Stephanie Pistey, 18, is one of five people who have been charged with either murder or accessory to murder in the killing of 16-year-old Jacob Hendershot in Parker, Florida.She also told a local TV station in a jailhouse interview that she became aware at age 12 that she’s a vampire…
It’s been nearly 20 months since the last execution of a prisoner by the State of Florida, and in anticipation of South Florida cop killer Manuel Valle’s lethal injection at 4 p.m. today, we decided today would be a good day to drop some death-row knowledge.Valle, 61, was convicted of…
In case you happened to see three people running around Lauderdale Lakes lighting things on fire Monday night, it was apparently a pair of ex-lovers and a third wheel attempting to work out their dispute using the arson method.In the third case in a week involving people lighting — or…
On the verge of the state’s first lethal injection under the regime of Gov. Rick Scott — convicted cop killer Manuel Valle is scheduled to be executed at 4 p.m. tomorrow — State Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda of Tallahassee has filed a bill that would end executions in Florida.Her reasoning…
Nezar Hamze — a Muslim and executive director of Florida’s Council on American-Islamic Relations — is no stranger to taking heat from right-wing politicos in Broward County.He’s feuded with Rep. Allen West, U.S. Senate candidate Adam Hasner, radio host Joyce Kaufman, and pretty much anyone else in South Florida who…
Well, that was quick. Less than an hour ago, the Florida Supreme Court released a ruling saying the court will not hear the latest petition over issues with the new lethal injection drug to be used in Manuel Valle’s execution.Yesterday, Northern Irish neurologist Dr. David Nicholl asked the court to…
If you’re in Florida blasting obnoxious music from your car way louder than you need to, well, that’s your First Amendment right, according to a recent appellate court ruling.In Marion County, Shannon Montgomery learned that the hard way. After being pulled over for rocking out while driving, the cops also…
The execution of convicted South Florida cop killer Manuel Valle has been petitioned in the Florida Supreme Court yet again over issues with the new lethal injection drug, this time with the objection of a Northern Irish neurologist.The petition was filed by Dr. David Nicholl, just two days before Valle’s…
Birther-ism apparently isn’t dead, as Jerome Corsi — head bullshitter of the Obama “fake birth certificate” movement — has still found enough brain-dead people to believe that the president is a Muslim from Indonesia.In Arizona, Stephen Lemons — the Feathered Bastard of our sister paper in the desert, Phoenix New…
Most of the time, Rush Limbaugh says things that are highly partisan. Sometimes, he’ll say something profoundly stupid — which is what he did today from his West Palm Beach headquarters.Limbaugh, who can apparently calculate levels of blackness in presidents and presidential candidates, was talking about businessman Herman Cain’s victory…
Amanda Rice Stevenson is 96 years old.She also allegedly shot and killed her nephew last night by firing a round from a .357 Magnum into his chest.St. Augustine Police Department spokesman Mark Samson says the cops got a call just before 9 p.m. Sunday about a possible heart attack at…
Rep. Allen West’s July request has been answered: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of the Inspector General is coming to town to look into the Deerfield Beach Housing Authority.A letter from Deputy Inspector General Michael P. Stephens to West dated August 3 confirms a case has…
In the second over-the-weekend case involving people lighting — or attempting to light — things on fire in domestic disputes, the Broward Sheriff’s Office says Shawanda Robinson got mad at her boyfriend yesterday and ended up setting fire to their apartment.According to the sheriff’s office, a 911 call came in…
This past weekend was a few days full of the politically strange around Florida, which included jeers from the audience at a gay soldier during the GOP presidential debate, Ann Coulter calling Debbie Wasserman Schultz “a hideous beast who has a voice like a hyena getting an abortion,” and Gov…
Michael P. Sutherland’s girlfriend was trying to kick him out of her home in May because he wasn’t paying any of the bills.Sutherland responded by dousing her in gasoline and attempting to light her on fire, then stabbing her in the chest — which is why he was sentenced to…
Well, here’s what just came out of Ann Coulter’s mouth in front of an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference — Florida, during what was apparently a comparison between Republicans and Democrats done by illustrating a pair of South Florida congressmen: “I want to implant it in people’s minds…
If you’re looking for a reptile or amphibian species that “causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health,” chances are, it’s in Florida.According to a 20-year study led by a University of Florida researcher, the state takes the cake in the invasive species…
Now that the term “networking” has become part of the American lexicon, a Jacksonville entrepreneur wants to take credit for creating it in 1985.Bill Lewis released a statement this week saying all he wants is for his name to be associated with the phrase, saying he “simply wants to clarify…
Ramon Rosario, a 19-year-old member of a racketeering enterprise known as the “Head Shot Committee,” was sentenced yesterday to 270 years in prison for what the State Attorney’s Office calls a string of crimes that “terrorized the northern end of Palm Beach County during the spring and early summer of…
Another GOP presidential debate in Florida last night apparently presented the opportunity for audience members to make asses of themselves on national television again, this time by booing a gay soldier stationed in Iraq.During the Fox News/Google debate in Orlando, a question was given to Rick Santorum in the form…
Without much difference from the national poll released the day of the CNN/Tea Party express GOP presidential debate two weeks ago, most Florida Republicans would pick Texas Gov. Rick Perry as their presidential nominee, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.The poll showed that 28 percent of the 374…
Clem Beauchamp has been charged with the murders of his girlfriend’s children — who were found dead and stuffed in suitcases in a canal between Delray Beach and Boca Raton — as well as the death of the girlfriend herself, who had turned up dead at a trash dump seven…
