Fort Lauderdale

PHOTOS: The Country's Ultimate Rooftop Bars

Oyster | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Miami, Rooftop Bars, Drinking, Travel, Hotels, Food and Drink Travel, Fort Lauderdale, Bars, Slidepollajax, Hotel Bars, Los Angeles, New York City, Travel News

If you're daydreaming about sipping on a perfectly made cocktail a few stories above street level too, check out our selection of the hottest hotel rooftop bars across the country now.

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Fort Lauderdale Should Re-think Its Approach on Panhandling

Dante Trevisani | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale Panhandling, Fort Lauderdale Panhandling Ordinance, Miami Impact, Fort Lauderdale City Commission, Miami News

Instead of addressing the issue of homelessness by offering public assistance, Fort Lauderdale seeks to simply force homeless residents out by criminalizing their very means of survival. This is neither a moral nor fiscally sound approach.

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Fort Lauderdale To Residents: Stop Giving Money To Homeless

Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Jack Seiler, Video, Fort Lauderdale Homeless Campaign, Fort Lauderdale Panhandling, United Way of Broward, Fort Lauderdale, Nathan Pim, Broward Partnership for the Homeless, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler, Slidepollajax, Miami News

Fort Lauderdale commissioners really don’t want residents giving money to the homeless, angering advocates by spending a reported $26,350 on a campa...

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Fort Lauderdale's Attack on the Homeless

Nathan Patches Pim | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Food Not Bombs, Fort Lauderdale, Helping the Homeless, Homelessness, Fort Lauderdale Homeless, Fort Lauderdale Panhandling, Slidepollajax, Miami News

Today, Fort Lauderdale's message is that it is so important to not give a homeless person a buck that they want to spend over 25,000 of said bucks to remind people not to do it.

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Florida: It's Time to Do More to Protect Sharks

Adrian Grenier | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Shark Finning, Florida, Shark Fin Ban, Shark Fin Soup, Sharks, Scalloped Hammerhead Sharks, Fort Lauderdale, Tiger Shark, Oceana, Green News

Did you know that it's currently legal in Florida to sell, possess and distribute shark fins? This needs to change.

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Accused Drug Dealer Wears 'Crack Jacket' To Court

Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Video, Crack Recipe on Coat, Florida Crime, Crack Recipe on Jacket, Joshua Rydell, Crack Jacket, Crack on Jacket, Dumb Criminals, Fort Lauderdale, Weird Florida, Shirt With Crack Recipe, Crack Coat, Crack Recipe Jacket, Weird News News

A Florida defendant already in trouble with the cops may now be in trouble with the fashion police, for walking into a Fort Lauderdale courtroom on Fr...

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Biking With Alligators

Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D. | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Florida, Miami-Dade, Biking, Exercise, Nature, Everglades, Fort Lauderdale, South Florida, Outdoors, National Parks, Alligators, Wildlife, Shark Valley, Birds, Nps, Protrailsmiami, Miami News

So the boyfriend and I are on our way to the Everglades to bike the Everglades' Shark Valley Loop Trail. I love the outdoors, I love exercising: this was perfect. And then I realized I was going to be biking 15.4 miles. With alligators.

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Florida City May Buy One-Way Bus Tickets For Homeless To Clear Streets

Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Busing Homeless, Jack Seiler, Fort Lauderdale, G.W. Rolle, Homelessness, Mayor Bloomberg, St. Petersburg, Video, Impact News

After placing 7,000 people in shelters and housing programs earlier this year, Fort Lauderdale is considering an alternative solution to homelessness ...

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Caught On Tape: Homeowners Association Prez Beaten, Robbed

Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Arthur Burns Beaten, Surveillance Video, Arthur Burns, Fort Lauderdale, Crime, Caught on Tape, Homeowners Association, Miami News

A Fort Lauderdale homeowners association president trying to quiet a noise disturbance in his community was sucker-punched from behind then brutally b...

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US Airways Lets Man In Women's Panties Fly

AP | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: University of New Mexico, San-Francisco-International-Airport, Phoenix, US Airways, Deshon-Marman, Fort Lauderdale, San Francisco, Deshon-Marman-Baggy-Pants, Man in Panties, Bay Area, Weird News News

SAN FRANCISCO — Days before a college football player was arrested on a US Airways flight at San Francisco airport following a dispute over his ...

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Pet Travel: One Dog's Flight on Pet Airways (PHOTOS)

Kathy McCabe | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Air Travel, Finney, Pet Airways, Dog Travel, Pets, Dog Rescue, Fort Lauderdale, Phineas, Travel, American Fox Terrier Rescue, Terriers, Kathy Mccabe, Dogs, Travel With Pets, Flying, Denver, Airlines, Travel News

It was pets only when my new rescue fox terrier Finney flew from the East Coast to Denver on Pet Airways, the airline where pets, and pets only, fly in the comfort of the plane's cabin.

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The New Fort Lauderdale - 100 Years in the Making

Dwight Brown | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: History, Hotels, Waterways, Canals, Restaurants, Beaches, Yacht, Native Americans, Florida, Fort Lauderdale, Vacation, Travel, Film Festivals, Art Galleries, Tennis, African Americans, Travel News

Remember when Fort Lauderdale was crowned the ultimate party town for rowdy frat boys on spring break? Well, times have changed.

