The board of Citizen Property Insurance met yesterday to consider important ways of trying to make its basically insolvent company financially sound. But instead of coming up with a financial plan, the wise men of the state-run windstorm insurer blamed the media — mostly the Tampa Bay Times and the Miami…
In case you didn’t know, tonight is the big, huge, very gigantic Florida Powerball drawing. And even though the odds of getting hit in the face by a bolt of lightning are far better than winning the Powerball, people in Florida are still apparently buying tickets for it in droves…
Charlie Crist, who jetted all over the state and nation in the days and weeks before Election Day, is not in line to snare any Cabinet positions in a new Obama administration — at least, not that Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has heard. Sorry, Charlie. Can’t get no love. The…
Chris SweeneySeveral hundred yards before traffic cones wedge northbound traffic on Fort Lauderdale’s scenic A1A into a single, slow-moving lane, a yellow sign alerts drivers and pedestrians that they’re smack in the middle of a turtle nesting zone. But now that strong tides, rough seas, and severe erosion have decimated a four-block stretch of…
The family of Ana Gloria Garcia-Gutierrez, the 53-year-old St. Petersburg woman arrested for molesting a manatee, is none too fired up about cops arresting her after she committed a crime. Police arrested Gutierrez at her job in a St. Petersburg Sears over the weekend on a warrant for violating the…
It was only a matter of time before the whole Elmo sex scandal thing had a Florida connection. Because a gay sex puppet scandal ain’t a gay sex puppet scandal until the Sunshine State gets involved, dammit! A Florida man identified only as “John” filed a lawsuit in U.S. District…
Florida Power & Light Co. and Progress Energy Florida won approval by the state on Monday to charge customers $294 million in costs for future nuclear facilities in 2013. Which means your monthly FPL bill will go up by at least $2.59. Hooorrray, Florida! On Tuesday, Florida’s Public Service Commission…
A Delray Beach groundskeeper was arrested for going all Carl Spackler on some ducks at the apartment complex where he works. Maintenance supervisor Scott Jensen, 48, was arrested and charged after he went up onto a rooftop and started taking out ducks with a high-powered rifle like a sniper. The…
A man in southwest Florida was arrested for running around naked on a golf course and wreaking all kinds of havoc and ballyhoo with his nakedness. According to Pasco Sheriff’s Office deputies, the unidentified man ran around a Tarpon Springs golf course early Tuesday morning, completely nude. He also appeared…
To most people, Burmese pythons and similarly large snakes are icky and frightening. But are they a menace worthy of federal regulation and tax dollars? On Thursday, the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee is slated to hold a hearing on whether to add nine constricting snakes to the so-called “Python Ban.”…
About 300 or so Allen West supporters gathered on Monday night for the Allen West Goodbye and Thanks for All the Crazy BBQ. It was apparently a night of BBQ, thank yous, and obscure military references at his campaign headquarters in Stuart. West, who finally conceded to Patrick Murphy when…
On Saturday, something seemingly wrought from a time forgotten will emerge and rumble down the track at Gulfstream Casino to the delight of almost no one. Today, we bear witness to the fetid remains of a once-proud sport: horseracing. Yes, the sport will ultimately limp on, but it will do…
Miami Dolphins safety Jonathon Amaya was arrested in the wee hours of Monday morning and charged with battery after an alleged altercation with a cabdriver. The alleged dispute stems from a 40-mile trip Amaya allegedly took from Bamboo nightclub on Miami Beach to Weston, in Broward County. Amaya is allegedly…
Rumors swirled when Edward Archbold dropped dead in October after winning a cockroach-eating contest.Perhaps he had an allergic reaction. Or maybe a roach punctured his lung. Maybe his guts exploded with bug juices. And there was always the chance he swallowed some vicious insect that gnawed its way through his…
High tide waves have eroded the beach, knocked down a wall and some palm trees, and wrecked a portion of the sidewalk north of Sunrise Boulevard on A1A. On Friday, the Florida Department of Transportation declared an emergency after chunks of the street collapsed and washed into the ocean. Concrete…
A man was taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center with a gunshot wound in the mouth after he and several accomplices allegedly tried to go all Ben Affleck in The Town and rob a Bank of America armored truck in West Palm Beach. According to the Palm Beach Post, around 7 a.m…
Orange County sheriff’s Capt. Angelo Nieves admitted on Sunday that detectives investigating the disappearance of Casey Anthony’s 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, overlooked evidence that someone in the Anthony home did a Google search for “fool-proof suffocation.” During the June 16, 2008, search, detectives looked through several entries only from the computer’s…
Arrived late to the Black Friday demonstration at the Super WalMart on Federal Highway in Boynton Beach last week, around 11 a.m. Robust turnout, seventy or so protestors chanting and marching in a long oval along the sidewalk by the highway near the store’s parking lot. Most were Walmart employees from…
Back in October we told you about a mysterious manatee molester who apparently jumped on top of a manatee and dry humped it or something and then vanished. Turns out, she rode the manatee in question, much like a person would ride a horse, and was photographed by many eye-witnesses…
Ryan Tannehill didn’t “grow up” before our very eyes on Sunday. He didn’t KILL. He didn’t become “magically delicious.” He’s a good quarterback. We knew this already. But the rookie reminded everyone that the Dolphins’ enduring search for a franchise quarterback may finally be over. With eight minutes to go,…
Ensconced in some Tallahassee conference room, how state officials must have pictured it: An anonymous Florida woman receives a questionnaire in the mail and gets comfortable — gets intimate — perhaps sloshing some red into a glass, laying down an Erykah Badu track, and pulling out her pen to spill…
Incarcerated reggae star Buju Banton is heading back to court at the end of December and may well end up getting a whole new trial on the questionable drug and gun charges that he’s currently serving ten years for. Last week, Judge James Moody decided to grant Buju an evidentiary hearing and bring…
