Despite the fact that just over half of our readers predicted the Florida Atlantic University Owls would win a game this year before the Miami Dolphins, the nearly 27 percent who thought both teams would go without a win this year may be on the right track.FAU didn’t lose this…
Maryland resident Jesse Leese almost got away with just a warning from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office for not driving in his lane, not having current insurance, and the open bottle of rum in the back seat.Then police say they found the weed. And the Xanax. And the hash, oxycodone,…
Here are two things Jaquin Donell Han doesn’t like: being punched in the face and giving change during his weed deals.According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, both of those things led to Han shooting and killing one of his customers Saturday night.The sheriff’s office says Han, 28, was a traveling…
The main problem with selling the false weed commonly known as “spice” — it’s illegal too.The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office arrested 37-year-old Monica Lee, owner of the Hidden Treasure Smoke Shop in West Palm Beach, and one of her employees, 27-year-old Hope Shipley, on several felony charges.Apparently, the PBSO’s…
Cynthia Green-Anderson told her on-and-off boyfriend Jerry Logan to drop by her aunt’s house to pick up some things just after noon on August 2, 2008.Logan arrived at the house, and instead of picking up the stuff, Green-Anderson and her husband, Craig Anderson, decided to shoot him four times.Logan lived,…
Here’s one way to find out your long-lost family member wasn’t murdered by a serial killer who dressed up as a clown on the weekends and buried bodies under his house — he’s been arrested ten times for marijuana possession since 2005.Noted American serial killer John Wayne Gacy buried the…
The Teamsters’ ethics complaint filed last month against Gov. Rick Scott — which alleged his million bucks from private prison corporations was somehow affecting the state’s decision to enter contracts with the companies — has been tossed out by the Florida Ethics Commission.Among other things, the commission says that “pay…
What’s currently “Hurricane” Rina is expected to be some wind and possible rain by the time it would affect Fort Lauderdale, according to multiple weather forecasts.Rina is expected to weaken from a category two hurricane to category one tomorrow, and while South Florida isn’t in the direct path of the…
After some drinking at a bar at the Key West airport, 32-year-old Texas resident Darren Tonner got into a fight with his wife and decided he didn’t want to get on his flight to Miami — so he just called in a bomb threat, police say.According to the Monroe County…
Rep. Allen West likes to play the blame game quite often, and sometimes, he’ll let the facts stay at home.This time around, West explained how he’s “very concerned” about President Obama’s announcement that American troops in Iraq will be brought home before the end of the year, saying it was…
A domestic-violence dispute early yesterday morning in Pembroke Park ended with a car plunging into a lake, one man dying, and sheriff’s deputies jumping in to rescue his wife and 3-year-old daughter.According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, someone phoned in a report about a couple fighting around 12:30 a.m. yesterday…
Forget Kevin Bacon. The Florida Democratic Party is playing the “Six Degrees of Rick Scott.”How do you play? Well, apparently by launching a website identifying the state’s “Rickpublicans.”Sure enough, hometown favorite Rep. Allen West landed a Bacon Rick number of one, with a direct connection to the governor…
After two straight months of having the second-most mass-layoff events in the country, Florida companies experienced 69 in September, dropping the Sunshine State to just the fourth-most among the 50 states.According to the numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Florida accounted for 69 of 1,189 mass layoffs across the…
Rapist and three-time murderer Oba Chandler’s eighth attempt at appealing his death sentence was denied, and of course, he filed a ninth — which may be the last attempt before his scheduled November 15 execution.Chandler’s lawyer filed a motion in circuit court last week seeking to have Chandler’s death sentence…
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office got a hot tip yesterday on where the missing Captain Morgan statue was — he was “wherever the party was taking place.”Someone stole a statue of fictional rum salesman Captain Morgan from outside a Key West Walgreens store last week, and sheriff’s deputies found him…
Wow! Gov. Rick Scott just left for Brazil a few days ago, and he’s already announced that he brought over a Brazilian company to create 75 whole jobs at an average salary of $62,000!Just like he waited until he went to Canada to announce a months-old deal he wasn’t even…
It looks like Gov. Rick Scott never met a constitution he couldn’t violate.This time, it was likely the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, according to a federal judge who temporarily blocked the state’s new welfare drug-testing law the governor loves so much.The lawsuit over the law, filed by the…
Former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal spends a lot of time pretending he’s a policeman.When the Big Aristotle/Shaqtus/Shaq-Fu/whatever announced his retirement in June, he said he planned on running for sheriff of Lake County or Orange County at some point in the future.According to an interview O’Neal did with the New…
A BOLO (be on the lookout) has been sent out to the entire state of Florida and the rest of the United States after two murder suspects escaped from the Indian River County Jail just before 5 a.m. today…
Missing: Five-foot-tall statue of a drunken pirate with one foot on a rum barrel.Someone stole a statue of fictional rum salesman Captain Morgan from outside a Key West Walgreens store last week, and it’s still missing, according to a Key West Police Department spokesperson.According to a police report, Captain Morgan…
Occupy Palm Beach remains in occupation of Flagler Park in downtown West Palm Beach, as the city’s warning of a curfew on the park has gone unenforced — for now.Unlike their Fort Lauderdale counterparts, Occupy Palm Beach has run into some leniency from the city in its occupation campaign.Occupiers were…
Last week, the Washington Post published its exposé on how Sen. Marco Rubio “embellished” his family history, and after a few days, no one’s really sure what the hell happened there.The Post validates the reasoning behind the article correcting Rubio’s family history — which involves dates before the senator was…
