With some Florida politicians calling for teachers to be armed and others calling for metal detectors to be placed in schools and our very own governor doing pretty much nothing at all about gun control, it seems that people who are not elected officials of any kind have the best…
Michael Brewer, now 18, was arrested in West Palm Beach this morning on charges of possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana, and possession of drug equipment, according to the Miami Herald. Brewer was set on fire by a group of other teenagers in…
We get a lot of emails from Rick Scott. Like a lot. He never forgets his friendly neighborhood media, and he’s always appointing someone to some bureaucracy somewhere. But two days ago, he hit us with this Huffington Post article that made everyone go, “Wuuuuuuhhhh”?? The article concerns how swell…
When Murat Jean-Charles motored into the Yellow Cab holding yard on a Wednesday morning last month, the cabbie didn’t know his fellow drivers were about to uncork some civil disobedience. But the all-points call was already out among the fleet: Assemble at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Jean-Charles joined the…
We were remiss not to tell you about this sooner, but on the last day of February, a Palm Beach County judge handed down yet another win to Fane Lozman, the Marine Corps pilot turned millionaire stockbroker turned houseboat owner turned hero for the Little Man everywhere. Lozman made national…
The Cleveland Cavaliers tried everything to end the Miami Heat’s record-setting win streak on Wednesday night. They tried the ole “weird oily substance that leaks from the ceiling and delays the game for 35 minutes” trick. They tried the “crazy fan runs onto the court in the middle of the…
At 5:30 sharp on a Monday afternoon in August 2011, a University of Miami athletic staffer rode an elevator to the top floor of a midrise building on South Dixie Highway directly across from the campus in Coral Gables. Tall, with a gawky smile and wide ears, he was ushered…
Julio Ramos Oliver died over a spilled drink. It was just after midnight January 20, and Old San Juan shook with the fiesta de San Sebastián. Under the golden glow of street lamps, more than 100,000 Puerto Ricans packed onto the narrow cobblestone calles for the year’s biggest party. Dressed…
Rick Scott continues to be unliked by many amounts of people, despite the fact that he’s changed his mind about things like Medicaid expansion and despite adding more early voting days and declaring his love for Florida panthers. The latest Quinnipiac University poll, released early Wednesday, shows that people ain’t care…
Unless you’ve been trapped under something (or someone) heavy the past 24 hours, you’ve seen the video of LeBron James utterly destroying Celtics bigmouth Jason Terry with something that can only be described as The Dunk of Annihilation. Because the internet is an awesome place, video of the dunk instantly…
With all the sharks appearing so close to Florida shores in the past few weeks, including two great whites swimming 15 miles off the shores of Jacksonville Beach and hordes of sharks riding the waves off Palm Beach, it stands to reason that shark and man would eventually clash. And…
In a story that is equal parts heartbreaking, confounding, and just a friggin’ nightmare to parents with kids of all ages, two Pasco County teens were arrested Tuesday on child-porn charges. The charges comes after one of them allegedly videotaped the other having sex with a girl on their high…
After a short-lived term as Broward Republican chairman came to a close for Rico Petrocelli because he didn’t get along with people, or some such thing, the Broward GOP had a chance to really come out swinging, especially after getting slammed in the November elections, and choose a new leader…
Spring this year begins with a multifront burst of activity by local lefties — on the environment, on GE foods labeling, and against the moral corruption of academia by the GEO Group private prison corporation.See also: -GE Foods Labeling Faces Political Calculus-Arbor Day Protest in Palm Beach Gardens-FAU Students Fighting GEO…
Scott Prouty’s rich! Well, kinda. Scott Prouty can finally get outta debt! That’s better. Five days ago, after more than 1,000 articles appeared showing how local man Scott Prouty helped vanquish the Romnoms once and for all with his commando camera skills, he set up a legal fund to battle…
The timing couldn’t have been better for the shenanigans local activist Aaron Jackson and his non-profit, Planting Peace, pulled off in Topeka, Kansas yesterday. If you managed to avoid social media or the internet in general over the last 24 hours, the Destin-based activist, along with friends and partners involved…
Scientists have been working diligently to figure why manatees have started to die at an alarming rate lately. While Red Tide — which is basically blooms of poisonous algae called Karenia brevis that is deadly to fish and other sea life — off the coast of southwest Florida has killed…
Streetcars conjure up visions of San Francisco, New Orleans, Uncle Ben’s Rice, and that Marlon Brando movie where he pleads for his wife to return to him after he beats her. But now, it will also conjure up downtown Fort Lauderdale and, also, the future, because the Broward County Commission…
Michael Morales of Pompano Beach is the director of Matrix Volleyball Academy who likes to have his teenaged female players “all in” if they’re going to be on his team. And by “all in,” we mean he allegedly wants them to have sex with him. According to Broward Sheriff’s Office…
When we wrote about Casey Anthony going to bankruptcy court in January, we made this prescient prediction: Casey says she owes the 800 grand to 80 creditors and claims she has no income (until the inevitable book she writes, of course). OK, so it was neither prescient nor bold, because…
Last May, the Huffington Post published a photo of a 9-year-old named Josef Miles counter-protesting the Westboro Baptist Church — a small but infamous group known for protesting soldiers’ funerals with signs that declare “God Hates Fags.” Miles held a small pencil-drawn sign that said, “God Hates No One.” Seeing…
Closing in on 80,000 followers, @_FloridaMan has been doing God’s work over there on Twitter. Since the account went live a few month’s back, it’s become the world’s one-stop shop for all your weird headlines featuring Sunshine state debauchery. But let’s be real, it’s lonely out there on the internet…
