Janiber “Jane” Andrade Vieira — mother of former Boynton Beach cop/alleged meth trafficker/federal fugitive David Britto — accepted a plea agreement yesterday that may allow her to skirt prison time.Vieira, 51, aided her son’s escape to Brazil and was arrested in September on charges of contempt of court — which…
Fans of the Rolling Stones have been listening to one of the many bootlegs derived from this show for years, but tonight, the original audiotapes and 16mm footage of the concert have been remastered and will be displayed on the big screen for the first time.The Rolling Stones: Some Girls…
Florida is a death trap for football this year — there are no college football teams in the state in the Associated Press’ Top 25 poll for the first time in almost 30 years, and the three NFL teams have a combined record of 5-12.Two of those teams, the Florida…
Rapist and three-time murderer Oba Chandler, who’s scheduled to be receive his lethal injection at 4 p.m. on November 15, doesn’t want to be executed. Imagine that.Chandler’s lawyer filed a motion in a circuit court today seeking to have Chandler’s death sentence thrown out, claiming the state’s judicial method of…
President Obama’s reelection campaign released its list of 351 volunteer fundraisers who have helped him rake in the big bucks — more than $50,000 — with 29 of them coming from Florida and eight of them from either Broward or Palm Beach counties.None of the GOP presidential candidates has released…
The issue of whether it’s the First Amendment right of Florida drivers to blast obnoxious music from their cars way louder than anyone needs to will be heard before the Florida Supreme Court.The court scheduled today for oral arguments to be heard on the matter on February 9.The case surrounds…
According to a decision last week out of Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach, an armed robbery isn’t really an armed robbery if the “weapon” used in the crime can’t kill or seriously injure the victims.The court ruled in its decision to reverse a conviction of…
Rep. Allen West’s campaign submitted its quarterly report to the Federal Election Commission at the end of the week, and he scored a few grand from the political action committees of a few companies that think it’s a good idea to keep West in office, including Bailout Bank of America…
Occupy Fort Lauderdale now has an address — Bubier Park at 32 E. Las Olas Blvd. The group announced it has started a 24/7 occupation of the park, which began with the first group of people on Saturday night after their first demonstration. The next meeting of the group –…
Toby Keith’s “Locked & Loaded Tour,” with Eric Church and J.T. HodgesCruzan Amphitheatre, West Palm BeachSaturday, October 15, 2011See a slideshow of the action here.Better than: The “Gun Control Means Hitting Your Target” Tour.Toby Keith turned 50 years old a few months ago (don’t tell anyone), but he never really…
Being a corrections officer is one of the strangest jobs imaginable — you’re stuck in a big concrete and iron box for eight-plus hours per day, surrounded by some of society’s most loathed humans, who are likely armed with rusty shanks and contempt for authority.One anonymous corrections officer who works…
Michael Jacobs — a 43-year-old band booster for Cypress Bay High School in Weston — liked to have parties at his place with weed, alcohol, and porn.The problem is, those parties were “sleepovers,” and the partygoers were boys between the ages of 12 and 13, according to the Broward Sheriff’s…
Rapper Rick Ross suffered a seizure and fell unconscious today during a flight from Fort Lauderdale to Memphis, according to several news reports.There was a worry that Ross wasn’t doing to well after TMZ reported he was receiving CPR from a doctor on the plane, but thanks to Twitter, Ross…
Andre Miguel Beadle, a 35-year-old security guard at a Fort Lauderdale Publix grocery store, was arrested on Wednesday after police say two women came forward saying Beadle sexually assaulted them during their first dates with the man.According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, a woman came to police saying she arranged…
A 56-year-old man was arrested last night during a demonstration held by Occupy Gainesville in the Bo Diddley Community Plaza, and of all the people to be arrested, it was the son of blues legend Bo Diddley.Before his arrest, Ellas Anthony McDaniel was explaining that police were trying to get…
Here’s the thing about Florida’s “stand your ground” law: It doesn’t cover beating the burglar to death with a baseball bat when you find him later in a Walmart parking lot.A jury decided yesterday that 28-year-old John Henry did just that, convicting Henry of second-degree murder with a weapon –…
We’re not sure who the first person was who asked the cops, “Hey, can we get a video of that guy taking a poop at the middle school?” but we can tell you the answer to that question was “yes.”As you may recall, 23-year-old Kenneth Martin Sarsony was arrested late…
Coquina investments, which claims it lost $37.7 million in Scott Rothstein’s billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, is slated to go to trial before a jury against TD Bank on October 24 in Miami.The lawsuit, which was filed in March 2010, alleges two Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act violations and fraudulent…
It looks like Texas Gov. Rick Perry is last week’s news to Florida Republicans — pizza man Herman Cain leads the latest poll of the state’s GOP voters with a six-point buffer over the second-place former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, in the chase for the party’s presidential nomination.No other…
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office has released a new sketch of the “very violent” serial rapist police believe has sexually assaulted five women between July 2009 and September 2011.The sheriff’s office connected the most recent attack from September 23 to the serial rapist last week, and the newest sketch…
Well, here’s what everyone wanted to hear from Gov. Rick Scott, the chief executive of the state with the fifth-highest unemployment rate of the 50 states: Not only as he already retracted his campaign promise to create 700,000 extra jobs but he now says he doesn’t have to create any…
Occupy Fort Lauderdale has set an official date for its first demonstration — a ten-hour stretch on Saturday.The group’s first “solidarity demonstration” is slated to begin at 11 a.m., with a march starting from the federal courthouse in downtown Fort Lauderdale and ending at the Bank of America Plaza.After several…
