The local personalities, egos, and public figures who swung through the news cycle this week, ranked by New Times’ crack research department using a highly scientific algorithm (i.e. picnic, lightening.)…
As Broward County reels following yesterday’s announcement that it may soon follow Miami-Dade’s lead and ban the ownership of pit bulls, the City of Hollywood has asked the state for permission to take similar legislative action against the animal. Just in case the Hollywood City Commission decides it wants to…
State Sen. Joe Abruzzo has jumped headfirst into the NCAA-versus-UM fracas. Abruzzo, a Democrat, has sent a formal letter to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the NCAA for its tainted investigation of the University of Miami…
UPDATED, 2 p.m, Clarification: State law prohibits breed-specific bans regulating canines. Barbara Sharief’s motion is for Broward to persuade the state Legislature to allow the banning of the breeds mentioned below. Nearly 25 years after Miami-Dade banned the ownership of pit bulls, Broward County may be next.Barbara Sharief, Vice Mayor of the…
The University of Central Florida has halted fraternity and sorority activities in order to get a handle on the multiple reports of hazing and alcohol abuse among frats, and that so, as the school puts it, “Greek culture reflects the values of the UCF Creed.” In 2011 UCF’s Sigma Chi…
The Daily Look At This! is our daily video and/or GIF of the day. Today, we feature a grand collection of the greatest Chris Bosh GIFs evaaar! Because, the haters can suck it. (Especially Little William, or whatever the hell his name is.)…
On Tuesday, we told you about how Jesus Football Tim Tebow was slated to speak at the Gay-Hating, Jew-Hating, Muslim-Hating, but Christianity-Is-All-About-Love First Baptist Dallas Church. The church is led by the very Christ-like Rev. Robert Jeffress, who once eruditely proclaimed that we’ve all been brainwashed into accepting The Gays…
About 15,000 people will pull themselves through mud, climb 25-foot-high ropes, avoid barbed wire — and swim and run more than ten miles — Saturday and Sunday in Oleta State Park.”The only thing we left out this year was the alligators,” says race founder, organizer, and all-around macho loon Joe…
There’s always concern when a team on a hot streak gets assaulted by the NBA All-Star game and everyone’s gotta stop playing so the media can make a big deal out of Kobe Bryant’s blocking LeBron James’ shot in the most meaningless game of the year. And that concern was…
Last week in federal court, the mastermind behind one of the country’s largest synthetic drug production outfits ended what could have been a bruising legal drama by pleading guilty. Dyan Harrison was the top guy behind Mr. Nice Guy, a synthetic-weed brand on the kush-end of the scale in terms…
Rick Scott, GOPer champion of Defiance Toward All Things Obummercare was not, would not, could not, wouldn’t, under any circumstances, implement Medicaid if he had anything to say about it. He said Medicaid wouldn’t do anyone any good and even went so far as to give out botched math to…
The photos atop Keskea Hernandez’s casket showed a pretty Dominican woman with caramel skin, a brilliant smile, and a cascade of expensively cut hair. As religious hymns drifted across the lavender carpet at Boyd’s Funeral Home in Pembroke Pines last month, family members rose one by one to describe Hernandez…
As Suleiman Yousef fires a sleek black AR-15-style rifle, orange and blue muzzle bursts flash inside the Trail Glades Gun Range in West Miami-Dade. The rapid-fire rounds ping off a metal target 100 yards away. His thick arms hold steady against the explosive recoil. Then Yousef, a 31-year-old South Miami…
Rico Petrocelli, the broke Broward Republican chairman, has decided to go all Roberto Duran on us and say no mas. See also: – Rico Petrocelli, Broward County Republican Chairman, Broke as a Bad Joke The Broward Republican Executive Committee issued a statement on Petrocelli’s resignation, while the man himself is…
Turns out that swallowing craploads of cocaine is a bad idea on multiple levels. Sixty-five-year-old Norman Mosch wanted to smuggle cocaine out of Jamaica. A LOT of cocaine. So, he decided to swallow pellets packed with cocaine to do so. A LOT of pellets. But, as it turns out, using…
The Daily Look At This! is our daily video and/or GIF of the day. In what is the most real-life metaphor in the history of humankind, Marlins star slugger Giancarlo Stanton got hit in the head by a fastball pitch… from his own Marlins teammate. The pitch came from Jose…
John Nevins, a Hollywood Police Department sergeant who retired in April 2012 after serving on the force for 30 years, is under investigation for allegedly ganking as much as $175,000 from an evidence locker. He also allegedly took about $200 worth of office supplies from the department storeroom. According to…
Can’t a dude lie on his couch and scratch his balls in peace without his ole lady hassling him? Well, one man decided to take a stand to being able to nutscratch as a free man whenever he damned well pleases. Unfortunately, he went about it the wrong way, pushed…
Taxpayers have shelled out more than $110K to Coconut Creek cop James Yacobellis for not working during a 1.5 year suspension.In the end, the department decided he should have turned on his siren while chasing a couple of pot-smoking kids.I am not kidding. Coconut Creek taxpayers got screwed. No police…
Last night in Coral Gables, the UM men’s basketball team extended its winning streak with a last-minute, stress-inducing decision over Virginia. Unlike high-wire finesse wins over Duke and UNC, the Hurricanes recent match-ups against ACC competition like Florida State, Clemson, and now Virginia have all been mud-splattered and grimy, tough…
While James Tracy’s two baby daughters vied for their father’s attention on a recent morning outside of May Memorial Unitarian Church in Boca Raton, one of the country’s most-hated professors thought for a moment. “I’d say if given the chance, apology might be something I’d be interested in,” said Tracy,…
Ay yay yay, Florida. Why do you work so hard at being terrible? The domestic partnership bill that would have created a domestic partnership law, which would have given unmarried couples some of the same rights married couples have in Florida, has officially been scrapped. The Florida Senate committee pulled…
