Major Neill Franklin, a retired Maryland State Police and Baltimore Police officer, one of the nation’s biggest pro-marijuana advocates, is set to speak to the Broward Republican Executive Committee on Monday night. Franklin, who is executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), will discuss Amendment 2 and why it…
In 1987, the Gary Hart scandal uncovered by the Miami Herald obliterated the Democratic frontrunner’s run for the White House and changed the way politics is covered forever. For 27 years, it was widely believed that the tipster to Hart’s infidelities with model Donna Rice came from a friend of…
So that was not at all shocking. The Miami Dolphins, coming off a throttling at the hands of the Buffalo Bills last week, had a chance at getting back on track this week at home against a Kansas City Chiefs team playing without seven of its starters, including its star…
Back in March, the real estate blog Motovo used its calculations and numbers to proclaim Fort Lauderdale among the most exciting cities in all the land. However, it had quite the opposite to say about the tiny Palm Beach County village affectionately known as Wellington. In a ranking of all…
Earlier this week, we told you about how the Satanic Temple plans on handing out their literature to public school kids in Florida on the heels of an Orange County School Board decision to allow an Evangelical Christian group to hand out Bibles. And now an international UFO religion wants…
The 2014 Miami Dolphins season is well underway! And while lots of other sites will be breaking down each game, and list reasons why the Dolphins will or won’t win, while analyzing players, coaches, and match-ups against their respective opponent week to week, we won’t. Not us. Not here. Instead,…
A blonde seductress that used the Blue Martini Bar locations in Fort Lauderdale and Miami to lure men in and then rob them has turned herself in to the Broward Sheriff’s Office and now they’re asking for any other victims to come forward. The woman, Ashley Done, 26, has victimized…
Several female Sawgrass Springs Middle School students were hospitalized Wednesday after apparently ingesting diabetic pills. According to Local 10, one student said at lease one of the girls began acting erratically and couldn’t even walk after taking what officials say were Glipizide pills, which is a drug for treating diabetes…
Congresswoman Lois Frankel is mounting an attack to get South Florida resident and all-around blowhard Rush Limbaugh off the radio. Frankel, who represents Florida’s 22nd congressional district, which includes parts of northern Broward, Palm Beach County, West Palm Beach, and Coconut Creek, has put together a petition to have Limbaugh’s…
Last week, news broke that the jury selection for the DUI manslaughter retrial of Wellington polo magnate John Goodman would not be happening in Palm Beach but, rather, in Tampa. Chief Judge Manuel Menendez told the Tampa Tribune that jury selection, which is slated to begin October 6, would be…
Florida State Seminoles star quarterback Jameis Winston created a stir across campus and the internet on Tuesday when he apparently hopped onto a table and yelled out some obscenities about doing something adult to a woman’s private parts. And now, the FSU football team has come out and announced that…
As the two opposing sides were debating medical marijuana on Tuesday in Broward County, the NAACP of Florida announced that it is endorsing the passing of Amendment 2. “Florida State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People proudly announces its support of United for Care and…
After receiving a report on workplace equality from the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council back in July, on Tuesday evening the Boynton Beach City Commission agreed to give benefits to employees with domestic partners or same-sex spouses. Boynton Beach Mayor Jerry Taylor, however, cast the one dissenting vote, expressing…
It was a surprisingly sparse crowd that gathered in the Broward College South campus’ Performing Arts Center on Tuesday to watch United For Care’s Ben Pollara and Drug Free Florida’s Javier Correoso debate Amendment 2 and the legalization of medical marijuana. Yet, the passions that are being inflamed over this…
The Satanic Temple is planning to hand out educational religious materials to public school children in the coming months. The materials, which includes a coloring and activity booklet for children titled, “The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities,” are being handed out in response to a recent Orange County School…
The debate for legalizing medical marijuana has been traveling throughout Florida the past few weeks, and now it’s making its stop in our neck of the woods. United For Care and Drug Free Florida will be going head-to-head before the public in Broward, in a town hall debate Tuesday morning…
In the first four years of his governorship of Florida, Rick Scott has apparently appointed fewer African-Americans to judgeships in the state than the past two governors in that same time span. This, according to new data released by Scott’s office over the weekend. In all, Scott has appointed none…
Earlier this year, I-595 opened up reversible lanes in order to smooth over congestion during rush hours and generally make commuters’ lives a bit easier. In order to keep from having people accidentally drive into oncoming traffic at the wrong time, officials erected warning gates to go down during the…
Well, it was fun while it lasted. The Miami Dolphins got their butts pounded by the Buffalo Bills on Sunday to the tune of 29-10. And while the offense did put up a little bit of a fight in the second half, it was mostly a disaster. Terrible passes, blocked…
Update: United For Care campaign manager Ben Pollara released a statement on Drug Free Florida’s planned TV ads: “It’s no surprise Drug Free Florida Committee is making such a large buy so far out from Election Day. When your basic position runs completely counter to public opinion, millions in misleading…
The 2014 Miami Dolphins season is well underway! And while lots of other sites will be breaking down each game, and list reasons why the Dolphins will or won’t win, while analyzing players, coaches, and match-ups against their respective opponent week to week, we won’t. Not us. Not here. Instead,…
Miami Marlins star slugger and current NL MVP front runner Giancarlo Stanton was hit in the face by a fastball from Milwaukee pitcher Mike Fiers during last night’s Marlins-Brewers game. Stanton was hit flush in the face, right on the cheek underneath the left eye, and immediately crumpled to the…
