So, Secretary of State John Kerry was traveling in Britain yesterday and when a reporter asked him at a news conference whether there was any way that Syria could now avoid being struck as retaliation for a chemical weapons attack on its own people. Kerry harrumphed, in a tone of…
In March, Jennifer Carroll resigned as Rick Scott’s lieutenant governor after becoming, as the New York Times put it, “an embarrassment to the man who chose her for the job” during a tenure “marred by scandal and poor judgment.” Farther north, Scott Brown, a rare Republican in liberal Massachusetts, relinquished…
On September 2, 64-year-old Diana Nyad — who started swimming as a seventh-grader growing up in Fort Lauderdale — completed her lifetime goal of swimming from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. It was a goal she had attempted and failed four times prior. She made headlines around the…
Back in May, basketball Hall of Famer and sometime South Florida resident Deniis Rodman asked his “friend for life” Kim Jong-un to release Korean-American Kenneth Bae, who has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. North Korea caught Bae in the country in 2012 with a hard drive containing…
Yesterday, the American Lung Association warned that middle and high school children are smoking electronic cigarettes at a “troubling” rate. Data released from the Centers for Disease Control shows that between 2011-2012, the number of 6-12th graders reporting having ever used an e-cigarette more than doubled — from 3.3 percent…
About 10:45 p.m. Monday, a woman named Christiane Jung looked out her window and saw a six-foot-five, 280-pound, naked bald man staring at her. Terrified, she called for her husband, who confronted the naked man. But he was no match: The intruder pounded him with one hand while gobbling what…
War is hell, everyone knows — even if you’re supposedly fighting it with unmanned drones, surgical strikes, and big-ass warships. If you’re one of the many getting that icky feeling in your stomach about possible impending military action in Syria, you might want to grab some posterboard and a Sharpie…
According to our spywitness, fast-rising singer Austin Mahone was at the AMC Theatre at the Aventura Mall yesterday catching an afternoon showing of This Is Us — the documentary / live concert film featuring massive British boy band One Direction. Everybody knows this is major — because just last week,…
C’mon — you’ve got to be mad at Rick Scott about something! Leaving Stand Your Ground intact? Decimating the Department of Environmental Protection? Not showing up at his own education summit? Making baldness sexy? What started out a protest against oil drilling has morphed into a catch-all event. People from…
Fane Lozman has seen plenty of rampant corruption in Riviera Beach. He’s also convinced there’s more, so he’s putting his money where his mouth is. Lozman, along with the Palm Beach Sun newspaper (to which Lozman contributes occasional columns), is offering a $50,000 reward for information about city councilmen Cedrick…
In what might be construed as a victory for defiant kids everywhere, Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal has ruled in favor of a teenaged girl who refused to give her name to a cop after he arrived to bust up a gathering of kids with red, glossy eyes and…
UPDATE 9:03 a.m. Jackie Schutz says “Governor Scott asked Commissioner of Education Pam Stewart to convene the summit to provide the opportunity to openly discuss ideas and options to continue improving Florida’s public school system. Governor Scott was not scheduled to attend.” She also provided a list of invitees, posted…
State Sen. Chris Smith (D-Fort Lauderdale) announced Monday that he was introducing legislation that would close a loophole in Florida’s Stand Your Ground law. It would prevent people from using it as a defense if they left a place of safety or chased someone, and it would also create “reasonable…
On Saturday, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued Donald Trump over his involvement with Trump University — basically, expensive seminars that promised students they’d learn about real estate and investing. The AG alleges the program was a fraudulent get-rich-quick scheme, and is seeking $40 million in restitution. Trump, naturally,…
In what might be construed as a victory for defiant kids everywhere, Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of a teenage girl who refused to give her name to a cop after he arrived to bust up a gathering of kids with red, glossy eyes and…
Lynn University projects that about 600 students will start school there next week — the largest incoming class since 2007. And every one of those kids will have iPad Minis, which they have to buy for $475. They will not use textbooks this year. Lynn calls this move “one of…
Pompano Beach Ocean Rescue lifeguard Michael Rolle was badly burned on June 28 in a freak accident. “I was involved in a fire at my house,” he says by phone. He would only reveal that it had to do with “moving gasoline” and that “I really don’t like talking about…
In a cover story last year, we told you about how a few Florida women were the ones who discovered how banks were screwing people out of billions of dollars through foreclosures of homes. During the past decade’s housing crisis, records got confusing and messy as mortgages were bundled and…
Yesterday, the law firm of Searcy, Denney, Scarola, Barnhart, and Shipley held a news conference about lawsuits related to a cluster of pediatric brain cancer in the residential neighborhood Acreage, located in western Palm Beach County. Five couples who lived in the area and whose children developed brain tumors are…
According to the American Lung Association, a Deerfield Beach couple, Amaury and Renata Rosa, were expecting a baby. But when Renata was eight months along in her pregnancy, they began to seriously worry that secondhand smoke from a neighbor’s apartment could hurt the unborn child. Secondhand smoke has been linked…
Well, the timing is rich. Today — the same day that Fort Lauderdale city commissioners will vote on whether to allow the moving of a 100-year-old tree and the building of a massive, three-tower apartment complex called Marina Lofts right along the New River — legendary Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan…
The Fort Lauderdale City Commission will vote tonight on whether to allow a nearly 100-year-old tree to be moved so a developer can build a 960-unit apartment complex called Marina Lofts on the New River. The site is west of the Broward County Jail and the Downtowner saloon, near the…
