Are airport wheelchairs gross informal laboratories for nasty bodily fluids and festering bacteria? And if so, whose fault is it? Airport workers at Fort Lauderdale – Hollywood International Airport who are assigned to push passengers in wheelchairs said in a statement Thursday that they often deal with passengers “bleeding, vomiting,…
On Wednesday, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department sent out a press release that declared in the headline, “Bogus Website Victimizes Community.” But Jesse Forrest, the owner of the website FindSportsNow.com says his site is legit and that police never even bothered to contact him before sending out the communique, even…
Turns out the woman caught shooting an angry bird at the Bulls’ Joakim Noah as he walked to the locker room is a Palm Beach socialite named Filomena Tobias. And she has quite the cray story. Along with being a socialite, she’s also the widow of hedge-funder Seth Tobias –…
James Minyard, 41, of Tampa never finished school, and wanted to start and finish a difficult job just to prove that he could. So, instead of learning how to play the guitar or taking up scuba diving, like most people would, he took up building homemade bombs. And then he…
Fresh off their rejection of trying to get public funding for their stadium renovations, the Miami Dolphins’ head honchos are preparing to make a bid to host a Super Bowl by presenting a winning idea: Having a football game played on a real-life Navy aircraft carrier! *high five!* According to…
According to the news crews over at Channel 10, a reporting team was filming in the street outside of a private residence Tuesday night when a man — since identified as 33-year-old Louis Dominic Paolino III — came out of the house wielding a knife. He began slicing electric cords,…
O HAI WORLD CHAMPION MIAMI HEAT BASKETBALL After losing by seven to the Chicago Bulls and choking away Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semi-finals on Monday, the Heat decided to stuff all the Fucks they could find into giant garden-sized Glad bags, went into the American Airlines Arena for…
Well, that’s a bit of a flip-flop. Charlie Crist, the former Republican-now-Democrat working overtime to make voters forget all about his past life, came out for marriage equality last night on his Facebook page. Right now it’s political trendy for former gay marriage opponents ditch their old views, and anyone…
In case you’ve forgotten, Sunday is Mother’s Day. And while you might be scrambling to buy your mom $2 flowers from a gas station or getting her yet another Hallmark card with kittens on it from the CVS down the street (again!), maybe you want to remember that you have…
Hissing and spitting like an animal, high tide surged across the sands of Virginia Key. Dark waves broke over the jagged shore and scattered flotsam on the stones like tea leaves at the bottom of a cup. When the water receded, it left more than the usual behind. As dawn…
Sports journalism has hit a new low. While ESPN devotes hours of airtime daily to letting human bobbleheads like Skip Bayless scream at each other over where Tim Tebow will find a job, daily reporters are superglued to their Twitter feeds so they can be the first to share Skip’s…
Last Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott’s office sent out a news release gloating that Anthem Education, a for-profit college, will be locating its “North American headquarters” in Fort Lauderdale, spending $300,000 on a building and furniture, and creating 70 jobs with salaries that average more than $50,000. It also noted that…
Back in 2008, former Boca Raton employee Christine Ferrigan alerted government regulators about possible problems with the city’s water department. Ferrigan claimed she was fired after raising concerns, and she filed a whistleblower suit. But her complaint led to action. A case report done in 2010 by the Division of…
The Miami Dolphins went on their WAHHH THE GOVERNMINTS WON’T GIVE OUR BILLIONAIRE OWNER ANY FREE MONEY 2013 Tour after they were denied public funds to renovate Sun Life Stadium by the House last week. Part of that tour included publicly bashing Florida House speaker Will Weatherford, for supposed broken promises…
Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra did not win the 2013 NBA Coach of Year, coming in second in votes to Denver Nuggets coach George Karl. And that’s the way Spo wants it. “I was probably more pleased this morning than George Karl,” Spoelstra said when told Karl beat him…
A helicopter carrying staff members of the Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission has crashed in the Everglades. According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, the chopper went down near the Palm Beach/Broward County line…
The awesomely named Dave Pounder, who once starred in porn flicks such as Bikini Banger and Cable Sex Guy, is suing the Palm Beach School District for removing three of his banners from schools advertising his math tutoring services. See also: -Olivia Sprauer, Boca Raton English Teacher, Fired for Being…
James Jackson’s 89-year-old legally blind mother said some mean things about his friend. So the 52-year-old Jackson responded in the most reasonable way possible. He walked into her Fort Lauderdale apartment bedroom and punched her in the face…
Yesterday, Olivia Sprauer, a brunet bombshell who was fired from her teaching job at Martin County High School last month for being too sexy — and yes, uploading nudie pics of herself — exploded the internet. The former English teacher, who is a graduate of Florida Atlantic University, made it…
A Texas-based Tea Party organization and the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections have agreed on a plan to provide the group access to county voting records from the 2012 federal election and voter registration and other records going back to 2009. See also: – Allen West Will Soon Be…
If companies are allowed to use seismic airgun testing to search for and study oil and gas deposits in the Atlantic Ocean, 138,500 whales and dolphins will be harmed or killed — and that’s according to the government’s own estimate. In addition, thousands of animals could have their hearing impaired…
Three former members of Donald Trump’s Trump National Golf Club are suing the Donald for not returning their refundable membership deposits. Trump bought the Jupiter resort last year, which was the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club & Spa, and promised to spend millions to renovate it. The three men say that they’re owed membership…
