Marco Rubio says that, if elected president, he will crack down on states that have legalized marijuana by enforcing the federal law. Rubio has a long history speaking out against marijuana legalization, though he’s never said whether he’s used it in his past. The recent comments came on Sunday on…
There were raised voices and broken glass and the high-voltage emotions that pinball between a wild teen and her worried mom. In their Davie home, Bonnie had installed new locks on the windows to keep her 16-year-old daughter, Cathy, from sneaking out again. The fight ended with Cathy waving around…
Ride-sharing service Uber suspended operations in Broward County back on July 31, citing what they called stringent regulations put in place by county commissioners. The move was twofold: to let the county know that the regulations were too complicated and onerous to allow the company to operate, and to get…
For the past three years or so, investigators from the Broward Public Defender’s Office have been going through local law enforcement records with tweezers, picking out any pattern of suspected race-based policing. The digging brought to light, among other patterns, “Biking While Black,” the Fort Lauderdale PD’s practice of using…
The City of Fort Lauderdale, as well as Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Oakland Park, Port Everglades Authority, Village of Sea Ranch Lakes, Wilton Manors and sections of Davie and Tamarac (east of State Road 7/441) has upgraded a boil water advisory to a boil water warning. On Saturday, a sample taken from one…
Editor’s Note: Robin Merrill is part of the coordination circle for Love the Everglades. It was just this April that President Barack Obama gave a speech amidst the blades of grass deep in the South Florida Everglades. But that memory is nearly forgotten as news of a proposed oil well…
This weekend marks the 45th anniversary of the Penn Cove orca captures, the controversial and deadly whale hunt off the coast of Washington where Lolita the killer whale was captured to become the trained performer she is today at the Miami Seaquarium. In the summer of 1970, about eighty whales…
Donald Trump had himself a YUUUGE Twitter meltdown following Thursday night’s GOP presidential race. As we boldly predicted in our Florida GOP Debate Drinking Game, Trump went on to declare himself the winner of the debate, and retweeted his horde of supporters who concurred with this opinion. But, as it…
In a year when transgender issues have been at the forefront of conversation and headlines around the nation, Fort Lauderdale will be the home of The Southern Comfort Conference, the largest annual trans conference in North America. In fact, Fort Lauderdale has been announced as the host city for the…
SeaWorld announced on Thursday that there has been a steep decline in attendance, sales and profits, and blamed ““continued brand challenges” — which is another way of saying people are upset over the company keeping orcas in captivity. Attendance at SeaWorld’s theme parks across the U.S. fell by two percent…
Four presidential candidates from Florida and a bunch of other guys are all set to have the first GOP debate tonight, and it promises to be a doozy. Mainly because there are so many of them — ten candidates in all on stage — and also because of a weird…
It has been a long weird road for Paul Pope. The son of the founder of the National Enquirer found himself locked in a legal tussle involving his own mother. The most reason front-line in that on-going fight: Pope’s efforts to get his guns back. In 2013, the Palm Beach…
Hallandale Beach is officially the first city in Broward County that will have cops fine anyone caught with marijuana rather than arresting them. On Wednesday night, Hallandale Beach Commissioners unanimously approved a new measure that will make marijuana possession a civil offense rather than a criminal one. Anyone caught with…
A school child psychologist from Tennessee was arrested on child pornography charges in Hollywood Tuesday night. According to a Broward Sheriff’s Office report, Richard Pitcock, 51, was busted sharing child porn images from the St. Maurice Inn, located on 314 Michigan Street in Hollywood. The South Florida Internet Crimes Against…
As it stands, anyone in Hallandale Beach caught with 20 grams of pot or less is facing one year in the slammer, maximum. But that could all change starting tonight. After mulling over whether or not to have police issue fines rather than place under arrest anyone caught with a…
This past May, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s decision and ruled that police did not violate Quartavious Davis’ Fourth Amendment rights preventing unreasonable search and seizure when they failed to get a warrant to use cell-phone records as the sole evidence to convict him in…
Jeb Bush says that he “misspoke” when, as he offered up his opinion that funding for Planned Parenthood should be cut, that women’s health programs as a whole should be scaled back. “I’m not sure we need half a billion dollars in funding for women’s health programs,” Bush told a…
Back during the 2013 season, Richie Incognito became the face of bullying in the NFL when it was revealed that he hazed and used racial slurs against then-Miami Dolphins teammate Jonathan Martin. Incognito was suspended and then released and stayed unemployed for the entire 2014 season. But this offseason, Incognito was…
A group that says they are affiliated with the hacktivist collective known as Anonymous has announced a national Day of Rage in support of Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old Chicago area woman who died under mysterious circumstances while in police custody in Texas. The rally, which is also called #opSandraBland, is…
One sunny afternoon in June, Denise Weinstein was walking Josie, her shaggy, white, Maltese shih tzu mix, outside Century Village, the 55-and-older South Florida retirement complex where she lives. That’s when the birds attacked. “Two birds were swanning down on me like dive-bombers!” she recalls. “They looked like helicopters.” The…
It’s Friday night in downtown Miami, and a dozen people chat and glance over menus inside a dark Peruvian restaurant while a pair of bartenders stand idly behind a long, mostly empty bar. Then Dom Gelin hops onto a small stage near the back of the room. The short 25-year-old…
Jeffery Feldewert, a 20-year veteran with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department who was fired in June over racist comments he made on his Facebook, is not back on the job and has instead been given a 10-day suspension. Feldewert was let go after he took to his personal Facebook page…
