This morning, a Miami man told an NBC reporter that he plans to secure his shirtless body to a post outside while the Category 4 Hurricane Irma hits. »
Irma on track to be the most catastrophic storm for Florida, says Governor Rick Scott “Hurricane Irma is beginning to better, err, to batter the Florida Keys with dangerous winds…” One good thing about our state is we have very interpretive interpreters… »
Just in case you’re interested, here’s the original link: https://keys.craigslist.org/m4w/d/do-you-need-place-to-ride-out/6296305618.html do you need a place to ride out storm (jacksonville) hello ladys single man here looking for any single women needing a place to stay in Jacksonville to ride out the hericane i live alone but hate to sleep alone its more fun to cuddle […] »
DAVIE, Fla. – The first Hurricane Irma-related death to be reported in South Florida happened Thursday in Davie, authorities said. Davie police said a 57-year-old man died after falling off a ladder while putting up shutters at a home in the Shenandoah area. “I never seen anything like that in my life, though. So, it’s […] »
Ladies and Gentlemen, I think it actually fucking happened… within the last 24 hours, as everyone scrambles to prepare for Hurricane Irma by purchasing copious amounts of drugs and alcohol, the news stations have not reported any stories of outlandishly depraved nonsense taking place… Either everyone’s too busy to get in trouble, or the news […] »
Redditor GALACTICA-Actual has a brilliant exposition on this: I’m ex law enforcement, and yes, this was an asshole move. I don’t know anything about this guy, so I’m not going to try to speak to his motivations, but this is problematic in a few ways. Yes, if we run someone for a warrant and they […] »
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) – Police say a Florida woman invited the father of her 4-year-old daughter to join her for “one last drug binge” before she entered a rehab program. »
Not everyone is cut out for babysitting. Take Holiday, Florida man Jesus Martinez for an example. He’s 27 years old, and like most people who have no real talent or interesting hobbies, he plays fantasy football to numb his miserable existence and fill his brain with irrelevant distractions. While thumbing away mindlessly at his draft […] »
RIVERVIEW — Three foreign nationals from India were arrested Saturday after deputies found a beaten woman and her child being held inside her home, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. »
If you happened upon Clearwater beach last Sunday afternoon in celebration of Labor Day, you may have spotted some of the indigenous Florida wildlife, called “Trampites,” happily at play. »
This is totally not click-bait. We are totally NOT exploiting a potential natural disaster that could kill thousands of people just to boost our advertising revenue. Nobody does this, especially not big news sites. »
A Jimmy John’s delivery cyclist was hit in a downtown crosswalk Thursday afternoon by a Miami police officer driving an unmarked car. But it was the sandwich deliveryman who went to jail. For 12 hours. Mason Morales was arrested for criminal mischief after he threw his bike against the car in anger, then handcuffed in […] »
Imagine a world where you can safely go to Publix without some idiot “standing their ground” and killing you. Imagine this kind of safety, while also looking sexy… Thanks to Miguel Caballero, it’s now possible. He’s bringing the works of his company “MC Armor” to Miami, offering fashionable bullet-proof clothing to The Gunshine State. »
A Melbourne dad was on his was to pick up his second child at school, when he passed out at a stoplight. The car was seen stopped in the middle of Hibiscus Boulevard, near the intersection of U.S. 1. “He could’ve rolled out in the middle of that intersection. This intersection has accidents all the […] »
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (WFLA) – A quick-thinking Florida homeowner is being credited with saving his girlfriend from a violent home invader. Hearing a knock on her front door, Christina Robles answered to find 17-year-old Matthew Cleveland, who asked for the location of a Largo park. When she didn’t know where it was, cops say Cleveland […] »
WEST PALM BEACH – Stealing a license plate attached to a vehicle is always a bad idea. Stealing it while three Palm Beach County Sheriff’s detectives sit inside conducting surveillance is probably worse. »
TAMPA (tampabay.com) — A tweet suggesting that the devastation of Hurricane Harvey was “instant karma” for the red state of Texas has cost a University of Tampa professor his job — making him just the latest academic fired for off-duty speech. The University first distanced itself from sociology professor Kenneth L. Storey on Monday. But […] »
A homeless Broward County man was arrested over the weekend after authorities alleged he ran naked and intoxicated through the parking lot of a West Palm Beach Wal-Mart. »
Hollywood, FL: In this video, a man is seen holding a hybrid of the Confederate Battle Flag and The Black Cross of Southern Nationalism. The latter flag’s design was stolen from Saint Andrew’s Cross (Celtic/Christian) and repurposed by America’s neo-racists, like the ones that showed up in Charlottsville. According to League of the South, a […] »
CHIPLEY – Imagine you’re at Kate Smith Elementary school waiting to pick up your kid, only to find that you’re not authorized… Jonathan Allen, 32, had this experience on August 28, after his estranged wife removed him from the list of persons authorized to pick up the child from school. Years of Florida sun have […] »
A woman in Key Largo thought she had a perfectly good reason to leave her toddler alone in a car at Publix while she went shopping on a Sunday night. When deputies asked her why she left her 1-year-old baby alone in the car while she perused the produce aisle, she told them this: “This […] »
The lives of Florida Couples remain a mystery to many. They are reclusive creatures who only venture out late at night to party, and are rarely seen in broad daylight. Thanks to the blunders of an Avon Park duo, we have yet another narrative of what really happens inside these Florida Couple habitats. It all […] »
Where do people from Georgia come to vacation? Well, the panhandle of course. It’s still the south, but with way better beaches. They can feel right at home surrounded by confederate battle flags and high school drop outs. An off duty cop from the Peach State brought his wife to Panama City Beach for a […] »
VENICE, FL (WWSB) – The Venice Police Department was on the scene of a school bus taking on water Monday morning. Around 7 a.m., officers helped rescue three special needs students and two adults from the school bus on East Venice Avenue around 7 a.m. Everyone is Ok and no injuries were reported. Source: mysuncoast.com »
Kissimmee has approved a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries. City leaders voted on the ban because they claim a new state law doesn’t give them enough room to regulate the industry. »
Authorities say a Florida police SWAT team shot and killed an armed woman who had been threatening suicide. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office says a Sunrise Police SWAT team went to an apartment Friday where an armed woman had barricaded herself inside and was threatening to kill herself. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Veda Coleman-Wright said in a […] »
UPDATE: A local anonymous tip claims that the 2 dead bodies had bullet holes in them, though news source have not stated that. WEIRSDALE — Two bodies were found Saturday morning inside a vehicle parked in a Dollar General parking lot. As of 11:30 a.m., the Marion County Sheriff’s Office was not providing identities of […] »
From the Marion County Sheriff’s Office FB page: “CRACK MONEY”: MAN STUFFS OVER $1,000 IN RECTUM IN ATTEMPT TO HIDE IT FROM DEPUTIES To quote everyone’s mom, “Don’t put that in your mouth, you don’t know where it’s been!!” »
MARION COUNTY, Fla. – A Marion County man attempted to sneak heroin into jail using his prosthetic leg, deputies said. Deputies said William Conley, 53, was being booked into the Marion County Jail on Thursday when two deputies ordered him to remove his prosthetic leg so they could search it. »