Fresh off ditching his own immigration reform bill, Marco Rubio — along with Rep. Trey Radel — have introduced a bill that would delay the individual mandate under Obamacare until the Obamacare website is fixed. Rubio promised he would do this last week, and now here we are. HE’S A…
On Thursday evening, the body of Port Saint Lucie resident Alisa Susan Kerman, 52, was found in her home. She had been bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer. The two people who lived with Kerman, David Weingard, 27, and Georgia Scordamaglia, 31, had gone missing, along with some firearms Kerman…
Oh, that Rick Scott. Champion of the GOPers and conservative government ideals. He’s all about small government, you see. Cutting back on frivolous spending and slashing government so that corporations can get tax breaks and the middle class gets screwed more jobs can be magically created. Scott is all about…
Well now, here’s a feather in your cap, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. According to the Transportation Security Administration, you have intercepted more guns than any other Florida airport this year. It’s the second consecutive year the airport has that distinction, sort of making it the Miami Heat of airports that…
After the Miami Dolphins choked away their game against the New England Patriots on Sunday, center Mike Pouncey, 24, was served with grand jury papers outside the locker room by Massachusetts police. According to Sports Illustrated, the subpoena is related to the investigation into Aaron Hernandez, who was a former…
Anthony “Little Tony” Ferrari, who had been accused of having Miami Subs founder Konstantinos “Gus” Boulis rubbed out in a Mob-style hit, has been found guilty of murder and murder conspiracy. The jury handed down its verdict after seven hours of deliberation. Ferrari and Anthony “Big Tony” Moscatiello were accused…
A Marion County man was awakened by the sounds of thumping and banging at 4 in the morning outside his back porch on Tuesday. So he grabbed his .357-caliber Magnum to confront the intruder and protect his home. He shouted to the would-be burglar that he was armed and unafraid…
Henry “Bud” Read III, an 84-year-old Fort Lauderdale community leader, is facing child molestation accusations, police say. Read was arrested after the two young girls he allegedly fondled last November came forward. The victims say this wasn’t the only time Read did this…
Although Mike Miller is no longer with the Miami Heat (he was amnestied over the summer and is now with the Memphis Grizzlies), he’ll always have a special place in Heat lore. Who can forget his Game 5 NBA Finals performance against the Thunder, when he put down seven three-pointers?…
A Boca hockey dad was a little too involved with his son’s Jr. league hockey team when he decided he didn’t like another player getting physical with his boy. So he decided to run onto the ice and attack that kid like he was begging for a five minute major…
A Florida Atlantic University student claims that he was turned away by the school’s library because he looks and acts like a woman. The student, Abdul Asquith, says that he needed to check out a laptop for school work on Wednesday. But, he says, the librarian turned him down because…
With 70 percent of Floridians approving the legalizing of medical marijuana, and a drive to get it on the ballot next November as a constitutional amendment garnering over 100,000 signatures, it’s safe to assume that Florida is as close as it has ever been to becoming the 21st state to…
Bummer news coming out of the the Palm Beach Zoo. Popular tigers Jaya, Bunga and Penari are moved to the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens starting next week. The tigers are expected to be shipped away on Monday. ::Sad Panda Face::…
The trial for former WPTV-Ch. 5 weatherman (and former New Times Best Weathercaster) Rob Lopicola, who was arrested last July on charges he engaged in unlawful sexual activity with a teen boy he met on Craigslist, kicked off on Wednesday. Lopicola, 45, stands accused of child sex and pornography charges,…
It’s Halloween time again! And that means it’s time to visit some haunted houses with friends and get the crap scared out of you. But instead of hitting up a so-called “haunted house” where you pay $7 to walk into a place covered in fake spider webs where some sweaty…
A Jupiter couple is suing the Purple Lotus Kava Bar in West Palm Beach because they claim they’ve gotten addicted to its specialty drinks. The reason they’re addicted, they say, is because of a special ingredient in the drinks called kratom, which is actually an opium substitute. Mmm, opium… Kratom…
Six West Palm Beach men loaded with an arsenal of weapons and led by a dude who went by the name “Black Jesus” were arrested by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives after a sting operation that set them up to rob $450,000 worth of “pure Colombian cocaine.”…
There’s a literal shitstorm spreading through Broward County, apparently. The Florida Department of Health in Broward County has sent out a warning about a crazy diarrhea bug that’s apparently spreading throughout schools and daycare centers lately. Officials say that Broward County has been showing an increase in cases where the…
Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said that he’s not going to approve the workers’ comp rate hike that had been requested by insurers. The industry’s National Council on Compensation Insurance filed for a 1 percent increase, but after the Office of Insurance Regulation analyzed the numbers, McCarty shot down the request…
The Miami Heat kicks off its run at a three-peat on October 29 (THAT’S, LIKE, A WEEK AWAY!) when it hosts the nonsmiling Derrick Rose and nonshowering Joakim Noah and rest of the Chicago Bulls. On that same night, the Heat will be unveiling its third NBA Finals Champions banner,…
The families of Mackendy Jules, 30, and Samuel Artez Martindale, 35, the two men who were killed by 22-year-old Alyza Rachel Russell when she plowed her mother’s 2012 Porsche Panamera through some bushes and into a parking lot, slamming into the two men, have been awarded a joint $2.2 million…
The International Swimming Hall of Fame, which has made its home in Fort Lauderdale since 1964, will be leaving the area when the lease is up in two years. Last week, the hall’s board of directors voted to stop contract negotiations with the City of Fort Lauderdale and pack up…
