Angie Fernandez got Linda, a mini Schnauzer puppy, when she was 12 years old. Fifteen years later, Fernandez is now a second grade teacher, and the dog still barks whenever anyone walks through the door as though she is protecting the members of her family. Last Wednesday, though, a handyman…
A 23-person company headquartered in Boca Raton is currently looking to expand its facilities, and add an estimated 17 new jobs over the next three years. To help “convince” the company to stay in Boca, both the city and the state of Florida have been considering awarding the company $85,000…
Broward County on Monday announced that 2015 was the second-best year for sea turtle nests since record-keeping began in 1981. But that good news was tempered by an independent sea turtle advocate, Richard Whitecloud, who, through his organization Sea Turtle Oversight Protection, runs a volunteer army that monitors turtle nests…
World renowned five-star chefs and people who pay exorbitant prices to munch on finger food have flocked to our city for the ultra-luxe, big-bucks Taste Fort Lauderdale events — a part of the South Beach Wine and Food Festival taking place this week. The City of Fort Lauderdale has welcomed…
Some boxers enter the ring scowling dead-eyed at their opponents. But Stan Stanisclasse could never pull it off. His smile came too easily — it’d just creep unbidden across his face. So he began most bouts with a little dance instead, stomping and sliding his feet back and forth in…
This past December 3, a somber 21-year-old with long blond hair stood on the limestone outdoor stage at the center of the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus. When her name was called, she approached the microphone and detailed a violent rape she said had occurred three years ago at…
On Feb. 14, an unmarked cargo plane touched down from Munich at the international airport in Harare, Zimbabwe, for refueling on its way to South Africa. Ground workers noticed something strange: rust-colored streaks along one side of the all-white fuselage. When the door to the compartment was popped open, a…
In 1961, Dr. Jack Fishman applied for a patent on nalaxone, a powerful drug that he created during his part-time work at a New York pharmaceutical lab. The substance safely reverses overdoses for users of opioids such as heroin and prescription painkillers. Hospitals and emergency responders clamored to have it…
Two elementary-school-aged kids — Khendall of Jacksonville and Megan from the Orlando area (their parents asked that their last names not be used) — want to start a billboard campaign in hopes of preventing another bear hunt in Florida. During last year’s hunt, the first in 20-odd years, 304 bears…
40 Days for Life is a national coalition of people who protest, regularly, outside the country’s abortion clinics for 40 days at a time. The “40 days” represent a host of various 40-day biblical events, like the 40 days Jesus spent in the desert, or Moses’ 40 days on Mount Sinai…
Florida Panthers forward Jaromir Jagr made history last night, first tying, then beating Brett Hull’s record to become the NHL player who has scored the third most career goals of all time. Jagr scored both his 741st and 742nd goals during the Cats’ 3-1 win over the Winnipeg Jets. Jagr,…
The NBA trade deadline came and went Thursday and while Heat fans were ready to yell out “LET’S DAAAANCE!!” like Kevin Bacon at the end of Footloose and celebrate in endless falling confetti, the actual day amounted to nothing more than the proverbial wet fart. The Heat traded away players and…
Professor Stephen M Kajiura has worked at Florida Atlantic University since 2004. Over the years, he would get the occasional call from a TV news reporter, saying that their helicopter had spotted groups of sharks in the water — why? “I would dig through scientific literature to see what we…
On the four-month anniversary of Corey Jones’ death, his friends have reported on social media that a memorial made in his honor has been vandalized and burned. It is located on Interstate 95 and PGA Boulevard in Palm Beach Gardens, where Jones was fatally shot by a Palm Beach Gardens…
A bar without $12 cocktails, iPads, or valet parking is a rarity these days in South Florida. So Grady’s Bar and Grill— a family-owned Fort Lauderdale watering hole that hasn’t gotten fancy since opening 76 years ago — is special. But as the Real Deal reported yesterday, the bar and…
Malachi Love-Robinson, 18, was arrested Tuesday in West Palm Beach for allegedly opening his own medical practice, marketing himself as a doctor, and taking more than $3,500 from an elderly woman. The latest in a string of bad decisions, the teenager appeared on Good Morning America this morning, in a…
It’s a dark, cold time in South Florida sports right now. The Dolphins are an annual disappointment, the Heat can’t catch a break, and the Marlins are… the Marlins. Times are tough. There is hope that each franchise can right the ship soon, but each has its own obstacles to…
This past week’s Miami International Boat Show drew more than 100,000 people and was declared “the start of what we hope to be a long and successful run,” by sponsors. It wasn’t much of a success, though, for Canadian tourist Adam Ponette. Though Ponette sailed to town in a well…
Hey, you, happy couple from Melbourne, you now have so much money you could fill a room with $100 bills and frolic in it. How do you feel? “Stressed,” said Maureen Smith, age 70, at a Tallahassee press conference, where the Florida winners of the historic $1.58 billion Powerball drawing were…
Usually, there’s not much excitement, scandal or intrigue at your local Chamber of Commerce. Usually, these organizations hold buttoned-up networking meetings where businesspeople shake hands, pass out cards, and harmlessly hobnob. But this is Broward, people! A group called the Broward County Chamber of Commerce is drawing attention because numerous social…
According to guys from Abodo.com, a startup website that helps people list and find apartments for rent, the price of a one-bedroom in Fort Lauderdale rose five percent just from January to February of this year. Everyone knows that rent is eating up way too much of our salaries, but dayum. …
About 4,000 confidential records — the purported home addresses of police officers, lawyers, and judges — have been published on the website PBSOTalk.com, and the former owner of the website is blaming it on Russian computer hackers. Mark Dougan is a former Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office deputy. After leaving the…
