A hard-nosed journalist and a hard-boiled author are teaming up Tuesday to talk about newspapering and crime fiction; to eat, drink and be merry; and to raise a few bucks for innovative local investigative news organ the Broward Bulldog. The evening’s featured guest is Michael Connelly, a Broward boy whose…
The Broward County District Attorney’s Office has issued an arrest warrant for former Miami Dolphins receiver Chad Johnson, TMZ is reporting. The warrant is tied to Johnson’s domestic violence conviction for his August 2012 arrest for head-butting then wife Evelyn Lozada…
The mother of a 13-year old student at Lauderhill Middle School is suing the School Board of Broward County after a teacher at the school engaged in sexual activity with the boy when he was a student in her 8th grade class. In 2009, teacher Kristin Sullivan began engaging in…
Traffic is pretty bad down here in South Florida to begin with. Usually it’s because of an accident, or rush hour, or simply because people want to slow to 15 mph on a 55 mph highway to look at a guy changing his tired on the side of the road…
Radio “shock jock” Howard Stern has reportedly bought himself a mansion in Palm Beach, according to Gossip Extra. Someone purchased the lavish oceanfront home on 601 N. County Road for a whopping $52-million, according to sales records. And that someone is apparently Stern and his wife Beth Ostrosky…
Environmental activists across Florida have been waiting more than two years for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to land a serious body blow against the state’s enforcement branch. The question was whether Herschel Vinyard’s place at the top of Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection was a violation the Clean Water…
Dwyane Wade would like us all to talk to his ass. After dealing with an annoying and painful bone bruise in his right knee, and playing like a shell of himself, it seemed that the whispers of his demise came stronger and harder than ever before. We even suggested he…
“Can’t anybody here play this game?” — Baseball manager Casey Stengel, about the 1962 New York Mets, whose 120 losses are the most by any MLB team in one season in the 20th century. See also: – Chick-fil-A Stadium: FAU Considered Homophobic Firm Hapless Florida Atlantic University president Mary Jane…
The night the dark-haired guru declared herself greater than God, the chanting started at dusk. Scores of sweaty followers squeezed around a platform and closed their eyes. Their features slackened, and they rocked to a rhythmic mantra echoing inside the cramped hall. Before them, sinking into an ocean of pillows,…
Men speaking in strange tongues call Rick Ross late in the night and ask him questions involving matters of which he has no knowledge. In English more broken than Tim Tebow’s NFL chances, they ply him for info on his next ill beat. They croon how much they love his…
A Texas-based Tea Party organization and the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections have agreed on a plan to provide the group access to county voting records from the 2012 federal election and voter registration and other records going back to 2009. Planning an audit “unprecedented in that it will…
Let’s say you… err, no… your friend happened to illegally download some porn over the past year or so. Now, your friend knew he was breaking the law when he did it. And sure, it’s gross, but he was sad and cripplingly lonely, and they had just installed high-speed Wi-Fi…
Rick Scott may have opened the door to what would be quite the dynamic duo of derpness at the top. Scott told a Tampa-area radio station that he would be cool with considering former Rep. Allen West as his next lieutenant governor. Actually, Scott basically just gave a polite answer…
The city’s Planning & Zoning Board met Wednesday night at Fort Lauderdale City Hall and recommended approval for the Marina Lofts development high-rise apartments proposed for near downtown Fort Lauderdale, without even considering the 100-year-old rain tree at the center of the controversy at the meeting. See also: – Water…
An exotic dancer is recovering after suffering through a horrible series of events at the hands of a Boynton Beach man, police say. Thomas R. Fitzsimmons, 50, is accused of sexually assaulting the 39-year old stripper — whose name is being withheld — at gunpoint, while psychologically torturing her with…
FAU President Mary Jane Saunders turned in a letter of resignation Tuesday, which the university’s Board of Trustees Chair Anthony K.G. Barbar “regretfully” accepted. Saunders’ resignation ends a three-year tenure that has embroiled Florida Atlantic University in turmoil and controversy the past several months, including accusations of her sideswiping a…
That GOP need to build bridges to the nation’s Hispanic community? The need party elders have talked so much about since Barack Obama was re-elected largely due to Hispanic support? The need that’s propelled Florida’s own Marco Rubio to preeminence in the early scouting reports on the GOP 2016 presdential…
If the world can come together to help find the Boston marathon bomber, then it can come together and find a nasty child rapist. Homeland Security Investigations is looking for a guy who’s made videos of himself sexually exploiting a 7- to 9-year-old girl. From videos shared online, the agency…
“It didn’t go the way it was supposed to.” That was the news from a clearly-disappointed Gary Karp about his trip last week to the Bahamas. After spending a decade squeezing out every tiny scrap of information possible in the still-unsolved murder of his daughter, Karp was hoping a Hail…
Earlier this week, trial began for a Broward couple who allegedly imprisoned wayward and young women, drugged them, and then forced them to work as prostitutes — under the constant threat of beatings. The accused 34-year-old ringleader, Mackenley Desire, who prosecutors say directed his 20-year-old wife, Genet Rembert, to beat…
John Goodman’s lawyers have filed a request to have the polo mogul taken out of house arrest and for his ankle monitor to be removed. The paperwork was filed Tuesday in the Palm Beach County courthouse. Goodman was awarded a new trial thanks to a loop-hole found by his former…
The Florida Panthers will be getting a new publicly funded $4.2 million scoreboard and master control room, thanks to the Broward Commission. The commission voted to allow Broward County’s bed tax to pay for it — which was the same exact tax the Miami Dolphins were asking for from Miami-Dade…
