The efforts of a man trying to help a stranded turtle on I-75 in Broward on Tuesday afternoon went horribly wrong. The man, who really just wanted to save the poor little shelled fella’s life, was rewarded for his humanitarian efforts by being bitten by an Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake. Awww,…
Another day, another boat found with drugs onboard in South Florida. This time around, the boat is a 132-foot luxury megayacht valued at about $5.5 million. And the drug was cocaine. Lots and lots of cocaine. See also: Pot Boat Washes Ashore on Fort Lauderdale Beach…
Earlier today, we told you about how the Miami Dolphins were going to throw their hat in the ring to bid for Super Bowl 52 in 2018. Well, not so much anymore. It looks like the NFL has officially not invited the Dolphins to bid to host the big game,…
State senators on Tuesday advanced proposed changes to the state’s Stand Your Ground law on Tuesday, almost three months after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. In a 7-2 vote, the Senate Judiciary committee voted to move forward a measure that includes, among other…
Fresh off their preseason victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Monday night, the Miami Heat is busy today shooting footage for its pregame introductions. And, as it has always been, it looks like it’s going to be filled with a lot of smoke, a lot of screaming, and a lot…
There’s a monkey running loose in Lakeland. No word on if it’s one of them dreaded herpes monkeys. But still. If you happen to go outside and you think you spot a monkey, chances are that it is, in fact, a monkey. See also: Herpes-Infected Monkeys Roaming Florida…
A West Palm Beach man is in critical condition after he jumped from a moving Tri-Rail train when he realized he had left his cell phone on the station bench and tried to retrieve it Monday night. The man, 26-year-old Eddie Diaz, reportedly broke through the train’s emergency doors and…
Fresh off their defeat in trying to get public funds to renovate their stadium, the Miami Dolphins are planning to throw their hat into the ring and bid for the 2018 Super Bowl. It’s that kind of up and attem! attitude that’s made this football franchise the perpetual 7-9 denizens…
Former Miami Dolphin running back Larry Johnson is now a DJ at Tootsie’s. Well, he was a Miami Dolphin for a preseason and really made his name as a Kansas City Chief. But still. The point is, he’s now a DJ at Tootsie’s, the same place where Aaron Hernandez reportedly…
The Miami Dolphins’ late-game rally on Sunday fell short when kicker Caleb Sturgis’ effort waffled wide left, handing the Fins their second consecutive loss, dropping them to 3-2 on the season. It was a bitter loss, leaving that all-too-familiar taste of defeat in Dolphins fans’ mouths (tastes like chicken shit!)…
Looks like Big Brother is on his way to Hollywood, as the city is planning to add license plate cameras around town. According to Hollywood Police Chief Frank Fernandez, the city has budgeted $2.2 million for the installation of the cameras, and he says they should be up and running…
A bunch of squirrels have been harassing families like a gang of fuzzy-tailed thugs in a state park in Tampa. Apparently, these little varmints are so aggressive, they jump onto baby strollers, run up to people, and generally act like little furry assholes, doing whatever they can to get food…
Marco Rubio, who has been so good at saying what he would do if he were President without giving much detail, says that Obama needs to stop being a scared little ninny, and act like a President during this terrible government shutdown that Rubio’s own party is responsible for. Rubio,…
A 2016 Florida Senate race between Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and former Rep. Allen West would be like the Super Bowl, Yankees vs. Red Sox, Godzilla vs. Mothra, Rocky vs. Clubber Lang, the Beatles vs. Rolling Stones, and Wrestlemania all rolled into one. Political junkies and douchey news bloggers collective…
A Boca teen and a couple of his friends drove around West Boca Raton in his parent’s Chrysler convertible, setting random cars on fire. According to this report, Nick DeSalvo and his friends also set fire to American flags. Police were able to nab DeSalvo thanks to surveillance footage of…
Two students at Mulberry High School were banned from participating in any activities for their homecoming week. The heinous crime the students perpetrated? They passed out condoms to their fellow students. The condom handout was part of a campaign Dalton Wiggs and Montana Fulkerson put together for homecoming court with…
Kaitlyn Hunt has accepted the new plea deal offered to her by the prosecution on Tuesday. Hunt, 19, is facing two counts of lewd and lascivious battery and one count of transmission of material harmful to a minor. But prosecutors had offered a deal in which she would have to…
The Everglades restoration bill is being threatened to be Hiroshima’d by the government shutdown, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Florida politics as a whole has traditionally screwed the state’s environmental priorities to begin with, but now the the Water Resources Development Act is about to lose its…
A man thought he scored big when he met an attractive woman at a strip club who agreed to come home with him. Later that night, he was beaten, robbed, and tied up by the woman’s two male accomplices. Perhaps meeting a woman at a strip club was a bad…
A car explosion rocked a Plantation neighborhood Wednesday night. Police were called around 7 p.m. after residents of Townhouses of Jacaranda, located in the 8100 block of Cleary Boulevard, reported hearing a loud explosion and seeing a plume of smoke coming from a parked car in the area. According to…
A federal appeals court has sided with the Navy after environmental groups challenged its plan to hold undersea warfare training 50 nautical miles off the coast of northeast Florida. The training, the environmental groups contended, will be extremely harmful to whales in the area. Specifically, the area where the training…
Folks in Lantana, Boynton Beach and Boca Raton began reporting a gas leak between Lantana Road and Boynton Beach Boulevard this afternoon. But, according to the Palm Beach County Fire Rescue, there is no reason for alarm. It’s not a gas leak, as many residents had feared. Only thing is,…
