A proposal to ban pit bulls in Broward County, which has roiled the community for days, was withdrawn today at the county’s commission meeting. Two other proposals, one of which carries a $500 fine for training pit bulls to fight and another that imposes a $300 fine for failing to…
It was probably going to happen, but it’s still rough to see: after going 14-games without falling to competition, the University of Miami’s basketball team lost this weekend. The Hurricanes’ first lost in 2013 didn’t come from Duke, UNC or any other ACC heavies predicted to take down the squad…
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta unanimously ruled that a lower court’s decision to halt the enforcement of Rick Scott’s law that forced welfare recipients to take drug tests was good. Back in May 2011, Scott signed into law a bill requiring that Florida’s TANF welfare recipients pass a…
You know how this goes. You have an adorable dog (or at least you think it is). And you’ve taken dozens hundreds of pictures of it. You’ve probably even made a few memes. OK, you’ve definitely made memes. But the problem? No one ever wants to sift through your pictures…
An unidentified man who looks a little like the Cobra Commander — if Cobra Commander’s blue uniform were in the wash and he had to wear khakis and his old college letterman jacket — broke into a Cellular Sales cell phone store in Jacksonville shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday.The suspect…
Former Chicago Bull, children’s book author, and sometimes SoFla resident Dennis Rodman is headed to North Korea as an ambassador for sports diplomacy. Or something. The visit will be on Tuesday, just two weeks after North Korea stirred shit up by testing a nuclear bomb. Rodman will be arriving in…
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives think that former Coral Springs firefighter Santiago Gonzalez maybe, possibly, might have been part of the infamous Pain & Gain killings (now a major motion picture starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, based on a New Times story). On Monday, Gonzalez,…
Following a tense weekend that one local city commissioner described as “mass hysteria,” Broward County’s vice mayor amended her proposal Monday afternoon, thereby allowing all resident pit bull owners to keep their dogs. Late last week, Barbara Sharief, vice mayor of the Broward County Commission, was set to propose a…
It was hard not to feel sorry for FAU President Mary Jane Saunders on Monday afternoon, confronted in her office with an impromptu occupation by some 40 students protesting the school’s decision to grant naming rights for the FAU football stadium to the notorious private prison operator GEO Group.See also:-FAU…
Last week, we told you about how Florida Atlantic University sold the naming rights for its football stadium to the GEO Group — a company that not only happens to be one of the world’s largest for-profit operators of detention centers, prisons, and correctional facilities but also has a long…
The Daily Look At This! is our daily video and/or gif of the day. So there was LeBron James, goofing off with his teammates, watching them dunk during pre-game warmups before the Heat’s matchup against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday, when all of a sudden, HE COMPLETELY HALTED ALL SPACE…
Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria has had just about enough of all the criticism and finger-pointing at his taking a giant heaping dump on South Florida and baseball in general, thank you. So it’s time to tell HIS SIDE OF THE STORY. And so he did. Loria took out a full-page…
While the GOPers are still clenching their buttholes over the fact that the First Lady of Socialist America appeared on the Oscars to announce the Best Picture winner, one of their champions was giving us his own special cultivated, erudite, distingue thoughts on the Academy Awards via The Twitter. We…
The NCAA is learning that it’s hard swing around the morality stick when you’re own ethics are under question. After the organization dropped official allegations on the University of Miami athletic program last week, head Hurricane Donna Shalala came out with some choice words of her own, calling on the…
What’s the best way to top off a middling and Dave Matthews Band-filled career of harrumphs and hair gel? Sue a charity. The recently retired Andy Roddick, who went to high school in Boca Raton and was the sport’s most stalwart bro, has done just that…
NCAA President Mark Emmert is not having such a hot week. See also: -University of Miami Scandal: Sen. Joe Abruzzo Asks Florida Attorney General to Investigate the NCAA First, there was state Sen. Joe Abruzzo sending the attorney general a letter to investigate the NCAA’s shenanigans in its UM investigation.Now…
Last week, we brought you the story of a guy named Johnnie Blade who was walking around dangerously waving a sword used by the Klingons in Star Trek. It was a wacky, humorous story, and no one got hurt in the end (except for maybe the feelings of a few…
A website that posts sexually explicit photos of teenaged girls reportedly put up photos of students from Cypress Bay High School, according to morning show DJs at Power 96. See also: – Deputies Charge Cypress Bay’s Bathroom Peeper Normally, morning show DJs breaking news should be taken with an entire…
Amid growing alarm among Broward County’s bureaucracies concerning the ownership of pit bulls — and whether they should be banned — scientific research offers a very different perspective on the animal. According to a 2008 study, “Breed Differences in Canine Aggression,” pit bulls are markedly less aggressive toward their owners…
Walking home from a long day’s work, you’re bound to find a few things lying in the street and/or bushes: old clothes, bus passes, cash, shoes, license plates, babies. A woman walking home from work Thursday afternoon found a days-old baby boy swaddled in a blanket sleeping in some bushes…
The Miami Heat is currently riding a nine-game winning streak through a subtle yet delicate and refined mixture of sound fundamental basketball and relentlessly and mercilessly smashing opponents in the face. The latest victim of the maelstrom of ass-bludgeoning was the Chicago Bulls. Battling through a sloppy first half, a…
Heads should be rolling in the offices of FAU’s Board of Trustees, as the affront to decency of the school’s climbing into bed with notorious private prison octopus GEO Group turns into a well-deserved public relations disaster. The Board doesn’t surrender the pink on the cheap, at least. They scored…
