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Update February 4, 2013: Heather Ray disputes Goehrig’s version of events. She contends that she first wrote e-mails to the city announcing her intention to get a therapy pig, and the city told her it was not allowed. She claims she then researched the Americans with Disabilities Act and spoke…

The Broward County Commission is considering an emergency fix to repair the sidewalks along A1A north of Sunrise Boulevard after Hurricane Sandy and ocean swells caused beach erosion that ultimately sucked portions of the street into the sea. The commission is looking for approval of $3 million for metal sheet…

They may have just won a national presidential election, helping carry Florida for Obama and glorying in the defeat of the despised Allen West, but the Palm Beach Democratic Party executive committee was surprisingly prickly at its reorganizational meeting last night. It’s the family squabbles that are the worst.It was…

Out in Deerfield Beach, on a piece of government-owned property, an 8.5-foot-tall tower of beer cans is looming over baby Jesus. No, this isn’t some rogue Art Basel installation that crossed the county line. It’s Chaz Stevens’ salute to the holiday season. Since the end of November, Stevens has been frothing at…

So it’s come to this. The Sun Sentinel, that bastion of muckrakery and insight, has now begun dabbling in what appears to be — yes — freestyle beat poetry about the tragic arc of the Christmas tree. Its merits aren’t immediately discernible, because the poem hides among the column inches…

An employee working at the Supreme Auto automotive shop in Naples didn’t like the music that was being played on the radio, so he went over to turn the dial. However, his coworker wasn’t too fired up about that idea and expressed her disappointment in the man’s decision to change…

The National Hurricane Center has announced that it’s going to alter the definition of a “hurricane warning.” This means that the next time there’s a storm headed toward land that has the potential to be another Sandy, a “hurricane warning” will be posted by the Hurricane Center — even if…

Cooper City City Commissioner John Sims is considered to be “outspoken.” A straight shooter who isn’t afraid to “tell it like it is.” He’s also mind-blowingly racist. As Bob Norman reports, Sims had himself a racisorgasm and threw out every racial stereotype anyone has ever said pertaining to Obama EVER…

One month from now, something very unusual — and very, very Florida — will occur in the Everglades, representing a metaphoric clash of man and beast: the Burmese python challenge. Its requests are simple. Kill as many snakes as you can. No, no, no. Don’t worry. You don’t need a…

It’s been a marquee week for boner pills. First, a University of Florida professor and colleagues published a study showing that Cialis, the blockbuster erectile dysfunction drug, can help treat Becker muscular dystrophy, a rare and debilitating disease that often cripples sufferers by age 30 and for which there’s no…

“Have you ever wrecked one of these?” I ask as our burnt-orange Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse bursts onto the Julia Tuttle Causeway like a fireball from Hell. Butch Leitzinger shakes his head. The mild-mannered former racer is Bugatti’s official driver, but a better title would be “pilot.” With a…

Over the past few weeks, as the political yammering mercifully subsided and we sank into the offseason for national intrigue and drama, out of the quiet rose the name Jack Seiler. That’s because Fort Lauderdale’s mayor is mulling a run at governor. And though that 2014 election may seem as…

Alex Galvan was in El Salvador teaching English to poor kids when he first learned about his ties to terrorism. It was last March, during the patch of the calendar most universities cut out for spring break. But instead of beer-bonging his way through a beach week or posting up…