A man was allegedly drunk while riding a horse as he led police on a half-hour chase through Bunnell, Florida. Charles Larkin Cowart, 29, was arrested Monday afternoon in the city of Bunnell, which is about 60 miles south of Jacksonville, after he led cops on a chase while he…
An 84-year-old woman, whose name has not yet been released, was airlifted to Orlando Regional Medical Center after she was found bleeding in a canal from an apparent alligator attack, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. The alligator apparently ripped her arm off in the attack. A man found…
Good news, Marion County kids! Paddling might be making a return to your school! Yay! Carol Ely, an incoming School Board member and former principal, wants to bring corporal punishment back to Marion County schools. And apparently she’s going hard to the hoop to make it happen. A principal at…
In case you’ve been trapped under something heavy, you already heard about how the replacement referees screwed the Packers on Monday night, when they awarded the Seahawks with a last-second touchdown that never happened. Well, Paul Ryan was none too happy about it, being a Packers fan and all. He…
It was a fine vision, and a simple one.Someday, you’d be able to walk or bike from the Pond Apple Slough in Fort Lauderdale all the way west, along the New River Canal, out to Weston and the Glades. See also: How to Bike to the Everglades Without DyingShould have been…
Bad news, thirsty Boca residents. The Palm Beach County Health Department has ordered the City of Boca Raton Utility Services Department to immediately address a host of long-standing problems that might be contaminating the city’s drinking water with, well, remnants of poo and other unsavory ingredients found in wastewater…
President Obama made a speech this morning to the General Assembly at the United Nations in which he condemned the anti-U.S. protests in the Middle East and North Africa in the wake of the attacks in Libya and urged world leaders to rally against extremism. But Rep. Allen West, with…
A Greenacres man is facing domestic assault charges after an argument over using paper clips to close a bag of potato chips got physical. According to the arrest report, the awesomely named Rockerfeller Excellent and an unidentified woman got into a brouhaha after the woman’s 14-year-old daughter apparently used paper…
Palm Beach County commissioners will consider overturning a 1998 ruling that banned pot-bellied pigs from residential homes and communities, so that people can keep them as pets. Now, under county zoning rules, pigs are categorized as livestock, which means they’re restricted to agricultural and rural areas. The case was prompted…
Robert Hagerman just wanted to sit back with a cold one. So he asked his daughter go buy him some beer.She refused.So Hagerman had a perfectly reasonable response to that and called 911 to report her. Hagerman, 56, called the emergency number and told the dispatcher that his daughter was…
Paul Ryan was in Florida over the weekend and revealed that Obama has ruined space exploration, just like he’s ruined everything else. And so Ryan announced bold new changes that he and Mittington will implement to get NASA back on track — because America is the greatest nation in all…
It’s high-octane campaign season, and Democratic sheriff candidate Scott Israel is hammering the incumbent, Al Lamberti, for his and his underlings’ close association with convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein. That’s only a little hypocritical, seeing as Rothstein firm money was directed toward Israel as well. But Israel is also criticizing…
Toward the end of Mitt Romney’s speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa last month, the newly crowned candidate displayed in a single sentence his talent for sarcasm. “President Obama promised to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet,” he said, then followed with a smirk…
Warren Thomas Michael was crazy trashed when Fleming Island police pulled him over.How trashed?When the cop said the requisite “License and registration, please,” Michael handed the officer a squirrel. According to the arrest report, a witness driving on Highway 17 in Fleming Island called police after they saw the 23-year-old…
The news regarding any South Florida sports team not named the Miami Heat continues to be miserable. After trading away Hanley Ramirez, Anibal Sanchez, and Omar Infante for prospects in order to clear up their finances, the Marlins were pretty adamant about using that leftover cash to spend on some…
Marco Rubio was apparently trying to get to Washington on Friday night for some official Senate business when his American Airlines flight was delayed. So, like most of us might do, Marco took to Twitter to voice his displeasure toward the airline. And by “voice his displeasure toward the airline,”…
“Who controls the past controls the future.” So taught The Party, the totalitarians who ruled Oceania in George Orwell’s 1984. It’s a lesson now put into practice by the Florida House of Representatives and the Archdiocese of Miami, both of them pushing a twisted version of American history in support…
A three-year old boy was walking around the streets of New Port Richey naked. A driver spotted the toddler, and seeing how a naked little boy walking down the street is not something you see every day, called 9-1-1 and told cops about it. Police tracked down the boy’s 41-year…
A quarter century ago, my old, good buddy Mike Lacey came to Miami and decided to start a weekly paper. He wanted to move here, but a mugger and a prudent wife convinced him cocaine-fueled Miami wasn’t the place to raise a family.Today, Lacey bowed out. Along with his partner…
The Miami Dolphins lost because they can no longer do the one thing this team was always only capable of doing — kick field goals. And so the New York Jets came to town, managed to play like a sack of crap, and still pulled out the 23-20 victory, because…
Plantation mom and triathlete Molli Serrano survived pancreatic cancer but never stopped riding her bike. She once participated in a 62-mile race with a portable chemotherapy pump. But she really started making headlines in May, when a Weston cop pulled her out of a group ride and gave her a…
Last September, 26-year-old Aaron Stinson sat around a friend’s apartment in upstate New York drinking some beer and smoking Relaxinol, a brand of so-called “herbal incense.” Manufacturers would usually stamp warning labels on these products to indicate that they were “not for human consumption,” but users knew that smoking them…
