The Florida Legislature has been busy writing up bills willy-nilly these past few weeks, all in an effort to make the Sunshine State not so ridiculous in the eyes of the rest of the nation. And while there are some important things to discuss — like the legalization of weed,…
The website for Geneva-based MSC Cruises says the company has “great respect for the world’s oceans.” But videos have surfaced online showing an MSC employee dumping black garbage bags overboard on the MSC Magnifica, allegedly off the coast of Brazil. Jim Walker, a Miami maritime lawyer who has chronicled the…
Yesterday, Broward College adjunct professor Evan Rowe fired a warning signal when he announced via an article published in New Times that he is starting a union for adjunct faculty and may organize a strike. Adjuncts make up about 60 percent of BC’s teaching staff, and Rowe says the max…
A student at Miramar High School apparently brought an AR-15 machine gun and two fully loaded ammo clips as he drove into school on Monday, cops say. The student never took the weapon into the school, and it’s unclear how officials found out the student had a high-powered rifle in…
Hey lookit, everybody! The state Senate actually agreed on something! Unanimously, even. The Florida Legislature has passed the “Welcome Home” bill on Tuesday. The bill will make Florida veterans eligible for in-state tuition and will provide scholarships for members of the state’s National Guard while reducing education costs for military…
Mark Robert Hillstrom, a Palm Beach resident with a history of arrests and mental illness, pleaded guilty to making death threats to Broward State Attorney Mike Satz in a posting on the JAABlog last November. Hillstrom, 59, was arrested in December after an unidentified person spotted the threatening comment on…
Trayvon Martin’s family gathered together with hundreds of others in the state Capitol on Monday to urge legislators to either repeal or change Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law. Martin’s family was joined by family members of Marissa Alexander, who is facing 20 years in prison for firing a warning shot…
Whether you’re in a postapocalyptic nuclear disaster or standing a little too close to the microwave, this radiation-blocking bra will provide lift and shape. It can also simultaneously protect boobs from harmful radiation, heat, and even biological and chemical threats. When was the last time you saw anything from Victoria’s…
Broward College administration must be brought to account for paying starvation wages to its faculty. I have taught American government and American history, primarily at Broward College, as an adjunct professor since 2004. Due to unannounced circumstances this semester, and as has been done many times to me in the…
George Zimmerman squeezed out the rest of what remains in his 15 minutes of relevancy over the weekend when he showed up to a Florida gun show to pose for pictures and sign autographs. Zimmerman and his dog were special guests at the New Orlando Gun Show at the Arms…
Robert Levinson, the longest-held hostage in American history, turns 66 today. The former FBI agent traveled to Kish Island off the coast of Iraq in March of 2007 and went missing. Although the government and the media maintained that Levinson was in the Middle East on private business, the story…
The recent proposal out of California to ban orca whale shows, particularly at SeaWorld San Diego, is the only such legislation being discussed anywhere in the country. But depending on where the legislation goes, Florida’s SeaWorld and even the Miami Seaquarium could be affected as well. California Assembly Member Richard…
A Gainesville skydiver crashed into an airplane over the weekend and walked away with only minor bruises and injuries. He also says he’ll be going back up for more jumps as soon as he can. And here you are being afraid of a spider in your toilet. According to the…
The evening was sliding toward midnight, but the students were still hanging out. It was February 9, 2013, and the five members of Florida International University’s Muslim Student Association had finished their evening prayers in the room they used daily at the Graham Center, the student union on the school’s…
Republican state senator in Florida Alan Hays is just a vessel of amazing ideas. The man who once filed legislation to keep public buses from stopping on streets because one time he got stuck in traffic behind one and who once called Sharia law a “dreadful disease” that needed vaccination,…
Fort Lauderdale used to be the spring break capital of the world and still draws a hearty crowd, and Miami has Winter Music Conference coming up in two weeks, but if you’re a college kid making Palm Beach County your destination, ain’t no shame in it. Partiers have grown a…
Last night, a JetBlue flight headed from Boston to Fort Lauderdale had to land in Jacksonville because an unruly passenger was disrupting the flight. Witnesses on the flight say a man who claimed to be a U.S. serviceman screamed and tried to light a cigarette. Passengers and crew locked him…
Ebony Wilkerson, the pregnant mother who drove a minivan filled with her children into the ocean earlier this week, has been booked into jail with attempted murder and child abuse charges. On Wednesday, Wilkerson drove her minivan into the Silver Beach surf, which is in Daytona Beach. According to two…
You in the market for a new home? How about, instead of buying a house with a pool and a white-picket fence, you buy yourself and your family a prison that used to hold female serial killers? It’s plenty spacious! And it has a yard! Apparently the old Broward Correctional…
As expansion of hunting at wildlife refuges around the nation has gone underway, it looks like Palm Beach County’s Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge has approved an alligator hunt as well. Alligators thought they would be safe after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was inundated with over 1,300 from around…
A Texas oil company’s request for official permission to drill a wastewater disposal well deep into the Big Cypress watershed is the latest flashpoint in South Florida’s enviro-wars. Next Tuesday, in Naples, EPA officials will hold public hearings on the proposal, with activists statewide planning to converge there and confront…
Remember that racist in Boca who brazenly flew a Ku Klux Klan flag, along with a Confederate flag outside his home and was all, nobody is gonna make me take down this flag because white people need to stop marrying black people! and was invoking his God-given right as an…
