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A Mississippi man was arrested on Monday for trying to pocket more than one of the 15 bricks of cocaine that washed ashore over the weekend. Biloxi police announced that Joey Lee Ware, 37, has been charged with aggravated trafficking of controlled substances after he was found with a brick and a half of coke plastered with a Dior label, drawing a connection between […]
A Florida teen has been hospitalized for three weeks after going swimming and being infected by a brain-eating amoeba. Caleb Ziegelbauer’s family told CBS News their 13-year-old son was at Port Charlotte Beach Park on July 1, where they believe he came in contact with the organism. Five days later Caleb was taken to the hospital—where he has remained […]
An 8-year-old child was hospitalized after being bitten by a shark on a Florida beach on the Fourth of July, WFTV reports. The unidentified boy was visiting the Ponce Inlet beaches in Volusia County when he was bitten in the right leg while in waist deep water by a shark believed to be around two to three feet […]
A beachfront condo tower in the Miami, Florida area partially collapsed early Thursday, leaving at least one person dead. Overnight, the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department announced they were on the scene of a partial building collapse in the town of Surfside. At the time, more than 80 units were confirmed to be on the scene, […]
Last week, the job of a select group of U.S. Border Patrol agents was made very easy when a cocaine shipment with an estimated value of more than $1 million simply washed onto the shore of a beach in Florida, per CNN. That load of narcotics, which was in 30 packages, was found last Monday by […]
With more and more states slowly planning to reopen public spaces closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, it has been announced that beaches and lakes across Jersey Shore will open back up soon. The move was announced by New Jersey governor Phil Murphy, who said that the Jersey Shore will be reopened for Memorial Day weekend, citing […]
California’s springtime heatwave has prompted tens of thousands of people to hit the beach amid the coronavirus pandemic. According to CBS Los Angeles, lifeguards in and around Orange County say more than more than 50,000 people visited beaches on Friday, with more expected in the upcoming days as temperatures near 100 degrees. “It’s hot out, and we’re seeing the […]
French police are investigating the reoccurring appearance of packages of “very pure” cocaine washing up on the shores of beaches along the Atlantic coast, The Guardian reports. On Sunday, a new batch of about 31 pounds of cocaine appeared on the Pornic shore in western France, bringing the total amount in recent weeks to more than […]
Today is Jennifer Lopez’s 50th birthday, and as a tribute to the musician and actress, Miami Beach, Florida has officially named July 24 “Jennifer Lopez Day.” Mayor Dan Gelber and Commissioner Michael Gongora plan to gift Lopez with the proclamation alongside the keys to the city on Wednesday night before her string of three shows at […]
We need a new Harmony Korine movie, perhaps now more than ever. And from the looks of the new red band trailer for The Beach Bum starring Matthew McConaughey as a writer whose art is being impeded by his own hard-partying lifestyle, the admirably experimental director’s first film since Spring Breakers will be well worth the wait. […]
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