According to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, people who earn minimum wage in the Sunshine State will see a whole 12 cent increase in their paychecks starting this week. And with the whole fiscal cliff thing not happening now, it’s double good news for low wage earners today. Hooray!!…
Whole new year, same old FLORIDERP. Kenneth Rowe, 26, of Daytona, wanted to start the new year getting his rocks off with some boobies in his face. So he hit up local strip joint, Sharks Lounge. But, turns out Rowe is the father of an 11-month-old baby. And it’s kind of…
Start off the new year right by nerding out and impressing your friends today at 6:03 p.m., when the International Space Station will be visible over South Florida for about six minutes. Yes, the station is visible to the naked eye as it cruises 200 miles above the Earth. NASA…
New Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel whacked Fire Chief and Executive Director Neil de Jesus and two other top fire guys, Division Chief Robert Arrighetti, and Division Chief John Holgerson, who was in charge of fire and rescue training. Nothing against new chief and Margate vet Anthony Stravino, but this…
On the first ay of the brand new year, the House voted 257-167 to approve the Senate bill that would avoid major tax hikes and spending cuts and keep us all from falling over the so-called “fiscal cliff,” which would’ve been a terrible way to start 2013. The GOPers wanted…
Several weeks ago, we made a terrible mistake, one that warranted immediate regret. We asked to start receiving Gov. Rick Scott’s news releases. And then came a deluge of good news. If we hadn’t known any better, we would have thought Rick Scott was doing something, well, not evil. Which…
Over the past year, we’ve kept you clued in on the fate of the Florida panthers, the big cats that have been showing up dead at a surprising rate. Thanks to a number of factors, the frequency of dead members of the endangered species was so troubling Florida was close…
An employee at Forever 21 clothing and apparels store in the Sawgrass Mills mall was arrested for allegedly recording female customers undressing inside the dressing rooms. Andre Clements, 30, was arrested after being reported by a female customer of peeping at her and others through the curtains of the store’s…
So that was fast. One month after Lacey Byrd, a West Palm Beach fashionista, announced she was running for Riviera Beach City Council, she allegedly thrashed her husband, got tossed in jail for a night, and upon her exit last Saturday immediately dropped out of the race. “After careful consideration,…
Charles Martin Jones and Michael Edward McCord were driving down State Road 52 near Darby in Pasco County when they saw a young deer on the side of the road and decided, what the hell, let’s shoot us a baby deer. Because, Florida! According to a Pasco Sheriff’s report, the…
This is your annual New Year’s Eve reminder to please not fire a gun into the air at the stroke of midnight, like an asshole. Yet it happens every year. The old year ends, the new one begins, and people suddenly turn into Mexican bandits from an old Western and fire…
The hell is the matter with the women of Manatee County? Or, actually, more to the point… the men? It was a little over a month ago that we saw a Manatee County woman beat the crap out of her boyfriend after he failed to satisfy her sexually. And now,…
No plans for New Year’s tonight? Why not help keep the roads safe and collect a bounty to boot? The Safety Council of Palm Beach County is once again running its “Mobile Eyes” program tonight, where they basically pay you a hundred bucks if you spot a drunk driver and…
In case you missed it, the Miami Dolphins got thoroughly pulverized with a sock full of pennies by the New England Patriots yesterday to the tune of 28-0, mercifully bringing the 2012 campaign to an end and ensuring yet another 7-9 season. Yet, on Black Monday — the Monday following…
Trying to find out what’s going on in the Town of Jupiter’s quest to purchase land owned by Business Development Board of Palm Beach County CEO Kelly Smallridge’s husband, Mark Smallridge, is like playing Whac-A-Mole: Nail down the answer to one question and another pops up to take its place.See…
Right out of the gate, let’s set the obvious into stone: Don’t drink and drive. At all. Ever. Especially tonight. It’s not only dumb but expensive. Worse, all your friends will find out. They’ll laugh at you. But let’s say you have a friend. This friend has a big New…
So, it’s New Year’s Eve. And yes, it’s 9 a.m. But we can only assume that you’re already wasted. And this — this is a good thing. What’s terrible, however, is that you’re lost somewhere amid the throngs of corporate America, hammered drunk, perhaps irritated these pussies you work with…
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was admitted to New York Presbyterian Hospital Sunday after doctors found a blood clot related to a concussion she suffered ten days ago. Earlier this month, Clinton was sick with a stomach virus when she fainted and banged her head, causing a concussion and opening…
Here’s a nice little news item to warm your cockles before kicking off the last weekend of 2012: Batman visited the kids at Joe DiMaggio’s Children’s Hospital on Friday morning. The Dark Knight came complete with costume, the Bat Mobile and, of course, Robin, to lift the spirits of some…
Eva Leslie Weinberg, 52, was arrested Thursday by a Broward Sheriff’s deputy and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after she allegedly got into a domestic dispute with her son and then pointed a gun at him. Weinberg, it turns out, has been employed with the Broward Sheriff’s…
It’s easy to look at the bizarre and terrible history of Nazi Germany and focus solely on the millions of victims. Or to make a fetish of the perpetrators and inadvertently honor their crimes. But what I found most compelling in the Compass Center exhibit “Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945″…
Beginning January 7, the Broward County Transit will be cutting the east-west 595 Express bus fares from $2.35 to $1.75, with monthly passes at $58. The move was made mainly to boost ridership, which averaged 80 riders a day on the Sunrise to Fort Lauderdale 595 Express route. In contrast,…
