It’s been four years since the BP Deep Water Horizon disaster where an oil rig explosion in the Gulf killed 11 workers and triggered the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. This brought upon $1.3 billion in criminal fines, and manslaughter charges on the oil company, as well as multiple…
4/20 is upon us, and that means two things: Jesus and marijuana. Because while thousands and thousands of the devout and faithful step into Churches to celebrate Easter and Jesus, thousands more will sink into bean bag chairs to celebrate cartoons and Cheez-Its. But getting high is like buying a…
Uber, the app that connects people with cab and limo drivers at the tap of a button, has seen its fight to extend its business in Florida seriously watered down in the past week. The company, which at the moment operates only in Jacksonville, is upping its efforts to get…
Well, America, the holiday is upon us: 4/20, the day they invented marijuana. Or something like that. Anyway, as you probably know, a lot of people are going to be reaching for the bong on Sunday. If you’re planning to be among them, remember to choose your drug buddies carefully…
With 4/20 coming this weekend, chances are some of your friends are going to be all, “Woo hoo! 4/20, bro! Let’s smoke!” And that’s fine, bro. But keep in mind that, while 4/20 is officially pot day, it doesn’t mean it’s legal to smoke it for one day. As it…
Stephen McCulloch wants his job back. A prominent master of the arcane art of dolphin rescue, for more than a decade, he was a leader and key force at the Marine Mammal Program at FAU’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI). On February 14, he was fired. See also: – Dolphin…
Last week, it sorta kinda maybe really looked like troubled bar 101 Cantina in Boca Raton had shut down. Days later, the signage for 101 Cantina was removed, and now a sign on the door confirms the college bar’s demise. A new eatery called the Filling Station is scheduled to…
Hollywood commissioners voted unanimously on Wednesday for the construction of a $240 million luxury tower that will put the Hollywood Beach skyline on the map. The tower, which is planned to be called Hyde Beach Resort, will be a massive 40-story condo with 367 condo and condo-hotel style units where…
A lock down at Piper High in Sunrise has been lifted after a student was allegedly stabbed by another student during a fight. According to Broward School Superintendent Robert Runcie, the student was transported to Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale with non-life-threatening injuries. Sunrise Police say the suspect…
Environmental tests have proven that sonar exercises performed by the U.S. Navy confuses marine life, specifically whales and dolphins, so severely that the animals end up either stranding themselves, going deaf, or suffering organ hemorrhaging. Sonar confuses them, often making them swim in different directions and disrupting their foraging and…
Eric Lee runs Florida’s sole sea cucumber harvesting plant in Ramrod Key. But now his business is pretty much set to fail. Back in February, we wrote about the state’s clamoring to place limits on the amount of sea cucumbers that could be collected at one time. The reason? People…
Today a 28-year-old Royal Palm Beach man will appear before a federal judge. According to prosecutors, Jesse Lewis was responsible for nothing less than a reign of terror involving sex-trafficked homeless women, running them out of Hollywood and Dania Beach motels. Dubbing himself “King” and demanding his women call him…
Department of Environmental Protection officials earlier this week told a state judge that they have no authority to deny a Texas oil company’s plans to drill in the Everglades, in an area adjoining the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge. See also: DEP Advisory Committee Says No to Oil Drilling in…
The 2013-14 NBA regular season finally came to an end Wednesday night, and the playoff matchups are all set. The Heat will begin its quest for a third-straight title on Sunday when it hosts the Charlotte Bobcats at the American Airlines Arena at 3:30 p.m. (EST). It’s been a harrowing…
The police station burned bright as a bonfire. As cars hissed past on the Caracas highway, flames consumed the roadside structure as if it were kindling. Black smoke belched into the night sky. By the time dawn broke over the Venezuelan capital April 1, nothing was left of the building…
Inside the Colonial-style monolith that houses Beggs & Lane, Pensacola’s oldest law firm, sits Sonya Dobbs, a thin-lipped paralegal from Birmingham, Alabama, with a button nose and long black hair. The perfectly coifed, 52-year-old mother of three pastes user name after user name and password after password into an array…
Remember Allen West? The former congressman and always defender of freedom who repped the 18 district by saying things such as “Women have been neutering American men and bringing us to the point of this incredible weakness” and called the Democratic Party a plantation and called President Obama a Marxist?…
Now that the Florida Supreme Court has approved to have a constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana on the ballot this November, the group responsible for getting it there, United for Care, is all about getting the word out. This week alone, the group has a daylong campaign scheduled to…
Two of the biggest Florida-based companies — SeaWorld and Publix — are pushing for changes in the full-time worker standards for Obamacare. Basically, with Obamacare, companies with 100 or more full-time employees must provide minimum essential coverage or pay a penalty of $2,000 to $3,000 per employee starting in 2015…
The New York Times published an in-depth report on how the Tallahassee Police Department handled the Jameis Winston rape case this past November. And while there are no new game-changing revelations and a lot of what the report covers we wrote about here on the Pulp, it does go into…
Jesus told Terri Frana it would be all right. That’s what the 44-year-old Lake Mary woman told reporters about Saturday night, when she was attacked by a black bear inside her garage. “[The bear] started pulling me toward the woods,” she told WESH-Channel 2. “I just thought, ‘God, please, this…
Under the banner of environmental preservation and with leading participation by the Independent Traditional Seminole Nation, Earth Day will see protests against FPL’s plans for a power plant in the Everglades on the border of the Big Cypress Reservation. See also:Welcome to the Everglades Ranch Where FPL Might Build a…
