The strain of marijuana known as “Charlotte’s Web” is closer to becoming legal in Florida, after House Criminal Justice Chairman Matt Gaetz of Fort Walton Beach filed a measure to make it so. Last month, state representatives held a legislative hearing on getting Charlotte’s Web legalized. The CW extract is…
Great news, internet! Video surveillance of Justin Bieber being processed by Miami Beach cops after his arrest a couple of weeks ago has surfaced. SO STOP YOUR LIFE RIGHT NOW SO YOU CAN WATCH IT. The video shows the young pop star taking off his shoes and socks and his…
One of the crime news items of the day yesterday was the brazen break-in into a Pembroke Pines Jared jewelry store. And now there seems to be a bit of a twist in the case. Namely, that one of the officers who were called in after the break-in was reported…
Detectives are set to announce who they believe to be the suspect in the 1989 disappearance of Tiffany Sessions, a University of Florida student. The Sessions case has been one of Florida’s most notorious unsolved crimes, but now the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office is poised to announce that Paul Rowles,…
Polk County police found what is probably the most Florida thing during a search following an arrest on Tuesday. And by “the most Florida thing,” we mean, an illegal fish, a weed plant, hundreds of grams of meth, twin 10-month-old babies lying near the baggies, and two frozen alligators. We…
A Broward school bus driver was arrested Tuesday for allegedly groping the breasts of a 14-year-old special-needs girl. According to the arrest report by the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the incident happened in the parking lot of Olsen Middle School at 330 SE 11th Terrace on the afternoon of December 17…
Looks like someone bagged themselves a big friggin’ python in the Everglades. Bobby Hill, a python control agent who works for the South Florida Water Management District, caught the 18-foot behemoth Tuesday afternoon. It’s the second 18-footer found in the past year, which remains a world record. Which means that,…
It looks like George Zimmerman has finally gotten his opponent for his upcoming Gotta Keep Exploiting the Death of Trayvon Martin for My Own Financial Gain Celebrity Boxing thing he announced last week. According to a TMZ report, it looks like DMX will be the guy Zimmerman steps into the…
Police shot and killed a naked man described as having superhuman strength who was biting another man’s face. The as-of-yet-unidentified man apparently attacked and bit into an 18-year-old man’s face before turning on and severely injuring a retired police officer. Palm Beach County deputies tried to subdue the crazed naked…
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, also known as PETA, apparently owns 80 shares in SeaWorld Entertainment, which it bought in April of last year. And since PETA is a shareholder, it came up with an idea to create a coastal retirement sanctuary for SeaWorld’s killer whales. But, as…
A Tampa man was told by the managers of the apartment complex he lived in to please stop masturbating in front of his windows for all to see. So he set his apartment on fire, damaging the complex and leaving four other residents homeless. It’s not clear if the man…
James E. “Barney” O’Donnell, a man who runs greyhounds at Mardi Gras Racetrack in Hallandale Beach, showed state officials proof that 94 of his greyhounds had had their vaccinations updated and could, therefore, keep on racing. The problem? The vet who signed the paperwork has long been dead. See also:…
The Richie Incognito-Jonathan Martin saga has finally come to this: The more than 1,000 text messages exchanged by the pair have been obtained by the media and released onto the interwebs for all to peruse. The texts, which are dated between October 2012 and November 2013, were posted by the…
A strange turn of events that started with three guys trying to break into a house and threatening a little kid with a gun eventually led Palm Beach County cops to a home that was allegedly being used as a marijuana grow house. According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s…
Alexander Bradley has some pretty awful luck when it comes to getting shot. Or maybe he just needs to stay away from hanging out at clubs to the wee hours of the night. The man who was once allegedly shot in the face by Aaron Hernandez at a local strip…
The Florida Department of Transportation is about to increase the rate to drive from the Golden Glades interchange to Interstate 395 from 25 cents to 50 cents. That’s mainly because state officials had underestimated how much people hate the crap out of sitting in jammed-up traffic on I-95. On a…
Ah, Florida. Whole new year, same ol’ dumb criminals. Sure, we have criminals, just like every other state. But we have our own special kind of criminal. Namely, dumb ones. And, because we’re never in short supply of dumb criminals, we present to you our latest series of the dumbest…
UPDATE: The K-9 bomb dogs and bomb unit say they have searched the school and determined that there is no bomb. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office says that students at Donna Klein Jewish Academy have been allowed to go back to school now that the threat appears to have…
George Zimmerman has agreed to be a part of a celebrity boxing match for money and yes this is a real thing. The promoter says that Zimmerman is even willing to fight black people, so there’s that. After hitting up the internet with paintings he could sell to cover his…
Super Bowl week is here, and people and entrepreneurs from all over the U.S. are traveling to the Big Apple to cash in on the throng of football fans hitting up all the events leading to the Big Game. One enterprising Florida woman also decided to jump in on the…
With Willie Nelson, and Heart, and the Barenaked Ladies, and the Beach Boys, and Pat Benatar, and Trisha Yearwood, and Cheap Trick, and .38 Special, and Martina McBride and REO Speedwagon canceling their gigs at SeaWorld’s Bands, Brew & BBQ this year, the water park has now turned their hopes…
Rick Scott continues to be unliked by many amounts of people, despite the fact that he’s changed his mind about things like Medicaid expansion and despite declaring his love for Florida panthers, and his efforts to put money in people’s pockets with the magical elixir known as “tax-cuts.” And while…
