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It’s bad enough that TSA workers have to look at your flabby fat ass through their full-body scanners, but now they’re going to have to take a public scolding too. According to a 90-day court order by the U.S. Court of Appeals of D.C., the Transportation Security Administration will now…

A 6-year old boy was attacked by an eight-foot alligator at the edge of the Refuge Lee Road boat ramp on the L-40 canal at the A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge on Friday afternoon. The boy, Joey Welch, had slipped and fallen into the shallow water when the alligator lunged…

There’s the sublime. There’s the ridiculous. And there’s the sublimely ridiculous. If former FAU Athletics Director Craig Angelos is to believed, the last of those three is the realm inhabited by the school’s leadership, as far as PR savvy. The school’s tone-deaf ways have been infamous from coast to coast…

Over the weekend, liberal media types coast to coast suffered jags of anxiety after the New York Times reported that Charles and David Koch — AKA the billionaire Jagger and Richards of the Tea Party agenda — are eyeing a new shiny toy: the troubled Tribune Co., the parent behind…

A strange thing happens when you’re catapulting through the upper layers of the troposphere, upside down, and inside a plane that weighs less than 500 pounds. Your higher synapses suddenly shut down, and while the rational part of your brain knows — knows — you’re completely safe, that you’re with…

UPDATE: According to the Sun-Sentinel’s Twitter feed, the bomb threat is being called a hoaxSouth Plantation High School is on lockdown due to a bomb threat. Students have been cordoned off in a park across the street from campus. Police is not is allowing anyone to leave. Officers have set…

While much of the nation was asleep, Boston experienced madness as police identified and chased two of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. The suspects are said to be 19- and 20-something-year-old brothers who seem to have been living near Boston for at least a year based on internet…

Florida Atlantic University has had no shortage of bad headlines in the last semester. Well, chalk up another one: A student is saying the school committed bureaucratic overkill when it suspended him for two years for an off-campus fight — one he claims was not his fault…

Blue Scorpion Venom: Cuba’s Miracle Drug

Though it may seem too good to be true, Bobbie Bauman’s fly ride is street legal. Instead of car seats, the 1949 Ford has lawn chairs latched inside its frame. Rather than a coolant container, it’s got a Jack Daniel’s bottle. Instead of steering-wheel pleather, there’s motorcycle chain. The car’s…

Marijuanamerica: A New Take on Legalizing Pot

FAU Student Suspended for Two Years for Off-Campus Brawl

UPDATE 3:40 p.m.: Angela Graham-West did call to explain why she felt harassed. She indicated that students had come to her work office uninvited and also sent messages to her office calling for her firing. A post with her explanation will be posted shortly. Here’s her side of the story…

The age of 24 hour cable news/Twitter feeds have come smashing together…Via CNN, The Miami Herald had reported that Boston Marathon bombing investigators may have identified a suspect. There had been reports of a possible suspect leaving a black bag at the site of the second explosion via surveillance video…

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are set to vote on making it easier for people to hunt down and kill lionfish in Florida waters. In case you weren’t aware, lionfish are basically the ocean’s biggest assholes. They’re invasive, they eat everything, and nothing eats them. And they are…