The state has decided not to renew its contract to house juvenile convicts at the privately run Thompson Academy. But officials from the Department of Juvenile Justice insist the move has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Thompson has seen abuse complaints, shifts in administration, judicial review, lawsuits,...
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We all do it. We get on the highway, notice there aren't any cops around, and stomp down on the gas like we're Tony Stewart trying to win the Daytona 500. Then we slow down when we come up to the trees where highway patrol cops sit and wait for...
A South Florida man died after participating in a live roach-eating contest held at Ben Siegel Reptile Store in Deerfield Beach. The Bugs for Balls competition, held on October 5, used live insects domestically raised for reptile food. The contestants who consumed the most bugs won ball pythons.According to Yahoo,...
Chef Andy Trousdale, an expat form northern England has been in the South Florida culinary scene for a number of years. A former yacht chef and culinary instructor at the Art Institute, he's had ample experience with teaching culinary enthusiasts about a wide range of strange and exotic foods. As part...
As hoards of consumers move to rape, pillage, and assault the retail world of its wares (and the nerves of the poor, unfortunate souls of its employ) we are sitting here, in our elastic waistband-equipped pants, pondering the ugliness that "door-busters" and "deep, deep discounts" can bring out in the masses...
Digital Domain, the Florida-based visual effects company that gave the world Titanic, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and a Tupac hologram, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy recently. And now, according to Gossip Extra, Dolphins great Dan Marino, who bought 1,576,525 shares in the animation studio, is among the biggest...
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John Textor doesn't want to talk to the press."I don't trust any of you," he said to a reporter on a recent weekday afternoon, answering the door of his cloistered Hobe Sound house in a faded green polo shirt, slacks, and sandals.See also:- Digital Domain's student labor plantationThe former CEO...
Citizens in Milwaukee are revolting against their sheriff over poor health care in jails. Patients have serious untreated health-care needs, and the only services the jails provide is pulling teeth. Sheriff David Clarke says the solution is to outsource jail medical care to a private Miami-based company, Armor Correctional Health...
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...
The University of Miami's Frost School of Music is a hotbed of talent. Case in point, Bruce Hornsby (though not the Range) graduated from the program in 1977. See also- Jaco Pastorius: The Story of an Oakland Park Man Who Was Also the Greatest Bass Player Who Has Ever Lived- Happy...
Mike Woika sounded dismayed, perplexed, and just a tad angry as he worked his way through our post from last week about Boca Raton's water supply and a recent Notice of Violation handed down by the Palm Beach County Health Department.See also-Boca Raton Utility Order to "Immediately" Fix Water Contamination...
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Today is the official first day of fall -- the autumnal equinox, if you will -- and it feels just like it, right? Not so much? Whatever; doesn't mean you can't celebrate the non-existent-for-now season with a sampling of cool weather flavors (and no, that doesn't mean candy corn Oreos)...
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...
If scientists could harness the power of a black hole and build a time machine, we could use it to go back in time to kill Hitler and cure AIDS while going forward in time and seeing who wins the next 40 World Series while also living in a Rick...
Today at about 1:15 EST, stuntman and skydiver Felix Baumgartner is scheduled to be lifted via a special balloon to the edge of space. Wearing a pressurized spacesuit-type outfit, he will step out of a capsule and hurtle toward Earth, in hopes of breaking the sound barrier -- without a...
The following is excerpted from a multipart series by former Sun-Sentinel Staff Writer Bill Hirschman, who is now editor, chief critic, and reporter for Florida Theater Onstage. To read the entire series, visit floridatheateronstage.com. The single most profound problem facing South Florida theater is that almost no one knows it's...
By just about any measure, Congress is at its lowest point in history. Only 9 percent of the country has a favorable view of the 535 men and women who make up the bicameral body. One poll even revealed that they're less popular than cockroaches, traffic jams, and that ultimate...
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Doctors Cynthia Cadet and Joseph Castronuovo were charged last year, along with 30 others, in participating in the George brothers' South Florida pill-mill scheme that dished out millions of pain pills to patients from as far away as Ohio. So far, almost all of those people -- including both Christopher...
The Miami Marlins had what you might call a bit of a crappy season. Even though they entered this year superexcited about their brand-new stadium, their brand-new $100 million payroll, their brand-new shortstop, their brand-new closer, their brand-new manager, and being featured on Showtime's The Franchise, things went south pretty...
Open the neat spreadsheet and scroll past the listing of local developers, prominent attorneys, and personal trainers. You'll find a lengthy list of nicknames: Mostro, Al Capone, El Cacique, Samurai, Yukon, Mohamad, Felix Cat, and D.R. Then check out the main column, where their real names flash like an all-star...
That the American cinema is deader than Dillinger is a fact no right-thinking observer unwilling to be laughed out of the room would even think of denying today. To do the current round of think piece writers one better, we will add that not only are the movies dead, but...