Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a pretty big deal. She helped Democrats expand their majority in the Senate, which in and of itself was a task. And she helped Obama win Florida in November, which is almost impossible. But because she did these things, the POTUS announced Tuesday that he wants…
A man Broward Sheriff’s detectives say they’re on the lookout for a man who locked himself out of his own getaway car after loading two batteries he had just stolen into the front and back seats of the vehicle. A surveillance camera located at Lou’s Super Service Auto Repair, at 4431…
When you celebrate a birthday, your friends buy you a Hallmark card and make fun of you for being old and then take you out for drinks. But when rich people celebrate a birthday, their friends name a whole street after them. Business magnate; Waste Management and Blockbuster founder; onetime…
Mammon trounced Jesus yesterday in the battle over a wage theft ordinance in Palm Beach County, as county commissioners favored the pleadings of big business over those of a faith-based coalition of activists.Everyone involved made a show of concern for those victimized by unscrupulous employers — who rob Florida workers…
There’s been a lot of sideline crystal-balling and analysis about the national decline of horseracing, but Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach racked up some impressive numbers this past weekend with the kickoff of the thoroughbred season. Besides tanking cultural relevance, the big issue here was the start date. Traditionally, thoroughbreds begin…
This is what happens when the Heat players look like they left all their fucks in their other jeans and those jeans are in the wash. A 105-101 loss to the Washington Wizards, the worst team in all of professional sports: That’s what happens. It’s nothing new. The Heaters have…
Earlier this year, Joel Lester, a Canadian living in Boca Raton, saw a void that needed to be filled. Head shops and corner stores across the country had been raking in big bucks from bath salts and so-called herbal incenses, better-known as fake pot. Then the feds tossed down a…
Prominent Brazilian banker Igor Cornelsen, who spends half of his year in Boca Raton, will hand over $5.1 million to settle a Securities and Exchange Commission complaint that he had illegally traded Burger King stock, the oversight committee announced this week. Yes, a classic case of whopper speculation gone awry…
It was only a matter of time before PETA got involved with SeaWorld Dolphin Bites Little Girl Gate. Eight-year-old Jillian Thomas was bitten in the hand by a dolphin she was feeding at the theme park over the weekend. The attack left several dime-shaped punctures in her hand. See also:…
Back in October 2011, Tarvess David Taylor mailed five separate envelopes filled with a powdery substance to the Broward County Sheriff’s Offices and the State Courthouse of the 17th Judicial Circuit of Florida. The Broward County Fire-Rescue HAZMAT Team had to be called in, and the Sheriff’s Office and courthouse…
Even though a good portion of its candidates were booted out of office in November, and even though Floridians shot down Amendment 1, and even though Obama not only won the election but also won Florida, the Tea Party is still insisting that the government do what it says, because…
Apparently nobody trolls Rick Scott quite like… Rick Scott.After the governor insisted he would reject any and all of Obama’s health-care laws that come his way, he then turned around and changed his mind. Then, after suppressing the vote in November before the elections, he vowed that voting procedures will…
Yesterday we told you about Jillian Thomas, the 8-year-old girl who was feeding dolphins at SeaWorld when one of the animals bit her arm. Don’t worry; she was left with three dime-sized puncture wounds and an unbelievably cool anecdote for the rest of her life. While a dolphin biting an 8-year-old…
Broward County Public Schools Construction chief Tom Linder agreed to resign from his post Monday after Schools Supt. Robert Runcie moved to have him fired, reports Bob Norman. Runcie accused Linder of “rouge activities” and alleges that the construction chief refurbished his office, failed to clean up his department, and…
Our crack investigative team has uncovered startling information relating to Oakland Park terrorist suspect Sheheryar Qazi. He appears to be a bro — that certain genus of man subsisting purely on Jägerbombs and skank — plays warfare videogames on X-Box, and frequently tries to sell traumatically ugly bikes on Craigslist…
International Polo Club owner John Goodman, who had been under house arrest on a DUI manslaughter charge for killing 23-year-old Scott Wilson back in February 2010 with his car, was caught screwing with his ankle monitor back in October. Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath had Goodman’s bond temporarily…
An eight year-old girl was happily feeding dolphins at SeaWorld’s Dolphin Cove when one of them lunged from out of the water and bit her hand. Jillian Thomas, who was visiting the SeaWorld Orlando park with her parents from Georgia, was lined up with other children, feeding the dolphins from…
Just because Allen West isn’t around to yell COMMIE! at people from his seat in congress, doesn’t mean he’s not going to stop saying loopy things. West spoke to NPR’s Michel Martin over the weekend to discuss the election and his memories of being in congress.In the interview, West tells Martin that…
In the least shocking news of the entire history of human persons, Sports Illustrated has named LeBron James the 2012 Sportsman of the Year. All LeBron pretty much did this year is cleave the earth with his astounding awesomeness by winning his first NBA title for your Miami Heat, won…
Over the last few weeks, as the political yammering mercifully subsided and we sank into the off-season of 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…
Not content with locking up Palm Beach medical marijuana activist Robert Platshorn for almost 30 years, the federal government has now decided to rob him of his constitutional rights, restricting his ability to travel and enjoy free speech and assembly. They don’t like him advocating drug law reform. See also: Pot Smuggler Schools…
Just weeks before Christmas, the Miami Dolphins were supposed to pull another big win out of their collective asses to inch closer to an improbable post-season berth. Instead, they delivered a stocking full of turds in the form of a 23-16 loss to the New England Patriots. There’s plenty of blame…
