Just a couple of weeks ago, we told you about two surveys that came to the conclusion that Fort Lauderdale is not only in the top ten among the best downtowns but also in the top ten among most exciting midsized cities. For both rankings, Fort Laudy landed the seventh…
Sir Colin Chisholm III and his wife, Lady Andrea Chisholm, the extravagant Minnesota couple who lived for a time in Palm Beach on a $1.2 million yacht, are on the lam from authorities. They’re also not royalty, and their extravagant lifestyle was earned fraudulently, a criminal complaint alleges. Colin, 62,…
Palm Beach County got a huge check to help with the beach erosion problem. In Ocean Ridge on Friday, congresswoman Lois Frankel presented the county with a $12 million check as reimbursement for a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project. The project is for the county’s beach renourishment and to…
The Miami Seaquarium is being sold to California-based Palace Entertainment, which is subsidiary of Spanish theme park operator Parques Reunidos. The sale has been in the works for at least two years, but the official news comes out on the same day National Marine Fisheries Service set as the deadline…
The nonprofit association known as SCORE has sent out an alert to Florida business owners to be on the lookout for a couple of notices that may end up fooling them into spending hundreds of dollars they may not need to. The notices may or may not be scams, but…
The Broward County Sheriff’s Office was part of a state-wide Organized Retail Crime task force that helped nab a massive retail theft ring. According to the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, 16 people were arrested in the $15 million statewide shoplifting ring after a year-long investigation. The Organized Retail Crime task…
Despite Florida Republicans pretty much doing everything within their power to derail Obamacare, more than 440,000 Florida residents have already enrolled Affordable Care Act through the federal marketplace website. According to a report by the AP, the state is expected to blow projections out of the water by the time…
Steve Drain, a University of South Florida alumnus, might be taking over Westboro Baptist Church. Drain, who used to be an atheist and once set out to expose the hate-mongering church, became enamored with Westboro and became one of Fred Phelps Sr.’s closest disciples. Drain went so far as to…
Amanda McClure, the woman accused of driving drunk and killing Patriot Guard Rider John Regan on I-95 near Palm Beach Gardens in September, is back in jail. McClure, 25, of Palm City, was arrested Saturday night on charges of violating her probation, according to Palm Beach County Jail records. At…
The Florida Senate passed the Aaron Cohen Act Life Protection Act which, if it becomes a law, will make it tougher for drivers to leave the scene of a fatal bicycling accident. The measure passed the Senate with a unanimous 39-0 vote on Wednesday. The bill is named after Aaron…
The Miami Seaquarium’s orca, Lolita, who has been crammed inside what is the smallest whale tank in North American for the past 40 years, is the closest she’s ever been to being set free and reunited with her family. Back in January, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced that it…
While some Broward teens are getting national attention for snagging a 14-foot hammerhead shark off Boca Raton, one Boynton Beach man has one-upped them by hooking his kayak up to a hammerhead and letting it drag him around for a joyride on the ocean for several hours. The 22-year-old man…
An 80-year-old man from Century Village in Deerfield Beach expecting to hook up with a female prostitute he met online instead was met by a man and then got robbed. According to Boca Raton Police, the man had met a hooker named “Amy” on the internet. The two made plans…
Former South Palm Beach Mayor Marty Millar killed himself over the weekend, according to authorities. The once-troubled ex-mayor and former police officer reportedly shot himself at a storage facility in Lantana on Sunday afternoon. Millar reportedly left a suicide note behind, but details on what it says have not been…
We’re not sure what socialite Paris Hilton has been doing since her 15 minutes ran out, but apparently it was doing good things for animals. Because Hilton is in Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday to receive an American Humane Association award for her charity work, and yes, you read this right. At…
The offices to the Delray Beach Police Department have reopened after an unidentified man suffering from stab wounds walked into the lobby around 7 a.m. Tuesday. The courthouse garage and area around the courthouse, off of Atlantic and NW Third avenues, had been closed off but are now open again…
Don’t panic. Those military aircraft and soldiers you see down the street are only a drill, says the Broward Sheriff’s Office. According to a BSO advisory, the U.S. Department of Defense will be conducting routine training throughout Broward County until Thursday. Officials say the training areas were selected specifically to…
A Palm Beach man was arrested for impersonating a police officer after he angrily told a Burger King drive-thru worker he was a cop when they messed up his order. The man, Riviera Beach Police say, was so upset about getting the wrong order, he refused to leave the drive-thru…
Richie Incognito apparently doesn’t know when to quit. And while his heart may (or may not?) be in the right place, it looks like he’s not ready to quit on publicly apologizing to everyone he seemingly angered or offended or hurt. On Twitter. The past few weeks have seen Incognito…
Rand Hoch, Florida’s first openly- gay judge, predicted that marriage equality would come to the state — and the rest of the U.S. — no later than by the end of June, 2016. The prediction came during Hoch’s remarks at the marriage equality demonstration in Lake Worth on Sunday. The…
Back in October, the feds caught a dude trying to smuggle 620 pounds of cocaine into West Palm Beach on a 132-foot luxury megayacht. On Thursday, another dude tried to smuggle cocaine into Palm Beach on a cruise ship. Authorities say the man tried bringing coke and heroin into Palm…
Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office and the the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission caught a man illegally feeding a shark in state waters last month. The feeding of sharks has been banned in Florida since 2002. But, according to the FWC, Randall Jordan of Emerald Charters of Jupiter, and…
