Aniel Escobar’s girlfriend came over to his West Palm Beach home last September with her twin sister and 1-year-old kid after Escobar had requested $250 to pay his electric bill.Instead, they showed up to the house and found Escobar with a ten-inch knife, threatening to kill all of them, and…
Janiber “Jane” Andrade Vieira — mother of Boynton Beach cop/alleged meth trafficker/federal fugitive David Britto — was indicted by a grand jury on charges that she helped her son escape to Brazil, according to documents filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.Contempt of court — one of the three charges Vieira…
After two 11-year-old girls got into a fight at a bus stop last week, the cops say the four older sisters of one of the girls came to join in on the action.As shown on a video surveillance tape released last night by the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the four sisters…
For the third straight month, Florida’s unemployment rate is at 10.7 percent — well above the national rate of 9.1 percent.According to the numbers released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 1,400 fewer unemployed people in August than in July, but the labor force decreased by…
Do you happen to need an AK-47, as well as a company to process your credit card transactions?If so, that would make today your lucky day, strangely enough.MerchantService.com — a Sarasota-based company that provides the equipment and processing for credit-card transactions in businesses — announced its “Free AK-47 Giveaway” yesterday,…
The Boynton Beach Police Department says 22-year-old Markell Hollis — who escaped police after an alleged burglary and car chase on Tuesday — turned himself in at the Palm Beach County Jail last night.Hollis, who police said “should be considered armed and very dangerous,” allegedly burglarized a house on the…
Jose Zepeda, a 38-year-old math teacher at a Key Largo school, turned himself in to police today after a warrant was issued for his arrest on a battery charge.That battery allegedly included regularly putting his hands on the thighs of a 12-year-old female student and, on one occasion, trying to…
A conservative think-tank released a study yesterday on the state’s new welfare drug-testing law, championing a projection that the state will save more than $9 million in the first year of testing, after 9.6 percent of applicants didn’t receive benefits due to drug testing in the first month.Of course, there’s…
A man walked into a Fort Lauderdale Subway store last night and asked the two employees if they sold $2 sandwiches.The employees said they didn’t, so the guy demanded cash and shot both of them.The Broward Sheriff’s Office says this happened around 10:30 p.m. yesterday in the 2800 block of…
Florida politicians received nearly $1 million in campaign contributions from two private prison corporations last election cycle — GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America — and an ethics complaint filed by the Teamsters union yesterday claims $30,000 of those contributions that went to Gov. Rick Scott may have influenced…
For the third time, convicted South Florida cop killer Manuel Valle has been given a date to die.This time, it’s been scheduled for September 28, 2011, at 4 p.m. at the Florida State Prison in Raiford, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.Gov. Rick Scott signed off on the lethal…
All three of the Boynton Beach Police officers injured during Officer Rachel Loy’s third car crash have been released from the hospital — including Loy herself — but one of the suspects from the burglary they were responding to is still missing.Boynton Beach Police Sgt. Suzanne Gitto said yesterday afternoon…
If you’re a young professional in Fort Lauderdale, you probably don’t hate your life — at least according to research done by a company called Career Bliss.The company took surveys from a few thousand so-called young professionals — which they’re classifying as people with less than ten years in a…
Police say they went to Francisco Rojas’ house in Port St. Lucie on Sunday after his wife called 911 saying her husband was drunk in the garage trying to pull a tooth out of his mouth with pliers.Apparently, Rojas, 49, didn’t like the fact that the cops interrupted him while…
The Boynton Beach cop who was driving herself and two other cops toward the scene of fleeing burglary suspects before crashing into a pole — landing all three of them in the hospital — happens to have a history of crashing her car into things, according to her discipline record.The…
GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann is about to receive a letter from one of those “radical environmentalists” she so loathes — Rep. Allen West.In a letter dated yesterday, West writes that he was “troubled” by the interview in which Bachmann said she’d be open to drilling in the Everglades,…
When the subject of Rick Scott comes up on the typically left-leaning MSNBC network, it’s typically to be berated on Rachel Maddow’s nighttime show.Invite him onto Morning Joe with former Republican Florida Congressman Joe Scarborough, however, and the governor gets to run a 12-minute public-relations campaign on national television.Aside from…
In our poll yesterday, around 42 percent of our readers thought that the Tea Party audience made the most outlandish comment at Monday night’s CNN/Tea Party Express Republican debate.Texas Rep. Ron Paul was asked a hypothetical question during the debate by moderator Wolf Blitzer about an otherwise-healthy 30-year-old man going…
Sometimes, Gov. Rick Scott will say something that’s so untrue, it’s actually false two different ways.Such was the case on Friday, when he gave his reaction to President Obama’s jobs speech to Bay News 9.”You know, one of the best things about the speech, he used my slogan ‘Let’s Get…
For writing “$0.00” instead of “$16,482.75” under the “second job” column of her mortgage application, Palm Beach County employee Sylvia Loretta Sharps could face up to 35 years in prison, according to the State Attorney’s Office.Sharps — who most recently worked with the county as coordinator for the economic development…
Three Boynton Beach police officers were hospitalized after getting into a car crash while responding to the area of a car chase involving burglary suspects, authorities say.Boynton Beach Police Sgt. Suzanne Gitto says police were responding to a residential burglary on the 2600 block of NE Fourth Court when they…
The 911 call phoned in by the wife of former MLB All-Star and performance-enhancing drug user Manny Ramirez has been released by the Broward Sheriff’s Office. According to a police report released late last night by the BSO, Ramirez’s wife called the cops around 4:30 p.m., saying Ramirez had hit…
