The mother of a 13-year old student at Lauderhill Middle School is suing the School Board of Broward County after a teacher at the school engaged in sexual activity with the boy when he was a student in her 8th grade class.

In 2009, teacher Kristin Sullivan began engaging in sexual activities with the boy, who was 13 at the time. The inappropriate relationship included kissing, oral sex and sexual intercourse.

Sullivan entered a no contest plea to aggravated child abuse charges in 2011, when the relationship was exposed by the boy's girlfriend.

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Traffic is pretty bad down here in South Florida to begin with. Usually it's because of an accident, or rush hour, or simply because people want to slow to 15 mph on a 55 mph highway to look at a guy changing his tired on the side of the road.

But Thursday morning's traffic woes were thanks to a big-ass alligator who decided to saunter onto the middle of the road and just chill all, "PFFT. I'M AN ALLIGATOR. COME AND TRY TO MOVE ME OFF THE ROAD."

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Radio "shock jock" Howard Stern has reportedly bought himself a mansion in Palm Beach, according to Gossip Extra.

Someone purchased the lavish oceanfront home on 601 N. County Road for a whopping
$52-million, according to sales records. And that someone is apparently Stern and his wife Beth Ostrosky.

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Environmental activists across Florida have been waiting more than two years for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to land a serious body blow against the state's enforcement branch. The question was whether Herschel Vinyard's place at the top of Florida's Department of Environmental Protection was a violation the Clean Water Act due to his past employment. Now, the federal agency has finally answered the complaint, and the response isn't exactly what Florida's green crowd was hoping for.

See also:
- DEP Secretary Herschel Vinyard Says He Didn't Lie on Résumé; PEER Not Buying It
- EPA Wants to Know if Herschel Vinyard, Secretary of Florida's Department of Environmental Protection, Lied on His Resume

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Dwyane Wade would like us all to talk to his ass.

After dealing with an annoying and painful bone bruise in his right knee, and playing like a shell of himself, it seemed that the whispers of his demise came stronger and harder than ever before.

We even suggested he should sit out last night's Game 5 against the Chicago Bulls to rest up for the Eastern Conference Finals.

The doubters came from everywhere, and as the game wore on, it was apparent Wade was drowning in pain and taking us all down with him.

But then, just when the Heat needed a jolt to close things out, Wade reminded everyone that he is an unflinching dynamo of ass-wreckage, and took a flamethrower to the Bulls, the haters, and the doubters.

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"Can't anybody here play this game?" -- Baseball manager Casey Stengel, about the 1962 New York Mets, whose 120 losses are the most by any MLB team in one season in the 20th century.

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- Chick-fil-A Stadium: FAU Considered Homophobic Firm

Hapless Florida Atlantic University president Mary Jane Saunders resigned yesterday, and with their usual talent for due diligence and public relations savvy, the board of trustees filled the still-stinking seat with Dennis Crudele, who reportedly was go-between in the school's effort to sell naming rights to its football stadium to the notoriously homophobic fast-food chain Chick-fil-A.

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Rick Scott may have opened the door to what would be quite the dynamic duo of derpness at the top. Scott told a Tampa-area radio station that he would be cool with considering former Rep. Allen West as his next lieutenant governor.

Actually, Scott basically just gave a polite answer when asked about Col. Commie Hunter, but that didn't stop local Democrats from flipping their lid and demanding donations to stop West from filling the vacant seat.

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The city's Planning & Zoning Board met Wednesday night at Fort Lauderdale City Hall and recommended approval for the Marina Lofts development high-rise apartments proposed for near downtown Fort Lauderdale, without even considering the 100-year-old rain tree at the center of the controversy at the meeting.

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- Water Taxi Employee Fired for Video Defending Rain Tree: "Tell Him to Stick It Up His Ass and Fire Me"
- Showdown at City Hall Tonight on Rain Tree and Marina Lofts Development

A city resolution that declared commissioners must consider the tree in any proposed development years ago, but that was evidently ignored at the City Hall meeting.

Commission will vote on it all at an undetermined later time. But things don't look good for the tree, and those seeking to save it.

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An exotic dancer is recovering after suffering through a horrible series of events at the hands of a Boynton Beach man, police say.

Thomas R. Fitzsimmons, 50, is accused of sexually assaulting the 39-year old stripper -- whose name is being withheld -- at gunpoint, while psychologically torturing her with bizarre death threats during the ordeal, the Sun-Sentinel reports.

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FAU President Mary Jane Saunders turned in a letter of resignation Tuesday, which the university's Board of Trustees Chair Anthony K.G. Barbar "regretfully" accepted.

Saunders' resignation ends a three-year tenure that has embroiled Florida Atlantic University in turmoil and controversy the past several months, including accusations of her sideswiping a student protester with her car, the school's so-called "Owlcatraz" stadium-naming controversy, and Professor James Tracy's espousing insane conspiracy theories.

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