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Steak 954 Owners Sued in Class-Action Lawsuit
July 24, 2012 in Clean Plate Charlie
Steak 954Updated at 10:48 p.m. to include comment from Steak 954 spokesman Chad FabrikantA class-action federal lawsuit filed on Friday alleges that Starr Restaurants Hotel Group stiffed employees on overtime...
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House Cat Endures Two Days in Alligator Alley, and Four Other Amazing Pet Survivor Stories
July 23, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
If there's one thing Disney movies have taught us, it's that domesticated pets have an uncanny knack for surviving in the wild.The most recent real-world example happened when a car...
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Flo Rida Sued by Canadian Company for $200,000
July 20, 2012 in County Grind
A Canadian company has filed a lawsuit against Flo Rida and is seeking $200,000 from the Carol City rapper.The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in a Miami federal court, claims that Flo...
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Do Red-Light Cameras Save Broward Money?
July 20, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
See also "Six Ways to Avoid Red Light Cameras" and "Red Light Cameras May Increase Fatalities"A single-red light camera in Davie could save the city $177,000 the first year and...
A Fugitive on Facebook: Inside Fort Lauderdale's Most Bizarre Kidnapping
July 19, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
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Why MTV's Real World Needs Local Party Animal Anthony Crapella
July 18, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
Anthony CrapellaIt's easy to hate Anthony Crapella. He's loud and sarcastic and has a penchant for dropping his pants and streaking through crowds."My goal is to get famous before I'm...
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Fake Stripper Serves Octomom Lawsuit at Hallandale Strip Club
July 17, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
See also "Octomom to Be Sued for Keeping Her Clothes On"This past weekend, Nadya "Octomom" Suleman donned a schoolgirl outfit and paraded around stage at the Playhouse South, a Hallandale...
International Business Times Exaggerates Opposition to GM Mosquitoes, Spreads Fear Not Fact
Another Crazy-in-the-Keys Story
July 16, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
Broward Woman Steals Identities of Active U.S. Marines, Nearly Scams $50K
July 16, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
Center for Biological Diversity Demands Protection for Ten Florida Species
July 12, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
Petition Against Genetically Modified Mosquitoes in Key West Has Nearly 100,000 Signatures
Another Crazy-in-the-Keys Story
July 11, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
Buju Banton's Legal Team Asks for a New Trial
July 10, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
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Tuberculosis Can Spread Through Bong Tokes and Other Weird Facts About "White Plague"
July 10, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
See also "Florida Government Keeps Tuberculosis Deaths of 'Poor Black Men' Secet as Disease Spreads" and "Are Medical Marijuana Claims Made in Reggae Songs True?"The Palm Beach Post's Stacey Singer...
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Fort Lauderdale Almost Dead Last on Forbes' List of Best Places for Businesses and Careers
July 09, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
Invest elsewhere, kidThe big business brains over at Forbes compiled a list of 200 American cities that the magazine says are the best for "business and careers."Don't get your hopes...
Fort Lauderdale Proposes 2013 Budget; City Hall's $300,000 Paint Job and Five Other Talking Points
Politics, If You Can Call It That
July 09, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
Littlejohn's Lobbying Firm Has More Family Ties With Department of Environmental Protection
July 06, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
Whooping Cough Cases Surge in Broward, Florida
July 05, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
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Fort Lauderdale Streetcar a Terrible Idea, Cato Institute Says
July 03, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
Streetcar renderingLast month, the Department of Transportation announced that it will fork over an $18 million TIGER grant for the first phase of Fort Lauderdale's proposed Wave Streetcar. The plan,...
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DEP Brass Jeff Littlejohn's Parents Own Lobbying Firm With Questionable Clientele
July 02, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
Jeff LittlejohnSee also "DEP Getting Weaker Under Rick Scott" and "EPA Wants to Know if Herschel Vinyard Lied on His Resume"The number-two man at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection...
Can Vice Mayor Kristin Jacobs Save Broward From Climate Change?
June 29, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
CNN Botches Health-Care Ruling on Homepage
June 28, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
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Broward Commission Moves to Ban Bath Salts, Fake Weed; Boca Lawyer Says They're Completely Different
June 27, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
Read Synthetic Marijuana Ban Seems Like a Good Idea, Probably Won't Do MuchThe Broward County Commission has started crafting legislation to ban "bath salts and synthetic cannabinoid herbal incense that...
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Is Local Gay Publication HotSpots Porn? Feds Might Think So
June 27, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
HotSpots MagazineEarlier this month, the Justice Department arrested a 26-year-old Boca Raton resident John Michael Romero Mendoza for allegedly using the iPhone app BoyAhoy to arrange a sexual tryst with...
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Amy Fisher Moving to Florida: Five Facts About Palm Beach's Newest Pile of Human Trash
June 26, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
South Florida is littered with washed-up celebrities, from Vanilla Ice to Donald Trump. And while it's easy to riff on these past-their-prime peddlers of spectacle, they at least possess a...
Florida Department of Environmental Protection Getting Weaker Under Rick Scott
June 25, 2012 in The Daily Pulp
