A Boca Man is exercising his right to be a total racist by flying a Ku Klux Klan flag and a Confederate flag outside his mobile home (because, of course he lives in a trailer home). The man is also displaying a “Members Wanted” sign and has a noose hanging…
Last year, 64-year-old Ft. Lauderdale native Diana Nyad completed her lifetime goal of swimming from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage in just under 50 hours. And now, she’s going to be on this season’s Dancing With the Stars. Because if swimming 103 miles through treacherous man-eating sharks, while…
Last week, our sister paper had a story about a Florida man so terrified of spiders, he decided to get a giant tattoo of one on his face. As a sort of inked-up reverse psychology that he’ll probably regret when he’s an old man. Or when he tries to grow…
This week, our cover story in the print edition of New Times delves into the heinous story of a Hollywood girl who was allegedly stripped, beaten, and held her down by her supposed friends as she was raped by a 19-year-old man. On November 1, Patricia Montes, 15, and Erica…
The entire NBA season has seen the national media try to give the MVP award to the Pacers’ Paul George or the Thunder’s Kevin Durant. But then along comes a night like Monday night, when LeBron James steps in to preserve the natural order of the universe by raining destruction…
Well, here’s something you can fine under An Idea That Has ZERO Chance of Getting Passed but Is Totally a Great Idea Anyway: A Florida senator has filed a bill that would allow people to smoke weed for recreation.Sen. Dwight Bullard (D-Miami) filed SB 1562, a bill that, if passed…
Marissa Alexander, the Florida woman who was arrested for firing a warning shot to ward off her abusive estranged husband, may now be looking at 60 years in prison because of a weird law that would add 20 years to each charge. The Florida Times-Union is reporting that the Office…
Well now, this is something. Michael Yormark, the Florida Panther’s polarizing team president, is leaving the franchise to join… Jay Z. According to multiple reports, Yormark is leaving to run the business side of Jay Z’s agency, Roc Nation…
Ah, Florida. Sure, we have criminals, just like every other state. But we have our own special kind of criminals. Namely, dumb ones. And, because we’re never in short supply of dumb criminals, we present to you our latest series of the dumbest Florida criminals of the month. February was…
A SWAT team put down a gunman who forced the lock down of the Moore Justice Center in Viera, as well as Viera High School, and Viera Charter School in Brevard County on Friday afternoon. Palm Bay police officers had cornered the man in an area near the courthouse around…
UPDATE, 3/4: The Ambassador of the Dominican Republic has responded to this article. The Ambassador’s statement is posted in full at the bottom of this post. UPDATE 2, 3/4: Mayor Sharief has also issued a response, which is posted below. On February 23, Enterprise Florida led a group of local…
Meagan Simmons’ attractive mugshot made her a sort of internet sensation for a while. That is to say, people thought she was totally hot and decided to make her face a meme. She didn’t mind it so much. She even bragged about it. But now that a background check website…
LeBron James is the hero Miami deserves. It was exactly one week ago that James broke his nose against the Oklahoma City Thunder. And after missing one game in between, LeBron returned to the night to fill his enemies with dread like Batman. Literally. Much to the delight of the…
From Burmese pythons to Lion fish to rock pythons to giant African snails, Florida is home to a plethora of invasive species. And now, the latest animal threatening to eat all of the things in the Everglades and other parts of the wild, is a particularly jerky thing called the…
The NFL is close to implementing a new rule where the use of the N-word will be banned. This is more a less a reaction to the Dolphins’ bullying scandal where Richie Incognito and others used racial slurs to taunt other players and a team trainer. The NFL rule would…
Update: According to TMZ, Incognito smashed and dented the car himself. The Scottsdale Police Department say that Incognito admitted to them that he was the one that took a baseball bat to his own Ferrari, though police aren’t saying what set him off. So, it’s official, Richie Incognito bullied his…
In case you weren’t aware, the Miami Heat are just better than every other basketball team on the planet. Not just because they’ve been to the NBA Finals three years in a row, and won the Finals two years in a row. And not just because they have Dwyane Wade,…
Former PGA champion and sometimes Palm Beach Gardens visitor Steve Elkington did that thing athletes and celebrities do and said some dumb things on his Twitter. Specifically, Elkington ripped ESPN’s coverage of openly gay Missouri defensive end Michael Sam, calling the sports network’s reportage “embarrassing” and attempting what was a…
In case you’ve been trapped under something heavy, Arizona is looking to go all-in on being terrible with a proposed bill that would allow business owners of that state to refuse service to gay and lesbian consumers based on religious grounds. The news of Arizona going all Alabama Circa 1963…
On Tuesday, a West Palm Beach federal jury heard all about a Margate man’s masterful plot to try and murder his lover’s husband by blowing him up with a homemade iPhone-controlled car bomb he learned how to build from watching YouTube. Shockingly, things did not go according to plan. Richard…
The United States Association of Reptile Keepers wants the government to lift the ban on bringing invasive snakes and reptiles into places like the Everglades. According to a lawsuit filed by the Keepers, the science behind banning people from introducing snakes into an ecosystem they absolutely do not belong in…
About 50 or so protesters showed up at Marco Rubio’s offices in Palm Beach County to show the senator their support and protest the Venezuelan government. On Monday, Rubio took to the floor and gave what is probably the best speech of his political career, as he condemned Venezuelan President…
