Being one of the few women among the male-dominated ranks of firefighters is likely hard enough, and one Broward emergency worker says the job has come with a series of sexual-discrimination incidents, according to a lawsuit she recently filed in federal court. The alleged harassment included a lot of unflattering…
Touchdown Tommy has been one of the University of Miami’s most memorable traditions since 1945. Each time the Canes football team scores, members of the Sigma Chi fraternity fire a small cannon in celebration. Seniors from Gamma Phi, as the local chapter is known, shoot blanks out of the wheeled…
The family of Mary DeLorenzo Knight, one of the victims slain by Aaron Alexis during the Washington Navy Yard massacre this past September, has filed a lawsuit on her behalf in federal court in Tampa. The suit, filed Tuesday morning, alleges negligence by the government. Alexis, who was a contracted…
Pedro José Maldonado, a Weston father and husband, went on a premeditated murderous and violent rampage that ended with him killing himself in a motel after murdering his wife and one of his sons with a crossbow. According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Maldonado shot his wife and son with…
As many as 30 to 40 short-finned pilot whales have stranded themselves in Florida’s Everglades National Park. As many as ten have beached themselves, with four having already died, according to officials. The pod was first seen on Tuesday, about 30 miles from Flamingo in Monroe County…
Yesterday, a private group called the Florida Nativity Scene Committee was installing a manger display in the Capitol in Tallahassee. The Miami Herald reported that another group, Reclaim Christ for Christmas, intends to add the Three Wise Men. The ACLU warned that by allowing private groups to set up religious…
Former Florida Governor and Currently Running To Be Florida Governor Again, Charlie Crist, says that the movement to legalize marijuana is “an issue of compassion.” Crist appeared on WJCT radio this week to talk up his running for office when host Melissa Ross asked him about the push to have…
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is looking to move forward on creating a new controlled substances code number for marijuana extract. The extract, known as butane hash oil (or BHO) — and also known on the streets as “wax,” or “dabs” — is jacked up with concentrated levels of tetrahydrocannabino…
A movie theater in Pinellas Park accidentally showed a theater packed with families two long minutes of sexually explicit scenes during the screening of Disney’s Frozen over the weekend. In a panic, some parents grabbed their kids and bolted for the exits, while others tried to do whatever they could…
Delta airlines ended up screwing passengers at the Gainesville Regional Airport on Sunday so that the Florida Gators men’s basketball team could get to their game in Connecticut with plenty of time to spare (their game wasn’t until Monday night). Problem is, Delta lied to the passengers, telling them that…
Last week, Gov. Rick Scott dropped the news that all-new totally unnecessary restrictions on how and where voters can return absentee ballots would be underway soon, further moving his voter suppression crusade along. Aside from messing with a process that didn’t need messing with, Scott and Secretary of State Ken…
As he’s done for the last 11 years, yesterday Gary Karp stepped in front of cameras again and demanded answers for his daughter, Marissa. Since the teen’s body was found shot in the Everglades in 2002, the Broward dad has pressed investigators to act. Now, the man many believe to…
It was basically raining money — well, money that really creative people had to work really hard for — at the New World Center in Miami last night as the Knight Arts Foundation gave away a whopping $2.72 million in grants to 49 local artists who are going make South…
Some people call him an ethnopharmacologist. Others call him a psychonaut. Dennis McKenna — like his more famous brother Terrence McKenna — grew up experimenting with psychedelic drugs, then picked up a few university degrees and and spent his lifetime trying to understand their effects from a scientific perspective. Terrence…
by Jeff Weinberger Dericia Charles left her native Cap Haitien for South Florida seven years ago expecting the best. A print shop worker who’d been earning a few dollars a day toiling on a low-tech printing press in virtual sweatshop conditions, she had barely been getting by in her homeland…
Here’s something you probably weren’t aware of: There’s a 13,000 years old dude buried in Vero Beach. Archaeologists have been trying for years to excavate the fossilized pieces of a dead person known as “Vero Man,” who was discovered 100 years ago buried among mastodons and saber-tooth cats. On Monday,…
The Florida State Seminoles throttled the Florida Gators 37-7 on Saturday. But that wasn’t enough for one Noles fan, who apparently wanted to add injury to insult by trying to attack some Gator fans with a machete. Ah, FSU and Gators games. It’s like the Family Feud: Inbred Week! (Also,…
Fort Lauderdale officials think they’ve finally gotten through the last of the hurdles to get a $110 million waterpark up and running nearby the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport.. They’re so enthusiastic, in fact, that they’ve met all the Federal Aviation Administration’s regulations and concerns, that they’re expecting to get the…
Physically, Gov. Rick Scott has been compared to many things: Lord Voldemort, a ladle full of Greek yogurt, a calcium-deficient fingernail. And, sure, the dude looks like something that would pop out of a hole and bite you. But I’m not here to pick the low-hanging fruit. I’m not going…
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…
Ah Florida. We have criminals, just like every other state. But we have our own special kind of criminal. Namely, dumb ones. And, because we’re never in short supply of dumb criminals, we present to you our latest series of the dumbest Florida criminals of the month. November was a…
So… This being Florida, of course it was only a matter of time before a plastic surgeon enlisted a child, a home video camera, and a YouTube account to create an advertisement for butt lifts that is aimed at children. Miami doctor Constantino Mendieta’s video features a lil’ dude called…
