Chicago Evangelical With Broward Ties Resigns After Sex Scandal

The Chicago-based megachurch leader with serious ties throughout Florida and in Broward has lost his flock due to a sex scandal. Since the ’60s, Bill Gothard has been preaching a submit-to-authority brand of Bible that excoriates rock music and free thinking: Listen to your parents, obey your husband, toe the…

Plant Being Sold as Kava Could Make People Sick

Concerns about safety and economics are roiling the kava industry in Polynesia. Roots of the kava plant are used to make a mildly stimulating, euphoric beverage that has long been a cultural mainstay in the Pacific Islands and, more lately, a significant and remunerative export. But one type of plant…

Scottie Pippen’s Fort Lauderdale Mansion Is for Sale

Ever wanted to own Scottie Pippen’s lavish mansion with basketball court and putting green? If so, now’s your chance. The former Chicago Bulls star and Michael Jordan sidekick has put his Fort Lauderdale mansion on the market, and it’s a humdinger of a house for anyone who ever wanted to…

How Ravers Pioneered the Trend That Killed Philip Seymour Hoffman

When Karina moved to Miami Beach from Eastern Europe in 2007, she used no nicotine, no alcohol, no drugs, nothing. Although she’d had a problem in her midteens with booze and MDMA, the 22-year-old was determined to begin her new life in America clean and sober. Soon after she arrived,…

New Reversible Lanes on I-595 Scheduled to Open March 26

The new I-595 reversible lanes will kick off at 2 p.m. on March 26, the Florida Department of Transportation has announced. To alleviate congestion, three sets of reversible lanes will move traffic east in the morning, then west in the evening. As a sort of test run, the lanes will…

Ten Reasons the Dania Beach Casino & Jai Alai Is Still Awesome

Dania Beach Jai-Alai opened in the 1950s and was one of the first frontons to operate in the country. At its peak in the ’90s, the sport attracted thousands of spectators, but those numbers have significantly decreased as other gambling options (like horse and dog tracks) became available. Over the…

NASA to Launch $172 Million Orbiter to Study the Sun

All of the aerospace experts in the world cannot find a missing jetliner here on Earth, but the sun? That’s big. We can find it! Yesterday, NASA announced it had chosen a company — United Launch Services LLC of Centennial, Colo. — to handle the launch of a solar orbiter…

Downtown Fort Lauderdale Named Among Top Ten Downtowns in U.S.

The internet has made official what we pretty much already knew: Downtown Fort Lauderdale is a kickass place. How kickass? According to Livability.com, it’s the seventh-best downtown in the U.S. The website is all about tracking down and ranking the best cities to live and work in, avoiding the obvious…

Machete-Wielding Man Fatally Shot by BSO Identified

The identity of the machete-wielding man who was shot and killed by a BSO deputy has been released by the Broward Sheriff’s Office. Homicide detectives say Deosaran Maharaj, 51, was the man who allegedly threatened a woman with a machete and was later shot and killed by BSO Deputy Paul…

AAA Offers Free Towing for St. Patrick’s Day

If you’ve had a few too many green beers later tonight, keep those keys in your pocket and call AAA, which is offering free towing tonight for impaired drivers. The company’s “Tow to Go” program is offered throughout Florida and Georgia on big drinking holidays such as New Year’s and…

Mug-Shot Monday: Frat Bros Gone Bad

You spoke, we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s Mug-Shot Monday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, derp faces, and femmes fatale…