A water main broke at the intersection of NW 31st Avenue and NW 26th Street in Fort Lauderdale, and now Broward County Water and Wastewater Services is advising folks to boil their water from now until at least Saturday. So, if you live anywhere between NW 31st Avenue to the…
The great, well-oiled bullshit factory that is the National Rifle Association would have you believe the controversial Stand Your Ground laws have no drastic effect on a state’s homicide rate. Because really, why would loosening the restrictions on violent engagement do a thing like that, right? Right? Hello?In concept, the…
A bystander with a camera phone captured West Palm Beach Police kicking a man in the head and punching him with what appears to be a Taser gun in Clematis, the downtown district of West Palm Beach, in the early-morning hours of Sunday, December 12. The video shows a young…
About eight times a year, the Suncoast Gun Show takes place at Fort Lauderdale’s War Memorial Auditorium — city-owned property — and the next event is coming up January 12 and 13. Attendees are allowed to bring guns into the show, and kids get in free!, the website announces. (Admission…
Out in the East Everglades along the Tamiami Trail, on the thin strip of asphalt that runs between Miccosukee Resort & Gaming and Naples, plenty of dangers await the unsuspecting visitor. Alligators, pythons, cottonmouth snakes, and snapping turtles lurk in the marshes, ready to strike at a moment’s notice. But…
Javier Romero doesn’t notice the dancing midget in the turkey costume at first. Wearing a suit and sitting on a short stool backstage on the set of Sábado Gigante, the 47-year-old Cuban cohost, with a deceptively smooth face and brown hair seemingly sculpted into place, is taking a break. How…
Yup, this means the Rick Scott Embalming Academy, Marco Rubio Junior High, and the Chris Bosh Ballet and Tap School are all back on the shelf for the next couple of decades (hopefully) — at least in Broward County. After some past missteps in the Thickheaded Public Policy Department, the…
Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein’s wife, Kim Rothstein, was charged in September with conspiracy to commit money laundering after it was discovered that she and her pals concealed more than $1 million of jewelry from the federal government, including a 12.08-carat diamond ring worth 450 grand. Prosecutors say Rothstein, her former…
Armando Cantero-Chavez was driving his Ford Expedition around in a reckless manner inside the mobile home community where he lives on Tuesday afternoon. His neighbor, Lorenzo Sanchez-Bellot, did not like this. So he put a stop to Cantero-Chavez’s crazy driving ways. By stabbing him in the chest. Yep. That’ll do it…
According to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, people who earn minimum wage in the Sunshine State will see a whole 12 cent increase in their paychecks starting this week. And with the whole fiscal cliff thing not happening now, it’s double good news for low wage earners today. Hooray!!…
Whole new year, same old FLORIDERP. Kenneth Rowe, 26, of Daytona, wanted to start the new year getting his rocks off with some boobies in his face. So he hit up local strip joint, Sharks Lounge. But, turns out Rowe is the father of an 11-month-old baby. And it’s kind of…
Start off the new year right by nerding out and impressing your friends today at 6:03 p.m., when the International Space Station will be visible over South Florida for about six minutes. Yes, the station is visible to the naked eye as it cruises 200 miles above the Earth. NASA…
New Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel whacked Fire Chief and Executive Director Neil de Jesus and two other top fire guys, Division Chief Robert Arrighetti, and Division Chief John Holgerson, who was in charge of fire and rescue training. Nothing against new chief and Margate vet Anthony Stravino, but this…
On the first ay of the brand new year, the House voted 257-167 to approve the Senate bill that would avoid major tax hikes and spending cuts and keep us all from falling over the so-called “fiscal cliff,” which would’ve been a terrible way to start 2013. The GOPers wanted…
Several weeks ago, we made a terrible mistake, one that warranted immediate regret. We asked to start receiving Gov. Rick Scott’s news releases. And then came a deluge of good news. If we hadn’t known any better, we would have thought Rick Scott was doing something, well, not evil. Which…
Over the past year, we’ve kept you clued in on the fate of the Florida panthers, the big cats that have been showing up dead at a surprising rate. Thanks to a number of factors, the frequency of dead members of the endangered species was so troubling Florida was close…
An employee at Forever 21 clothing and apparels store in the Sawgrass Mills mall was arrested for allegedly recording female customers undressing inside the dressing rooms. Andre Clements, 30, was arrested after being reported by a female customer of peeping at her and others through the curtains of the store’s…
So that was fast. One month after Lacey Byrd, a West Palm Beach fashionista, announced she was running for Riviera Beach City Council, she allegedly thrashed her husband, got tossed in jail for a night, and upon her exit last Saturday immediately dropped out of the race. “After careful consideration,…
Charles Martin Jones and Michael Edward McCord were driving down State Road 52 near Darby in Pasco County when they saw a young deer on the side of the road and decided, what the hell, let’s shoot us a baby deer. Because, Florida! According to a Pasco Sheriff’s report, the…
This is your annual New Year’s Eve reminder to please not fire a gun into the air at the stroke of midnight, like an asshole. Yet it happens every year. The old year ends, the new one begins, and people suddenly turn into Mexican bandits from an old Western and fire…
The hell is the matter with the women of Manatee County? Or, actually, more to the point… the men? It was a little over a month ago that we saw a Manatee County woman beat the crap out of her boyfriend after he failed to satisfy her sexually. And now,…
No plans for New Year’s tonight? Why not help keep the roads safe and collect a bounty to boot? The Safety Council of Palm Beach County is once again running its “Mobile Eyes” program tonight, where they basically pay you a hundred bucks if you spot a drunk driver and…
