A 47-year old woman was found lying topless in a hotel parking lot where she was supposed to be babysitting a boy whose mother had gone gambling. That is the saddest sentence you’ll ever read in your entire life.Police were called in to the River Palm Hotel, located at 420…
According to BSO officials, a fat guy and his two skinny buddies walked into the Radio Shack located at 167 S. Pompano Parkway in Pompano Beach last Thursday at 11 a.m. and robbed the joint. The whole thing was caught on camera.Surveillance cameras caught their white Enterprise Rent-A-Car van pulling…
Since the late-80s, Nike has been trying to tell America that guys like Michael Jordan and LeBron James are awesome at basketball because of their footwear. And America has bought it (literally). People have forked over up to $250 bucks for sneakers named after NBA stars. But now, if you…
Marathon swimmer, 62-year old Diana Nyad, has attempted to swim from Cuba to Florida four times because she’s vastly more badass that you are. Nyad first tried to cross the Florida Straights in 1978 when she was 28-year-old. Back then, she swam inside a steel shark cage. She ended her quest after…
See a full slideshow remembering Hurricane Andrew here. In a column published today, I gather memories of a phalanx of former Miami Herald reporters and editors. Here is one from Bill Rose, former editor of Tropic Magazine and now a visiting professor in Mississippi. The newspaper won a Pulitzer gold…
Two brothers were arrested after they disrupted a movie and then tried to fight a cop at the Cinemark multiplex movie theater on Airport Road Sunday night.(The Sun-Sentinel reports that the movie was Expendables 2, which would be so perfect) According to the police report, Jonathan Zapata, 24, and his…
Felipe Alex Torrealba, wanted in connection with a Broward County murder, is on the run again after BSO homicide detectives tracked him to his southwest Florida home. The 26-year old Torrealba, fled authorities Thursday night just before they arrived at the Lehigh Acres home near Fort Myers, where he was…
Go long, Mittens. Miami Dolphin’s owner Stephen Ross has thrown down $133,000 in donations to support the Romney campaign. A $100,000 of that has gone to the Restore Our Future super pac, while the remainder was divvied up among Romney, the Republican National Committee, the Republican National Congressional Committee, and the Free and Strong America…
Well, that didn’t take long.Joe Philbin just spoiled tomorrow’s episode of Hard Knocks because earlier this afternoon, he announced that rookie quarterback Ryan Tannehill will be the Dolphins Week 1 starter. Let’s everybody go crazy with irrational expectations! FUCK YEA!Taken with the eighth overall pick of the 2012 draft, Tannehill is…
The Marlins have been so bad this season, even Showtime is giving up on them. MLB Productions, Showtime and the team have announced that Wednesday’s episode of The Franchise will be the last of the season. The Franchise, which shows the ins-and-outs of a major league baseball team, was originally slated…
According to a new ebook by Politico writer Glenn Thrush, DNC chair, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, isn’t very popular in the Obama re-election team. According to Thrush, a secret poll done among Obama’s team to determine the popularity of the President’s campaign surrogates revealed that Wasserman Schultz was ranked at…
On Wednesday, First Lady Michelle Obama will visit Fort Lauderdale to rile up the masses and push the campaign’s newly minted “It Takes One” voter registration strategy. She’s slated to speak at the War Memorial Museum on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. It’s a free event, but you’ll need to get tickets from Organizing…
According to multiple sources reporting to Politico, Republican Florida Rep. Steve Southerland, Panama City, went to Israel on a fact-finding mission last year with a bunch of GOP freshmen congressmen and then went swimming while others went skinny dipping at the place Jesus supposedly walked on water. According to eye-witnesses,…
Ryan Tannehill got his first NFL start on Friday, and things went exactly as you’d expect them to go when it’s the Miami Dolphins: not great.That’s not to say Tannehill was a disaster. He was sharp, made nice throws, and showed a knack for the offense. It’s just that the…
Paul Ryan made his campaign stop in Florida this weekend where he introduced his mom to a bunch of old rich retired white people to make his point that he won’t take away their Medicare. The spry, enthusiastic 78-year old Betty Ryan Douglas trotted out on stage with her son and…
I did not set out writing last week’s feature — about pastor O’Neal Dozier’s connection to a plan hatched by the successor to Desmond Tutu, which just might save Africa — with the intention of getting Dozier fired.All I did was try to find out what was going on, and…
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue officials were called to Palm Beach International Airport on Sunday after two separate suspicious white powder incidents. The first powder was discovered on a baggage carousel after some luggage was opened and the mysterious stuff spilled out. The other was found on a plane inside…
The Dolphins’ second pre-season game tonight against the Carolina Panthers should be interesting, in that the entire roster remains in flux with five weeks left to go before the season starts.Players are injured, the receiving corps is a huge question mark, and our once-reliable kicker is now just a mound…
See also:Allen West Is a Troll, How Allen West Uses the Military and Ignores Its Biggest Problems, Allen West Not Paying Payroll Taxes on Campaign WorkersAllen West spoke with Fox News’ Sean Hannity last night and got all mad at them race baiting Democrats who are using the “race card”…
With first-team quarterback David Garrard down four to six weeks with a knee injury suffered when playing in the pool with his kids and second-string quarterback Matt Moore being a puppet and all, the Miami Dolphins will turn to first-round rookie pick Ryan Tannehill to start tonight’s preseason game at…
Most parents have experienced that terrifying moment while shopping when they lose sight of a child for a moment. A Fort Pierce woman had that experience too — for an hour.According to police, a 3-year-old boy was sitting all alone and crying in an aisle at the Deals’ Dollar Tree…
The 2012 RNC is about to get faaaaabulous!The gay conservative group GOProud will hold its Homocon 2012 event following the Republican National Convention in Tampa.”Homocon 2012 will be the must have ticket for the RNC,” the executive director and cofounder of GOProud, Jimmy LaSalvia, says on the group’s website.The event will…
