If you can recall nearly 18 months ago, a Fort Lauderdale cop named Jeff Overcash was caught on video apparently arresting 26-year-old Brennen Hamilton after he asked for Overcash’s badge number.According to an internal affairs report obtained by the Pulp, a police sergeant found one of the four allegations against…
Toby Keith is slated to perform at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach on Saturday, which would mean it’s the perfect time for one of America’s most American Americans to release a music-video ode to red plastic cups.”Red Solo Cup” — from Keith’s latest album, Clancy’s Tavern — features…
A Jacksonville man named Christopher Chaney has been identified by the FBI as the man who graced the interwebs with nude photos of actress Scarlett Johansson.He also faces 121 years in prison for allegedly doing so.In a news conference this afternoon, the FBI announced that Chaney was arrested without incident…
It’s hard to deny you just ran over three construction workers with your car — killing two of them — while you’re driving drunk and high, especially when their blood, flesh, and pieces of their orange vests are embedded into your windshield.Cynthia Gail Castoro, 42, did just that. She’s going…
The Democratic opponents to Rep. Allen West have ranked among the top fundraisers of all the congressional challengers during this election cycle — and they’re still getting drowned by the cash coming into the campaign of the Tea Party titan.West’s campaign announced today that he raised $1.9 million in the…
Florida’s method of executing death-row inmates by lethal injection is just causing too much controversy, so State Rep. Brad Drake wants to end the practice.Drake has filed a bill to give the inmates a choice instead — get shot or get cooked in the electric chair.”Over the past few weeks…
Several months ago, Deerfield Beach Mayor Peggy Noland announced she was getting rid of the entire board of commissioners from the city’s housing authority.Over concerns that federal taxpayer coin was being wasted in the housing authority, Rep. Allen West hopped on the case and asked the U.S. Department of Housing…
Fox News has been accused of distorting its news content in the past. Often.Now, a St. Petersburg man says he sent an email to Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, and it ended up being displayed on his show, the O’Reilly Factor. Well, that man says part of his email ended…
Shortly after we posted the announcement from the Patrick Murphy campaign about the hopeful Democratic challenger raising $313,000 last quarter — $1.1 million total — we got word from the camp of Lois Frankel, the other Democrat in the race, striking back.Frankel’s campaign announced that the former West Palm Beach…
Here are Gov. Rick Scott’s small-government principles at work again — he wants the state to pick and choose which university majors are more important and shift funding from liberal arts programs toward the state universities’ engineering, math, and sciences departments.Scott’s main enemy in the battle: anthropology.”You know, we don’t…
The campaign of Democrat Patrick Murphy — who hopes to take on Rep. Allen West in the 2012 election — announced today that candidate Murphy has raised $1.1 million in his bid for the congressional seat.Murphy, who raised more money in the first two quarters than any other congressional challenger…
The cops caught the crapper — Ocala police say 23-year-old Kenneth Martin Sarsony is the man they believe pooped outside a middle-school classroom on four occasions.The incidents started on September 6, when someone reported feces outside the door of classroom 469 at Fort King Middle School in Ocala.On September 14,…
If you’re a constituent of Rep. Allen West — or even if you aren’t — it’s time to subscribe to the congressman’s “Weekly Wrap-Up.”The entertainment value is always on high, and it’ll give you an idea of what West has been postulating over the last week — like the time…
Gov. Rick Scott signed a death warrant to give a lethal juicing to the second inmate of his governorship — this time for 65-year-old triple murderer Oba Chandler.The execution is scheduled for 4 p.m. on November 15, but don’t be surprised if that doesn’t get delayed at some point.Scott has…
After being constantly lampooned over the past week since the news broke of his bill to repeal Florida’s ban on the drunken game of dwarf tossing, Rep. Ritch Workman would like a chance to explain himself.Shortly after Workman dropped House Bill 4063 in the hopper bill last Monday, people started…
Now that former Orlando Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson is trying to win his old congressional seat back, he took a pretty good shot at making himself relevant again on Friday by coming out in defense of the Occupy Wall Street protests.On HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher, Grayson gave an…
Gov. Rick Scott doesn’t always make appearances in Broward County, but when he does, the folks from “Pink Slip Rick” would prefer to be there.They’re the ones who hand-delivered pink slips to the governor as he played doughnut salesman during one of his “Let’s Get to Work” days, sent robocalls…
Just when you thought Rep. Allen West had dumped on just about everyone with differing political opinions, he found out Samuel L. Jackson isn’t a big fan of the Tea Party.You know what that means — a Fox News appearance.Responding to an interview in which Jackson said he agreed with…
Police say 42-year-old Lake Worth resident Christopher Tears was at home watching his two children last week — while he was chatting about how he wanted to “mess around” with who he thought was a 16-year-old boy he was chatting with online.As always, the South Florida Internet Crimes Against Children…
Gov. Rick Scott’s office issued a news release late last week to explain the retraction of his campaign promise to create 700,000 jobs on top of the state’s “normal growth” projection of 1 million jobs by 2017.It looks like he’s sticking to his new story, in which he claims he…
Amid the unfavorable weather that hovered over Fort Lauderdale last night, a couple of hundred people still gathered near the Broward Main Public Library to express their distaste, distrust, and disdain for the state of the country.There’s a common misconception that the Occupy movement is a reincarnation of the hippie…
If you ever need to find 50-year-old Joseph Wilson, check the jails first — he’s actually in the St. Lucie County jail right now, marking his 100th trip to the slammer.According to the Port St. Lucie Police Department, a security guard from a Bealls department store called the cops Thursday…
