While Kim Davis — the Kentucky county clerk who spent six days in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples — has been hijacking the headlines, Florida’s marriage certificates are now officially gender neutral. A year after a judge said Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, and…
Donald Trump continues to plow ahead in Florida, while Jeb Bush continues to flounder. This according to a new Gravis Marketing poll. But the poll, released on Monday, revealed more bad news for the former governor. Ben Carson has vaulted ahead of Bush, leaving Jeb in third. Gravis polled 1,584…
Michael Minardi is on a mission to make recreational marijuana legal in Florida next year. Asked how he would do that, considering that a ballot measure to legalize even medical marijuana didn’t pass in 2014, he says, “We’re going to use science, and we’re going to use stats.” Minardi is…
We’ll take it! The Miami Dolphins managed to simultaneously have the biggest sad trombone sound game, and glorious comeback game in one fell swoop on Sunday, when they outlasted Washington 17-10. Entering the game the Fins were the talk of the NFL as a strong up-and-coming team that was going…
Broward and Palm Beach Counties are doing their part today to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The American Legion is hosting a free 9/11 Memorial Concert at ArtsPark at Young Circle, located at 1 North Young Circle in Hollywood, tonight. The concert, which will feature…
Holy smokes it’s finally upon us. FOOTBALL SEASON OMAH GAHH. More to the point, the Dolphins are back. And this time, they’re armed with a heck of a whole lot of analysts and experts picking them to actually, seriously, for-real make the playoffs this season. Some have even predicted them…
Back in June, organized labor notched an unlikely victory in perhaps the last place you’d expect: the strip club. A class action lawsuit organized by from savvy ex-dancers took on Scarlett’s, the popular gentleman’s club Hallandale. The club’s owners also had two other locations — Ybor City, Florida; and Toledo, Ohio —…
Fifty seven counties and 394 municipalities across Florida have yet to move forward with prohibiting discrimination against the LGBT community. But last night, Wellington — the largest village in Florida and the fifth largest municipality in Palm Beach County — unanimously voted to enact an LGBT-inclusive civil rights ordinance establishing that the…
The Palm Beach Kennel Club have banned a greyhound trainer and his kennel assistant for life after one of their dogs suffered a critical injury during a race and was left to die, according to an investigative report filed by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. The dog,…
Everyone loves an underdog; a phrase not exactly true when it comes to the Presidential race, but definitely true if you’re a devout supporter of Bernie Sanders. You-Tube has entire wings dedicated to parody songs, but the Bernie Sanders corner is extra special — people love them some good-old Bern,…
The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office hit up social media to show video of a woman saying. “No wonder you people get shot” to a deputy who had pulled her over for speeding. The video, which PBSO posted on their Facebook and Twitter accounts, show a traffic stop video shot by…
Donald Trump remains ahead of Jeb Bush in just about every poll — and by wide margins. This has been moistly thanks to Trump’s relentless attacks on Bush and the fact that the media can’t stop showing Trump’s face at every turn (guilty!). At every opportunity, Trump has gone for…
Hialeah Police Officer Nelson Enriquez, who killed two police dogs in Davie when he left them in a hot police SUV all day, will not be charged criminally, the Broward County state attorney’s office said on Tuesday. In May, Enriquez’s K-9 partners Jimmy and Hektor were found dead inside his police…
Jayvon Woolfork has been openly defiant and insistent that he was innocent in the gang rape and beating of a Hollywood teen but on Monday, a jury didn’t found him guilty of sexual battery and kidnapping. In 2013, Woolfork, and three other teens — two girls and two boys — invited…
A viral video posted by the website Photography Is Not A Crime that appears to show a suspect being bitten by a Delray Beach police dog has prompted some to make threatening phone calls to Delray Beach Police PD. The video, which was shot by an onlooker and uploaded onto Facebook…
The Florida Supreme Court has rejected a 90-day suspension without pay for Broward Circuit Judge Lynn Rosenthal in order to keep from getting any disciplinary action pursued against her by the Judicial Qualifications Commission. Rosenthal had agreed to the suspension last month. In May of last year, was busted for driving…
On June 26 of this year, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that state-level bans on same-sex marriage — like the one Florida had in place since 2008 — are unconstitutional because they violate the due-process and equality clauses of the 14th Amendment. The ruling, in the case…
Even with DUI checkpoints and saturation patrols by Broward Sheriff’s Office over the last couple of days, Labor Day weekend still ended up being a deadly one with two fatal accidents occurring, and at least one of them likely caused by an impaired driver. In the early morning hours Monday,…
Every few months, a 38-year-old woman drives to Miami from Broward. She meets with Carlos Franco, a 66-year-old retired drug-rehabilitation specialist turned harm-reduction advocate. He hands her a box with hundreds of new, wrapped syringes, and she then in turn covertly hands them out to low-income intravenous drug users in…
The Port Everglades is currently the third busiest cruise port and 11th busiest freight port in the nation. And it’s about to get busier with plans for deepen and wide the port under way. In 2007, the Broward County Board of County Commissioners approved the Port’s Master/Vision Plan, which included a…
While Arby’s is offering free food for all police officers throughout Broward and Miami-Dade Counties today in response to a Pembroke Pines officer being denied service because she was a cop, there as been more serious fallout over the incident. Arby’s has confirmed that the manager from the store located…
A federal judge finally put the brakes on a lawsuit that has been rumbling through the court system since 2010, a high-profile match-up between the Public Defender’s office and a former pro-wrestler-turned-psychologist who previously had been one of the office’s go-to courtroom experts. The ruling, issued by Federal Judge Donald…
