Apparently Ohioans being butthurt about LeBron James leaving Cleveland to join the Miami Heat is still a thing. So much so that the State of Ohio has been receiving requests for vanity plates that express hatred for all things LeBron. Because it’s not enough to call a sports talk radio…
Today is National Signing Day, the day when high school football stars declare which college they’ll be attending. One of those players is South Plantation High five-star running back Alex Collins, who earlier this week committed to attend Arkansas over closer-to-home University of Miami. Turns out, at least one person…
The Boy Scouts were all set to vote today on whether they would allow gay members to join, because for their entire existence, the Scouts didn’t want no gays coming in and gaying up their khaki-short-shorts-bandanna-wearing boys-only club. But now comes the announcement that the vote has been delayed until…
The Miami Marlins held a fan/player meet-and-greet at the Hollywood Dave & Busters last night where they literally could have dressed the guy who hands out prize tickets in a suit and told people he was one of the new players and no one would have batted an eye. Meanwhile,…
Marco Rubio released his Spotify playlist yesterday. It couldn’t have been more hilarious, and, in a sense, very troubling. Apparently, Marco Rubio exclusively listens to the rhythms of America’s suburban and white and cliche youth. His Spotify list teems with top-40 trying-to-stay-with-it songs. See also: Senator Marco Rubio’s Spotify Track…
photo by Steve Paluch via Wikimedia CommonsRyan Braun On Tuesday, a week and a day after Miami New Times published online a report describing hundreds of pages of records from the office of a Coral Gables clinic, Biogenesis, the first professional baseball players have acknowledged involvement with owner Anthony Bosch…
You could be deciding whether cats and dogs live or die come November 2014. On Tuesday, Broward County commissioners debated an initiative that would let voters decide if taxes should be raised to prevent thousands of feral animals and unwanted pets from being put to sleep. So far, three of…
A bakery truck traveling on an overpass above I-95 at State Road 84 crashed before dawn and left the cab dangling over the edge. The driver was transported to Broward General Medical Center, and the passenger was reportedly dead. …
The Miami Dolphins are off to a good start as far jumping into the Fleecing Tax Payers Pants Party stadium renovation party goes. Lawmakers in the Florida Senate Commerce Committee gave unanimous support to a bill that would secure taxpayer money to cover half of the planned $400 million upgrades…
We’ve been telling you about Andre “Loki” Barbosa, the 23-year-old Brazilian squatter who moved into a $2.5 million Boca mansion via the vague “adverse possession” Florida property law. As we reported, Loki has issues with Bank of America, which served an eviction notice last week. See also: -Andre “Loki” Barbosa,…
A guy was arrested over the weekend for drunk driving. Except that the vehicle he was drunk driving in was a motorized shopping cart. And the place he was drunk driving was inside a Walmart. Because, you know, FLORIDA! But hey, if there was ever an incentive for getting shitfaced before…
Back in April of 2009, Heath Miller, a popular band teacher at H.L. Watkins Middle School in Palm Beach Gardens, was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting four of his eighth-grade female students. See also: A Popular Band Teacher Killed a Man, Then Was Accused of Raping His Own Students…
As we’ve pointed out here before, LeBron James’ game is more than just taking shots and making dunks. It is insanely balls-out efficient. Last night against the visiting Charlotte Bobcats, LeBron showed that his massive efficiency grades were currently at gamma ray levels, going 13-for-14 — a nut-demolishing 98.2 field-goal…
Riding a nine-game winning streak and perfect 8-0 ACC score card, the University of Miami’s men’s basketball program hit another milestone yesterday: a spot on the Associated Press’ top 10. According to the number crunchers, the team is currently the eighth best in the country. Those new bragging rights are…
Late last year, an Oxbow executive named Kirby Martensen arrived at an isolated splash of mountainous land near Aspen to tour Bill Koch’s “19th century western town.” Bear Ranch, he soon learned, was accessible by only one road and didn’t have cell-phone reception. No way in or out. The entire…
What’s left to do after you’ve grown your little ice cream shop into a worldwide brand and sold out to a corporate giant for $326 million? Hiding underneath that mountain of cash is Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream — still acting like the hippie he was in…
Last week, we told you about how FBI agents raided the West Palm Beach medical office of Dr. Salomon Melgen, an eye doctor and contributor to New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez. Melgen also may or may not have provided the senator with underaged Dominican hookers. Then, we told you…
AARP has 2.8 million members in Florida, and a good number of them want people to stop it with all the texting and driving already. Mostly because they’re not sure what texting is. Is it for sex? We kid, we kid. It’s really dangerous, and people shouldn’t text and drive…
True the Vote, a nonpartisan, nonprofit grassroots organization whose mission seems to be to keep election integrity, is suing the St. Lucie County and Florida Supervisor of Elections after they supposedly botched the Allen West-Patrick Murphy recount back in November. Specifically, the group is looking to get election authorities to…
After he left the governor’s office in 2008, Jeb Bush set up an education nonprofit group, and last week, The Nation charged that Bush “could be using his education reform crusade for personal gain.”The dust-up began when the union-affiliated research group In the Public Interest (IPI) used the Freedom of Information Act…
Horrifying and sad news out of Boynton Beach as police say a man killed his two youngest sons and then himself as a punishment to their mother. According to police, Victoria Zavala called police to her home on SW Eighth Ave. about 1:50 a.m. Saturday after her husband, Isidro Zavala,…
UPDATE: Florida Wildlife Spokesperson Carli Segelson said the python hunt has, in fact, accomplished its intended goals. Organizers primarily wanted to raise public awareness concerning the Everglades’ python epidemic. “We definitely had success,” she said.ORIGINAL POST: For the heat and hyperbole, who knew it was going to be this bad?…
