On a night where the Miami Heat played their annual Red, White & Pink inter-squad scrimmage, thoughts and hearts were heavy as former Heat forward Lamar Odom remains in a coma at a Las Vegas hospital. The game, which is held every year to raise money and awareness for breast…
Back in May, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue officials rescued a 7-foot, 400-pound juvenile female manatee that had gotten stuck in a pump station that ran from Broward Boulevard to the New River. On Wednesday, the manatee, named Piper, was finally released to back into the wild at George English Park located at 101…
Notch this one down as a win for . . . well . . . um . . . guess it’s hard to exactly tell who this is a win for . . . Florida, along with a gaggle of 31 other states, has temporarily fended off the implementation…
More details have emerged in the raid of three Loxahatchee farms earlier this week after it was discovered that animals were being tortured and killed at those facilities. Videos used in the investigation, as well as arrest reports, reveal brutal animal abuse that went on at the farms. On Tuesday, Palm Beach…
Development group Diplomat Golf Course Venture LLC has had its eye on building a 935 condo-hotel suites and a 262-unit condo tower near the Diplomat Hotel and Country Club in Hallandale Beach, and now that might become a reality. On Thursday, the company will unveil its plan in the city’s…
Daniel Agnew wants to redirect thousands of dollars from Walmart to small businesses run by black people. He has a plan: this Black Friday he hopes to organize a pop-up marketplace of 100 vendors at Betty T. Fergusson Park in Miami Gardens. It’s less half a mile away from the…
Former Miami Heat forward and fan-favorite Lamar Odom was rushed to a Las Vegas hospital Tuesday after he was found unconscious at a Nevada-area brothel. According to an initial report by TMZ, Odom, 35, was found unresponsive by a woman at the Love Ranch South, a legal brothel located in Pahrump, Nevada…
Ride-sharing company Uber, which had ceased operations in Broward County in July, will be begin operating in the county again beginning Thursday. On Tuesday, Broward Commissioners voted a looser set of regulations for Uber, which had shut down apps in the county after refusing to adhere to regulations set forth…
Palm Beach County authorities conducted the largest raid in extreme animal cruelty operations in U.S. history Tuesday when Animal Recovery Mission (ARM), the Palm Beach County State Attorneys Office and Palm Beach County law enforcement raided three alleged illegal animal slaughter farms. These farms, authorities say, have been involved in selling…
Broward County Commissioners are set to return to looking into re-working regulations for Uber and other ride-sharing companies to be able to run legally in the county. Last month, commissioners couldn’t agree on language in the reworked regulation, and agreed to revisit the issue for another attempt at a vote…
On a mild evening in early August, John Pate and Sally Elizabeth Evans’ Volkswagen Passat climbs the hills outside the lush Valle Arriba golf club in Caracas. The 70-year-old Pate, a tall, fair-skinned lawyer with red hair, glasses, and a soft face, had just finished his usual Sunday dinner at…
After multiple rallies, and hard fought protests, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport workers are finally going to be getting a raise when the Broward County Commission votes on extending the Living Wage Ordinance to contracted airline workers today. This means that more than 1,700 wheelchair attendants, lobby agents, checkpoint workers, security officers,…
Fort Lauderdale Police were forced to shoot out the tire of a man driving erratically in public at the Los Olas Riverfront in Downtown Fort Lauderdale over the weekend. The incident was caught on video and posted on Facebook by user Maged Cyn Mofid, and shows the car driving in…
Ben Carson is currently running second in the GOP polls behind Donald Trump. This means that the majority of Republican voters polled nationally want him to be president over people like Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. Carson, the West Palm Beach neurosurgeon who not only once left a…
“If he rushes, kick that ass! Kick that ass!” The jacked-up voices of teenaged boys jumped the back wall into Donna’s yard. Then came the sound of scraping feet and the unmistakable dull smacks of fists finding skin. “Swing, Carrot Top! Swing! Swing! Swing!” one boy screamed, using a nickname…
A Sunday morning domestic incident turned hostage situation ended after the suspect turned a gun on himself and took his own life in Hollywood. According to a report from the Hollywood Police Department, officers responded to a domestic incident at approximately 8:53 a.m. at a home located at 7181 Taft Street…
Rebecca Wald’s father had to perform circumcisions during his medical training. It was awful. Her husband, also a physician, wasn’t a fan of the procedure either. He understood the medical complications. So, when the Wald’s son was born in 2005, the family decided not to circumcise the newborn. But they…
The owner of Boca Body Art Tattoo Parlor, is facing sexual battery charges after a woman says he massaged her vagina and inserted his finger into her during a supposed vaginal piercing demonstration. According to a Boca Raton Police report, Brett Matheys, 50, met his accuser last month when she…
Ellis Diversified, a Fort Lauderdale-based developer has bought a chunk of land in Downtown Fort Lauderdale that the investment company is saying will be a 380-unit “multifamily project.” The project also includes a free-standing parking garage on the larger parcel. Jim Ellis, the founder and president of EDI, paid $5 million for…
John Morgan, the Chairman for United for Care, is once again pulling out his hefty checkbook for the ongoing push to get medical marijuana legalized in Florida. On Thursday, Morgan, who works as an attorney in Orlando, announced that he will be matching all future donations to United For Care…
Youngsters attending a remarkable school in Fort Lauderdale are free to learn what they want, when they want, and how they want. If they stretch out on the floor and draw all afternoon, that’s fine. If they’re inclined to watch YouTube videos, it’s OK with the grownups. Perhaps they’ll gather…
Since 1972, the Seal of the Florida Senate contained a fan of five flags flying over a golden disk with a gavel, quill and scroll and the words “In God We Trust” engraved in it. The flags were made up of banners that have flown over Florida at one point…
