Kodak Black Arrested in Hollywood After High-Speed Chase

Pompano rapper Kodak Black, whose real name is Dieuson Octave, has been arrested on charges of possession of a weapon or ammo by a felon, possession of cannabis/synthetic cannabis less than 20 grams,  fleeing/eluding a law enforcement officer at high speed, and disobeying a traffic device.  Reports say that Hallandale…

The 19 Best Environmentalists in South Florida

Today, we have fresh water to drink, clean air to breathe, and sea turtles to awwwww at.  But let’s be very clear: these are not givens — particularly in a state driven by Rick Scott, a Republican legislature, and constant development. In Florida, there’s practically a war on nature. Wild…

Pro-Fracking Group “Vets4Energy” Is a Front for the Oil Industry

More than 20 counties in Florida have signed ordinances banning fracking, the controversial process by which water, sand, and an unnamed cocktail of chemicals are jammed into the ground, in order to extract oil and natural gas. The process has been blamed for contaminating groundwater. Around the time Broward County…

Humongous 1,000-Foot Slip N’ Slide Coming to Davie

For some major exhilaration, all you need is a thin sheet of plastic unrolled in the backyard, a garden hose, and bodily momentum. Slip n’ slides are the mainstay of summer. This summer, Broward county is getting its own — and much bigger than anything you ever slid down as…

Skunk Ape Caught on New Video, Men Claim

This week, two men from Lakeland said they recorded video that included footage of the elusive Skunk Ape, a Bigfoot-type creature rumored to roam Southern swamps.  The men, Mark Barton and Chris Conner, have been searching for the creature for two years and post videos of their exploits to a…

Fort Lauderdale Police Are Confiscating Homeless People’s Property

In 2014, Fort Lauderdale commissioners passed a city ordinance that prohibited “personal property to be stored on public property.”  The law states that “‘store’ means any action to place, leave, park, locate, or set an item upon the public property for a period of time in excess of twenty-four (24) hours…

South Florida’s Judges Are Too White, Lawyers Say

According to U.S. Census data, there are roughly 1.8 million people living in Broward County. It’s a majority-minority country: 28 percent of those people — some 600,000 residents — identify as black or African American, and another 27 percent identify as Hispanic or Latino. As such, a local panel of…

Tiffany Trump Cannot Escape Her Pop Song

Tuesday night, CNN aired a Trump Family Town Hall special, a sit-down interview/family reunion featuring Anderson Cooper speaking with Donald Trump, his wife Melania, sons Eric and Donald Jr., daughter Ivanka, grandchildren, and pretty much every available other branches of the Trump family tree. Few things of significance were said…

Miami Airport Workers’ Union Endorses Tim Canova

At this point, it’s clear that virtually all of the support for Tim Canova’s congressional campaign is coming from the same frothing section of the populace that’s pulling for Bernie Sanders. In March, two major unions —  the Communication Workers of America and National Nurses United —  both endorsed Canova…

Video Catches South Florida Drivers Texting on I-95

During rush hour one February evening, analysts filmed 20 minutes of traffic on I-95’s northbound lanes from the Clyde Moore Overpass in Boca Raton. During that time, 2,151 cars passed through. Of those 2,151 drivers, it was later revealed that more than eight percent of drivers were driving distracted. That means…