Activists with Earth First! are reportedly locking themselves to a disabled van to bring attention to construction happening in the almost-700-acre Briger Forest, one of the largest — but unprotected — forests in South Florida. “We’re here stopping a crime,” said Ryan Hartman in a news release. “The illegal destruction…
The 2014 Miami Dolphins season is well underway! And while lots of other sites will be breaking down each game and listing reasons why the Dolphins will or won’t win while analyzing players, coaches, and matchups against their respective opponent week to week, we won’t. Not us. Not here. Instead,…
Earlier this year, Fort Lauderdale declared the once-filled-with-promise open-air shops of Beach Place a nuisance following a string of drug-related complaints and arrests. Now the city is threatening to take away Beach Place’s entertainment district status unless it cleans things up by making a serious effort to make sure drug…
The Miami Dolphins are set to become the first (of two) teams to play a divisional game in London in 2015. On Thursday, the NFL announced its trio of games that are played annually across the pond, and the Dolphins are included in that batch. The slight difference this time…
Sean Petrozzino, a quadruple amputee, is considered a person of interest for the shooting deaths of his parents. Police are also saying that Petrozzino, 30, who grew up in South Florida, could be heading to Coral Springs. Petrozzino is missing parts of his hands and feet as a result of…
Across South Florida, cities are beefing up their statutes against the homeless. As Fort Lauderdale begins enforcing its restrictions on public feedings, now Lake Worth has jumped in with its own new law against panhandling. Despite the obvious questions about the legality of such a law, the Palm Beach County…
Arnold Abbott, the 90-year-old who was issued a citation earlier this week for feeding the homeless without adhering to new rules that would require him to obtain a permit and provide portable toilets, was cited again Wednesday night for the same reason. Abbott since 1991 has made it a weekly…
The man more than any other responsible for shaping Fort Lauderdale’s swim culture passed away this morning from complications due to Alzheimer’s disease. Jack Nelson, 82, was a championship swimmer in his youth and coached multiple champions in Fort Lauderdale, including five Olympic medal winners and four world record holders…
Arnold Abbott, the 90-year-old homeless advocate who was cited earlier this week for feeding the homeless, and could be facing jail time, is planning on returning to his old spot in Fort Lauderdale to continue breaking the law by feeding the hungry. Abbott, along with three others, was cited Sunday…
Amendment 2 got more votes than Rick Scott, Jeff Atwater, and Pam Bondi. More Floridians voted yes on 2 than they did no. Yet, Florida remains a state without legalized medical marijuana. Simply because it couldn’t get those final two percentage points to push it over the top. What did…
Rick Scott was able to win his reelection bid by 1 percentage point. Amendment 2 fell short by 3 percentage points. As predicted for months, the midterm election races in Florida ended up razor-thin close in the end. And thanks to lower-than-average turnout in Broward County, those races were ultimately…
A top Swiss banker accused of running a massive tax evasion scheme that helped superwealthy clients evade billions in taxes was acquitted in federal court in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday. He faced up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Prosecutors failed to prove that Swiss citizen Raoul…
Right now, Jeffery London is sitting in a quiet cell waiting for his second child sex abuse trial to start. Outside, the former charter school administrator’s actions are still resounding loud and clear. In September, a group of victims filed a civil lawsuit in Broward against a clutch of charities…
All Aboard Florida is a private company pushing a new train service between South Florida and Orlando. Though the project might relieve some traffic on the Turnpike, boaters are alarmed that their aquatic lives will be ruined because there could be fewer drawbridge openings if the tracks eventually get laid…
A voting horror story: If you live in Florida, you probably have one. An editor at the Sun Sentinel does. And a cursory scroll through Facebook shows that so do a lot more of you. Below are a few rants posted shortly after poll-closing time. Add yours!…
OK. This is it. The polls have closed, and it’s time to tally up them votes. After all the handshakes and ads and campaigning and the spending of millions upon millions of dollars, the time has finally come to announce who the winners are in Florida’s midterm election. We could…
Update, 5 p.m. Chris Wren returned a call and said he would be happy to meet the protestors but that they threatened his assistant. His comments have been added to the end of this post. Eight members from Food Not Bombs were reportedly arrested Tuesday after meeting at the Downtown…
The post-LeBron era has gotten off to a solid start for the Miami Heat. But while the new-look squad adjusts to a sans-James system and looks to fly under the radar as a competitive force in the Eastern Conference, one constant remains: Dwyane Wade. And now a video by NBA…
Spirit Airlines — the cheap-airfare airline headquartered in Miramar — has been widely known to piss off pretty much anyone who has even flown it. Be it on Twitter, Facebook, or the water cooler at work, people love to talk up how much Spirit has screwed them one way or…
As ever, Florida is at the center of Election Day for dubious reasons. This time around, it’s basically because no other state has spent more on elections this year than the Sunshine State. All told, the 2014 election cycle has raised a whopping $345 million, reports the Miami Herald. And…
Protesters Call Obama “Chickenshit” on Election Day from Voice Media Group on Vimeo. The sign Bob Kunst was waving on the street corner in front of the Torch of Friendship monument this past weekend reads “OBAMA IS THE ‘CHICKENS**T! JEW HATING JIHADIST.” Doozy is an understatement for Kunst, a practiced…
So it’s go-time for Sunshine State supporters of medicinal smoking. For the first time, Floridians are going to polling places weighing a choice on the legalization of marijuana. By this time next week, Florida’s weedscape could look drastically different — or unfortunately the same. With such a possible historical swing…
