A plane was engulfed in flames at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood-International airpot this afternoon. People on the tarmac snapped photos and videos of the aircraft, which was shooting massive plumes of black smoke into the air. According to at least one Tweet, fire crews arrived quickly on the scene to foam…
A Caribbean Airlines flight attendant tried to smuggle 6.5 pounds of cocaine that he had stuffed inside his spandex underwear on Wednesday. The man, Rohan Myers, arrived at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on September 8 with his crew on Caribbean Airlines Flight 39 from Montego Bay, Jamaica. But U.S. Customs agents noticed Myers,…
The Miami Heat played their first game of the season Wednesday night, taking down the Charlotte Hornets 104-94 in a game that featured the happy return of Chris Bosh, the starting-five of Bosh, Goran Dragic, Dwyane Wade, Luol Deng, and Hassan Whiteside finally playing together, and the return of Josh…
Rather than trash the surplus of Butterfingers, Reese’s Cups and Laffy Taffy hauled into your house by lucrative trick-or-treaters, bring it to one of a dozen South Florida dentists and orthodontists who are offering kids incentives for trading it in. Some dentists pay kids a $1 per pound for dumping…
The Sun-Sentinel, who once upon a time endorsed Marco Rubio for Senator, has turned on the Presidential hopeful in a scathing editorial that calls Rubio to quit his day job. The piece, published on Tuesday night, basically calls out Rubio for collecting a fat paycheck and then doing diddly-squat for…
A recent sifting through census data between 2007 and 2014 reveals that, when it comes to the most cost-burdened renters in the country, Fort Lauderdale is pretty screwed. According to Apartment List, 62.5 percent of Fort Lauderdale’s renters are cost-burdened, which is up from 2007 when it was at 56.1…
The Miami Heat kick off their 2015-16 season tonight and we’re so excited our nipples can cut through diamonds. It’s an exciting time to be a Heat fan. Pat Riley has assembled a helluva squad that’s primed and ready to challenge former teammate LeBron James and his Cleveland Cavaliers for…
At 9 p.m. on a Wednesday, the streets of Palm Beach are empty. Palm fronds rustle in the howling wind. The semicircle moon sifts through the clouds. A black cat crosses the sidewalk. “Water is an engine for ghost activity,” Damian Edwards, a guide for the company Ghosts of Palm…
Beach Education Advocates for Culture, Health, Environment & Safety Foundation Institute (B.E.A.C.H.E.S) has been forced to cancel their Nude Year’s Festival on the beach due to camping concerns by the City. The group, which advocates the cause of Constitutional Rights, fundamental natural rights, and civil liberties of people whose principals include…
He’s there. Clearly. The kindly face. The mop of black hair. Those deep, dark eyes. He’s hopping. He’s hurt. A leg is busted. His arm swings like a pendulum as he’s tugged by a gun-slinging soldier past sticky rivulets of blood pouring down concrete steps. He’s a judge, one of…
The breeze whips off the sand as Kirk Paskal sweats under a hot October sun, his back to the turquoise Atlantic. With one hand over his brow, he squints longingly at a boxy, two-story beige hotel. Formerly known as the Ocean Way, the hotel is decayed, the paint now cracked…
Halloween is this Saturday, and that means it’s time to get your party plans in order, and your Trick-O-Treat route all figured out. But, we know the toughest part of this holiday is trying to figure out what to go out as. Your options are quite limited. There’s the usual…
The director of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), Nick Wiley, declared Sunday evening that the state’s weeklong bear hunting season had closed due to hunters having killed nearly the maximum allowed number of bears. Though the FWC had set the limit of quota bears at 320, by…
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is openly questioning whether the state is succumbing to pressure from SeaWorld, who happens to be a big Rick Scott donor, and wants to peruse government emails and records to find out. Last week, PETA sent the state’s Office of Open Government a letter requesting…
When Shaka Pace heard about the death of Corey Jones, the 31-year-old musician gunned down last Sunday by a plainclothes Palm Beach Gardens police officer on an I-95 exit ramp, one thought jumped in his head: that could have been any of us. Pace was not thinking specifically of the…
Whoa what a time to be alive! The Miami Dolphins came out on Sunday, ripped JJ Watt’s arm out of its socket, and proceeded to beat the crap out of the entire Houston Texans franchise over and over with it. The end result was a 44-26 massacre and the Dolphins…
Yesterday, 207 bears were killed in the first day of Florida’s 2015 bear hunt. Two of four “bear management units” — regions where bears are allowed to be killed — were closed, since the number of bears killed in those areas had reached the area quota (maximum) set by the…
The Houston Texans are visiting the Miami Dolphins this weekend for a Week 7 showdown at Sun Life Stadium. But at least one player, former University of Miami star defensive tackle and current Texan, will be playing with a heavy heart following the shooting death of Corey Jones. Wilfork, who…
In what has been a trend for Broward judges in the last few years, Broward Circuit Judge Cynthia Imperato was busted for DUI back in November of 2013 after driving home from a social gathering with fellow judges and lawyers at Maggiano’s restaurant in Boca. Imaparato admitted to having two glasses…
Back in July, it was announced that waterpark company Schlitterbahn had their sights set on putting the “biggest, baddest” water park ever in Fort Lauderdale. But now the people who operate Rapids Waterpark is suing the city to stop that from happening. In an 11-page complaint filed on Wednesday, Premier…
As hunters strap on their guns and ammo to venture into the woods Saturday for Florida’s impending bear hunt, anti-hunting activists will also gather their gear: cameras. As of yesterday, the number of hunters had surpassed 3,000 — nearly a hunter for every one of the estimated 3,200 bears in…
Flakka has been making headlines across the United States lately and has been most prevalent in Florida, specifically Broward County, where there has been a 45 percent increase in flakka cases over the past year. Flakka’s popularity has spread particularly into the urban areas, thanks to it being extremely inexpensive and…
