Update: The Delray Beach Police Department has given the all-clear. Students have been let back into the school, and authorities are investigating the threat. According to the Delray Beach PD, a search of the school with help from Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office bomb-sniffing dogs turned up no threat, and students…
Last week, the Broward County School Board, led by Dr. Rosalind Osgood, announced that it wants to enforce a dress code for parents. “We have dads showing up in sagging pants,” she said, according to the Sun Sentinel. “It’s hard for me to tell a child not to show up…
Kimanie King, the 18-year-old senior at Piper High School who was arrested for stabbing another student on Thursday, appeared at his first court hearing Friday morning. King is facing attempted murder and possession of a weapon on school grounds charges. During the hearing, William Barry Paul, King’s attorney, said that…
It’s been four years since the BP Deep Water Horizon disaster where an oil rig explosion in the Gulf killed 11 workers and triggered the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. This brought upon $1.3 billion in criminal fines, and manslaughter charges on the oil company, as well as multiple…
Uber, the app that connects people with cab and limo drivers at the tap of a button, has seen its fight to extend its business in Florida seriously watered down in the past week. The company, which at the moment operates only in Jacksonville, is upping its efforts to get…
With 4/20 coming this weekend, chances are some of your friends are going to be all, “Woo hoo! 4/20, bro! Let’s smoke!” And that’s fine, bro. But keep in mind that, while 4/20 is officially pot day, it doesn’t mean it’s legal to smoke it for one day. As it…
Hollywood commissioners voted unanimously on Wednesday for the construction of a $240 million luxury tower that will put the Hollywood Beach skyline on the map. The tower, which is planned to be called Hyde Beach Resort, will be a massive 40-story condo with 367 condo and condo-hotel style units where…
A lock down at Piper High in Sunrise has been lifted after a student was allegedly stabbed by another student during a fight. According to Broward School Superintendent Robert Runcie, the student was transported to Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale with non-life-threatening injuries. Sunrise Police say the suspect…
Environmental tests have proven that sonar exercises performed by the U.S. Navy confuses marine life, specifically whales and dolphins, so severely that the animals end up either stranding themselves, going deaf, or suffering organ hemorrhaging. Sonar confuses them, often making them swim in different directions and disrupting their foraging and…
The 2013-14 NBA regular season finally came to an end Wednesday night, and the playoff matchups are all set. The Heat will begin its quest for a third-straight title on Sunday when it hosts the Charlotte Bobcats at the American Airlines Arena at 3:30 p.m. (EST). It’s been a harrowing…
Remember Allen West? The former congressman and always defender of freedom who repped the 18 district by saying things such as “Women have been neutering American men and bringing us to the point of this incredible weakness” and called the Democratic Party a plantation and called President Obama a Marxist?…
Now that the Florida Supreme Court has approved to have a constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana on the ballot this November, the group responsible for getting it there, United for Care, is all about getting the word out. This week alone, the group has a daylong campaign scheduled to…
Two of the biggest Florida-based companies — SeaWorld and Publix — are pushing for changes in the full-time worker standards for Obamacare. Basically, with Obamacare, companies with 100 or more full-time employees must provide minimum essential coverage or pay a penalty of $2,000 to $3,000 per employee starting in 2015…
The New York Times published an in-depth report on how the Tallahassee Police Department handled the Jameis Winston rape case this past November. And while there are no new game-changing revelations and a lot of what the report covers we wrote about here on the Pulp, it does go into…
The Florida Panthers have been the Miami Heat of sucking for as long as most hockey fans can remember. But alas, it would seem that all that constant sucking has paid off, because the Panthers won the lottery and have earned the right to the first overall pick in the…
A Florida watchdog coalition, headed by the nonprofit group Integrity Florida, is scheduled to hold a news conference in Tallahassee on Wednesday morning to remind lawmakers of their promises to bring ethics reform and transparency to the Sunshine State’s government. Joining Integrity Florida will be the First Amendment Foundation, Common…
The Fort Lauderdale chapter of the Tea Party is planning to protest Charlie Crist’s new Broward field office, which is opening this weekend. On Monday, it was announced that the Crist field office at 320 S. University Drive in Plantation will have its opening at 12:30 p.m. Saturday. The office…
A man went on a violent rampage at a Greenacres grocery store, fighting off police officers with what they say was an “inhuman strength” and shouting that he wanted food. Officers even tried Tasering him, but that did little to subdue the man, who was described as having veins bulging…
Sadly, it seems the only way you can catch a glimpse of an endangered and beautiful Florida panther is by spotting a dead one on the road. Unfortunately, two panthers were found dead in the span of a couple of days. On Friday, a hiker walking through the Picayune Strand…
Christopher George, the onetime Broward/Palm Beach pill mill kingpin who was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison last year, saw that sentence reduced on Friday thanks to his role in snitching against two doctors. During a hearing on Friday where George was not present, U.S. District Judge Kenneth…
The same Palm Beach County elementary school that was put on lockdown several months ago because of a bobcat wandering the premises, was put on lockdown Monday morning due to a suspicious package. Turns out, the package was a box of books. Grove Park Elementary School, located at 8330 N…
The Charlie Crist campaign has announced that it will open an office in Broward County this upcoming weekend. The field office, which will be located at 320 S. University Drive in Plantation, is the first Crist field office to open in Florida as the former governor preps for another go…
