Since 2006, attorney and courthouse muckraker William “Bill” Gelin has been shaking up the judiciary on his popular site, JAA Blog. Whether sounding off about potential corruption and racism in the courthouse ruling class, or even its work habits, the 46-year-old Oakland Park attorney hasn’t held back his opinions. But…
Update: The Boy Scouts voted today to allow gay youth to participate. 61 percent of the voted in favor. Cue the trumpets and fanfare: today might be the day when the Boy Scouts of America finally cross into 21st Century. Sure, it’s a little belated. For the last few years,…
Depending on where you come down on the whole animal-rights thing, you probably watched the video of Florida’s finest d-bags jumping onto some innocent manatees with something between shock and rage. This week we posted the vid, some dumpster-grade Jackassery courtesy of two Cocoa Beach brainiacs. Thankfully, the federales have…
See South Florida? We knew underneath all that sun-soaked apathy and cosmetic work you had some dormant activist ire. Last week, we clued you in on the protests breaking out around the country against the possible sale of the Tribune Co.’s fleet of top-quality news sources. Demonstrations were held in…
F. Scott Fitzgerald certainly laid it out best about the rich: they are different from you and me. The Palm Beach society battle between the heirs of the National Enquirerfortune has shifted into high-gear again. As well told you earlier this month, Paul Pope and his mother Lois have been…
The media “Kochtapus” could soon be a reality. The clock is running down on the sale-time for the Tribune Company, a package of some of the most venerated newspapers in the country, including our own Sun-Sentinel. The troubled company is expected to go to the highest bidder this month, and,…
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…
Let’s say you… err, no… your friend happened to illegally download some porn over the past year or so. Now, your friend knew he was breaking the law when he did it. And sure, it’s gross, but he was sad and cripplingly lonely, and they had just installed high-speed Wi-Fi…
“It didn’t go the way it was supposed to.” That was the news from a clearly-disappointed Gary Karp about his trip last week to the Bahamas. After spending a decade squeezing out every tiny scrap of information possible in the still-unsolved murder of his daughter, Karp was hoping a Hail…
Let’s say yo. . . err . . . no, your friend, happened to illegally download some porn over the last year or so. Now, your friend knew he was breaking the law when he did it. And sure, it’s gross, but he was sad and cripplingly lonely and they…
Late Wednesday evening, Charlie Crist set off a small detonation in the political sphere by throwing his support behind gay marriage. Now, this wasn’t exact a surprise. Since officially signing his Democrat papers six months ago, the former Florida governor has been slowly ditching his old Republican stances. Crist 2.0…
Well, that’s a bit of a flip-flop. Charlie Crist, the former Republican-now-Democrat working overtime to make voters forget all about his past life, came out for marriage equality last night on his Facebook page. Right now it’s political trendy for former gay marriage opponents ditch their old views, and anyone…
Back in 2008, former Boca Raton employee Christine Ferrigan alerted government regulators about possible problems with the city’s water department. Ferrigan claimed she was fired after raising concerns, and she filed a whistleblower suit. But her complaint led to action. A case report done in 2010 by the Division of…
Gary Karp again is taking over the reins. As he has countless times in the decade since his teenaged daughter, Marissa, was found dead in the Everglades, yesterday the Broward man held a news conference, reminding South Florida about the unsolved case. The recent occasion was Karp’s trip this week…
Back in 2008, a former Boca Raton employee named Christine Ferrigan alerted government regulators about possible problems with the city’s water department. Ferrigan claimed she was fired after raising concerns, and she filed a whistleblower suit. See also – Boca Raton Utility Ordered to “Immediately” Fix Water Contamination Problems -…
After weeks of anticipation, it looks like John Goodman is going to get another trial. The “polo mogul” — which, if you translate that into middle-class English, means rich dude with nothing better to do all day — wasn’t given a fair shake in his original courtroom appearance, a Palm…
Over on the West Coast, at the offices of the Washington State Attorney General, the phones have been buzzing with angry callers. Florida is the reason why. Until recently, the two state’s shared reciprocity for concealed weapons permits, meaning that the right paper in one state would greenlight you to…
Samuel Little is not the guy you’d want to bump into alone in a dark alley. A hulking former boxer armed with a cold glare, on paper he’s a career criminal with a rap sheet stretching across 24 states. Police now believe Little was actually a vicious serial killer who…
It’s Tuesday morning and Paul Pope’s staff is hustling around a walk-in closet in his Spanish Colonial spread in Highland Beach. A buxom 30-something with cascading brunet hair sits on the floor cradling a black-belt-fed M60 machine gun. Nearby, a stocky middle-aged man in a baggy white sports coat casually…
The idea of swallowing down morning coffee alongside some front-page libertarian bloviation courtesy of a Koch-owned Sun Sentinel isn’t sitting too well with some. Last week, we sent out a smoke signal about the possible media sale everyone is talking about: The South Florida daily’s parent — the Tribune Co…
If you ordered up a bounce house for Junior’s birthday or celebrated a quince with a pony ride in South Florida over the past few months, you might want to listen up. According to police, a suspected gangbanger with some nasty associations may have been splitting his time between law…
Hey, smoke heads: chill. Seriously. It’s going to be okay. Trust us There’s a lot of paranoid chatter out on the interwebs about the fallout from yesterday’s passage in the Florida house of the bong ban. It’s understandable. Basically everyone wants to know WHAT IT ALL MEANS? CAN I STILL…
