FAU students opposed to the school’s sale of football field naming rights to global private prison operator/serial human rights abuser GEO Group spent spring break last week planning their next moves.One thing the students had in mind was attendance at today’s meeting of FAU’s board of trustees, the body that…
The Miami Heat walked into the all-consuming ocean of douche and insufferableness that is Boston’s TD Garden Monday night and laid its record-setting 22-game winning streak on the line. The Celtics were ready from the GO and came at the Heat with a furious effort that spawned a career night…
After years of studying all the studies about circumcision, the American Academy of Pediatrics last year updated its policy about circumcision of infant boys. Whereas it had previously been neutral on the matter, the organization started recommending the procedure, advising that the benefits outweigh the risks.This put the AAP at…
Back in January, we told you about a man who was caught and arrested for stealing a “Super Sucker” masturbating device from a Bradenton Spencer’s. But, as it turns out, people in Bradenton are apparently really horny (and broke), because the same Spencer’s was hit by a separate would-be thief…
In case you haven’t been paying attention — and pfft why wouldn’t you? — Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn (she’s a skier!) were rumored to have been an item for the last few months. But Vonn wouldn’t confirm, so everyone was left to speculation and hearsay because it’s tough having…
With the Miami Heat blowing NBA faces to smithereens and the University of Miami Men’s hoop team getting a number-two seed for the NCAA tournament, the Miami Dolphins are left in the wake, wallowing in their spending spree for free-agent players who probably don’t deserve all the money they’re getting…
They thought it was safe. They thought it was secure. They thought it couldn’t happen here. “It’s scary knowing it was this campus,” a senior studying psychology named Sarah said. “He had bombs and assault weapons and you think it’s a safe place to be, but behind someone’s closed door,…
Good news, Florida, you’re number one in something that doesn’t have to do with concealed weapons, or people who get arrested for shooting themselves in the penis! The state announced on Monday that Florida has begun the new year with a 7.8 percent unemployment rate, which is the lowest since…
Last week Marco Rubio spoke at the GOPers Paradise To Complain About The Black Fella, Them Freeloadin’ Poor People, And Don’t Touch My AK-47-Palooza (or CPAC, for short) where he basically told everyone that denying gay people simple civil rights doesn’t at all make him a bigot, and that global…
It’s official. Choosing Jake Long over Matt Ryan as the number-one overall pick back in the 2008 NFL draft was a bad choice. Jake Long has chosen to be a St. Louis Ram over a Miami Dolphin, signing a four-year, $34 million contract (with incentives that could push it to…
Disgraced ex-military man and confessed torturer Allen West’s sell-by date is long past. His 15 minutes should have been up when he conceded defeat in his race for reelection in Florida’s 18th Congressional district last fall, after playing the victim card through a petulant few weeks of post-Election Day legal maneuvers.See…
It’s hard to rob any of the sweet out of yesterday for the UM basketball team. Ringed by a stadium of hostile UNC fans in Greensboro, North Carolina, the Hurricanes knocked off the Tar Heels 87-77 in the ACC tournament championship — UM’s first time hoisting the trophy. But Sunday was…
Update, 10;16 a.m. UCF police will hold a press conference at midday to release details of police findings, which should include the identity of the man who was found dead last night inside a university apartment. The spokesperson, who declined to be identified, said university police were responding to a…
Our intrepid former editor Eric Barton has left New Times’ gulag-like cubicle farm gilded corner office, but he continues to blog over on his own site, Barefoot Mailman. Missing his wit, we sneak a lil looksee over there once in a while to read his musings about Fort Lauderdale and the world…
A Navajo light twin engine plane went down near the Ft. Lauderdale Executive Airport and has reportedly crashed into some cars. Thirty-foot flames and rising black smoke from the wreckage can be seen from blocks away…
Last night, our sister paper Miami New Times reported about a stage collapsing during sound check for Ultra Music Festival at Bayfront Park. Three men were reportedly injured and rushed to the hospital in critical condition after an LED screen fell on them, causing the stage collapse. One of the…
Last year was a record year for Florida Panther deaths (26), which is a bummer. But the good news is that they’ve been getting it on with hot Texas pumas and making baby panthers. Then, on March 6, Gov. Rick Scott declared that the state would have a “Save the…
The Miami Dolphins signed former New York Jet Dustin Keller, a tight end, to a one-year contract Friday afternoon, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports. John Clayon says the contract is worth $4.25 million. While Keller isn’t the greatest blocker, he can be an effective weapon as far as doing that thing…
The days of using your welfare card to make it rain on the fine ladies dancing on the pole, and then getting yourself some booze, will soon be a thing of the past. That is, if House Bill 701 becomes a law. You’re just going to have to get a…
Scott Prouty, who changed the entire context of the 2012 presidential elections when he clandestinely videotaped Mitt Romney being Mitt Romney, has a few hiccups in his past. Let’s not exaggerate the infractions. But still, interesting to note. Prouty — who today lives in a swank condominium high-rise overlooking the…
Although it’s been quiet recently, the fight pitting Boca Raton against gay-rights activists is about to crank back up. Rand Hoch — president and founder of the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council — says his group is tired of waiting.Since last fall, activists have been trying to nudge the…
Give Marco Rubio a break, you guys. Sure he opposes gays from having the same rights as straights in every possible way imaginable, including the right to marry the person you’re in love with and the right to not get fired over your preference of whom you choose to sleep…
