The Solar Wars continue. This time, the battlefield is the Florida Supreme Court, which is in the process of hashing out an opinion related to the ballot initiative set forth by Floridians for Solar Choice, a bi-partisan group of green energy backers who want to circumvent the usual process of solar…
“The idea is to have a no kill community and a no kill community is only achieved by running programs that help decrees the overpopulation issue, which is education outreach, high volume low cost available spay and neuter,” Pets Broward’s Meredith Bruder says. “Because that’s what this county needs, and…
Just One Day is an annual animal-saving event organized by No Kill Learning and No Kill Nation that gets shelters to participate in not euthanizing any animals in their facilities for one day, and to instead make a push to get the public to come out and adopt a pet…
John Trainer, M.D., is a family doctor in Jacksonville. He has circumcised children and taught other doctors how to perform circumcisions. His own son is circumcised. But during the past few months, as he’s followed the case of 4-year Chase Hironimus — whose father won a highly-publicized legal battle against…
Pembroke Pines city commissioner Angelo Castillo is not just a local politician who quibbles about zoning issues – he’s also a biting satirist, right up there with Voltaire, Jonathan Swift, and Jon Stewart. That’s why he would like you to know that he will not alter his gender and plans…
Knowing a good story has been part of Paul Pope’s family business. It’s obvious why. As the son of Gene Pope, the Italian American businessman who’s nose for gore and sex created the National Enquirer, Paul grew up surrounded by a business that literally changed the tone of American pop…
A high-speed chase that reached up to 100 mph, and covered three counties, ended with two men up in a tree. According to multiple reports, U.S. Marshals were following a Boynton Beach man who was wanted on charges of aggravated assault with a firearm after allegedly shooting at his girlfriend. He…
G2 Security Staff make $8.05 an hour plus tips, with limited benefits. And the wheelchair attendants who work these jobs are protesting what they call “poverty wages” at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Tuesday. According to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), about fifty or so workers planned an all-day strike…
The boy 4-year-old boy caught in the middle of a circumcision battle between his parents is supposedly scheduled to have the procedure done this week. And anti-circumcision protestors are planning to picket outside the doctor’s office on the day before and the day of the scheduled circumcision. Anti-circumcision group South…
Residents of Deerfield Beach told city leaders not to approve a measure that would allow the building of condos on land that was once a blacks-only cemetery. They said human remains were still in the ground and building there would dishonor their memory. Despite the passionate pleas, the city voted…
Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy Justin Lambert punched David Gonzalez and threw him to the ground so hard, it broke the man’s orbital bone. Gonzalez never lifted a hand or became threatening towards Lambert, nor his partner Mike Manresa, though both officers said otherwise in their reports. A nearby surveillance camera captured Lambert…
Roger Hammer is searching for wildflowers. A wilderness photographer since 1972, the tall, sturdy 70-year-old has spent much of his life in the world-famous swamps of South Florida. With a long gray ponytail swaying across his back, he steps over the soft, algae-covered slough floor about 60 miles west of…
On Sunday, a $500,000 artificial reef, designed to look like the famous moai sculptures on Easter Island, was destroyed when the barge transporting it flipped over and sunk to the bottom of the ocean — an event caught on dramatic video footage. Just over 24 hours later, the team behind…
Florida’s abortion rates dropped ten percent between 2010 and 2014, though the drop rates of other states’ has been more significant. The Associated Press collected annual numbers from health departments of 45 states — California, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Wyoming don’t compile numbers — and found that about…
The 2016 Presidential election season is coming to a boil. For the next year and a half, you’re only going to see more and more coverage on the blatant, craven, and obnoxious political ass-kissing underway as both Democrats and Republicans gun for the White House. Here’s something to think about,…
On a January evening back in 2012, Willis Morgan, a retired pressroom supervisor at the Miami Herald, was trying to get a few winks in at his Hallandale Beach home before heading to his part-time concierge job. But the 64-year-old was jolted awake when he heard the startling screams of…
Looks like the West Boca coyote problem has been solved, for now. The coyote that had attacked two dogs in the area last week was caught and euthanized on Sunday. According to multiple reports, trappers have been working on capturing the coyote, who had been wandering the area near the…
For months, hype has been building about a set of 15 giant sculptures — eight to 22 feet tall and designed as replicas of the mysterious heads at easter Island — that were built and designed to be sunk yesterday off the coast of Deerfield Beach, making an artificial reef…
Last month a Deerfield Beach disabled woman’s kittens were killed by men who then beat the woman, cut her with broken glass, and robbed her safe. Following the crime, BSO announced that Crime Stoppers would pay anyone up to $3,000 for a tip that would lead to an arrest. And…
Pam Bondi has jumped into the flakka hysteria fray and issued an official warning to Florida parents as summer kicks off. “Flakka causes delusions, hallucinations and can increase body temperature to a dangerous level,” Bondi said in a press release on Thursday. Flakka has been making headlines across the U.S…
When it comes to the prodigious city-within-a-city known as the mix-used development, the 65-acre monstrosity known as Metropica is going to make all large mall and retail shops like Sawgrass or the upcoming Miami Worldcenter look like ant farms. Metropica, which is being built in Sunrise, will be a 4-million-square-foot…
After a Hialeah cop left his two K-9 partners in a hot car all day, killing them, PETA is advocating for police departments to install heat alarms in K-9 unit vehicles. The animal rights organization says several K-9s die every year from being left in hot police cars. On the…
