People around the world were collectively glued to their TVs on October 15, 2009, when Richard and Mayumi Heene called the Federal Aviation Administration and a Colorado TV station and reported that their son Falcon had accidentally floated 7,000 feet into the sky in a homemade experimental flying saucer. Of course,…
The Mayan Beach Club has obliterated a 176-foot-long sand dune on Fort Lauderdale’s beach that helped prevent beach erosion and provided a nesting place for endangered green sea turtles, because the it blocked the view of the ocean. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection apparently made the beach club prove…
A teenage ticket-taker at a Boynton Beach movie theater has been arrested after it was determined that she was the author of a note that threatened the movie theater with a bomb. The girl, who remains unidentified due to her age, called in the threat, claiming a man had handed…
With the holiday season rolling in fast, everybody could use a few extra dollars in the bank. For some, that means cutting back on spending or picking up a second gig. For others, the move is to grab next month’s rent payment, sacrifice some chickens to the right patron saint,…
In April of 1986, the body of Daisy Ricard was found in a secluded wooded area in Hialeah. She had been shot in the head by two different .22 caliber pistols. The following day, the body of her boyfriend, Ramon Alvero, was discovered in the trunk of a car about…
By now, it’s pretty clear what’s to happen. Charlie Crist is running for governor — and, in a way, this has been obvious for some time. But it only became inescapably obvious a few days after Election Day. When Crist got a telephone call. It was from President Barack Obama…
ESPN NFL analyst Adam Schefter went on The Sid Rosenberg Show (640-AM) Monday morning and said that he’s not all the sure rookie Ryan Tannehill is the quarterback the Dolphins have been looking for. Schefter says that he was once enthusiastic about Tannehill, but now not so much. His reasons…
After spending craploads of money to win a second term in congress, and then not winning the election, and then having his request for a recount denied because he lawfully didn’t have the numbers to get one, and then getting a partial recount only to have that recount reveal that…
A man police picked up three separate times for huffing dust cleaner in public has died, making this both the weirdest and saddest sentence you’ll read all day. Patrick Henderson’s decomposing body was found lying face-down in the backseat of a Ford Explorer in the parking lot of a T.J…
After pretty much doing it unofficially over the last few years, former Florida governor Charlie Crist finally made his defection over to the Democrats over the weekend. The signs have been there for some time. — In 2010, he left the Republican party in a failed attempt at U.S. Senate…
Oh, hey. Look at that. The Dolphins lost again. At this point the inevitability of the Dolphins getting their asses pounded week in and week out, year in year out, should be old hat. These are, after all, the Miami Dolphins. And as the San Francisco 49ers punted the Fins’…
It’s a pleasant Saturday afternoon at the Max Planck Florida Institute by the FAU campus in Jupiter. There are food trucks in the parking lot and a jazz band on the stage by the main entrance to the laboratories. Who knew neuroscience could be so hip? Then again, considering the amount…
Last Thursday morning, drivers motoring down NW 40th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale might have eyeballed an odd sight outside of Plantation Hospital: three protesters waving signs. Anyone close enough to make out the fine print would have been surprised to see the group wasn’t hawking pro-life slogans or any of…
Update February 4, 2013: Heather Ray disputes Goehrig’s version of events. She contends that she first wrote e-mails to the city announcing her intention to get a therapy pig, and the city told her it was not allowed. She claims she then researched the Americans with Disabilities Act and spoke…
On Wednesday, Marco Rubio sat down with Politico’s Mike Allen at a Playbook breakfast and made it clear that he does know that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, even though he once said the age of the Earth is one of the great mysteries. But he’s no scientist,…
The Broward County Commission is considering an emergency fix to repair the sidewalks along A1A north of Sunrise Boulevard after Hurricane Sandy and ocean swells caused beach erosion that ultimately sucked portions of the street into the sea. The commission is looking for approval of $3 million for metal sheet…
Sheheryar Alam Qazi, and Raees Alam Qazi, two Pakistani-born 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, pleaded not guilty at a hearing in federal court in Fort Lauderdale on Friday morning…
The nation just went through a long, arduous, heated election cycle that felt almost as endless as standing in line for eight hours to vote. And that means only one thing: TIME TO START TALKING ABOUT THE NEXT ELECTION HELL YEAH!See also: -Jeb Bush Favored Over Marco Rubio for President, According…
Sad news today for South Florida environmentalists, sea turtles, and Mother Earth: After a circuitous and arguably shady legal battle, Fort Lauderdale’s Mayan Beach Sand Dune was plowed over at some point in the past 48 hours. Even though an August court decision sealed the dune’s fate, the destruction blindsided…
They may have just won a national presidential election, helping carry Florida for Obama and glorying in the defeat of the despised Allen West, but the Palm Beach Democratic Party executive committee was surprisingly prickly at its reorganizational meeting last night. It’s the family squabbles that are the worst.It was…
A Broward County grand jury deliberated for just 23 minutes before indicting Cid Torrez on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of his missing wife, Vilet Patricia Torrez. Vilet, 38, a mother of three, was last seen March 31. But Cid, 39, didn’t report her missing until April…
Out in Deerfield Beach, on a piece of government-owned property, an 8.5-foot-tall tower of beer cans is looming over baby Jesus. No, this isn’t some rogue Art Basel installation that crossed the county line. It’s Chaz Stevens’ salute to the holiday season. Since the end of November, Stevens has been frothing at…
