Knee-deep in muddy water, Jimmy Ferguson swings a homemade piece of bent metal through the depths. With the midday sun beating down, the gangly ginger is sweating through his camo shirt and matching safari hat. He carefully scans the surface, reading twitches in the current for signs of life slithering…
Barring an unforeseen incident — say, an asteroid colliding with the Earth, or Xenu attacking the planet with his intergalactic army, or Godzilla wanting to eat San Francisco — LeBron James is set to reach 20,000 career points tonight when the Heat visit the Golden State Warriors. Also, LeBron will…
With Florida now numero uno in concealed gun permits and with thousands showing up to the gun show in Fort Lauderdale this past weekend comes today’s news conference held by President Obama that aims to anger lots and lots of Floridians who just want to be able to buy themselves…
James Tracy, the tenured Florida Atlantic University professor who espoused conspiracy theories regarding Sandy Hook, says FAU has opened an investigation on him and wants to meet with him next week. According to the school’s student magazine, University Press, Tracy believes the university is feeling pressure from its donors. Tracy,…
Sabrina Fulton, the mother of slain 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, is joining State Rep. Alan Williams for a news conference in Tallahassee this morning for a call of repeal the “Stand Your Ground” law. The presser, scheduled to be held at 11:30 a.m., will be held in front of the Senate…
Yesterday the internet nearly broke in half when an exhaustive Tampa Bay Times investigation revealed that Rick Scott dumped his dog Reagan after publicly adopting him during his election campaign in 2010. At the time, Scott paraded the fact that he had adopted the dog and even had a name-the-dog…
For former House Reps, especially for ones with as recognizable a brand as Allen West, life post-Congress should be a pretty cush gig. Someone out there will pay to hear you talk ($$), or to talk to a TV camera ($$$), or even to talk to your old pals on…
Lance Armstrong singlehandedly changed American bicycling. He won seven Tours de France. He held off testicular cancer. He dated and about married Sheryl Crow. Not long ago, presumably after quitting with the doping, he won his first 70.3 mile triathlon in Florida, up in Haines City.He is an amazing man. No…
Close to 16 Florida law enforcement agencies joined together for a massive sex sting operation that nabbed all kinds of suspects from all walks of life, including a Florida high school English teacher. The suspects were under the impression they were going to meet up and have sex with underaged…
Brittney Sierra wasn’t a good mother. According to one neighbor, she did drugs in front of her three children while cursing them with “nasty words,” was often accompanied by four or five drug-addled men whom she was sleeping with — and, finally, allegedly covered up the extremely suspicious death of…
Three years ago, the City of Riviera Beach destroyed multimillionaire Fane Lozman’s home. At the time, city officials said Lozman’s 60-foot, two-story floating home was not a vessel and therefore ordered it dismantled at the marina where it was docked. Work crews spent five days dismantling the house as Fozman…
Cooper City Commissioner Lisa Mallozzi didn’t agree with someone at the commission meeting telling her something she disagreed with, so she gave a terse rebuttal to the person’s remarks. And by “terse rebuttal,” we mean she told this person to blow her. See also: John Sims, Cooper City Commissioner, Posts…
Did you play the numbers 8-19-27-28-30 in a Fantasy 5 lotto ticket back on July 30? Maybe left it in your jeans? In your glove compartment? Under your porn stash? Inside a shoe? In an empty coffee can? On a bus seat? In between the seats in your car with…
Mary Patricia Maloney, a seventh-grade science teacher at Palm Springs Middle School, was pulled over on Sunday after she hit another car and fled. The officer initially charged her with DUI, since she was not only allegedly driving drunk but crashed into another vehicle before fleeing the scene. Maloney tried…
Cops are on the lookout for a crafty Walgreens robber who very nearly foiled their search. Since police have highly scientific ways in which to track a thief down by means of obtaining fingerprints left at the scene of the crime, this robber thought ahead and brought himself a glove…
For the few hundred hunters who showed up Saturday for day one of the 2013 Python Challenge, it was a day of high excitement and little payoff, at least according to the numbers beamed out of the Glades on Saturday night. The kickoff party — and really the good-time atmosphere…
With Republicans foundering amid fiscal-cliff apoplexy and John Boehner looking more bewildered by the day, Marco Rubio, in a sharp departure from earlier hard-line immigration positions, said yesterday he’s in favor of a pathway to citizenship. Wait, wait, wait. Actually, what he said was: “The best way to deal with…
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…
Ana Ovando, a 42-year-old West Palm Beach mother, was sentenced to 78 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for using her kids in staged car crashes to make cash. Ovando used her five children — aged 3 to 17 — during three separate staged accidents that…
It’s official. The lionfish have arrived. While fishing off the Naples shoreline, an angler snagged a 16-pounder last week. The fish originally made its first appearance in the waters off the Florida Keys in 2009. Now, it appears to be spreading. Native to the Indian and Pacific oceans, lionfish have…
Thousands of people decided to spend their weekend standing in long lines at the Fort Lauderdale War Memorial that stretched out into the parking lot so they can look at guns and then buy them. The annual Suncoast Gun Show was held on Saturday and Sunday, and people came in…
Remember when the Florida Marlins were all, if y’all don’t give us millions and millions, we’re just gonna go ahead and take our ballclub somewhere else, and the City of Miami was all, nooooo here ya go! and then threw millions and millions at the Marlins and now taxpayers are…
