A water moccasin’s bite causes a conflagration of searing pain and profuse bleeding to its victim. The hemotoxic venom causes nausea and immediate swelling in the bitten area, and it works quickly through the bloodstream, breaking down tissues and blood cells, and interfering with the blood’s ability to clot. A…
The U.S. Court of Appeals voted down an appeal by SeaWorld over a ruling by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration following the death of orca trainer Dawn Brancheau, the SeaWorld animal trainer who was killed by an orca bull named Tilikum following a show at the park in 2010…
A Loxahatchee woman is facing charges after fraudulently collecting roughly $377,000 in food stamps, housing assistance, and Medicaid. The woman had been pulling off the scam since 2003, using two separate social security numbers and a dozen aliases. Since then, she’d been collecting monthly assistance checks and living large on…
The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office will be conducting something called a “traffic enforcement initiative” all day Friday as part of National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. The PBSO said on its Facebook page that its officers will be all about traffic enforcement in unincorporated Palm Beach County throughout the day and…
Earlier this week, Rick Scott was called out on a couple of misleading campaign ads claiming that 300,000 Floridians have lost their insurance due to Obamacare. But Florida Blue, the insurance company at the center of one of the ads, says this is not true. Scott, however, is standing by…
A Pompano Beach woman was arrested after she left five kids unattended without food at a home that reeked of urine and feces while she went to hit up the slots at a local casino. The kids were between the ages of 2 and 12, according to the legal complaint…
A couple of storm forecasters from Colorado have brought some seemingly bad news for those of us who love to take days off and listen to 24-hour local news stations tell us how we’re all gonna die when a hurricane is on its way. Phil Klotzbach and William Gray of…
Michael John Cefola had been driving for days, transporting cargo in his vehicle all the way from California. Maybe it was the lack of sleep, or maybe it was just carelessness. But Cefola couldn’t keep his blue Chevy four-door from swerving in and out of the lane on a Gainesville…
The measure that could lead the way to virtually ending greyhound racing in Florida hit an abrupt snag earlier this week, putting a damper on some serious momentum gained by proponents in the past several months. While state senators approved a bill on Tuesday that would require racetracks to report…
Palm Beach County is a dump. Or, at least, it’s going to be, after county commissioners voted 4-3 vote to seek bids from waste haulers from all parts outside of Palm Beach just so they can land some big money for a new incinerator. The commissioners argue that the money…
The Florida Department of Transportation is warning people about a mail scam involving a fake letter asking to pay an overdue toll fine. The letter, which comes from the official-sounding but extremely fake Toll Enforcement LLC, or TELC Inc., is trying to dupe people into sending a cashier’s check for…
Kayla “2 Drunk 2 Care” Mendoza made her first court appearance Tuesday afternoon after having been arrested and formally charged with the deaths of Marisa Catronio and a passenger, Kaitlyn Ferrante, in a wrong-way car accident on the Sawgrass Expressway last November. Broward Judge John “Jay” Hurley set Mendoza’s bond…
Feel free to keep your doors unlocked from now on, Fort Lauderdale! (*Just kidding; don’t do that.) Because of 239 cities with a population greater than 100,000, Fort Lauderdale ranks as the 19th city that invest the most resources in public safety. This, according to NerdWallet.com, which crunches numbers on…
Melanie Carter, wife of former Miami Dolphins and Hall of Fame wide receiver Cris Carter, apparently got head-butted Tuesday morning after fighting with another woman over a tennis match. According to a Boca Raton Police Department incident report, Melanie was playing a doubles tennis match with a couple of other…
The recent news that Bob Coy, charismatic founder of Fort Lauderdale’s Calvary Chapel, abruptly resigned over what the church is calling a “moral failing,” has rocked believers and parishioners everywhere. Under Coy’s leadership, Calvary Chapel became the second-largest megachurch in Florida and the 14th-largest megachurch in America. But Florida is…
Last week, we reported how in the span of 24 hours, 9,000 Floridians signed a petition to get Uber in Florida. But what appears to be a revolutionary way of melding technology and getting a cab is also a major potential threat to cabdrivers and the taxi industry as a…
The Coconut Creek Police Department has confirmed that it’s found skeletal remains inside the green Ford Thunderbird it pulled out of a murky canal in Coconut Creek over the weekend. It’s believed that the remains belong to William Naylor, a man who had not been seen since February 2005. The…
That DUI checkpoint we told you about last week ended up nabbing a few impaired drivers, one person with drugs on their person, and a bucketload of citations and warnings. All this, even though our story was tweeted out more than 50 times and shared by more than 5,000 people…
The Florida Panthers’ quest to get money from the county continues after their first attempt was send back with extreme prejudice. Last month, Broward County commissioners pored over the Panthers’ 57-page proposal in which the team sought a hotel-tax subsidy package worth $80 million over the next 14 years. The…
It would appear that major GOPer donors just aren’t thrilled with the chances of a Chris Christie, a Rand Paul, or even a Marco Rubio taking back the White House for the Republicans in 2016. So, they’re willing to go all-in with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush as their latest…
Your Miami Marlins kick off the 2014 MLB season tonight when they host the Colorado Rockies at the Broward County Commissioners Should Never Forget What the Marlins Did to Miami-Dade County Before Giving the Panthers Money Park Marlins Park. But before you don’t go to the game and maybe decide…
United for Care campaign manager Ben Pollara is expressing outrage after a Florida woman was abruptly visited by Florida Child Protective Services last week on an anonymous tip that she had been administering marijuana to her son, who suffers from a rare form of epilepsy. Turns out, Renee Petro was…
