Julie Featherston and her six-year-old son pick up litter whenever they’re at Treasure Island Beach outside of Tampa. The whopping number of cigarette butts that spanned their local beach alarmed the duo. Featherston’s son worried about the wildlife that might accidentally ingest the tossed cigarette butts; Featherston worried about her…
Donald Trump, the leading candidate for the Republican nomination, went on a late-night Twitter taunting session against Jeb Bush late Monday, kicking things off with a photo of Jeb picking his nose. Bush’s campaign tried to fire back, but Twitter is Trump’s domain, and it only served as fuel for…
In the Atlantic Ocean, 17 miles southeast of Miami and 100 feet under the surface of the water, Lazaro Cabrera reaches the sunken remains of a steel freighter and swims inside. The lean 41-year-old, in an army-green camouflage wetsuit, scans for movement. Thirty seconds pass, and then he sees it:…
Much like the days following Thanksgiving, the days following Christmas are not good ones to swim at the beach. The National Weather Service has issued an urgent coastal hazard message, warning of dangerous rip tides. The “high riptide risk” has been issued for Broward and Palm Beach Counties, as well…
Data pinpoints Broward county as the epicenter of Alpha-PVP use, a designer drug imported from China. Unlike bath salts and Ectasy, this synthethic drug, more commonly known as flakka, sells on the street for only $5. Its side effects—agitation, paranoia, delusions—are a dangerous combination that have been linked to a…
Officials are saying that a boil water notice is still in effect throughout parts of Fort Lauderdale. The notice went up on Christmas Day, Friday, after a water main broke on Sunrise Boulevard, which lead to flooding and road closures. The flooding forced officials to send crews to fix a…
Year-round our South Florida Sports stars bring us so much joy, so it’s only right that during the holiday season we think of ways we could return the favor. This Christmas — if we could could around their security teams — we have would love to give guys like Chris…
It’s Christmas Eve. You’ve worked really hard to get here. You shopped, shopped again, put miles on your car driving to malls, miles on your feet walking around malls, and miles on your credit cards maxing them out to hell at malls. And yet, even with everyone covered gift-wise, and…
Boynton Beach Police reported on Wednesday that a woman had taken twenty one ornaments off the Christmas tree in downtown and smashed them on the ground. The news of her arrest was shared by the BBPD on their official Facebook page, sparking the usual debate one would come to expect…
It seems like just yesterday you were laughing at your coupon-cutting aunt for rushing to Target before dawn on Black Friday. Now she’s laughing at you, because December is almost over and you procrastinated, once again, with your holiday shopping. The worst part is: you know that the only place…
Christmas is a time of year associated with snow and wintery weather and sweaters and galoshes — whatever the hell those are. It’s also associated with people traveling across the country to be with friends and family and gathering around a fire place to drink egg nog and whatnot. But…
Nezar Hamze is a deputy with the Broward Sheriff’s Office. When he Googles himself, the top result is a post from a right-wing blog called FrontPage Magazine, which accuses Hamze, who is Muslim, of being a sleeper-cell terrorist, hell-bent on destroying the sheriff’s department from the inside. “By employing Nezar…
Donald Trump went after Hillary Clinton on Monday by using a term many consider to be vulgar and misogynistic. Speaking at a rally in Michigan, Trump ripped Clinton for delaying last weekend’s Democratic presidential debate when she had to use the bathroom. “I know where she went,” he said. “I’s…
The jig could be up for James Tracy, the Florida Atlantic University professor who believes the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was staged by the Obama administration. After harassing the parents of a Sandy Hook victim (to the point that said parents felt compelled to an op-ed in the Sun…
Last month, Broward judge Matthew Destry sentenced a 23-year-old to 60 years in prison. Though he changed reduced the sentence after a public outcry, other people say that the judge has a pattern of doling out unnecessarily harsh sentences — in some cases, even longer than the prosecutor recommends. Herbert…
According to AAA, a record 100 million U.S. residents will be traveling at least 50 miles away from home over the Christmas holiday in the coming days. This will be a 1.4 percent increase from last year’s travel during the Christmas holiday, which AAA considers between December 23 and January 3. This…
It’s almost noon when Christian Valdes blinks open his eyes. The muscular 32-year-old with short black hair and a goatee quickly realizes he’s hung over. His head is pounding, and his mouth is parched. If he doesn’t get water soon, he may puke. The last thing he recalls is stumbling…
Peter Peraza, the first Broward County Sheriff indicted for killing a civilian in 35 years, emerged from a courtroom just after 10 a.m. Monday morning to a round of applause. For a second, Peraza, attending an emergency hearing to preserve the grand jury testimony that lead to his indictment, stood…
The South Florida Water Management District, which has about 1,500 employees, has announced that it is prohibiting transgender workers from being harassed and discriminated against based on both “sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression.” Executive Director Peter Antonacci says that LGBT employees are protected whether they work in a jurisdiction…
2015 was not a great sports year. We saw the Marlins top themselves as the most embarrassing franchise in professional sports, the Hurricanes fire their head coach, the Heat lose one of their star players to a near-death lung condition, and the Dolphins once again delve deep into the well…
The Broward Sherrif’s Office Deputies Association has sent out text messages, email alerts and social media posts, asking off-duty officers to come to the Broward County courthouse Monday morning for a hearing in the case of Deputy Peter Peraza, the first Broward police officer indicted for killing a civilian in…
On Saturday, December 12, at a yoga studio in Doral, a dozen barefoot people hold PVC pipes covered with foam. They break off into pairs and then swing their DIY weapons as hard as they can at each other. After a few minutes, they take a break. Their knuckles hurt…