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Substitute Teacher Training

Christopher Reeve | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: William Amory, Education, Child Abuse, Substitute, Fort Lauderdale, Training, Sarasota, Florida, Teacher, Broward, Education News

In the absence of their regular teacher, students need and deserve a qualified substitute teacher to ensure that instruction moves forward in a safe environment.

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New Consumer Agency Is Frightfully Necessary -- And Late

Elizabeth Warren | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dodd-Frank Act, Foreclosure Paperwork, Check Cashing, Financial Services, Payday Lenders, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Robo-Signers, Financial Services Oversight Council, Mortgage Servicers, Financial Reform, Fort Lauderdale, Foreclosure, Subprime Mortage Crisis, Financial Regulation, Business News

Haphazard and possibly illegal practices at mortgage-servicing companies have called into question home foreclosures across the nation. The latest disclosures are deeply troubling.

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The Riskiest Housing Markets In America: PMI (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Sara Yin and Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miami Beach, Naples Florida, Cape Coral Florida, Fort Lauderdale, Real Estate, Las Vegas, Riskiest Housing Markets, Florida Real Estate, Riverside California, Foreclosures, Slidepollajax, Lake Havasu, PMI Mortgage Insurance, Pmi, Business News

The economy may or may not be inching its way toward a recovery, but for now the housing market is still very much in flux. PMI, a mortgage insuranc...

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Bracing For Flooding at Hurricane Time in Already Soggy Florida

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2010 Hurricane Season, Flooding, Knight Center for International Media, Fort Lauderdale, 1926 Hurricane, Lake Okeechobee, Eric Buermann, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Noaa, 1928 Hurricane, South Florida Water Management District, Tropical Storms, National Hurricane Center, Florida Hurricanes, Green News

A few feet of water may push into houses and offices. The costs can get into the hundreds of millions of dollars, but deaths are rare. Trouble at Lake Okeechobee, however, could be a nightmare.

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Naked Bird Dancing: No Feathers, No Problem (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fort Lauderdale, Cockatoo, Naked Cockatoo, Naked Bird, Oscar, Bald Cockatoo, Bald, Bald Bird, Naked, Dancing Bird, Naked Dancing Bird, Featherless Bird, Featherless, Video, Green News

Birds of a feather flock together, which may explain why Oscar flies solo. The plucky -- and plucked -- cockatoo beat the odds to survive a beak and ...

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Family Turns To Online Community To Save Mother With Heart Transplant

HuffPost | Victoria Fine and Jonathan Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fort Lauderdale, Maureen Waters, Uninsured, Heart Transplant, Mendaheart, Mend a Heart, Help Mend a Heart, Maureen Pundik, Impact News

Maureen Waters was a perfectly healthy 52-year-old from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She has three children and an eight-month-old grandson named Noah. Af...

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Bernie Madoff's Yacht, Smaller Boats Up For Auction

AP | CURT ANDERSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Madoff Auction, Fort Lauderdale, Madoff Car, Bernard Madoff, Bernie Madoff, Madoff Yacht, New York News

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A vintage 55-foot yacht named "Bull" and two smaller boats that once belonged to imprisoned financier Bernard Madoff are...

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Strippers in Cages Get Loose and Terrorize Small Florida Town

Tom McCaffrey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Police, Fort Lauderdale, Tom McCaffrey, Weird Florida, Revenge of the Nerds, Expensive Lap Dances, Cage Dancers, Skank, Menace to Society, Gentleman's Club, Excotic Dancers, Planet Hollywood, Inhumane, Florida, Vagina, Strippers, Comedy News

The strippers first robbed a gas station of all its 1 dollar bills. They then broke into an elderly home and gave everyone half-assed lap dances.

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A Fun Story From Florida

Karin Luisa | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Quick-Thinking, Yachts, Swimming, Fort Lauderdale, Canal, Visiting a Friend, Swimming at Night, Humor, Personal Narrative, Night Swim, Hitchhiking, Getting Lost, Healthy Living News

Last night, I decided to go jump in the canal for one final late night swim before going to bed. But when I turn around to swim back to the dock I don't see anything that looks familiar.

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Last Minute Endorsements Feed Bitter Florida Primary Battle

Ron Levitt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Endorsements Vy for Attentino in Bitter Florida Primary, 2008 Electon, Offthebus, Palm Beach Post, Rudy Giuliani GOP Votes Florida, John McCain, Sen. Barack Obama, Gainesville Sun, Forida Sun-Sentinel, Newspaper Endorsements Presidential Campaign 2008, John Edwards Endorsements, Democratic Primary Florida 2008, Barack Obama Endorsements, Fort Lauderdale, DNC 2008 Florida, Mitt Romney GOP Votes Florida, GOP Evangelical Vote Florida, John McCain GOP Votes Florida, Hillary Clinton Endorsements, Newspaper Endorsements Primaries 2008, GOP Latino Vote Florida, Mitt Romney Endorsements, John McCain Endorsements, Elderly Vote Florida GOP, Home News

Floridians go to the polls Tuesday with Democrats sparring for big state recognition with its "beauty contest" and the state's Republican governor pit...

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