In a budget meeting held on Wednesday, the Town Council of Palm Beach voted to extend benefits for domestic partnerships, including health and dental insurance coverage, bereavement leave, illness in the immediate family leave, family and medical leave, and domestic violence leave. Kicking off on January 1, 2014, all Town…
The headlines landed last Monday from Boston to Copenhagen to New York to London. Thirteen Major League Baseball players had been suspended, including the Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez, who was hit with a massive 211-game beatdown. It had all started with a January Miami New Times investigation into a tiny Coral…
Chad Johnson is damaged. But as he sits on the patio of the Pelican Hotel on a Thursday afternoon, the holes in his life are hidden. It’s been nearly two years since Johnson last suited up for the National Football League, but he still looks the part. His muscles bulge…
Florida might be the ass of everyone’s jokes, what with our daily dose of crazy news, corrupt government officials, dumb gun laws, dumb marijuana laws, and the whole Zimmerman verdict and whatnot. But we still kick major balls when it comes to people coming to visit our beautiful state, what…
Rick Scott’s idea to give debit cards to teachers so that they can buy themselves school supplies without dipping into their own pockets has shockingly gone bust. Mainly because, while the idea is a noble and good one, its execution was dumb. Also, because the cards won’t be ready until…
John Goodman has been given permission to travel to Houston to visit his mother, who is reportedly near death. In a hearing held Wednesday morning, a judge agreed to let the Wellington polo mogul go after receiving a letter from a doctor, attained by Goodman’s lawyer. Harriett Goodman, 85, reportedly…
A Florida man walked into his home and found his female roommate hanging out in the kitchen. The man didn’t like seeing some dude hanging out with her, so he decided to wrestle the dude. And, in the ensuing scuffle, the man bit off a chunk of the dude’s ear…
It took over 40 years, but the 1972 Miami Dolphins, the only NFL team to complete a perfect season (SUCK it, Patriots!), will finally get to do that thing that championship teams do — visit the President at the White House and give him a silly jersey. The reason the…
Yesterday, one of the truly batshit crazy/sad stories of would-be domestic murder broke out in South Florida after police broadcast the arrest of Jason Simione. The 39-year-old Dania Beach man was taken into custody after allegedly trying to sic Salvadoran hit men on his own estranged wife and baby. Throw…
Yesterday, a mother-daughter duo who arched eyebrows from South Florida to the “Tonight Show” with Jay Leno for their alleged escorting “2-for-1 specials,” gave a flat denial to the Sun Sentinel. They said the cops had it all wrong. Other girls may trick like that — but not them. Sure,…
In a cover story last year, we told you about how a few Florida women were the ones who discovered how banks were screwing people out of billions of dollars through foreclosures of homes during the past decade’s housing crisis. Banks resorted to robosigning and forged documents in order to…
Working as a lifeguard in South Florida is more than just about keeping your eyes open in case somebody drowns. It’s also about keeping your eyes open in case drugs wash up on shore. And, at around 11:45 a.m. Monday morning, Gulfstream Park lifeguards earned their pay when they spotted…
A man wearing a hat and shades walked into a Florida Crossfit gym and shot and killed the instructor in front of the stunned and horrified class. According to reports, Richard Millsap, the owner of Crossfit Mosaic gym in Winter Garden, was in the middle of teaching a Crossfit training…
Jason D. Simione, a 39-year-old Dania Beach man, allegedly stockpiled bomb-making materials, sniper rifles, and ammunition, threatened President Barack Obama and sought to hire a hit man to murder his own wife and infant child. Simione’s wife, Megumi Simione, 28, reportedly contacted the Broward Sheriff’s Office on Friday, and told…
The Greatest Basketball Player in the Universe LeBron James sat down with ABC’s Robin Roberts to discuss all things going on under the sun. Among those things is his impending free agency in the summer of 2014 that is sure to get make the national media’s head ‘splode. “I’m happy…
On April 19, an Israeli military officer, Col. Bentzi Gruber, came to Florida Atlantic University to give a presentation called “Ethics in the Field,” explaining how the Israeli Defense Forces thwart attacks and defending the Israeli military against accusations of human rights violations. Five students, members of the FAU chapter…
By his own admission, Vitaly Zdorovetskiy is “usually a d-bag.” But the 21-year-old Boca Raton prankster, who’s made tens of thousands of dollars and amassed nearly as many YouTube followers as Justin Timberlake by pranking random passerby, didn’t want to be a d-bag this time. He wanted to help. Do…
Last week feds nabbed Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi, and Sweetwater Mayor Manuel Marono in a bribery sting that landed both men in the slammer. Former North Bay Village Mayor Jorge Forte and lobbyist Richard Candia were also arrested in the sting. Turns out, Pembroke Pines Mayor Frank Ortis was…
Shelton Thomas Bell, a Florida man accused of traveling to the Middle East in order to join a terrorist group and conspiring to aid al-Qaida, pleaded not guilty in a federal court in Jacksonville. Feds say that Bell, 19, had plans to join the group Ansar Al-Sharia (otherwise known around…
Apparently Middle Child Day is a thing. And it is today. And Bruce Hopman, a former ad executive living in Fort Lauderdale, is on a mission to make sure everyone knows this. And he is using every means at his disposal. By which we mean, of course, the internet…
Chris Bosh is half-man, half-raptor. We already knew this. But now the fine folks at 2K Sports have brought that to life by making Chris Bosh an actual raptor in their NBA2K13 videogame. And it is the most awesome/amazing/terrifying thing you’ll ever see…
Over 100 tow trucks staged a memorial caravan on Sunday to honor slain colleague David Herr. Herr, 36, was shot and killed on Tuesday by the owner of a vehicle after he tried to tow away illegally parked car. In a moment of somber solidarity, Herr’s fellow tow truck drivers…
