In a shocking twist to the James Tracy story comes the news that James Tracy isn’t backing down from his comments about Sandy Hook. “I think that the entire country mourned about Sandy Hook and yet, once again, the investigation that journalistic institutions should have actually carried out never took…
Alachua County deputies were responding to a crash of a trailer on I-75 over the weekend. A routine part of the job. What they didn’t realize was that the trailer involved in the crash was ripped open during the accident. And what poured out was a giant-ass bull that proceeded…
In the wake of yesterday’s damning and international condemnation of James Tracy’s allegations that the Sandy Hook massacre hadn’t happened — though apparently our commenters agree with him — one group has flocked to the embattled professor’s aid: his students. Yesterday, his former student, Ryan Cortes, who’s taken three of…
Remember when Donald Trump went on The YouTube and demanded Barack Huseeeeeein Obama release his college records to prove that a black man can not only be president of the United States but also a college graduate? In return, Trump promised to give money to a charity of Obama’s choice…
SpaceX, the California company that plans to help NASA and perhaps become the world leader in space travel, announced yesterday in Washington that it would send a man to space by 2015.The firm will send one of its own employees. Last year, it was the number one private firm to…
Anyone making the rounds through Broward County’s political blogosphere earlier this week might have found an unexpected detour waiting for them over at RedBroward.com. Instead of the site’s usual serving of GOP insider gossip and thought, browsers redirected here, to a gloomy bit of existential boilerplate courtesy of German big…
By now, pretty much everyone has seen, read about or has heard of Maria Louise Del Rosario, aka The Anus Tattoo Girl.Since the New Times broke her amazing journey of being a pioneer of getting one’s asshole tatted up, the internet has exploded (three million views in the first three…
The video titled “Thank you, I will miss you guys” is barely more than a minute long — all one shaky, handheld shot trained on the face of then–21-year-old Ben Vacas. Vacas, known online as Braindeadly, has big brown eyes, a faux hawk, a stubbly goatee and a British accent,…
Days before this past November’s election at a cramped deli off Biscayne Boulevard in Aventura, a new yellow Camaro glided into the parking lot and hummed to a rest. An Obama 2012 sticker was pasted onto its bumper. The driver was five hours late. But inside Mo’s Bagels, none of…
In case you didn’t hear, AIG almost sued the government for $25 billion because their former Chief Executive, Maurice Greenberg, claimed that the terms of the $182 billion bailout wasn’t fair to AIG shareholders, even though the government literally saved the company’s ass from the brink of collapse during the…
Collier County deputies were called about a disturbance at around 2:00 a.m. by neighbors who say a woman was frantically knocking on doors with her 8-month-old son in her arms, saying she had been beaten by her boyfriend with a bunch of oranges. The reason her boyfriend allegedly pelted her…
Turns out James Tracy, the Florida Atlantic University professor who theorized the Sandy Hook massacre might be a mass media conspiracy, has a history of paranoid weirdness.Students say the guy went off in class. And his academic work hints at how someone could go so off the tracks. In a…
Ft. Lauderdale resident Van Lawson Williams, 49, was convicted by a jury to five life terms in prison for sex trafficking of minors and attempted sex trafficking of a minor, following an October trial. According to federal prosecutors, Williams preyed on runaway girls between the ages of 12 and 16,…
Remember when Rick Scott began to soften his stance against Obamacare and said there should be a conversation about it? Yea, scratch that. Scott did the math and well, the numbers just don’t add up. So. No Obamacare for you, Florida! Oh. Sure. He still walks around like he’s all…
On paper Mavericks High School has all the makings a good charter school. Catchy name? Check. Celebrity endorsements? Hell yes. Political pull? Right into the White House. So what exactly is the problem? Well, there’s the whole issue of proper usage of government funding, but does that really matter? Did…
Americans have long tolerated if not wallowed in conspiracy theories. Lee Harvey Oswald wasn’t alone when he shot Kennedy. Aliens landed in Area 51. We never got to the moon, etc. etc. But quite possibly the most despicable and callous of all conspiracy theories recently rose from South Florida. James…
This week, Broward County commissioners will debate whether the county should change its name. Comissioner Chip LaMarca is behind the idea, and bothered that no one outside of Florida has heard of Broward (unless they accidentally Google: weather in hollywood, and our Hollywood popped up). We agree with LaMarca. The…
Two great white sharks have been spotted off the coast of Jacksonville Beach, according to the OCEARCH ocean research group. One of the sharks, which is 16 feet long and weighs in at 3,456 pounds, is named Mary Lee and was tagged on Septemper 17 off the coast of Cape…
Robert Levinson, a Coral Springs private detective, disappeared in March of 2007 while visiting Kish Island in Iran while researching a cigarette-smuggling case. In March of 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the U.S. State Department had received indications that Levinson was being held somewhere in southwest Asia,…
Nick Saban won his fourth National Championship last night (his third overall with Alabama) after his Crimson Tide laid the smackdown on Notre Dame 42-14. During a day-after presser on Tuesday, Saban told the media that his time coaching the Miami Dolphins was so difficult, that he was eventually forced…
In case you haven’t noticed, as kickass as the Miami Heat has been this season (23-9 so far), they’ve been refried ass when it comes to rebounding. The World Champs rank among the worst in the league in rebounding. To fix this, team President Pat Riley worked out former Denver…
More than 400 people have decided to step up and take on Florida’s 2013 Python Challenge, where they’ll be competing for $1,000 to snuff out evasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades this weekend. No hunting license, or snake-killing experience is required. Only your dedication to hitting the swamp and beheading…
