When David Hartstein thought a 91-year-old man stole stuff from his locker, he allegedly tried to settle that by trying to bash the man’s head in with a billiard ball.When a 79-year-old man tried to stop the attack, police say he received the same treatment.The Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office…
Old news: Floridians think Gov. Rick Scott sucks. New news: Nearly half of Florida thinks Republicans are intentionally sabotaging the economy to prevent the reelection of President Obama.It’s not just those damned liberals either — 24 percent of Republicans agree, according to the latest poll of Florida voters released last…
There are some people you’d rather not have your kids approach for candy on Halloween — like a registered sex offender with a 3 1/2-foot samurai sword.That’s probably why probation officers and cops went and checked on some South Broward sex offenders before Halloween to make sure no one was…
The Cole Brothers Circus will still be rolling through Margate this year, but the scores of residents and animal-rights activists that showed up to last night’s City Commission meeting may have prevented it from happening again.After presenting the case to the commission about Cole Brothers’ lengthy history of mistreating animals…
Arguments before the Florida Supreme Court in the appeal of triple murderer Oba Chandler’s death sentence that were scheduled for Wednesday have been canceled, according to a filing from the clerk’s office released just minutes ago.Neither a spokeswoman for the clerk’s office nor Chadler’s court-appointed lawyer, Baya Harrison III, know…
It’s been an interesting time for the little Key West International Airport, which has been home to a plane crash, a bomb threat, and a six-figure embezzlement — all in the past ten days.It started on October 24, when 32-year-old Texas resident Darren Tonner drank a bit at one of…
A circus in Margate is probably the most exciting thing to happen in that city for a while, but animal-rights activists plan on showing up to the city’s commission meeting tonight to ask them to ban the Cole Brothers Circus from Margate.Why? Cole Brothers seems to have a problem with…
Here’s an opportunity you don’t get every day — “get lit” with the mayor of Fort Lauderdale.Unfortunately, the November 18 event appears to be related to turning on Christmas lights, not getting wasted with Mayor Jack Seiler — which is sort of a letdown.Apparently, Riverwalk Trust and the City of…
The beach: not where your garbage goes.People apparently didn’t know that this year, as the Broward County Natural Resources Planning and Management Division reports today that volunteers picked up more than 4,500 pounds of people’s crap left at county beaches.Of the 72,000 pieces of garbage picked up last month by…
Here’s the short answer: Synthetic weed isn’t illegal. Some of the chemicals that can be used to make it are illegal.The longer answer is the reason Boca Raton lawyer Thomas Wright III fields 15 to 20 cold calls per day from people who find him online, asking him whether their…
Tarvis Wilson is going to prison for a while after a jury convicted him yesterday of shooting a Boynton Beach cop in the chest, as well as the crimes he committed before that, including trying to shoot other people and leading a police chase through Broward and Palm Beach counties.On…
According to a poll released yesterday evening by Suffolk University, Florida voters like highly unlikely vice-presidential scenarios.If Sen. Marco Rubio were to be the selection on the GOP ticket, pollsters say Republicans would carry Florida 46 percent to 41.If Hillary Clinton were to replace Joe Biden as President Obama’s running…
U.S. Senate candidate George LeMieux has apparently run out of things to talk about, so he’s bitching about critiquing trash cans.He’s upset about solar-powered trash compactors — $6,000 “robotic trash cans,” as he calls them — some of which were purchased with federal stimulus cash by the Lynx bus system…
When things don’t go Gov. Rick Scott’s way, it’s time to take off the loafers and put on the flip-flops.First he promised 700,000 extra jobs for Florida over seven years, and after falling behind state projections, he tried to lie his way out of it by claiming he never promised…
If you want to see a medical marijuana referendum on the 2012 ballot, you’ll have to say a prayer that House Joint Resolution 353 passes through the Legislature — it’s currently in the Criminal Justice Subcommittee — or you’re going to have to be one of 646,889 more Floridians to…
It’s not hard to imagine that police departments around Florida picked up some interesting characters over Halloween weekend this year.Take 47-year-old Kevin Fearn, for example, who — in costume as a zombie doctor — was picked up by the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office for allegedly beating up an old person.There…
Gov. Rick Scott was happy to announce yesterday that Boeing is creating 550 jobs in Florida by 2015 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.Aside from the fact that 500 jobs in four years doesn’t quite offset the few thousand people laid off after the space shuttle program was…
President Obama will debate some guy (don’t pretend like Michele Bachmann is in contention) at Lynn University in Boca Raton next year, according to an announcement from the Commission on Presidential Debates.The debate, scheduled for October 22, 2012, is planned to be the last of three, preceded by one at…
It’s Halloween, and if you don’t have a costume, we’ve got just the thing to make children and former government workers so scared, they’ll barf up their Sour Patch Kids — the Gov. Rick Scott mask.Not surprisingly, this one’s brought to you by the anti-Scott liberals over at Pink Slip…
After an audit of Deerfield Beach festivals declaring that three then-city commissioners secured scores of tickets to the city’s mango festival “to garner political support” — and the ensuing complaints filed by city activist Chaz Stevens — those three former commissioners earned a trip to Tallahassee for a probable-cause hearing…
When something wacky happens somewhere across the country, a gamblin’ man would probably bet that it came out of South Florida.So when the Harlem Globetrotters announced they were hosting a nationwide H-O-R-S-E contest, we weren’t extremely surprised that South Florida provided an actual basketball-playing horse.The Globetrotters are hosting an online…
Donna Horwitz, a 65-year-old Jupiter resident, was indicted by a grand jury late last week in the murder of her ex-husband that occurred just over one month ago.It’s safe to say that police got a little suspicious after Lanny Horwitz’s body was discovered naked and face-down in the couple’s bathroom…
