According to ESPN.com’s Brian Windhorst, some NBA executives believe the L.A. Lakers are going to target the Miami Heat’s LeBron James when he becomes a free agent in 2014, because of reasons. The Lakers are very good at building championship contenders, like they did this off-season when they traded for…
Remember Marc Leder? The Boca resident, private equity executive, and Patrick Bateman-look-a-like who loves throwing sex parties and hosted the fundraiser for rich people where Mitt Romney famously took a piss on 47 percent of Americans? Well, he’s totally going to host another event for the Mittbot. And this time,…
Oh, hey, South Florida. Good news! We’re number one in being the least affordable place to live in the 25 largest metro areas for moderate income households. Woo hoo! According to a new study from the Washington-based Center for Housing Policy and the Chicago-based Center for Neighborhood Technology, South Florida households…
The one and only debate between Bill Nelson and Connie Mack went down Wednesday night at Nova Southeastern University, and it had all the decorum and civility of the last three minutes of Reservoir Dogs. The two candidates took to their respective podiums and immediately began attacking each others’ records…
Update: A representative for Armor has clarified that the press release quoted below was not issued in response to our previous story, but was written back in August “to highlight the positive trend in Broward County Jail’s successful detox program.”The release highlights many of the program’s successes, including a marked…
Gone are the days of chalkboards, abacuses, and dunce caps. Nowadays elementary-school students (of a certain social stratus) tote iPads and laptops and get shamed for their stupidity on social media. And while the prospect of Little Billy jumping on Plantation Middle School’s wireless network to polish his social studies…
Terri Wright is one of the jurors who helped convict reggae singer Buju Banton in a federal drug and gun trial in February 2011. She’s also passionate about law. The Tampa resident, who works in the insurance industry, jokes that she would be a professional juror if she could. But…
Edward Crisante Jr., a depressive 32-year-old, turned himself in at the Broward Main Jail on June 29, 2010, after failing to appear in court on traffic charges. He left the jail four days later on a stretcher after hanging himself in his bunk with a bedsheet. He died in the…
Cancer was killing Ethel Frazier. For a year, the disease wracked her body. Round after round of chemotherapy had left the 64-year-old frail and exhausted. By this past January, she was nearing the end. Ethel’s husband, Walter, couldn’t understand why she was dying. A quiet man settling into retirement —…
According to former ESPN/MSNBC/Current TV personality, Keith Olbermann, the Miami Marlins have been in discussion with the New York Yankees on a possible trade for third baseman Alex Rodriguez. Olbermann says his sources claim that one possible scenario would be for the Yankees to pay for a portion of A-Rod’s…
So you got a hankerin’ for a pulled pork sandwich and a beer and decide to take the wife and kids out for a bite at your favorite restaurant. And there you are, at Paddy Murphy’s, munching on your sandwich, the kids eating their burgers, the Misses eating her pasta…
Getting a hold of a government representative can leave you feeling a little butthurt. Be it wanting to talk about a water bill, or getting a new license plate, or to tell someone raccoons are eating from trash cans and leaving a mess, it’s been nearly impossible to get through…
Adam Manuel Lee Raicies, of Tampa, was in court at a 9 a.m. Monday to go before a judge and be sentenced for giving false information to a law enforcement officer. Raicies, 25, was given probation by Circuit Judge Dick Greco. That’s when Raicies went bananas. Because he didn’t want to…
Because the weather is awesome and because of beaches and because we do, in fact, rock, South Florida has hosted a record ten Super Bowls. And now SoFla is among the finalists to host what will be a milestone 50th Super Bowl. Although the NFL may want to stop it…
A few weeks ago, the first presidential debate took place, in which Barack Obama was replaced by a sock puppet and Mitt Romney was declared President for Life. The Mittbot was spirited and on the offense, while pointing his finger and blaming the president for all the ills of society…
They were back in force again last night, some 40 strong local GOPers to cheer on the Romster at the Palm Beach Ale House. No red-white-and-blue boaters as at PrezDebate I, but balloons on the tables in red and blue with white stars. Almost cheerful enough to make up for…
This being South Florida, ya takes yer mystical experiences where ya finds ’em. So it was in a nondescript Boynton Beach medical building last Friday night that two dozen local souls gathered to get the lowdown on the much-talked-about Mayan calendar and its supposedly apocalyptic implications. In the past year…
Unless your last name is Cousteau or James Cameron has taken a personal interest in you, getting funding for marine biology research is tough. Just ask Jose Lopez, a professor at Nova Southeastern University who’s on the verge of major research breakthrough. He just needs $4,500 to get over the…
If you’re driving down A1A between now and 8 p.m. you may want to know that the Fort Lauderdale Police Department is conducting a traffic safety checkpoint.The checkpoint is located at the 2500 and 2600 blocks of North Ocean Boulevard, A1A. Fun!…
Winter Park residents Marshall Phillips and Destin McMahon didn’t care for the food they were served at Wazzabi restaurant Sunday night. So they decided to tell their server they were unsatisfied. The server then apologized profusely and wondered what they could do to make things better. And by “the server…
Jason Espeland had himself a case of road rage. And he paid for it by being on the wrong end of a severe beatdown. According to Boca police, 32-year-old Espeland’s 2013 Hyundai Accent was cut off by a white Lincoln Navigator on Military Trail just before 9 a.m. Having another…
According to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, a voucher plan for Medicare — like the one Mittington Romnom RoboRomney and his young ward P90Ryan are proposing — would cost Florida patients more than $100 million. But since the Mittbot is promising instant jobs to everyone as soon as…
