Post-GEO, post-James Tracy, post-president hitting student with car, post-stomp on Jesus, we finally got some contrition out of Florida Atlantic University. Late yesterday afternoon, the university apologized for one of its instructors who asked students to write “Jesus” on a piece of paper, throw it against the wall, and, well,…
A trio of internal FAU emails came into our hands yesterday and left us more puzzled than ever as to what goes on in that brittle ivory tower. In response to criticism of the school’s recent series of very public blunders, school administrators appear to be directing faculty to circle…
We recently introduced you to Chris Brennan, the Water Taxi employee who was fired after he made a YouTube video defending the six-story-tall, nearly 100-year-old rain tree — which will be moved if developer Asi Cymbal is permitted to build the Marina Lofts development in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Cymbal is…
Police say they have three suspects in custody connected to the shooting murder of a Josephine’s Italian Restaurant bartender. The three suspects were arrested and charged by Boca Raton police for a separate crime, but authorities connected the men to the January 4 murder of bartender Rafael Rodriguez through a stolen…
Some women can’t seem to stop using their vagina as a drug-smuggling compartment. In December, we told you about a woman who was busted hiding meth in her cooch. And just a few weeks ago, we reported on a woman who used her vag to stow away bags of drugs…
The City of Palm Beach has itself a new health insurance broker and a new consultant, which means the chance of having domestic partnership benefits added to its employee health plan is very close to happening. Town Manager Peter Elwell says that Willis of Florida Inc. will be taking a…
The Miami Marlins ganked money from Miami-Dade County, putting them billions of dollars in the hole until the end of time; sold off their best players; tried to sue their own season-ticket holders; and have an owner who’s arguably the biggest douche in all of sports. But they really, really…
The latest developments in the ongoing fiasco that is the FAU/GEO Group naming rights deal have opened broad new vistas of potential embarrassment for the university and its president, Mary Jane Saunders — depending on whom you believe.See also:-Students Claim FAU President Saunders Hit Student Protester With Car-FAU Students Vow…
E-Monee.com Inc. — if you were writing a movie script and needed to cook up the name of a shady online outfit, that’s probably a good candidate. Not surprisingly, the real-life E-Monee.com is being charged with fraud by the feds. The two heads of the Fort Lauderdale company talked big…
In what has become the perfect storm of face-smashing dunks, fearsome jumpers, and all-around hardwood awesomeness, Florida is right now, officially, the mecca of basketball. Thanks to the Miami Heat, the Miami Hurricanes men’s basketball team, and the rise of the mightiest of underdogs in Florida Gulf Coast University, all…
A 22-year-old black man wearing a hooded sweatshirt was leaving Macy’s in Aventura Mall when five Macy’s security guards tackled him to the floor and later stripped him down to his underwear. The problem was? He didn’t have anything on him. Duddeley Petigny, who had an afro and was scruffy,…
FAU professor Dr. Deandre Poole was running a classroom exercise from a textbook titled Intercultural Communication: A Contextual Approach, 5th Edition in her Intercultural Communications class.And, apparently, one of the exercises involves writing the word Jesus on a piece of paper, placing it on the floor, and then stepping on…
Ah Twitter. It’s the place you go to tell your followers what you’re having for lunch, how you feel about the latest episode of Walking Dead, and get into arguments with total strangers about mundane, arbitrary crap. It’s also the place to see celebrities and famous people act like middle…
Update, 4:24 p.m.: Lisa Metcalf, Director, Media Relations & University Spokesperson for FAU wrote in an e-mail “Police were on the scene at the time of the alleged incident. We are not going to comment until the investigation is complete.”The University Press tweeted an image of Saunders driving her car…
As you can no doubt recall, a crazy-ass fan ran onto the court during the Heat-Cavs game Wednesday night. It was just one of the plethora of The Crazy that happened in Miami’s 98-95 win over Cleveland. The fan, donning a T-shirt that basically carried a message to LeBron that…
Rick Scott really, really, still very much wants people to pee into a cup randomly if he’s going to give them financial help or let government workers keep getting a paycheck. Last month, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta unanimously ruled that an earlier ruling by a lower…
We all have at least one crazy girlfriend/boyfriend lurking somewhere in the not-so-distant past. Likely there were wild arguments involving broken plates, email snooping, and accusations of philandering. The one consolation? She wasn’t Jennifer Capriati — the world’s craziest ex-girlfriend. (Except for that one blond from Fatal Attraction. That ho…
For an athlete beating around the lower rungs of professional play, it doesn’t get any sweeter than that first big-league appearance. Mom invites the girls from canasta over to watch the game. Dad brags it up to the guys at work. Grandma makes some T-shirts with your high school varsity…
Philippe Jeannard, a 60-year old Frenchman, was looking to travel from Philadelphia to West Palm Beach. Unfortunately for Jeannard, he was unable to get a business-class upgrade on a US Airways flight. So, he did the next best thing. He put on a French airline pilot uniform and grabbed a…
It’s G-Day at FAU today, probably one of many to come, as the school’s sale of its athletics field’s naming rights to global private prison operator/serial human rights abuser GEO Group continues to draw fire from students and faculty opposed to the deal. See also:- FAU Students, Faculty and Allies Vow…
Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush have seemingly been jockeying for position under the proverbial basket for the proverbial rebound that is the run to the White House in 2016 — particularly in Florida, which is not only a vital swing state but also has the potential to screw up every…
An Orlando-area man looking for a date met an alleged prostitute on backpage.com Tuesday night. The man then did the classy thing and took the prostitute to Applebee’s for dinner before heading off to the Crestwood Suites Hotel. See also: -Florida Man Has Penis Sliced Off in Temp-Job Accident But…
