One of the teen girls arrested in connection to the suicide death of a 12-year-old Central Florida girl Rebecca Sedwick was ordered to remain in jail. The other girl, 12, was released into her parents’ custody. Polk County Police say the 14-year-old showed no remorse over Sedwick’s bully-driven suicide and…
Palm Beach Gardens city officials are going to try to sell the city tonight on building a $100 million spring training baseball stadium. The stadium would serve as the spring training facility for the Houston Astros and the Toronto Blue Jays. An open house is scheduled to go down tonight,…
A Seminole County family’s pet cat was attacked and abducted by a pair of coyotes one night. One of the wild dogs had the cat by the throat, while the other had ahold of her tail. The coyotes were violently shaking the cat when the family’s pit bull came rushing…
Most school districts in Florida have yet to finalize collective bargaining agreements with teacher unions to get teachers pay raises. So Gov. Rick Scott, in an effort to get people to really like him again so he can get reelected get things moving quicker, has sent out a letter to…
The bodies of the two South Florida couples who died in a plane crash in Virginia last week have been recovered. Salvage crews have been working since Sunday night to remove the wreckage of the crashed twin-propeller Cessna 340. The crews had been battling harsh weather conditions as they performed…
Two Florida girls have been arrested in the death of a 12-year-old Central Florida girl, Rebecca Sedwick. Sedwick committed suicide in September after being cyber bullied for nearly a year. According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, the two girls arrested are ages 12 and 14…
Businesses looking to hire you want to be able to get all up in your Facebook and Twitter accounts to see if you’re worth hiring. That’s right. You want a job? You may have to allow someone to look through your Tweets and those vacation-to-Hawaii pics. But Florida state Sen…
A Florida man decided to end a verbal argument with a woman in the most reasonable way possible: by dousing her with gasoline and threatening to light her on fire with a blowtorch. The man had asked the woman to move her car, so he could exit the Shell gas…
Just because you hate Rick Scott, that doesn’t automatically mean he won’t win reelection next year. (And we can, at this point, agree, that most of you hate him.) Let’s break down how and why: 1. This is Florida. 2. He Has Really, Really, Ridiculously Filthy-Rich Friends. 3. But, mostly,…
A 98-year-old Florida woman had a bit of a pest problem. And by “pest,” we mean bees. And by “a bit,” we mean she had thousands and thousands of bees growing a bee empire inside her attic and awning. It was 20,000 bees, to be exact. Basically, the woman’s house…
Florida GOPer Dennis Baxley, the same GOPer Representative that proposed ending a ban on guns in state schools following the Newtown, Connecticut tragedy, has now come out and said some awful things about lesbian mothers. SHOCKING, WE KNOW. During a panel about how to improve Florida’s middle schools, Baxley basically…
It appears that three players of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been diagnosed with MRSA. And now the staph infection outbreak is threatening to cancel the Bucs’ game against the Philadelphia Eagles this Sunday. On Thursday, the Bucs announced that guard Carl Nicks was diagnosed with the staph infection in…
A Fort Lauderdale man walked over to his grandmother’s house with a shotgun, said “he had something for Grandma,” and then shot her German shepherd mix. The dog was hospitalized but eventually died from her wounds. Police have no motive for the shooting, other than the man saying he had…
It looks like something called the Boca Raton Bowl is a thing now, thanks to ESPN. And it will be played every year before Christmas at the stadium formerly known as Owlcatraz at FAU. On Friday, ESPN announced the new bowl game, which will be played at least for the…
Ever get so angry at an ex for dumping you that you go out, get wasted, and then develop the nerve to call them and drunkenly rant at how angry you are that they ruined you, and what a total jerk they were to do that, and then you laughed,…
Florida’s longest-serving member of Congress, Rep. C.W. Bill Young, announced he’s retiring when his term ends in 2014. Young, who is roughly a billion 82 years old, cited wanting to spend more time with family as the main reason he’s calling it quits. Better late than never, we guess…
A Broward sheriff’s child protective investigator allegedly wrote up fake reports about the children she was supposed to check up on. Police say that, instead of going to the homes of the five children assigned to her, she merely asked the parents to send her pics of the kids to…
Omar Trevino, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s dispatcher who got into his female coworker’s cell phone that she left lying around so he could email himself pictures of her flashing her breasts, has resigned from his position. Back in July, the female employee claimed that Trevino, 31, swiped her phone…
Donald Trump tweets like a preteen girl. But that’s all part of his never-ending quest to pretend that he’s going to run for president and to shell out everything that has the name TRUMP on it. He also takes advantage of the social media platform to not only pander to…
With the government shutdown entering a full week and no end in sight, Americans’ already unpopular view of Congress is reaching ludicrous speed. Florida Rep. Alan Grayson took to the floor Wednesday to introduce a resolution declaring the government shutdown a “mark upon the dignity of the House” by asserting…
There are criminals and con men and Ponzi schemers. And there are dudes like David N. Branfman of Delray Beach, who managed to use his con-man powers to swindle a lonely 84-year-old widow out of more than $12,000. Branfman exploited the woman’s desire for companionship and took her bank account…
Tourists visiting Florida decided that the government shutdown is dumb and decided to show their defiance by jumping the fence that closed off the Castillo de San Marcos fort in St. Augustine. Castillo de San Marcos is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States. So, since it’s a…
