2013 just hasn’t been Florida Atlantic University’s year. With James Tracy, professors stomping Jesus, and the naming rights handed over to a prison system, the school has just fielded one scandal after another. And now we have “JERKING_BUD.” Yesterday, police announced 40-year-old Seth Thompson had been arrested on charges of…
David Strecker is a skinny former softball pitcher who lives in a modest Key West duplex and maintains a healthy head of fine, sandy-colored hair. He prefers tank tops that show off his muscular biceps. He is also a connoisseur of Caribbean prostitutes and has slept with more than 2,500…
20. Ron Nielson Ron Nielson wanted to do something extra scary for the kids on Halloween. He decided it would be totally spooky — not to mention hilarious — to burn a cross at his Palm Bay, Florida, home. Yet Nielson’s uproarious “prank” — his words — went awry when…
Late last month, an ebony-haired Miami bikini model twice materialized on the cover of the New York Daily News. “Match.con,” the first headline screamed beside a picture of Yuliana Avalos posing languidly in a brown bathing suit. The next day was even more salacious: “Death Match,” the cover bellowed. Both…
The families of the two women killed in the “2 drunk 2 care” accident have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Kayla Mendoza. On November 17, 20-year-old Mendoza drove a Hyundai Sonata the wrong way on the Sawgrass Expressway and crashed into a 2012 Toyota Camry, killing Marisa Catronio and…
Before luring a 16-year-old female friend to a small home on McKinley Street in Hollywood, where authorities say they stripped her of all her clothes, beat her, and forced her to have sex with a 19-year-old man, two girls conveyed an obsession with drugs and alcohol on Facebook. There, Patricia…
It’s no secret Rick Scott was all ready to get to work on our faces for another four years, but now it’s officially official. On Tuesday, Scott filed all his “I Wanna Be Govner of Florida Again” paperwork to the state Division of Elections, making his bid for reelection a…
A woman says she was chased by a bear while walking her dog Tuesday night. The chase happened around 8:15 p.m. in Longwood, a suburban area in Orlando, when Stefani McCoy says she spotted a bear wandering around a neighbor’s yard. She also spotted two cubs in a tree nearby…
“The erection was today,” Chaz Stevens announced via phone. The Deerfield Beach activist and “militant atheist” made it up to Tallahassee to install his Festivus pole in the rotunda of the state Capitol at 9 a.m. today. His antics are to make a point about the separation of church and…
The First District Court of Appeal has ruled that Florida universities cannot regulate guns on their respective campuses. The Florida appeals court handed down the ruling on Tuesday, siding with the University of North Florida and gun rights groups, that universities can’t keep their students from storing guns in their…
You can now add Joan Jett as the latest classic-rock artist to come at SeaWorld with anger and protest thanks to the Blackfish documentary. In the wake of acts like Barenaked Ladies, Willie Nelson, and Heart dropping out of the park’s Bands, Brew & Barbecue music fest over the past…
Whoever’s flashing a green laser light in the dark near Palm Beach International Airport, knock it off. It’s messing with flights, multiple pilots report. And it’s a felony to aim a laser pointer at anyone driving a car, vessel, or aircraft. Authorities are trying to track down the flasher(s), according…
Necropsies performed on 11 dead short-finned pilot whales found in the Florida Keys on Sunday revealed the mammals suffered from malnutrition. Officials believe the 11 were part of the whale pod that stranded itself in Florida’s Everglades National Park last week. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the…
Boca Raton is now officially Office Depot central. The Office Depot announced Tuesday that it has picked Boca as the new company headquarters, choosing it over Naperville, Illinois. While the company has always been based in Boca, Office Depot recently merged with OfficeMax, which was based in Naperville…
Oh, look at this. George Zimmerman is going get away with an alleged crime again. Again. Again. Zimmerman was busted last month for an alleged domestic disturbance with his girlfriend, Samantha Scheibe. According to some 911 audio, Scheibe had the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office come to her home and arrest…
Witnesses told Florida Highway Patrol investigators that Kayla Mendoza had drinks at Tijuana Taxi Co. in Coral Springs with coworkers before driving a Hyundai Sonata the wrong way onto the Sawgrass Expressway and crashing into a 2012 Toyota Camry. The crash killed Marisa Catronio and a passenger, Kaitlyn Ferrante. Witnesses…
A family feud turned ugly last night in West Palm Beach, where a standoff between stepfather and son ended in bloodshed and a dramatic SWAT standoff. A 55-year-old man is accused of slashing up his son and wife before turning the blade on himself. So far, reports can pinpoint only…
Is the West Palm Beach condo called South Tower CityPlace for white people only? Yesterday, the Fair Housing Center of the Greater Palm Beaches Inc. announced that it filed a federal lawsuit against Al Coker & Associates, GB West Palm, Gulfstream Capital Partners, and Cervera Real Estate — the developers…
It looks like Heart is the latest act to drop out of SeaWorld’s Bands, Brew & Barbecue music fest as a protest for the way the park allegedly treats orcas. The Barenaked Ladies was the first band to cancel on SeaWorld; then came Willie Nelson. Now, Heart is in on…
Last year, Marco Rubio gave an interview in which he famously told a GQ reporter that there was no way he could know how old the Earth is because he’s no scientist, man. (Hint: It’s 4.5 billion years old.) (Also, holy crap, it’s already been a year??) But last week,…
The Miami Heat took down the Minnesota Timberwolves 103-82 on Saturday, giving the Heat its 15th win of the season. The game gave us so much more, though. Namely, more proof that LeBron James — despite exercising his right to leave one team to go play for another team when…
Some idiot shot and killed a Florida panther, apparently. This according to authorities at the Cypress National Preserve in Collier County, where the dead panther was found. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says they found the animal dead from a gunshot wound on Saturday in the Turner River Unit…
