More than 50 Boynton Beach Police officers are protesting outside of City Hall before Tuesday afternoon’s commission meeting, demanding that City Manager Lori LaVerriere resign. The officers are protesting what they say are overdue raises. Negotiations for those raises have been a source of conflict for several months. The officers’…
Update: That was a quick moment in the moral sun. Marino is pulling out of the lawsuit, according to new reports. Check below for the details. ****** The hits have come steadily for the National Football League on the concussion front (bad pun, sorry). As research continues to pile up…
On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed cutting carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s power plants by 30 percent by 2030 in an effort by the Obama administration to combat climate change. And while Florida’s governor has been going around reminding people he’s not a scientist and, therefore, that technically…
Chuck Wielgus has been executive director of USA Swimming since 1997. During his tenure, about 100 coaches have been accused of alleged misconduct that has ranged from placing video cameras in swimmers’ bathrooms to dealing steroids to molesting young girls. A five-month New Times investigation into the claims published in…
“You want to fuck with me?” the voice was heard saying, as the sound of scuffling and crashing debris echoed throughout the courtroom from behind the closed door. “Do you?!” the voice repeated as more slams could be heard. “All right!” the other voice screamed out. The judge, who apparently…
Between 1999 and 2001, about eight giant Gambian pouched rats were let loose by a local exotic breeder. More than a decade later, despite multiple attempts to eradicate what Zoo Miami Communications Director Ron Magill calls “the largest true rat in the world,” the mutant critters just won’t go away…
Researchers at the University of Illinois have found that hurricanes with female names are usually more deadly than their masculine counterparts. The research team thinks this may be because people subconsciously associate female-named hurricanes with feminine stereotypes of tenderness and affection — kind of like the way you subconsciously picture…
Last Friday marked the first Fort Lauderdale Critical Mass in which the police offered to help direct traffic. But instead of showing up on bikes, officers policed the area in cars and motorcycles. Although video circulated on Saturday of a 30-year-old accountant being tackled from his bike after blocking a…
We suppose we should be more surprised by this, what with our DUI checkpoint posts being among our most clicked-on blogs, but Florida ranks as the 13th drunkest state in the union, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. It’s not as much disappointing as it is…
Sharks do love them some Florida. Whether it’s a great white chilling off the coast of Fort Lauderdale Beach or a hammer head giving a guy a ride down the ocean or sharks surfing the waves of Palm Beach County or a bull shark swimming through the Intracoastal Waterway, sharks…
Italo Morales is on the run. The 27-year-old from Honduras is trying to scrape up the cash to sneak through the border from Mexico to El Paso, Texas. After that, he plans on speeding through the southern United States on his way to Florida…
Every family name comes with baggage. But if your driver’s license happens to say “Cousteau,” chances are you’re slotted for a life under the sea. Such was the case with Fabien Cousteau, the grandson of the famous oceanographer and documentary filmmaker, Jacques-Yves. And last weekend, Cousteau threw a new coat…
In case you weren’t aware, Hurricane Season just kicked off Sunday. That’s right. It’s that time of year again. And hopefully you’re all stocked up on batteries and cans of tuna. But no, Hurricane Season is complete without the local weather stations and storm centers and storm teams telling us…
Dan Littell was crossing Las Olas bridge as part of last night’s Fort Lauderdale Critical Mass when a police vehicle whizzed by him and his fellow riders. He knew bridges were particularly dangerous places for cyclists in an already inhospitable town. In the past, Littell had been hit on both…
Back in February of 2013, law enforcement officials swarmed a home, after a government employee who was visiting another house, had spotted some marijuana plants on the property. Cops entered the house, and confiscated the marijuana plants, all while the owner of the home — a wheelchair-bound 64-year-old woman –…
Broward County circuit judge, and misdemeanor drug court judge, Gisele Pollack, who was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in early May, is asking to be paid during her suspension. Pollack, 56, has admitted last year she’d shown up to work drunk before. According to Red Broward, when…
The internet is full of stupid. You know this. We know this. But The Stupid doesn’t shine quite as brightly as when LeBron James and the Miami Heat lose a single playoff game. The Stupid was strong all day Thursday, following the Heat’s Game 5 loss to the Indiana Pacers…
Biking in South Florida is dangerous. Given what we see in the news cycle on an almost daily basis down here, that can be said flatly. Hell, last year cyclists riding down the Rickenbacker Causeway were shot in the leg and back by teenagers armed with BB-Guns. So, after a…
It appears that the Miami Dolphins are continuing their chase to become the most dysfunctional pro football team in the history of the NFL. Along with being mediocre on the field going on nearly two decades, going through an embarrassing bullying scandal last season, and having to suspend a player…
Medical marijuana activist John Tracey acted on two eminently reasonable beliefs late last July. The result? He got busted. Belief 1: That a Black Sabbath concert would provide a mother lode of support for a petition to put a referendum on medical marijuana on this fall’s ballot. Belief 2: That…
It was an accident we had a fight. When law enforcement broke down the door of Miami Police Officer Carl Patrick’s Pembroke Pines house on May 9, a handwritten note with the above words was found on the kitchen table. The “accident” — a chilling word considering the context –…
Six days. A lot can get done in six days. God made the world in six days. Your aunt learned to bake in six days. And it probably took you six days to figure out that someone in Baton Rouge had stolen your identity and bought $1,500 worth of olive…
