Charles Flanagan High School was evacuated early Wednesday morning after a wooden cabinet with racial slurs scribbled on it was discovered in the school’s courtyard. The dresser had the words “Open Me” and “Surprise Inside” scribbled on its surface, with a drawing of a swastika below the words “I hate…
Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet announced the approval of the acquisition of more than 1,275 acres to protect environmentally sensitive areas in Monroe and Washington counties. The approval is the final step before land can be purchased for these two Florida Forever projects. “This more than $4 million investment…
Correction: an earlier version of this story mixed up details of competing proposals before Palm Beach County and the city of West Palm Beach. Corrections are in strikethroughs and editor’s notes below. On Tuesday, the Palm Beach County Commission voted down a proposition to build a $140.1 million spring training…
Rod Stewart had only two ambitions growing up: to be a footballer or a musician. As a North London boy, he performed poorly in school and turned his attention to sport. An Arsenal fanatic, he tried out for a third-division team in 1960 only to be rejected. Not skipping a…
Faculty and students at FAU are petitioning the university to make its restrooms more trans-accessible, though so far there hasn’t been a response in nearly a month. Currently, there are 23 gender-neutral public restrooms on campus. But where they are isn’t listed on the university’s handbook or website and the…
A West Palm Beach man was visited by a wildlife officer on a tip that he was hoarding venomous snakes in his parents’ house. The man admitted he had snakes as pets, but denied any of them were venomous, even as the investigating officer continued to find venomous snake after…
Stop. Collaborate. LISTEN. Word to everybody’s mother in Palm Beach County. That’s right. Vanilla Ice teamed up with Gov. Rick Scott to form a dynamic duo of selling tourism at a gala held at the Boca Raton Resort and Club in Palm Beach on Monday night. Ice — whose real…
Florida’s own Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who has been the chair of the Democratic National Committee since 2011, has been a rising star in Washington. She had high ambitions and was a trusted mouthpiece by the Obama administration. But lately, Wasserman Schultz has been making headlines for the wrong reasons, and…
Palm Beach County Commissioners will listen today to the pleas of a couple of fat-cat baseball club owners seeking $145 million in public funds to build a spring training facility in West Palm Beach. See also: Houston Astros Owner Has Controversial Past, Courts Public Subsidies What’s in it to the…
For one subset of the Florida cracker, hunting, fishing, and frogging is a way of life. And intrinsic to their subculture, according to a study conducted by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, is the use of swamp buggies. So when the National Park Service banned their use in parts…
In mid-April, 39-year-old Belkys Jimenez came down with a high fever. She also developed a headache and then severe pain in her muscles and joints. Her feet and ankles became swollen, making walking painful. Jimenez had long battled hypertension, but this was clearly something new. Over the next two weeks,…
In 2002, Heather Brassner, a Palm Beach County art dealer, and her then-partner, Megan Lade, were joined together in a civil union in Vermont. Though they were initially committed to each other, the relationship fell apart about four years ago, when Lade allegedly cheated on Brassner and ran off with…
Major Neill Franklin, a retired Maryland State Police and Baltimore Police officer, one of the nation’s biggest pro-marijuana advocates, is set to speak to the Broward Republican Executive Committee on Monday night. Franklin, who is executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), will discuss Amendment 2 and why it…
In 1987, the Gary Hart scandal uncovered by the Miami Herald obliterated the Democratic frontrunner’s run for the White House and changed the way politics is covered forever. For 27 years, it was widely believed that the tipster to Hart’s infidelities with model Donna Rice came from a friend of…
It was 2013, and Tessie Patrick had been hired to write the biography of a woman named Kat Stacks. When the author first Googled the name, she was appalled. Stacks, better-known as Andrea Herrera, was a foul-mouthed 24-year-old, internet-famous for talking smack about rappers. On WorldStarHipHop.com, a viral-video and taste-making…
For 12 years, Michael Schwam worked throughout Florida for Anthem Education, a for-profit college. But this spring, he knew “something was wrong, big-time.” Students on campus were telling the regional vice president there were no books available for their classes. A student complained about taking a hair-coloring class where there…
So that was not at all shocking. The Miami Dolphins, coming off a throttling at the hands of the Buffalo Bills last week, had a chance at getting back on track this week at home against a Kansas City Chiefs team playing without seven of its starters, including its star…
Of all the reasons for booting a teacher — porn past, sex with a student, general uselessness — this is a new one on us: diabetes. Until January 2013, Marc Schaeffer was a substitute teacher with the Broward School District. Now, in a federal lawsuit filed at the end of…
Back in March, the real estate blog Motovo used its calculations and numbers to proclaim Fort Lauderdale among the most exciting cities in all the land. However, it had quite the opposite to say about the tiny Palm Beach County village affectionately known as Wellington. In a ranking of all…
Earlier this week, we told you about how the Satanic Temple plans on handing out their literature to public school kids in Florida on the heels of an Orange County School Board decision to allow an Evangelical Christian group to hand out Bibles. And now an international UFO religion wants…
As he stomps his way around the state hoping to keep his job, Governor Rick Scott has been pushing his “Keep Florida Beautiful” campaign, a likely too-little-too-late bid to appear like a friend to the earth. As we’ve written before, nothing is further from the truth, with the Scott administration…
Highly graphic video of primate experiments at a German laboratory operating under the umbrella of the Max Planck Society, whose offspring include Palm Beach County’s Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, has scandalized Europe. See also: Planck Institute Clams Up on Animal Welfare: “Reputation Speaks for Itself” Recorded by undercover…
