To most people, Burmese pythons and similarly large snakes are icky and frightening. But are they a menace worthy of federal regulation and tax dollars? On Thursday, the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee is slated to hold a hearing on whether to add nine constricting snakes to the so-called “Python Ban.”…
About 300 or so Allen West supporters gathered on Monday night for the Allen West Goodbye and Thanks for All the Crazy BBQ. It was apparently a night of BBQ, thank yous, and obscure military references at his campaign headquarters in Stuart. West, who finally conceded to Patrick Murphy when…
On Saturday, something seemingly wrought from a time forgotten will emerge and rumble down the track at Gulfstream Casino to the delight of almost no one. Today, we bear witness to the fetid remains of a once-proud sport: horseracing. Yes, the sport will ultimately limp on, but it will do…
Miami Dolphins safety Jonathon Amaya was arrested in the wee hours of Monday morning and charged with battery after an alleged altercation with a cabdriver. The alleged dispute stems from a 40-mile trip Amaya allegedly took from Bamboo nightclub on Miami Beach to Weston, in Broward County. Amaya is allegedly…
Rumors swirled when Edward Archbold dropped dead in October after winning a cockroach-eating contest.Perhaps he had an allergic reaction. Or maybe a roach punctured his lung. Maybe his guts exploded with bug juices. And there was always the chance he swallowed some vicious insect that gnawed its way through his…
High tide waves have eroded the beach, knocked down a wall and some palm trees, and wrecked a portion of the sidewalk north of Sunrise Boulevard on A1A. On Friday, the Florida Department of Transportation declared an emergency after chunks of the street collapsed and washed into the ocean. Concrete…
A man was taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center with a gunshot wound in the mouth after he and several accomplices allegedly tried to go all Ben Affleck in The Town and rob a Bank of America armored truck in West Palm Beach. According to the Palm Beach Post, around 7 a.m…
Orange County sheriff’s Capt. Angelo Nieves admitted on Sunday that detectives investigating the disappearance of Casey Anthony’s 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, overlooked evidence that someone in the Anthony home did a Google search for “fool-proof suffocation.” During the June 16, 2008, search, detectives looked through several entries only from the computer’s…
Arrived late to the Black Friday demonstration at the Super WalMart on Federal Highway in Boynton Beach last week, around 11 a.m. Robust turnout, seventy or so protestors chanting and marching in a long oval along the sidewalk by the highway near the store’s parking lot. Most were Walmart employees from…
Back in October we told you about a mysterious manatee molester who apparently jumped on top of a manatee and dry humped it or something and then vanished. Turns out, she rode the manatee in question, much like a person would ride a horse, and was photographed by many eye-witnesses…
Ryan Tannehill didn’t “grow up” before our very eyes on Sunday. He didn’t KILL. He didn’t become “magically delicious.” He’s a good quarterback. We knew this already. But the rookie reminded everyone that the Dolphins’ enduring search for a franchise quarterback may finally be over. With eight minutes to go,…
Ensconced in some Tallahassee conference room, how state officials must have pictured it: An anonymous Florida woman receives a questionnaire in the mail and gets comfortable — gets intimate — perhaps sloshing some red into a glass, laying down an Erykah Badu track, and pulling out her pen to spill…
Incarcerated reggae star Buju Banton is heading back to court at the end of December and may well end up getting a whole new trial on the questionable drug and gun charges that he’s currently serving ten years for. Last week, Judge James Moody decided to grant Buju an evidentiary hearing and bring…
As the rest of the nation gathered in droves to hit up the superfantastic deals on Black Friday and basically kill one another for half-off toasters and universal remote controls, Walmart workers and activists held peaceful rallies outside stores as part of a nationwide walkout to protest poor wages and…
A Jacksonville cop has quit the force after admitting that he’d told his fellow police officers that if anyone needed someone to shoot President Obama, he’d totally be the guy they should call. “If an order was given to kill Obama or something,” Officer Sam Koivisto reportedly said, “then I…
As you know, today is Black Friday. But instead of hitting up crowded malls and department stores, why not go a different route and use the big shopping day to purchase a private island once owned by a Nazi sympathizer? Sounds just as reasonable as shoving elbows into other people’s…
A prostitution sting conducted by Boynton Beach Police on Monday and Tuesday netted 16 arrests, including juvenile prostitutes and cocaine seizures. The undercover sting was part of an effort to crack down on human trafficking and sexual exploitation throughout South Florida, which has become a hot spot for the illegal…
The turkey you ate yesterday was one of millions whose size is more than twice that of the bird your grandparents ate. Poultry farmers made that happen by careful breeding over the course of decades. The birds got so big they couldn’t screw, and farmers had to resort to artificial…
There’s a veritable menu of weird-sounding vagina-focused procedures offered by local chop shop plastic surgery chain Strax Rejuvenation.G-spot amplification is a “lunch time procedure” that results in “enhanced sexual arousal” for 87 percent of “normally sexually functioning women.” Hymenoplasty can “repair the hymen as if nothing ever occurred.” And augmentation…
Millions of turkeys were consumed yesterday on The Thanksgiving Day. But two turkeys in the Keys were determined that they would not be among their fellow gobblers that get laid out, glazed up, baked and have their carcasses stuffed with brown starchy edibles and gawked at by drooling hairless hominids…
Last night, as your father finally wrenched himself free from the turkey carcass, no one could believe it. No, they gasped. The day after Thanksgiving? You have to work? Yes, you replied. And now, here you are: working. How the empty office cubicles do mock you. Everyone — especially your…
The adult room of Delray Beach’s Salt Suite looks like a well-groomed beach.On the ground are several inches of coarse, granular salt. The walls are coated with dense, jagged layers of the mineral, forming what looks like a monochromatic Jackson Pollock painting. A floor-to-ceiling pillar is covered in the stuff…
