Turns out the woman caught shooting an angry bird at the Bulls' Joakim Noah as he walked to the locker room is a Palm Beach socialite named Filomena Tobias.

And she has quite the cray story.

Along with being a socialite, she's also the widow of hedge-funder Seth Tobias -- her fourth husband -- who was found dead in his own pool in 2007.

Filomena's internet psychic accuses her of being Tobias' murderer. Seth Tobias, meanwhile, allegedly had an affair with a male stripper named Tiger. Also, she is neighbors with Michael Jordan.

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No mention of pit bull ban this time.

Months after stinging public rebuke and the condemnation of hundreds of dog owners, Broward County Commissioner Barbara Sharief has canceled requests for a pit bull ban and instead called for a "culture" that makes it mandatory to neuter and spay canines and more regulation on "backyard" dog breeding.

Following two separate community meetings with dog specialists and bite victims, Sharief and company also want more money in 2014 for additional animal control specialists and to train local cops on animal control.

All of the agenda items will go before the County Commission in May.

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The days of using your welfare card to make it rain on some fine ladies dancing on the pole, and then getting yourself some booze, is now officially a thing of the past.

On Friday morning, with no debate, the Florida Senate unanimously approved the bill that will not allow the use of state issued electronic benefits cards at strip clubs, liquor stores, or casinos.

The measure will now head to Gov Rick Scott's desk to become official.

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Florida got the Earth Day festivities kicked off early with some good old-fashioned litigation.

Over the weekend, Florida joined Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana in suing BP and Halliburton over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

The suit, filed by State Attorney General Pam Bondi in U.S. District Court in Panama City, gets after BP for not changing the batteries on the oil rig's blowout preventer and points the proverbial finger at Halliburton for installing faulty cement barriers.

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GREAT HORNY TOADS! KEEP YER HANDS OFF MAH GUNZ!

Ah, Florida Legislature.

No, Gays, you can't do that. No, Women, you can't do that. No, Poors, you can't have that.

BUT TAKIN' MAH GUNZ IS A VIOLATION OF MAH RIGHTS!!

And so it goes. 

When news broke that the gun control bill hit the proverbial brick wall and died Wednesday afternoon, your elected officials reacted like Yosemite Sam at a hoedown.

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via the JetHiking Gypsy facebook page.

With mergers and penny-pinching hitting commercial outfits across the board, air travel is pretty much a soul-crushing, wallet-buster these days. Just getting from A to B seems like a Double Dare obstacle course. The answer one for Fort Lauderdale woman has cooked up?

Pop a thumb and hitch a ride.

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Texting and driving is closer to being an illegal thing in Florida, thanks to Rep. Doug Holder's CSHB 13 bill, which cleared its final hurdle in the Florida House and will now head to the floor for final votes.

The votes are expected to happen sometime next week after the bill got the go-head via a vote by the House Economic Affairs Committee.

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Michael Morales (BSO)

Michael Morales of Pompano Beach is the director of Matrix Volleyball Academy who likes to have his teenaged female players "all in" if they're going to be on his team.

And by "all in," we mean he allegedly wants them to have sex with him.

According to Broward Sheriff's Office detectives, Morales, 38, was arrested for trying to pressure one of his players to engage in sexual acts with him in exchange for being a part of the academy.

The alleged victim is 15 years old.

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Good news, Florida, you're number one in something that doesn't have to do with concealed weapons, or people who get arrested for shooting themselves in the penis!

The state announced on Monday that Florida has begun the new year with a 7.8 percent unemployment rate, which is the lowest since November 2008.

And this is a brand new rate that still has that new-rate smell!

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On Monday afternoon, a Senate select committee rejected moving forward with an expansion of the Medicaid program under the federal Affordable Care Act, even after Gov. Rick Scott expressed a desire to see it expanded and even though state hospitals and businesses wanted to see it expanded and even though the majority of Floridians want to see it expanded.

So it looks like the solution to get affordable health care for Florida's poor is for them not to ever get sick.

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