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. Menendez is part of the eight Democratic and Republican senators who have joined Marco Rubio in putting together an immigration reform bill. The doctor is…
The information swirling around about the Rick Ross shooting right now is fat on rumor, light on facts. But among the speculation passing from mouth to mouth is that the gunfire directed at the rap mogul was connected to his well-publicized beef with the Gangster Disciples, a Chicago-based gangbanger outfit…
Broward County Public Schools wanted to know if people knew anyone who might have dropped out of high school to let them know that it’s not too late to get a GED so badly that they called people about it at 4 in the morning. The school district’s automated calling…
Naples resident Lloyd Tomer had himself quite the trip to the mailbox. He walked out of his Twin Eagle’s Community home to go check his mail, and upon returning from collecting his bills and coupons for half-off car washes, he was confronted by a live four-foot gator sitting between the…
Marco Rubio is using his Charisma Boy! powers to Jedi Mind Trick a couple of the most influential GOPer talking heads into actually accepting the liberal(ish) immigration plan he and his fellow senators are touting. Most notably, Rubes convinced Fox News’ Sean Hannity as well as radio nutter Rush Limbaugh…
Update: Lewis was asked about the report during Super Bowl media day on Tuesday afternoon, and he denied ever using PEDs. The Ravens say Lewis never tested positive for any substance.It’s been a banner day for banned substances in sports! First off, there’s our sister paper’s report on a Miami…
State Rep. Kevin Rader (D-Delray Beach) and state Sen. Joe Abruzzo (D-Wellington) have decided to try to do something about Florida teachers’ being grossly underpaid by way of introducing a dual bill that would give the average Florida teacher a $10,000 raise.Teachers being paid more in Florida. This could actually…
Since his arrest on dubious drug charges back in 2009, reggae superstar Buju Banton has been caught up in a rolling legal circus. His first federal trial closed with hung jury. A second ended with a guilty verdict and a ten-year sentence; the follow-up appeals go-around might land the defendant…
Citizen activists pushing for a state law mandating the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods in Florida remain hopeful. And active. The legislator actually drafting a statute is still onboard. But she’s also on the fence.See also:-Should Genetically Engineered Food Be Labeled?Big Food’s use of bioscience to transfer genes among…
As the rap and South Florida panorama emerges from the Rick Ro$$ drama, the Miami native has got some heavy soul-searching to do. One minute, he was making it sprinkle at LIV nightclub puffing jeezies with Luda and Diddy for his 37th birthday, and then: Pow! As MTV eloquently wrote…
A group of eight Democratic senators and Republican senators have decided to stop it already with all the bickering and do some bipartisan work and have released an immigration reform framework that includes a “path to citizenship” for undocumented immigrants — a day earlier than when Obama is supposed to…
President Obama welcomed the Miami Heat to the White House on Monday afternoon to honor the team for kicking everyone’s ass in the 2012 NBA Finals. Obama cited a pickup game some of the members of the Heat participated in with the president on his birthday as the real reason…
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department has confirmed that the Bawse was behind the wheel of the Rolls-Royce that crashed into a downtown storefront following gunfire on Monday morning. The police have also ID’d who was riding shotgun: Shateria L. Moragne-el. A quick dip into the backwaters of pop-culture gossip shows…
Escambia County cops busted 22-year-old Marquis C. Baldwin after he spent three months entering four different businesses with a rifle and demanding money from the employees. Baldwin allegedly nicked a Kangaroo gas station a Waffle House and another Waffle House with a rifle that turned out to not be a…
As you may have heard, the Miami Heat are kind of a big deal. In that the team eradicates anyone and anything that gets in its way of winning basketball games. And, as you may have heard, the Miami Heat won the NBA title last year. So, as is custom…
Update: Police confirm he and his girlfriend were shot at this morning. No suspects as of yet. Update 2: 50 Cent thinks the incident was staged.Rick Ross almost got Biggie’d, apparently. During the wee hours of 5 a.m. Monday, a Rolls-Royce crashed into a restaurant near the 1500 block of…
Andre “Loki” Barbosa, who has taken over a $2.5 million mansion in Boca Raton by exploiting the Byzantine nature of foreclosure Florida property law, may, in fact, be the biggest tool ever. There are many reasons for this conclusion. But the most obvious might be his “about me” on his Facebook page:…
Last week, we told you about an appeals court throwing out two of Casey Anthony’s remaining convictions of lying to police during the investigation into her daughter Caylee’s disappearance. Well, it appears that as soon as the appeals court was done making its ruling, Casey walked over to federal court…
We’re pretty much at the middle mark for the first-ever Florida Python Challenge, the dubious public service free-for-all the state cooked up to control the dangerous number of Burmese pythons slithering around the state. The challenge started January 12, when some 800 hunters went head-first into the Glades looking for…
Two charges down, two more to go — that’s the tally for Casey Anthony the horrible human being Florida mother woman who wiggled her way out of murder charges related to the death of her 2-year-old daughter. Today an appeals court tossed out two of Anthony’s remaining convictions, charges for…
He’s baaaaaaack! Allen West, the outspoken Palm Beach Gardens Tea Party Republican congressman who lost his reelection bid late last year, has shuffled hundreds of thousands of dollars in leftover campaign money to seed the Allen West Foundation and American Legacy Guardians…
When someone pulled David Armstrong’s rainbow flag off of the front of his trailer, the first thing he did was tell his landlord, who instead of investigating the matter told him some residents complained about the flag and that he should display it in back of the property. Why not…
