Andy Murray is melting in the Florida heat. It’s the final round — set three, game one — of the Miami Open, the biggest tennis tournament in Florida, the second-biggest in America, and, for at least a little while longer, the fifth-biggest in the world. The match is even at…
In his lifetime, Chad Johnson has been a six-time Pro Bowl NFL receiver, a man known as “Chad Ochocino,” a reality television star, and, apparently, a person who couldn’t pay his mortgage. Johnson, who owned a mansion in Davie, Florida until last week, seems to have run into some financial…
The Florida legislative session concluded last week– and again gambling regulation failed. So now casino executives’ focus turns to a Florida Supreme Court case in July that could shape the state’s landscape. If plaintiff Gretna Racing, based way up in northwestern Florida, wins its argument that it has the right to…
Global warming is an inevitable threat. By 2045, sea levels are expected to rise at least a foot and Miami has been called ground zero for global warming. No one’s quite sure how the rising foot of water will effect South Florida and the millions of people who live and own…
It’s standardized-testing season in Florida’s public schools, which means that parents, grandparents, students, teachers, administrators, and classroom goldfish are probably in a bad mood. Every March and April, public school students grades 3-11 must take take a test — this year it is the Florida Standards Assessments, which is the new-ish…
Back in 2003, building a streetcar in downtown Fort Lauderdale seemed like a great idea. Las Olas Boulevard and the Riverfront area were growing more and more popular. It looked like it was only a matter of time before the city was overrun with people and, inevitably, more traffic. A…
The author of this piece, Vanessa Ryals, is a student at American Heritage High School. It’s been two months since 16-year-old American Heritage High School student Aage “Augie” Jorgensen disappeared. Charges against his father, Bruce Jorgensen, 58, have been dropped, but students at the Plantation campus are still wondering what…
Tim Canova, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University who once advised Bernie Sanders on Wall Street reform, is now running a grassroots campaign to take Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s seat in Congress. He’s using virtually the same message Sanders has relied on in his fight with Hillary Clinton: claiming that…
For two years, Rowzee Ryburn worked at a needle exchange program in Melbourne, Australia. She’d tally the inventory and provide clean syringes to anyone who came in. Then, two years ago, the 35-year-old moved to Lake Worth to be closer to friends. She currently works as a landscape artist, but…
In case viewers at home weren’t aware that last night’s Democratic debate — the final one before primary seasons ends — was taking place in South Florida, Hillary Clinton decided to whip out some heavy-handed Spanish midway through the contest. When debate moderator Karen Tumulty asked Clinton whether Donald Trump,…
Yesterday, an online company called BackgroundChecks.org released its list of the safest cities in Florida, and three Broward municipalities made the top ten. According to a statement, the organization’s analysis was based on “FBI crime reports, natural language analysis, social media sentiment analysis and their own research” to create the rankings. …
Last year, two off-duty cops were involved in a domestic violence dispute when Stephen Degerdon, then a police officer in Coral Springs, violated a court order and entered the home of his estranged wife, a police officer for the city of Davie. When a neighbor called the Broward Sheriff’s Office,…
Horseshoe crabs shimmy around in the sand on 10 legs that are hidden under a brownish shell, long tails dragging behind them. These creatures, which look headless, have been there for the last 450 million years, doing the hibbety-dibbety on our Atlantic beaches like teenagers. They’ve been spotted on the…
Herb Smith, a lanky 23-year-old, drove a slick crimson Audi through the streets of Fort Lauderdale while a friend rode shotgun. At 4 p.m. last October 7, they caught a red light. A Broward County Sheriff’s patrol car stopped beside them at the intersection. When the officer glanced over, he…
Cynthia Muniz opened her pole dancing studio in 2010. Back then, pole dancing was still stigmatized as a stripper’s sport. But over the next six years, as pole dancing became recognized as a form of exercise, Muniz grew KittyKat Pole Dancing studio in Midtown, Miami as a gym (albeit one…
You’ll need to formulate a plan. The way to survive Spring Break 2016, and even flourish during it, is to systematically attack the beast in such a calculated fashion that you’re never in any real danger of failing. Think of Spring Break as a hurricane — only your body is…
In 1984, Ulf Erlingsson was a Ph.D. student at Uppsala University in Sweden, studying physical geography. There, he designed a device that could measure sediment to a tenth of a millimeter. He patented the invention, and 36 years later Erlingsson, now 55 runs his company Lidorm from Medley, Florida. It…
On Craigslist’s “Missed Connections” page, lovelorn South Floridians who’ve become smitten with total strangers shout into the void, praying to meet their lost loves again before departing from this mortal coil. After an exhaustive, yet unscientific, study of existing “Missed Connections” posts, an inordinate amount of people seem to be falling…
There’s only one thing that would make our presidential election crazier than it already is, what with the candidates talking about one another’s penises, and Donald Trump evoking Hitler comparisons: a former professional wrestler jumping in. Of course!!! Why didn’t we see this coming??? This weekend, while Trump was Trumping,…
Here’s hope that you never need it, but The Florida Retail Federation (FRF), the state’s premier trade association representing retailers, today announced the passage of HB1241, which allows pharmacists in Florida to dispense naloxone, without a prescription. Naloxone — frequently known by the Narcan brand — is can reverse the effects…
When a grand jury in December indicted Broward Sheriff’s deputy Peter Peraza for killing a civilian, his boss Scott Israel told the New York Times there “is no Thin Blue Line here.” His people, he said, would have to answer to him if they shot unarmed civilians. Since Perazas’ trial…
Last month, the World Health Organization declared the Zika Virus a public health emergency. It has been diagnosed in 153 people in the U.S. since January. The disease, passed by infected mosquitoes, causes fever, joint pain, rashes, and red eyes. It’s rarely deadly, but if contracted during pregnancy, can lead…
