Gee, what could go wrong when you and your buddy just smoked some weed in your car, and with the remaining ounce still in the car, you order a “blunt and some herbs” at the Burger King drive-through?Apparently it’s enough for the cops to get involved.According to the Volusia County…
After getting kicked off a county bus for rapping/yelling with a healthy dose of profanity on November 18, the cops say 19-year-old Demetrius Vidale threw a rock at the windshield of the bus, shattering it.Vidale’s mother turned him in to the Broward Sheriff’s Office last night after seeing the video…
We’re not sure what the worst part of Amado Cardenas’ alleged burglary attempt is — the fact that he broke into the wrong apartment or the fact that the woman who lived there tried to wake him up the next morning because he’d passed out on the floor.According to the…
Rep. Allen West was the only politician to place in the contest for Washington, D.C.,’s Funniest Celebrity Contest on Wednesday, drawing most of the attention to his jokes about being a black conservative.West’s suggestion that former West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel — his possible opponent in his reelection bid…
GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann stopped by the Westin Hotel in Fort Lauderdale this evening, mostly to speak poorly of the apparent front-runner in the race — former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — as well as to answer a few questions as indirectly as possible.What several people wanted to…
The Miami Herald heard a strange thing come out of Rep. Allen West’s camp yesterday — just a few days after the state Senate released its proposed map of congressional seats, someone told the paper that West was “strongly considering” running in a different district next year.That would be Republican…
Ever wonder what happened to former Miami Dolphins wide receiver David Boston? Well, we can tell you what happened to him last night — he was arrested by Boca Raton cops after he allegedly got drunk and punched a female friend twice in the forehead, causing a wound that had…
Scott Rothstein’s scummy ways have now led to two more people being hit with felony charges, becoming the sixth and seventh of Rothstein’s old pals to face felonies.Marybeth Feiss, an administrative assistant at the now-defunct Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm, and William “Uncle Bill” Boockvor, a bookkeeper at RRA, were…
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall had to have another awkward conversation with deputies from the Broward Sheriff’s Office a couple of weeks ago.This time, Marshall was involved in what one deputy called an “apparent misunderstanding” that led to his being handcuffed and detained in the back of a patrol…
Gov. Richard Lynn “Rick” Scott is 59 years old today, and to his credit, it’s been a successful run for him.He’s a Navy veteran, earned a bachelor’s degree and a law degree, bought some doughnut shops, eventually oversaw a health-care corporation that pleaded guilty to 14 felonies, bought some more…
Well, the guy police believe tried to rob a Stock Island Burger King in early November by stuffing his hand in a sock and telling people it was a gun has been arrested.The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office says 38-year-old Derek Shaeffer is its guy, and he was transferred back to…
Former House Speaker Newton Leroy “Newt” Gingrich is apparently a thing in the GOP presidential race now, with the most recent poll released this afternoon showing nearly half of Florida Republicans opting for him to be the party’s nominee.Gingrich somehow managed to raise his poll numbers with a pace akin…
The Broward Republican Executive Committee released an open letter to Brenda Snipes, the county’s Supervisor of Elections, claiming it’s unfair that there aren’t any early voting sites in Republican State Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff’s district.Republican State Rep. George Moraitis doesn’t have an early voting location in his district either, and although…
Suspended Deerfield Beach Commissioner Sylvia Poitier is still guilty of four misdemeanor counts of falsifying public records after a judge denied her attorney’s motion to reverse the jury’s guilty verdict and acquit her of the charges.Her sentencing is now scheduled for January 11.Poitier, 76, was arrested in April on five…
Of all the people to call for GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain to drop out of the race because he’s a distraction, it was Rep. Allen West.Yes, West, quite possibly the biggest distraction in the House of Representatives, said Cain’s being a “distracter” was enough for him to call it…
When the cops found 22-year-old Rene Robinson passed out behind the wheel of her car in Plantation around 6:45 p.m. on November 23, she told police it was around 3 o’clock, she was drunk, and she was in Los Angeles.The cops say she was right about one of those things.This…
When you’re the self-proclaimed “jobs governor,” it’s a little awkward when a major employer in your state files for bankruptcy.Recently, Gov. Rick Scott has either touted “new” jobs coming to the state or blamed jobs losses on other people, typically President Obama.Since no job losses have yet been reported from…
Fred Phelps and the rest of the “God hates fags” crew from the Westboro Baptist Church in Nowhere, Kansas, say they’re coming to Fort Lauderdale on December 8.Remember, Fred Phelps told the Pulp back in July that he was gathering up the gang to protest the funeral of 24-year-old U.S…
Why you would need a map from Google of the inside of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is beyond us, but it now exists.The airport is one of a handful of locations now mapped on the indoors for the Google Maps application for Android devices, and we’re still trying to…
Luckily for Florida, a new list of the best-run states in the U.S. of A. included all 50 states or it may not have made the cut.Based on what 24/7 Wall Street calls “the 10 most important measurements of financial and government management,” Florida ranked 40th.In fact, a lot of…
Being labeled a “prolific porn collector” by the Broward Sheriff’s Office doesn’t sound like that much of a problem — except for the fact that the sheriff’s office says it was a child porn collection.According to the BSO, a Deerfield Beach lifeguard spotted 66-year-old John Field videotaping youngsters washing off…
Welcome to the internet, where misspelling a word by one letter can make you see things that cannot be unseen.As many folks who stay in tune with the political side of Fort Lauderdale would know, mayoral candidate Earl Rynerson keeps his rants against City Hall and Mayor Jack Seiler on…
