If you’ve ever wondered how to finally get your own face and name on a South Korea driver’s license, the process has finally been streamlined.The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles announced that an agreement signed between Florida and South Korea allows most people with a Florida driver’s…
Juan Carlos Atenco-Camacho pleaded guilty to killing his transvestite boyfriend this week, which means he’ll have to spend some time away from his wife and their kid, as well as his girlfriend/cousin, whom he’s been sleeping with since she was 14, and the child he had with her.Camacho, a 25-year-old…
Sen. Joseph McCarthy Rep. Allen West decided to donate his two cents on the Occupy movement this week, and here’s what we learned: He doesn’t know exactly what he’s talking about.He managed to identify the Occupy protesters as “communists,” “Marxist,” “Stalinist,” and “socialist” in the same sentence and added that…
Florida’s unemployment rate decreased .1 percent to 10.6 percent in the month of September after three months of no change, putting the state back to the same rate it was at in May.According to the numbers released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of unemployed people…
An 81-year-old Palm Springs resident died yesterday morning, 12 weeks after being placed in a hospice for injuries suffered when a cop car rammed into him, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.Frank Muxella was riding his motorized chair on a sidewalk near the 1400 block of South Congress…
Riviera Beach Police Officer Cherline Cornelius decided to break up a fight between two kids, ages 9 and 12, by shoving the older kid, pointing a Taser at him, and nearly pulling a gun on a camp counselor attempting to intervene, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.The Palm…
Well, here’s one way to explain the $3 million difference between the fundraising totals of Rep. Allen West ($4.1 million) and hopeful Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy ($1.1 million): 50,000 Tea Party “whacktivists” across the country are signing checks made out to West.That’s from an email the Murphy campaign sent out…
Andre Miguel Beadle — a 35-year-old security guard at a Fort Lauderdale Publix grocery store arrested last week after allegedly sexually assaulting two women during their first dates with the man — has landed another allegation of sexual battery. Beadle now faces six charges, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office,…
Not long after the Broward County Natural Resources Planning and Management Division released its report detailing how rising sea levels could cause major flooding across Fort Lauderdale, Florida Atlantic University has released its own report detailing climate change in South Florida and how to combat its effects.Again, it’s the rising…
After the Florida Supreme Court ruled that Gov. Rick Scott’s executive order to suspend rulemaking in the executive branch agencies was unconstitutional, he decided to issue a new executive order to complain about the decision.The court had ruled 5-2 that it’s not the governor’s job to suspend rulemaking, and now…
Pass the tinfoil; we’ve got more hats to build.Sen. Marco Rubio is a hot pick for the vice presidential spot on the ticket of several GOP presidential candidates, but according to the birther lab, he’s not eligible to be president or vice president because he’s not a “natural-born citizen of…
After shooting a man he’d known for more than 20 years because the man’s uncle wouldn’t pay for fake drugs — and the 13 other criminal convictions on his rap sheet — Taurus Bryant received a mandatory sentence of life in prison.Back in November 2009, Bryant tried to sell some…
Jeremy William Sherrill told a woman he met on MySpace that he had a job for her as a receptionist that paid $18 per hour with full benefits and wanted to meet her for an interview.The “interview” never took place, and based on what Sherrill did during their meeting, a…
As we just mentioned a couple of hours ago, medical marijuana is not yet legal in Florida.That didn’t stop 56-year-old Lillian Jennen from dropping the medicinal purposes line when she was busted with 6.5 pounds of weed in her car, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.The sheriff’s office says…
An amendment to the Florida Constitution to legalize medical marijuana may be proposed on 2012 voter ballots, if one House Democrat gets his way.Rep. Jeff Clemens of Lake Worth has submitted House Joint Resolution 353, which would put a medical-marijuana amendment up to the consideration of state voters next year.The…
Former Miami Dolphins wide receiver James McKnight was arrested yesterday in an alleged domestic-violence incident, according to records from the Broward Sheriff’s Office.McKnight’s alleged offense occurred in Southwest Ranches — the same town that played home to an alleged domestic-violence incident of another Dolphins receiver, Brandon Marshall.At the time of…
The future porn websites of American were sold at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Fort Lauderdale yesterday afternoon, with both normal “.com” suffixes and the newly released “.xxx” domain names up for auction.The company hosting the auction, TRAFFIC, had listed 120 domain names to be auctioned off yesterday, although many of…
Occupy Fort Lauderdale’s residency in Wilton Manors was a bit short-lived.After the Downtown Development Authority informed protesters it was going to close Bubier Park in Fort Lauderdale from 2 to 6 a.m. and ban tents and tarps from the park, the group picked up and moved to Equality Park in…
Roshard Whitehead (and his haircut) will spend the rest of his life in prison for raping his nieces starting when the girls were 6 and 8 years old.Whitehead, a 30-year-old former Riviera Beach resident, was sentenced yesterday to four life terms in prison, with two of those sentences making him…
Just a few days after officially starting to “occupy” in Fort Lauderdale’s Bubier Park, the protesters have already gotten the boot.Although the group says the Downtown Development Authority initially gave it permission to set up camp in the park, the DDA decided to inform the protesters yesterday that it didn’t…
It took just over ten years, but 33-year-old Jennifer Finch managed to be arrested for the 50th time on Saturday and made her 50th trip to the Volusia County Jail.This time around, Finch was popped by the Daytona Beach Police Department for auto theft and driving on a suspended license,…
Here’s another name promoting Rep. Allen West’s reelection campaign, aside from his new corporate sponsors of Bank of America and Halliburton: Donald Rumsfeld.The former Secretary of Defense, who said the Iraq War “certainly” wouldn’t last longer than five months, has been named as a “special guest” to a $500-per-plate breakfast…
