When a Florida house cat named BearBear went missing sometime last week, owner Linda Craig at first didn’t worry. BearBear often romped about the neighborhood in Gulfport outside Tampa. But as Tuesday melted into Wednesday and BearBear didn’t return for breakfast all week, Craig began to think something was wrong…
Miami Dolphins center Mike Pouncey and his twin brother, Maurkice (of the Pittsburgh Steelers) had a photo taken at a Miami night club last week with the pair wearing hats that read “Free Hernandez” on them. The “Hernandez” in the hats, of course, is none other than their former Florida…
A campaign is underway to have Florida Democrats — both the party and elected officials — pledge to refuse campaign finance contributions from global private prison operator GEO Group, the Boca Raton-based company whose history includes a record notorious for human rights abuses. See also: – FAU Students, Faculty, and…
It appears that Dwyane Wade’s ex, and mother of his two sons, Siohvaughn Funches, is having some kind of meltdown in the middle of downtown Chicago. A tipster sent along a photo of Funches to Deadspin.com, depicting her sitting on the ground and holding a sign that reads, “NBA MIAMI…
A Florida cop pulled over a car in Sumter County after running the tag and discovering that the vehicle’s registered owner did not have a driver’s license. And what should have been a routine traffic stop soon turned into a Taser-palooza, as the deputy went all Oprah and pretty much…
In attempt to show leadership and that he means business with his leadershipness, Gov Rick Scott has officially issued a statewide call for a “day of prayer for unity in Florida” for this coming Sunday, because when faced with tough decisions, leaders need to step up and arbitrarily proclaim things…
Here in the news biz, where we’re bombarded with an endless stream of updates on how humanity is circling the toilet bowl, we often ask ourselves: What’s the most whack state? Obviously, Florida is the front-runner. But can anyone else even compete for the crown? Let’s be honest, on any…
BSO deputies shot and killed a ski-masked robbery suspect to allegedly was trying to hold-up an Allstate Insurance office at a Pembroke Pines business plaza Thursday afternoon. Deputies were called in at around 3 p.m. by an anonymous tipster that an armed man with ski mask was inside the insurance…
Update: On Friday morning, a Palm Beach judge set Pradere’s bond at $100,000. Original post: Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Sergeant Mario Pradere was arrested on allegations of lewd conduct involving a minor. According to authorities, Pradere, 50, used a department-issued camera to make videos of a female minor, and…
So, an Orlando woman was riding on a public Lynx bus when she apparently decided being on a public bus was a good time as any to go ahead and put on a strip show. Thirty-three year old Longwood resident Rosetta Jackson (Ms. Jackson, if you’re nasty?), was riding on…
What’s the most terrifying place you can think of? A foxhole in Afghanistan? Marilyn Manson’s rec room? This guy’s bed? (Actually, he looks kind of fun.) This week, Vice magazine deemed the Barbie Dream House at Sawgrass Mall “the scariest place on Earth.” Apparently, before he hightailed it to New…
Derek Black, the white supremacist poster boy, former radio host, and son of Don Black (who founded the West Palm Beach-based white nationalist organization Stormfront), has had a change of heart. In a four-page letter published Wednesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the 24-year-old junior at New College of…
Gov. Rick Scott returned to the state Capitol Thursday evening and sat down with members of the Dream Defenders organization, which had been staging a sit-in protest since Tuesday. Spurred by the George Zimmerman verdict last weekend, the group bused in hundreds of protesters, mostly college students from around the…
A Wellington man was arrested for allegedly imprisoning his wife for the past three years, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. The wife of the suspect, Qasem Alabed, 42, claims that, along with not allowing her to leave their home, he also beat her with a television remote…
Traffic on Florida’s highways can be a pain in the ass. What with all the bad drivers, the poor weather, the congested lanes and things falling from the sky and exploding on the road. A drone that flew out of Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City crashed into US…
Florida Senator Dwight Bullard has sent a letter to Gov. Rick Scott, urging him to pardon Marissa Alexander. Alexander is a 32-year-old African American mother of three who was sentenced to 20 years for firing a gun into the air to ward off her abusive husband. She tried to use…
On Tuesday, we told you about the group, Dream Defenders, busing in protesters from all over the state to stage a sit-in at Gov. Rick Scott’s office in Tallahassee. The group is staging its protest to demand that Scott call a special session to review the “Stand Your Ground” law…
So a guy who used to live in Florida wrestled a shark for no other reason than because he can. Elliot Sudal, who moved to Nantucket from Sanibel, is in the news today for ranglin’ up a shark off the shores of Massachusetts, and then wrestling it before dragging it…
Under normal conditions, a candidate running for local office who’d been arrested twice for impersonating a cop, and who’d worked briefly “behind the scenes” for a gay porn company would think very long and hard about what, exactly, he’s going to spend his campaign money on. There are two reasons…
Just days after authorities released the results of iGuardian, a national child predator sting, Stephen Paulsen was arrested Tuesday for arranging a meeting with a Boynton Beach police officer whom he believed was a teenager under the age of 16. Even Jerry Sandusky would have thought that was bad timing…
Michael Brewer, the Deerfield Beach teen who was the victim of a burn attack in 2009, has been ordered by a Palm Beach County drug court judge to write an essay after the teen missed a court hearing. Brewer, who was arrested on drug charges back in March, failed to…
Though the conditions were far from ideal, Joanna Rohrback just had to Prancercise®. Sure, it was too humid outside. Yes, the location — a casino parking lot in Pompano Beach — was anything but bucolic. And of course, there wasn’t any music. But Rohrback had an easy fix. She popped…
