“You kids act like you never did something stupid in your life,” one wrote on her Facebook. “So fuck off!” the other one commented. “Gettttttt obvvveeeerrrrrrr it,” the Orange Park teenager with a black bob and perfectly manicured eyebrows fired back. “It’s not like we took the last one off…
For the some 70,000 people each year, it was already too late. But thanks to the push from some concerned citizens — including a lot of South Floridians — bike riders, pedestrians, and motorists struck by hit and run drivers will now have a little justice. And to mark the…
Last week, a pair of public defenders was fired after it was discovered they called Palestinians “cockroaches” and “swine” on Facebook comments. On Wednesday, one of the fired public defenders, Gary Sheres, released a statement explaining that he tried to apologize for his comments but was fired by his boss,…
“We’re finished!” Samuel Del Brocco shouted. The words crashed off the walls of the $2 million mansion, careened across the 500-square-foot swimming pool, and spilled into the quiet Washington, D.C. suburb. “Get your shit and get out!” Justin DeVinney said nothing. They were an odd…
By 2 p.m. on the Fourth of July, the bacchanal at Nixon sandbar just off Key Biscayne is in full swing. A few hundred feet from the sprawling waterfront mansions of Harbor Drive, dozens of women in bikinis gyrate atop boats, strangers with supersoakers generously squirt rum into one another’s…
Last December, bicyclist Craig Camlin was the victim of a heinous hit-and-run crash that left him horribly injured. Camlin succumbed to his injuries and passed away in February, but his story left a ripple effect across the cycling community, given the manner in which he was injured, the attention it…
We’re no scientist. But you know who is? Scientists. And a group of them has written Gov. Rick Scott about his noncommittal stance on man-made climate change. Scott has been wishy-washy on the issue, and whenever he’s been pressed about it, he has inexplicably decided to go the Marco Rubio…
A 39-year-old Tennessee man named Terrell Moore was swimming off Okaloose Island — located in Florida’s Panhandle — with his wife and 11-year-old son yesterday. They were about 75 yards from shore when Moore suddenly bolted below the surface, according to the Northwest Florida Daily News. “He got on the…
Ever since LeBron James left, shit has been weird in South Florida. The mood, at first, was grateful and appreciative. That was nice. Necessary, even. Then we got defiant, and Cocky Heat Fan returned, celebrating in a loud way the return of a roster that we didn’t like a whole…
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection yesterday announced it would take legal action against the Dan A. Hughes Co., the Texas oil prospectors busted late last year for unauthorized drilling in the Big Cypress Swamp watershed. Tough talk, but it could mean little more than locking the barn door after…
A man with two knots on his forehead and a chipped tooth spoke to the media on Tuesday evening about filing, along with two other people, a lawsuit against Miami Dolphins center Mike Pouncey and his twin brother, Maurkice. On Saturday, New Times broke the story of Riquan James, 24,…
Dwyane Wade is officially back with the Miami Heat, and he decided to make the announcement in the coolest way possible. Heat fans are still mostly livid over LeBron James’ departure. Especially with the way he did it — via an article in Sports Illustrated that never mentions Heat fans,…
Hey there, Palm Beach County. Notice how when you turn on the tap, your kitchen suddenly smells like a swimming pool? That’s because, as of Monday, county officials are having chlorine flushed through the pipes in a disinfection process that’ll last until August. Palm Beach County Water Utilities will be…
It looks like our long statewide nightmare of having giant snakes roaming the wilderness and eating everything is far from over. According to the folks over at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, more and more Burmese python eggs are hatching in Southwest Florida. And while the conservancy is now trying…
The nickname of Fruitland Park, Florida, might be “The Friendly City,” but something sinister is lurking behind the Lake County city’s façade of Southern hospitality. Deputy Police Chief and Fire Chief David Borst stepped down last Thursday after the FBI confronted him with evidence that he was involved in the…
With a November ballot initiative teed up for medical marijuana, the camps working both sides of the issue are now deep in the trenches, trying to lure voters. Cold, hard cash is obviously powering the efforts, which begs the question: Where’s the money coming from? In both camps, big-money donors…
Oh, Giancarlo. That power. Last night, the rest of baseball-watching America figured out what we already knew: Giancarlo Stanton is pretty much the strongest dude in the sport. So what if our beloved fauxhawk-wearing monster didn’t win the Home Run Derby — that honor would go to Yoenis Cespedes, the…
Dennis Rodman is once again in the news, and, as it is with Rodman, that’s not a good thing. According to a report by TMZ, Rodman was named in a Fort Lauderdale Police report by a woman who says she was drugged last week while drinking with Rodman at a…
Another day, another reminder that Fort Lauderdale is awesome. While the Venice of America has been hitting the top rankings in national surveys, it was about time the city was placed against other cities in its own state. And, thanks to real estate blog Movoto, Fort Lauderdale ranks as the…
It was Fourth of July in St. Augustine when a cop spotted Raul Reinoso Martinez pushing a beaten-up bike down A1A. A car braked as he cut across the road, and the homeless-looking man angrily slammed on the vehicle’s hood. When Officer Todd Smith called the man over, he noticed…
As of Monday morning, Miami Beach Police Sgt. Bobby Hernandez confirmed detectives are still trying to discern exactly what happened at Cameo Saturday night and whether the Pouncey brothers were involved in an alleged assault. An incident report was released in which two victims are named: a 32-year-old female named…
Acoustic guitar chords rang from the speakers, and the 60 or so people filling the sanctuary clapped along with the music. But the services held last night at the Parkway Christian Church in Davie weren’t the usually scheduled Sunday fare. Instead, friends and family gathered last night to mark the…
