The Miami Herald pay wall — euphemistically titled Miami Herald Plus+ — hit yesterday.It means you get 15 articles free a month on your computer and as many as 60 each month on a mobile app. For the newspaper, it is a way to fill the gap — as more…
Broward County schools’ transportation director, Chester Tindall, who had been accused of mismanaging his department and once said “I’m not going to go quietly,” is going quietly by resigning effective March 1. Tindall drew criticism from parents and bus drivers earlier this year when the Broward school bus system became…
Weird? Yes. But there’s been weirder. A few days ago, the carcass of a 40-foot sperm whale — open-mouthed and oozing — beached along Deerfield Beach’s shore, and the locals got all huffy and melodramatic over the remnants of this mammoth oceanic creature. Some local conservationists wanted to keep the…
Raees Qazi, the younger of two Oakland Park brothers charged by the FBI with conspiring to funnel “material support” to terrorists planning to explode a weapon of mass destruction somewhere in the United States, allegedly planned to either blow himself up or detonate a bomb in New York that would…
Alyssa Ainsworth, and her boyfriend, Ronald Stidd, were pulled over by police on West Second Street and Naranja Road in Valusia County on Friday for driving with an expired tag. But upon further inspection, an expired tag was the least Ainsworth had going against her. She was also driving with…
Didn’t take conservative blowfish blowhard Rush Limbaugh long to jump into the Newtown fray and open his mouth hole to say things about how the media, the Left, Democrats, and all other Pee-On-the-American-Flag-and-Use-the-Constitution-to-Wipe-Their-Dicks Freedom-Hating Groups to come out and try to take away guns because someone with easy access to…
Nadine Bruce and her husband, Kevon Stewart, hit up the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Sunday to celebrate her 29th birthday. But things went sour when the couple began arguing inside their car in the parking lot. And by “sour,” we mean “Kevon went full Mike Tyson on…
Ken Dandar doesn’t trust anybody. Not after all the spies searched his trash. Not after the interlopers dialed his office, pretending to be somebody else. Not after he took on Scientology in one of the biggest legal clashes in the church’s history. So when we called Dandar last week, he…
Scott Israel’s November win in the Broward County sheriff’s race will probably mean a big shakeup at the area’s largest law enforcement agency. But it’s a labor dispute time-stamped from the sheriff-elect’s failed 2008 campaign for Al Lamberti’s job that might change daily business at departments across Florida. Jeffrey Stanley…
In 2009, a South Florida woman named Christina saw that her friend in North Carolina had shared pictures pictures of a very unique-looking kitten on her Facebook page. A feral mama cat had given birth to a litter on a neighboring farm. This one particular kitten’s face was exactly half…
Turns out that male Florida panthers think female Texas pumas are kinda hot, because the once-endangered cat’s population has been buoyed thanks to mating with those Texas felines.Back in 1995, eight female pumas were brought to Florida from Texas by wildlife officials, in hopes that mating with the native cats…
Florida Rep. Dennis Baxley has a fantastic solution to preventing another tragedy like the one suffered in Newtown, Connecticut, on Friday: All teachers and principals should carry guns in their schools. Baxley, who is also the state rep who helped sponsor an equally fantastic idea that became Florida’s “Stand Your…
As if things aren’t tense and angst-ridden enough, now comes a report from Tampa of a bullet being found on a school bus. Tampa-area schools Turner Elementary, Liberty Middle, and Wharton High are under a “modified lockdown” after officials confirmed there was a bullet found on one of their buses…
A 40-foot sperm whale that died as it swam near the shore in Pompano Beach has washed ashore at the International Fishing Pier in Deerfield Beach. Deerfield Beach lifeguards roped the whale carcass so the animal can be allowed to slowly drift away from the fishing pier toward the shore,…
It’s always nice to walk away from watching a Dolphins game and not feel like you just fell down and punctured your scrotum with your car keys. Sunday’s game against the visiting Jacksonville Jaguars was such a day. Ryan Tannehill put together the best QB rating at 123.2, and completion…
Friends in the Palm Beach Chapter of the ACLU recently asked us if we had any suggestions whom they might grace with its 2013 Harriette Glasner Freedom Award, “for a Palm Beach County resident whose life and work embodies the values and ideals of the Constitution and the ACLU.” When do we…
At 9 one Saturday morning in mid-August, David Parga threw back the barn doors at his Southwest Ranches farm to a surprise. Marco, one of his two horses, was gone. Parga’s first thought: Someone has stolen Marco — or maybe, by some measure of equine wizardry, Marco escaped. He was…
For the record, the killing of 20 innocent school children in Connecticut was about the most horrible thing I have heard in years. The kids, of course, didn’t deserve it — and Florida needs to act. We are preparing to issue our 1 millionth concealed weapons permit next week. And…
Heat point guard Mario Chalmers is averaging 6.3 points and 3.9 assists per game so far this season. Backup point guard Norris Cole is averaging 4.9 points and 2.2 assists per contest. Not much difference in numbers, really. Yet Cole has consistently been eating into Chalmers’ minutes lately, particularly in…
The two teens who were charged with murdering a homeless man behind an auto parts store were looking to hook up with a prostitute on that fateful night. Juan Xolo, 17 and Jose Carlos Llano, 14, who confessed to police of stabbing the man with a pen, had been introduced…
Skinny dipping is all fun and games until someone shows up and starts making fun of your small dick. And that just leads to dudes getting shot by cops. Palm Beach Shores resident Adam Brown decided to go for a skinny dip in his El Coqui apartment complex at around…
It sounds too good to be true, and it makes our utopian heart–what remains of it–sing. City officials in West Palm Beach are trying to foster a cool zone in the aging, historically minority neighborhood of Pleasant City. The embryo of the plan is an artist colony, Lot 23. The idea, officials say,…
