Remember when Rick Scott began to soften his stance against Obamacare and said there should be a conversation about it? Yea, scratch that. Scott did the math and well, the numbers just don’t add up. So. No Obamacare for you, Florida! Oh. Sure. He still walks around like he’s all…
This week, Broward County commissioners will debate whether the county should change its name. Comissioner Chip LaMarca is behind the idea, and bothered that no one outside of Florida has heard of Broward (unless they accidentally Google: weather in hollywood, and our Hollywood popped up). We agree with LaMarca. The…
Two great white sharks have been spotted off the coast of Jacksonville Beach, according to the OCEARCH ocean research group. One of the sharks, which is 16 feet long and weighs in at 3,456 pounds, is named Mary Lee and was tagged on Septemper 17 off the coast of Cape…
Robert Levinson, a Coral Springs private detective, disappeared in March of 2007 while visiting Kish Island in Iran while researching a cigarette-smuggling case. In March of 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the U.S. State Department had received indications that Levinson was being held somewhere in southwest Asia,…
Nick Saban won his fourth National Championship last night (his third overall with Alabama) after his Crimson Tide laid the smackdown on Notre Dame 42-14. During a day-after presser on Tuesday, Saban told the media that his time coaching the Miami Dolphins was so difficult, that he was eventually forced…
In case you haven’t noticed, as kickass as the Miami Heat has been this season (23-9 so far), they’ve been refried ass when it comes to rebounding. The World Champs rank among the worst in the league in rebounding. To fix this, team President Pat Riley worked out former Denver…
More than 400 people have decided to step up and take on Florida’s 2013 Python Challenge, where they’ll be competing for $1,000 to snuff out evasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades this weekend. No hunting license, or snake-killing experience is required. Only your dedication to hitting the swamp and beheading…
Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies fatally shot a woman who was holding her boyfriend at knife-point during a domestic dispute. According to spokeswoman Teri Barbera, police were called to the home in a duplex in the 1400 block of North J Street around 2:30 a.m. by the boyfriend, who said…
Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross met with local media on Monday to discuss the state of the franchise. And it was filled with clichés, talking points, and the nonsensical ramblings of a hobgoblin. In other words, it was exactly what you’d expect from a team that has gone 7-9, 7-9,…
Shawn Day and his pal Patrick Webster pulled into the parking lot of the Budget Inn at 1600 N. Federal Hwy. in a 1995 Mitsubishi. As they did, cops noticed that they might be up to no good. And the cops were right. The area is known as a busy…
Wayne Clark was arrested after cops say he threatened a couple of Walmart employees with a “blood bath” over a bag of cat food and a case of soda. Clark, who is reportedly a transient, tried to scam the store into giving him a cash refund by going to the…
Christopher Petterson, a 67-year-old Jupiter dentist, is facing drug trafficking and fraud charges for writing up fake prescriptions under his patients’ names and then filling them at pharmacies for himself, according to police. Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office says things began to look a tad shady when the office manager…
The BCS title game is happening tonight. And there is not one single, solitary fuck we give about it. Because, as it turns out, the Football Gods deemed it necessary that two of South Florida’s most reviled college teams should be playing for all the marbles in our own back…
A couple of Sarasota homeowners got into a neighborhood dispute. So one of the parties involved in the ballyhoo decided to take things up a notch and got some spray paint and covered one of the homes with bright, neon-colored graffiti. Of course, the home covered in spray paint was…
A bit of a brouhaha between a Riviera Beach councilman and a retired Riviera Beach fire chief broke out yesterday. Nasty words were exchanged, particularly from councilman Shelby Lowe, who allegedly called Retired Riviera Beach Fire Chief Richard Wester that word that appears a lot in the latest Quentin Tarantino…
Remember when the House voted for a fiscal cliff bill way back when three days ago? Sure, this might mean some money being taken from your paychecks. But according to a Sun Sentinel report, Florida is one of the big winners in the whole fiscal cliff bill thing. According to…
Arlene Mena was yelling at no one in particular while meandering about on the street outside her A1A condo building along the 1800 block of S. Ocean Drive, in a tank top, cutoff jeans, and knee-high boots, about 10:45 a.m. Wednesday. One witness says she looked like she was trying…
After many House Republicans lost their shit over Speaker of the House John “It’s Not Pronounced Boner” Boehner helped them lose their fight over the fiscal cliff bill that was passed on New Year’s Eve, many began to make harrumph noises about whether he was fit for duty. So when…
The folks at the Miami Herald recently erected a paywall to charge people to read their stuff. They call it the Miami Herald Plus +. (We’re not sure if that should read Miami Herald Plus Plus or not, but we digress.) And what do you get for forking over your…
If you’re too busy still hating LeBron James, then you really are missing out on enjoying a player we pretty much haven’t seen in a long time, if ever. As he did last season, James is quietly dominating the NBA with his basketball awesomeness, earning his second-straight NBA Player of…
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…
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…
