The Florida Senate has approved a bill that would officially remove Florida’s gay adoption ban from the state’s statutes. The bill has already passed the House and now moves to Gov. Scott for finalization. In 1977, Florida banned same-sex couples from adopting. The law has not been in effect since…
So Marlins aren’t off to such a hot start. And that sucks, because expectations were large — especially after an offseason that featured giving Giancarlo Stanton the fattest contract in pro sports history, and because the Fish actually went out and got good players. The Marlins are off to an…
Just two decades ago, Florida’s black bear was nearly extinct, but now their population is back on the rise. In 1974, there were 300 to 500 in the Florida area. Now, there are believed to be more than 3,000. Bears didn’t just pick-up and move to Florida because they got…
Sea Turtle Oversight Protection’s Richard WhiteCloud has taken up the old Warren Zevon mantra of Lawyers, Guns & Money. Well, maybe not guns, but the Broward-based sea turtle conservation group promises to meet Fort Lauderdale officials with litigious aggression should they take up an agenda to try and move sea…
In a now-famous circumcision case, a Boynton Beach mother named Heather Hironimus remains in hiding with her four-year-old son to prevent him from being circumcised. Hironimus and the boy’s father had agreed in writing years ago to have the boy circumcised, but had read about the procedure and changed her…
Broward County Commissioners will be voting today on imposing new regulations on ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft. Among them, having more thorough background checks for potential drivers, including fingerprints, and inspections for vehicles. The ordinance also includes having Uber and Lyft to obtain commercial vehicle licenses, meaning divers would…
Last month, Broward County traffic judges threw out 24,000 pending red-light camera tickets from various cities throughout the county. These fines would have totaled about $6.3 million. Residents had sued both the City of Fort Lauderdale and the City of Hollywood on the grounds that their ticketing programs were illegal…
Good news for Gladesmen, snake-heads, reptile fiends, would-be reality TV stars, and just about anybody else who gets their kicks chasing big slimey invasive species through the wild: The Python Challenge is back. This is probably the best news we’ve heard in awhile. In case you weren’t around for the…
Limos. A rock band. Crab claws. Strippers. The night had all the ingredients for an epic bro-down. On February 28, 2013, the limo swung by the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino to pick up five members of the ’90s alt-rock band Candlebox. Along for the ride: Matt Iudice, their…
Dan Savage rose to national prominence as a gay sex columnist whose darkly humorous, sometimes raunchy writings — like whether to use an enema before “buttfucking” — appeared in a weekly Seattle newspaper and were later syndicated to other newspapers, including New Times. He made national headlines for a…
We’re not ones to want to rain on someone’s big day. It’s not every day, after all, that you go and declare that you’re running for President of the United States in a big showy stage from an historical building in downtown Miami. But, we’re going to do it anyway…
Love may not last forever, but herpes certainly does. And then things get really messy when courts get involved. But one such Palm Beach case that revealed the twists and turns of a relationship gone sour due to STDs has been overturned after an appeals court ruled that the man…
This might completely blow your mind, seeing as we’re about to drop some actual positive education news on you. It might further explode your gourd to know that this particular piece of good tidings comes in the category of school testing — not exactly a field the state of Florida has…
A Salvadoran immigrant detained at a GEO Group facility in California died from cancer only three days after being admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with cancer. And now an immigrant advocacy group is calling for an investigation into the death, which they say happened after several weeks of warning…
A Piper PA-31 crashed into a wooded area near Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport Sunday afternoon. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, all four passengers aboard the twin engine plane were killed. FAA officials say the pilot declared an emergency moments before the plane crashed into a nature preserve along the…
The stain continues to spread in the Fort Lauderdale Police racism scandal. Late Thursday the Broward State Attorney’s office announced they were dropping more than 40 cases involving the Fort Lauderdale police officers who were recently booted from the department for racist behavior. 12 felony cases, 30 criminal misdemeanor cases,…
At long last. The weekend is here. It’s been a long work week and Tax Day is around the corner and Kip from accounting has been a total douche lately. Time to watch the clock, wait until 5:00 and then unwind with some drinking and reveling. You deserve it. You…
Broward County Commissioners have agreed to propose new measures for ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft that would require more thorough background checks for potential driver’s, as well as more stringent inspections for vehicles. Commissioners also want to have drivers fingerprinted. The County Attorney’s Office will prepare the requirements into…
The Environment Florida Research & Policy Center released a new report showing that a good amount of wetlands remain in the flood-prone areas of the state to hold enough rain to cover Broward and Palm Beach in more than four feet of water. And the group is calling on the federal…
It looks like gay couples will finally be able to adopt in Florida, thanks to one measure being approved and a last-minute intervention by Former Senate President Don Gaetz in a separate measure. The state’s gay couples have not been allowed to legally adopt for 38 years. But on Wednesday, the Florida…
The good news: only two percent of Florida bridges are structurally deficient — making ours the state with the lowest percentage of problem bridges of all 50 states. The bad news: two of the ten most heavily-traveled stressed bridges in the state are in Broward County — the one on…
Fort Lauderdale City Commissioners approved to add $2.1 million in costs for the new aquatic center. The center is already costing roughly $33.7 million. The contractor, Recreational Design and Construction, were hired to build a complex over the old one which has sat on the Intracoastal Waterway on Seabreeze Boulevard for…
