Trey Radel, the freshman Republican representative who was charged in November with cocaine possession, is getting ready to go back to work Tuesday when Congress’ new session kicks off. Radel had pleaded guilty to misdemeanor cocaine possession after getting busted and spent 28 days in an in-patient treatment program at…
If you live in the Tampa area, you may not want to answer your door if someone rings the bell and says it’s a candygram for you. Because it actually very well may be a lion. The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office is saying that a lion has escaped the Survival…
Pro sports wives can be boring, pretentious, annoying, or anonymous. Some get their own vapid reality show; others blame their husband’s teammates publicly when the team loses. Some are just pretty; some are just not at all seen. And then there’s Miko Grimes, wife of Miami Dolphins cornerback Brent Grimes…
Hi. Hello. How are you? Happy New Year. Oh, and by the way, please do not fire a gun into the air at the stroke of midnight tonight. It happens every year. We mean, every year. So we’re here with our annual reminder to not do that, because it’s dumb…
On Monday, news broke of Dwyane Wade having fathered a third child with a woman who wasn’t his fiancée, Gabrielle Union. As it is with these kinds of things, the story grew legs and ran rampant all over the place. The next step to something like this: speculation. Who was…
Well, here we are. 2013 is about to be kaput. A brand new year filled with crazy Florida news stories awaits us. Whatever 2014 brings, we’re sure it’s going to be pretty nuts, pretty wild, and pretty fantastic. We hope you come along for the ride, just as you did…
It appears that Dwyane Wade went the Dan Marino route and had himself a love-child with another woman. Wade’s now-fiancée, Gabrielle Union, was aware of the child and the couple say they’ve handled the private situation privately. But, this is the Internet, so we’re gonna talk about it. Wade and…
A great white shark has been spotted off the coast of Daytona, according to the OCEARCH ocean research group. The shark, named Katherine, weighs in at 2,300 pounds and is reportedly 14 feet, 2 inches long. Katherine was tagged off the coast of Cape Cod by OCEARCH on August 20…
Today is LeBron James’ 29th birthday. And, what does a man who has won four MVP awards, two NBA Finals MVP awards, back-to-back championships, and Olympic gold medals and is basically the greatest basketball player on Earth want for his birthday? Why, a pro wrestling championship belt, of course! And…
For all the ways the rest of the nation loves to make fun of Florida and act as if it’s the worst place on earth, it sure as hell isn’t keeping people from moving and living here. And, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau population estimates that will be…
Ah, Florida. 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’ve decided to scour through our Floriderp files to present to you the 12 dumbest criminals for all…
A Florida man is facing federal charges after he apparently posted a comment on the JAABlog threatening to kill Broward State Attorney Mike Satz and some judges. Feds arrested Mark Robert Hillstrom, 59, on December 18 after it was uncovered that he was the one who left the comments on…
An armed man walked into a Pompano Beach CVS, pointed the gun in clerk’s face, and demanded she hand over the cash. The clerk told the gunman she had to check with her manager first. So, the gunman waited…
A panther is roaming a southwest Florida neighborhood and may be responsible for the disappearance of one dog and the death of another. But the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission has ceased efforts to capture it, which has some residents a little peeved. Residents of the Golden Gate Estates say…
A California appeals court has ruled that Rick Ross cannot sue Rick Ross for using the name Rick Ross. Hip hop artist Rick Ross, known in his previous life as William Leonard Roberts II, hit the music scene hard when he created his Rick Ross persona. Ross apparently based the…
Last week, Sports Illustrated inexplicably named Peyton Manning Sportsman of the Year. But, on Thursday, the Associated Press was able to return order to the known universe and named LeBron James its Male Athlete of the Year. LeBron got 31 of 96 votes cast in a poll of news organizations,…
Thanks to Congress’ not adding an extension to emergency unemployment benefits into the budget deal that’s going to pass the Senate this week, roughly 73,000 Floridians will lose those benefits come Saturday. This is in addition to the 1.3 million in other states who will get ganked when the federal…
An old man was arrested after he pushed his elderly wife of 33 years to the ground and broke her hip after she busted him looking at a dating website, officially making this the most Florida sentence you’ve read all year. According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office arrest…
So a man who was pulled over during a routine DUI checkpoint in Hollywood on Christmas Eve apparently had a body in the trunk of his car. The body belonged to a buddy of his. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers were performing a sobriety test on the man…
The Miami Heat’s first ever Christmas Day game was in 1997 when they lost to Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls. Since then, the Heat have played 9 other times in the NBA’s annual X-Mas game, going 7-2 in that span. The Heat will face the L.A. Lakers today at 5:00p.m. for…
In an effort to quell the negative backlash from Blackfish, last Friday SeaWorld took out a full-page ad in major U.S. papers, including the Orlando Sentinel, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, in an all-out PR campaign designed to combat the allegations brought on it by the…
It looks like those who work for minimum wage in Florida will be seeing an extra 14 cents on their paychecks come January 1. This means that the old rate of $7.79 an hour will be going up to $7.93 an hour as the New Year becomes official. The minimum…
