Donald Trump, devoid of any meaningful role in American culture outside of a television show in which he fires marginally famous people from imaginary jobs, has settled nicely into a new, strange role as a political commentator, a role with all the hubristic indulgences of his campaign for president without…
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told Italian news website Linkiesta that “If Romney would offer me the post of vice president, I would consider the proposal very carefully.” At least according to a rough translation of the website.I don’t know how Saint Petersblog writer Peter Schorch found it, but he…
A couple months ago, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler was on the radio one fine Saturday, after spending the morning on his hands and knees along with local volunteers planting gardens of tropical foliage in Stranahan Park. With Seiler’s record of trying to get the homeless to disband from the…
March 13 was shaping up to be another day of protests and partying at Fort Peace, Occupy Miami’s grungy Overtown safe house. More than a dozen members had shaken off their hangovers and emerged to demonstrate against a bank. But before they could gather their handmade signs and head downtown,…
The latest battle over genetically modified organisms is brewing in Key West. On one side, a British biotechnology firm called Oxitec and a mild-mannered Midwesterner by the name of Michael Doyle, who heads mosquito control operations in the Keys. Together, they want to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in the heart of…
Update 2, 5/31: A Maryland man was just arrested on charges that he ate a man’s heart and brain.Update, 5/31: Our order was canceled by the third-party company that handles the Herald’s photo orders.Original post, 5/29:If you went anywhere near social media over the weekend, you’ve already heard about Rudy…
Dear Rick Scott,Just a quick note to congratulate you on returning Florida to the electoral Dark Ages. You began by reinstating an archaic rule that forces ex-felons to wait five years after completing their sentences to have their voting rights restored. Very strategic thinking on your part. Twelve years ago,…
Nicole Okrzesik and James Ayers have been arrested in the March murder of 19-year-old Juliana Mensch.We’ve already brought you the creepy text messages between Okrzesik and Ayers after the crime and the homicidal Google searches Okrzesik allegedly made, but there’s more: In addition to text-message arguments about what to do…
I was checking out at Publix a few days ago when a man came up behind me in the express lane, put down his sandwich, and started muttering about whether they would screen him for putting terrorist weapons in the sandwich and how there is “no freedom left in this…
Earlier this month, Shaquille O’Neal graduated from Miami’s Barry University with an Ed.D. in Leadership in Education. You’ll be happy to know Dr. O’Neal has been putting his freshly polished brain-pieces to work and is doing his darnedest to exercise Leadership in Education for Harbin Brewery, a Chinese company that decided…
The Fort Lauderdale chapter of the food-sharing network Food Not Bombs gathered on Friday afternoon, as it has done most weeks for years, to serve free vegetarian food with a side of anarchist literature, guitar-strumming, and antiestablishment conversation. We covered them in a feature story a while back and returned…
If you haven’t already heard about the weirdest DUI arrest since the Ron Jon Surf Shop guy got caught drinking Four Loko in his car, a quick run-down: Police say Orange County anesthesiologist Zachary Bird was arrested on DUI charges after he almost side-swiped a cop car and failed sobriety…
Update, 5/28: The boil advisory has been lifted, per WSVN. More on what the heck happened later this week.Original post, 5/25:A Broward County water plant serving Pompano Beach, Deerfield Beach, Lighthouse Point, and Coconut Creek has tested positive for “fecal indicators,” according to a statement just sent out by the…
There has been a lot of blogspace spent on the Sunlight Foundation’s latest study, which found that the speech patterns of members of Congress have gotten markedly simpler over the past 15 years or so.”Is Congress getting dumber, or just more plainspoken?” its headline asks, and the whole country at…
For more than a year, New Times has been investigating Thompson Academy, a publicly funded, privately run juvenile detention center in Pembroke Pines where teens have alleged they faced physical and sexual abuse. Most recently, the lockup’s top administrator, Craig Ferguson, left his post while under investigation by the state…
We’ve got a twofer of animal stories out of Palm Beach County. The first is from Delray Beach: According to police, two men tried to break into a house on Swinton Avenue on May 17 by chucking a brick through a window but fled when they discovered the windows were…
Quinnipiac University has been ringing Florida phones off their hooks the past week or two — a poll yesterday showed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pulling ahead of Barack Obama in the state, and there’s a poll about Florida baseball that came out this morning that’s of pretty much no…
A Boca Raton man arrested last week on accusations he was running a pill mill in Maryland may be the vice president of a Deerfield Beach clinic that was raided by the DEA last year.Gerald Wiseberg is a 78-year-old from Boca Raton resident currently free on bail outside of Baltimore…
From Sombrero Reef down in the Keys to the waters of West Palm Beach, red barrel sponges are disintegrating at worrisome rates. The culprit is unknown, and state scientists are busy trying to figure out just how widespread the disease outbreak is.At the end of April, Ed Tichenor of Palm Beach…
UPDATE, 3:26 p.m.: Received a statement from Broward College. Modified the post accordingly.A developing story from Gossip Extra: Apparently, a police leadership class at Broward College’s central campus was dismissed early today after “what appeared to be child porn popped up on the instructor’s computer as he taught.”The class is…
People magazine broke a story Tuesday under the headline “Casey Anthony Flushed Out of Hiding.” It featured Orlando lawyer Matt Morgan saying that he’d found Casey Anthony in order to serve her papers in a lawsuit but that at the 11th hour, her lawyers accepted the papers for her.”Our investigation…
Yesterday, we brought you the accusations against Rothstein Ponzi investors George Levin and Frank Preve, who the Securities and Exchange Commission says knew about Rothstein’s scam and fed hundreds of millions of dollars into it anyway.That post took you through what (allegedly) happened from the start of the scheme in…
