comes to towing illegally parked cars throughout Fort Lauderdale. Impossibly parked cars. Angry car owners. Babies. NOTHING. Tyler ran into one such baby when he tried to tow the one-year-old’s dad’s car. So he pepper sprayed the…
Depending on where you come down on the whole animal-rights thing, you probably watched the video of Florida’s finest d-bags jumping onto some innocent manatees with something between shock and rage. This week we posted the vid, some dumpster-grade Jackassery courtesy of two Cocoa Beach brainiacs. Thankfully, the federales have…
The Indiana Pacers’ Paul George had himself a coming out party. He led Indiana with 27 points, and hit an impossible 30-foot three-pointer to stun the Miami Heat and force overtime. Then, with just 2.2 seconds remaining in the OT, George hit three consecutive free throws to put the Pacers…
In the waning afternoon light, the five-foot-nine blond with Tina Turner lips and Pamela Anderson breasts opened the doorway of her cramped apartment on Boca Place Drive and began to scream. Standing there beneath the palm trees in the sprawling parking lot was a darkly handsome man with thick, meaty…
Red-eyed with exhaustion, Thomas Kramer slumped behind his empty desk. The real estate tycoon had been up all night worrying about how to break the news to his employees. As they filed in, he reached across the desk and grabbed a bottle of pills. Behind him, green lights blinked on…
This just in from the Broward Sheriff’s Office: At 6:41 a.m. on May 5, “a man who orchestrated a murder on Interstate 95 ‘pocket dialed’ 911 just before [a] fatal shooting. On a recorded line, Scott Simon can be heard telling someone else that he’s going to follow the victim…
Jose Canseco, batshit former MLB player, steroid a aficionado and noted time traveler, took to Twitter today to announce that he had been charged with rape. The first tweet read as Canseco breaking the news to his own rape accusation, which is all kinds of mettamoron: “Breaking news this is…
People can’t seem to stop being stupid and treating manatees like they’re playthings to jump on top of and ride like a horse. Just a day after two dolts jumped on top of a mother manatee and her calf, comes an WFLA report of a woman leaping on a manatee…
Remember when Rick Scott shortened early voting days, and then denied a request to extend it by a whole day back in November when reports kept coming in that people were waiting up to 8 hours in line to vote? WELL, NEITHER DOES RICK SCOTT. Because he’s your early voting…
Britni Hiatt, the FAU student protest leader who was clipped by then-FAU President Mary Jane Saunders’ 2011 Lexus GS as Saunders was leaving a meeting, claims that she has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of the accident. Since the accident, Hiatt has been attending psychotherapeutic…
The Boy Scouts of America vote tomorrow on a proposal that would end the organization’s long-running ban on openly gay scouts. Predictably, traditional values types favor keeping the ban. Just as predictably, Florida Christian conservatives are in the forefront of the reaction, rallying to stem the tide of time. The…
A man shot and killed by an FBI agent in Orlando shortly before midnight Tuesday was apparently being questioned about the Boston Bombings. According to a report by Orlando’s WFTV the suspect is 26-year old Ibragim Todashev. Todashev’s friend told a WFTV reporter that he was getting ready to fly…
See South Florida? We knew underneath all that sun-soaked apathy and cosmetic work you had some dormant activist ire. Last week, we clued you in on the protests breaking out around the country against the possible sale of the Tribune Co.’s fleet of top-quality news sources. Demonstrations were held in…
What year is it? Just wondering, because the Fort Lauderdale Black Police Officer’s [sic] Association, along with the City of Fort Lauderdale’s Parks & Recreation Department, is sponsoring a program described as “Etiquette and Purity for Girls” as part of its annual Teen Summit this Friday, May 24. From the…
The Dolphins brain trust failed to get government funding to help renovate Sun Life Stadium. But that didn’t stop them from bringing it hard to the hoop to get the NFL to let them host what will be a milestone game — Super Bowl L (or, Super Bowl 50, for…
Florida state attorney Bruce Colton says the charges against Kaitlyn Hunt, the Sebastian River High School student who was arrested on charges of “lewd and lascivious battery of a child 12 to 16 years old” because of her same-sex relationship with a fellow student, will not be dropped. See also:…
Shirley Ann Duncan was given over $1,000 in donations, including housewares, clothes and furniture, thanks to the selfless generosity of a Port Charlotte church when she told them that her four sons were killed in combat overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. The church even held a memorial service for the…
