E-Cigarettes: Danger or Healthy Alternative?

Like a little kid showing off her new toys, Donna Queen, a 50-year-old housewife from Coral Springs, giddily opens a black pouch and reveals her quiver of electronic cigarettes. One is covered in pink rhinestones that glitter like a disco ball. Another is decorated with a purple flower pattern. She…

Surf in Kelly Slater’s Wave Pool

It’s easy to think of Florida homeboy and 11-time world champion surfer Kelly Slater as an easygoing, all-natural bro who alternates between charging waves and lounging in the Hawaiian rainforest. But he’s also a multimillionaire and a corporate animal, having an admitted affinity for golf and driving untold sales at…

FPL Is Building Another Natural Gas Pipeline Underfoot

Did you know there are already two major pipelines underground that bring in natural gas from other states to our local power plants? There will be a third by 2017, and FPL is currently seeking “Requests for Proposals” from companies that want the job of building it. FPL says the two…

“Balloon Boy” Dad Richard Heene’s Greatest Hits (VIDEO)

You wondered what  “Balloon Boy” family had been doing in the three years since they transfixed the entire nation, reporting that six-year-old Falcon Heene had floated away in a homemade flying saucer. And we told you in this week’s feature story, which catches up with the Heene family in their new…