A Wellington man was arrested for allegedly imprisoning his wife for the past three years, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. The wife of the suspect, Qasem Alabed, 42, claims that, along with not allowing her to leave their home, he also beat her with a television remote…
Traffic on Florida’s highways can be a pain in the ass. What with all the bad drivers, the poor weather, the congested lanes and things falling from the sky and exploding on the road. A drone that flew out of Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City crashed into US…
Florida Senator Dwight Bullard has sent a letter to Gov. Rick Scott, urging him to pardon Marissa Alexander. Alexander is a 32-year-old African American mother of three who was sentenced to 20 years for firing a gun into the air to ward off her abusive husband. She tried to use…
On Tuesday, we told you about the group, Dream Defenders, busing in protesters from all over the state to stage a sit-in at Gov. Rick Scott’s office in Tallahassee. The group is staging its protest to demand that Scott call a special session to review the “Stand Your Ground” law…
So a guy who used to live in Florida wrestled a shark for no other reason than because he can. Elliot Sudal, who moved to Nantucket from Sanibel, is in the news today for ranglin’ up a shark off the shores of Massachusetts, and then wrestling it before dragging it…
Michael Brewer, the Deerfield Beach teen who was the victim of a burn attack in 2009, has been ordered by a Palm Beach County drug court judge to write an essay after the teen missed a court hearing. Brewer, who was arrested on drug charges back in March, failed to…
Bonnie Clearwater, the woman who put the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami on the map, will now be heading up the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale. Clearwater has been MOCA’s executive director and chief curator since 1993, and was the main reason behind the museum’s rise to…
In case you’ve forgotten, the once the Golden Boy Chosen One Can Do No Wrong Savior of the GOPers in 2016 Marco Rubio hasn’t been doing too hot within his own party. Particularly, he’s drawn the ire of New York GOP Rep. Peter King, after Rubio voted against the $60.4…
He came, gave the team team a weird new logo, failed to get funds to upgrade the stadium, and had some Twitter beef with Billy Corben. And with that, the Mike Dee era with the Miami Dolphins is over. Dee, who has been the team’s CEO since 2009, and captained…
The Boy Scouts of America is currently holding its 2013 National Jamboree, where scouts from all over the country converge in West Virginia to whitewater raft, climb mountains, zip lines, mountain bike, and participate in other Boy Scouty things. But, apparently the scouts’ body mass index criteria to take part…
A five-week operation by federal authorities has nabbed 255 suspected child predators, with 58 of those arrests coming from Florida. Authorities have confirmed that of those 58 men arrested in the sting, five of them are from South Florida, including the Weston and Dania Beach areas. The sting, called Operation…
According to multiple reports, the Miami Heat will amnesty Mike Miller. Although earlier reports said the Heat would not be exercising its amnesty clause this year, it looks like it’s officially going to be Miller, AKA Let It Fly, AKA Teen Wolf, AKA Mystic Wolfman, AKA Pet Sematary, AKA Shoeless…
Dream Defenders, an organization committed to confronting inequality, are busing college students to Gov. Rick Scott’s office Tuesday to demand that he calls a special session to review the “Stand Your Ground” law and enact anti-racial-profiling training for law enforcement officers. Through its peaceful sit-in protest, the group is demanding…
A mermaid living in the Fishhawk Ranch community in Lithia, Florida, can no longer swim in the pool, says the community’s homeowners association. Eden Sirene (or, as she’s known by her nonmermaid name, Jenna Conti) was told she’s not allowed to wear her fins in the pool, per the community’s…
Update: The PBC FR Hazmat has tested the powder substance and determined it to be non-hazardous, non-protein “silica” based substance. Original post: A Corrections Support Personnel (CSP) worker at the Palm Beach County Jail was pulling an inmate’s property when a powered substance seeped out. The worker is employed in…
The giant candy cane striped power plant smokestacks that stood majestically in Port Everglades and spewed crap into the air will no longer dominate the Ft. Lauderdale skyline. Florida Power & Light strapped some dynamite to the 350-foot, 7,500-ton boilers and imploded them Tuesday morning, making it the largest power…
A Florida woman really wanted to go to the Lil Wayne concert at the Cruzan Amphitheatre Sunday night, but she apparently had no babysitter to drop off her five year old and three year old while she went. Ever determined, she decided to leave her kids in the car while…
A Florida inmate was about to be set free from the Lee County Jail when he decided that this would be a good time as any to go ahead and punch the deputy releasing him. After he punched the officer several times in the back, the cop turned and pulled…
With people on all sides making loud angry noises following the George Zimmerman not-guilty verdict and debates raging about whether justice was done because of the legal system and due process and yada yada yada, one thing remains abundantly clear: Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law is a mystifying clustercrap of…
The United For Care Campaign, a group run by People United for Medical Marijuana, is looking to get legalized medical marijuana on the ballot in Florida in November of 2014 as a Constitutional Amendment. And they are looking to hire a few hard working folks to help them do it…
A guy who trashed a cop car a couple of times, and then burglarized a home in Polk County decided that he was no ordinary vandal but that he was, in fact, The Joker. And while The Joker from the Batman movies is a demented clown guy that kills people…
George Zimmerman’s brother, Robert Jr., the same guy who went on a rant on his Twitter feed comparing Trayvon Martin to a black Georgia teen accused of killing a baby, decried people using the race card on his bro during a Sunday interview with Piers Morgan. He also told Morgan…
