House Speaker John Boehner is apparently not orange enough, so he’s gone and bought himself a vacation condo right here in the Sunshine State. The luxury condominium is located in exclusive Marco Island, overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. Now Boehner will be able to be closer to his daughter and…
Police are still awaiting the autopsy results of Weston native and FSU student, Ryan Uhre, whose body was discovered on the rooftop of a building in Tallahassee on Wednesday after he had vanished for nearly two weeks. Uhre’s disappearance has been a high-profile case, hitting close to home and coming…
Last spring, a legal tussle started over the past life of a Palm Beach-area math tutor. David Mech — known around Boca Raton as “The Happy/Fun Math Tutor” — called foul when school officials pulled down signs advertising his services. What was behind the move? Mech believes it was because…
Yesterday afternoon as traffic clogged the Dolphin Expressway in Miami, a woman jumped out of her car holding her 5-month-old nephew, who was having trouble breathing and turning blue. Right behind her in his car was Miami Herald photographer Al Diaz (famous for having taken this image of Elian Gonzalez,…
LeBron James is, in fact, human. Although he might be a cybernetic organism programmed to terminate all opponents on the basketball court. Either way, LeBron had his nose busted by Oklahoma City Thunder’s Serge Ibaka Thursday night, and had to leave the game. But before exiting the court with piles…
Megan Auclair is not some tie-dye-wearing college kid whipping up potent pot brownies in the communal dorm kitchen. In fact, Auclair wants to wipe that stereotype from everyone’s subconscious. Auclair is a medical professional, an entrepreneur, and as soon as the bill for medical marijuana passes, Auclair plans to heal…
When you think about Fort Lauderdale, of all the things that pop into your head, chances are comic book conventions aren’t one of them. And there’s a reason for that. There aren’t really any. But Joey Cammisa and Troy Humble are hoping to change that with Wap! Comic Con, Fort…
Not content with helping to foul our own environmental nest here in Florida, Governor Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi this week signed up with 20 other GOP-dominated state governments on the side of corporate lobbyists in opposition to an historic agreement to clean up the Chesapeake Bay. See…
And now for the most awwwwwwww look it the little baby! news item you’ll read pretty much for the rest of your life. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced that biologists working at the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge found and rescued a panther kitten that was near…
LeBron James, the greatest basketball player on the planet, took to Instagram to post a thank you note to the father who abandoned him as a child. LeBron grew up in inner city Akron, Ohio, and was raised by single mother Gloria James. But on Thursday morning, his open letter…
Dania Casino & Jai-Alai is re-opening its doors Thursday night, and now it’s got a lot more than just little dudes running around chasing a tiny ball with giant wicker baskets on their hands. After several years of being closed, the newly christened Dania Casino is just that — a…
Residents of the Palm Beach County enclave known as The Acreage see their rustic lifestyle under attack by international homebuilding giant the Minto Group. From the look of things they’re not going to take it lying down. See also: – Farms in the Acreage May Have to Shut Down Because…
Landlubbers may not be aware of a current epic sea battle: shrimpers v. sea turtles. The reality is that we have very little idea what kind of impact the former has on the latter endangered critters. In part, that’s because the federal government is dragging ass about conducting meaningful studies…
Hi Dan Marino. Hi. Hello. How are you? You might not remember me, but we met last year during a Miami Dolphins presser when they unveiled their new logo and uniforms. I was the guy who walked up to you and tried asking you a question but instead only managed…
GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections) is the second-largest private prison company in the country. Guess where it gets a nice chunk of revenue? By taking kickbacks from the companies that put phone lines into its prisons. According to a letter it sent to the SEC, GEO Group received $608,108 in…
A Florida animal rights activist who’s fresh off a stint in prison has a new target in her sights — the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, which funds projects at the University of Florida. Camille Marino, from Wildwood, in Central Florida, is a longtime, hard-core activist. She’s the…
Max Jackson is a student at Florida Atlantic University. On October 21, 2012, he traveled to Miami to snap some shots of the Color Run — a race in which people get paint dumped on them along the course. It’s dubbed “The Happiest 5K on the Planet.” Jackson posted the…
Cold fluorescent light bounces off the slick white floors of the hallway. Doors slam; girls scream in the distance. A half dozen police officers march across the tile. Staffers wrapped in blue hospital scrubs trot behind. Outside, 20 cop cruisers and two ambulances paint the parking lot with their reds…
UPDATE: Thanks to Charles Ogletree — the Harvard law professor who stepped up on Banton’s behalf — the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta agreed to hear his case. The court has yet to schedule a date to hear the arguments. Back in 2009, a series of boneheaded decisions…
Tyler Hadley, the 17-year old Port St. Lucie man who killed both of his parents with a hammer, and then immediately threw a house party, has changed his plea to no contest on Wednesday. The plea means Hadley could face 25 years-to-life in prison. Prosecutors, meanwhile, say that they might…
The woman CIA director David Petraeus had an affair with was in Florida on Wednesday as a panelist for a modern military conference held at the University of South Florida. Because, of course. Paula Broadwell, the woman that singlehandedly caused Patraeus’ downfall, spoke at a panel about how to win…
Looks like there’s a new installment in our Donald Trump Is Twitter Beefin’ Files. We have a theory about Donald Trump. And it’s this: Donald Trump is the living embodiment of a cartoon villain. Not in the sense that a “bad guy” wrestler from WWE, or an actor in a…
