A Fort Myers man decided he’d teach his dope dealer a lesson when her mom yelled at him by turning her in to police. He had an ironclad plot against her too. Clear and irrefutable evidence that would surely put her behind bars in no time. The man’s evidence that…
Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Gerald Wengert, a cop who was a dog handler on the Learning Channel’s now-canceled Unleashed: K-9 Broward County, is being sued for beating up a Hollywood man and then inventing a reason to arrest the man to justify it. Just this past April, Wengert was acquitted of…
Hey, Fort Lauderdale, we’ve dethroned San Francisco as the city with the highest concentration of gay couples in the United States! ::SPRINKLES!:: Awwwww yeah. That’s right. This, according to recently revealed data from the U.S. Census (the website is down thanks to the government shutdown, so you’re just going to…
Bull sharks are known for being aggressive toward humans, and there have been numerous accounts of bull shark attacks in Florida. They are an ornery, pugnacious species that should be avoided at all costs. And with that comes news out of Gasparilla that a fisherman jumped out of his boat…
Kaitlyn Hunt has been offered a new plea deal. Hunt, 19, is facing two counts of lewd and lascivious battery and one count of transmission of material harmful to a minor. But prosecutors are offering a deal in which she would have to agree to stay in jail until December…
In case you hadn’t heard, Florida’s texting while driving ban went into effect today. But as it stands, the law is kinda hard to enforce. But on the day everything became official, Democrats and Republicans are coming together to call for a tougher law — one that would actually make…
Florida is suing Georgia: What you are witnessing is real. The participants are not actors. They are states with a case pending in the U.S. Supreme Court. The suit, which was filed by Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi, is over Georgia’s consumption of freshwater in a river…
Authorities captured a ten-foot albino Burmese python that ate two cats in a Martin County neighborhood. According to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office, a Salerno resident called them after they spotted the snake in his yard. When cops arrived, they found and nabbed the ten-footer. The regurgitated carcasses of two…
Michael Jordan was interviewed about which of today’s players could take him one-on-one in his prime, and he answered by showing what a salty, bitter old man he’s become. Namely, he took yet another shot at LeBron James — the one guy who is a legitimate threat to overtake MJ…
Gus Boulis’ green BMW was pinned between two cars. One had halted directly in front of him as he pulled out of his office building’s parking lot. The other appeared from the opposite direction as a dark blur in the vacant Fort Lauderdale street. Boulis’ killer was facing him from…
In case you haven’t heard, the U.S. government is about to shutdown as politicians fight about Obamacare and yell loud things at each other and do things that politicians generally do. For the most part, people aren’t happy about it. And, on Monday, some took to going after Marco Rubio…
The Sharkpocalypse is ever closer with yet another report of a person being bitten by a shark in Florida over the weekend. This time, a shark bit a surfer in the hand near Aquarina Beach and Country Club in Brevard County. According to Brevard County Fire Rescue Lt. Gary Windham,…
You may want to get all that texting while driving out of your system today because, come tomorrow, it’s going to be illegal in Florida. (JUST KIDDING, DO NOT EVER TEXT AND DRIVE PLEASE DO NOT INUNDATE OUR EDITORS WITH ANGRY EMAILS. THANKS.) The law, which passed the House and…
A small, unmanned, boat washed ashore onto Ft. Lauderdale beach early Monday morning. And while boats washing ashore is nothing new to South Florida, this particular boat had several bales of pot on board. Come to think of it, boats washing ashore with bales of pot in them is nothing…
The Miami Marlins ended what was an otherwise historically horrendous season in the craziest, most improbable way imaginable: with a walk-off no hitter. Pitcher Henderson Alvarez threw his first career no-hitter. But, because these are the Marlins, it couldn’t be just your run-of-the-mill no-hitter. No, this one was almost blown…
Polk City Rep. Neil Combee wants to let people fire warning shots if they are threatened, without fear of getting arrested for it. So, he filed a bill to make that a law. Combee’s bill is a response to Marissa Alexander, the 32-year-old African American mother of three who was…
A Hobe Sound man decided to do a shitload of cocaine around a bunch of alligators and then locked his keys in his car. All excellent ideas rolled into one! When the man realized he had locked his keys in his car, he had an even grander idea. In order…
A federal agent, apparently unhappy with the way a man was driving at the mall he was visiting, pulled out his gun and shot the man’s car. Seems like a legit and reasoned response. The agent, Angel Echevarria, a Department of Homeland Security special agent assigned to the U.S. Marshals…
Colonel Commie Hunter/Former Florida Congressman Allen West is out of a job. Again. And this time, it might be because he’s being accused of anti-Semitism. According to BuzzFeed, West is no longer at his right-wing gig at PJ Media after he allegedly got into an argument with a female employee,…
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 present to you our latest series of the dumbest Florida criminals of the month. September was special…
The Florida Panthers officially have a new owner: New York businessman and bazillionare, Vincent Viola. The Associated Press is reporting that the Panthers have been sold for $240 million by Cliff Viner and Sunrise Sports & Entertainment to a group led by Viola. The team has yet to officially announce…
Chanel Farrell Phillips, the Jupiter woman who was missing since Saturday and was found with her car submerged in a Abacoa pond, died of drowning, the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner determined. The medical examiner also said that foul play is not suspected. Meanwhile, investigators are waiting on toxicology results,…
