Rep. Allen West is doing some really important work today, hosting what he calls a “controversial screening” of a movie about how scary Muslims are.The film is called Sacrificed Survivors: The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Mega Mosque, although it should really be called The Untold Story of the…
After hopping into a woman’s car at a red light and trying to rape her in Delray Beach in 2009, Marcus Christian McFadden is headed to prison.For his 31st birthday yesterday, McFadden received a 30-year prison sentence from a Palm Beach County judge.According to an arrest affidavit, McFadden got into…
A Fort Lauderdale man says he accidentally shot and killed his 17-year-old brother over the weekend as the boy was helping his older brother close down the gas station he worked at, police say.Fort Lauderdale Police Detective Travis Mandell says 27-year-old Felix Phelps called 911 around 11:45 p.m. Saturday, saying…
An alligator that wildlife officials believe attacked a 90-year-old woman last week before being shot in the head — and possibly hit by a car — was finally captured yesterday and euthanized.Margaret Webb was attacked by the alligator on Wednesday near her Copeland, Florida, home, and although her life was…
Weston-based State Rep. Franklin Sands seems to have finally had enough of Gov. Rick Scott, today issuing a nice rant stemming from a letter the governor wrote to him a little over a month ago.The governor telling lies every so often apparently doesn’t sit well with Sands, who dedicates a…
Assistant State Attorney David Schulson, a prosecutor with a history of handling public corruption crimes, has been assigned to the criminal case of Deerfield Beach Commissioner Sylvia Poitier.As you may recall, Poitier faces misdemeanor charges for falsifying records after allegedly arranging a deal for a high-interest loan between a city…
As Democratic National Committee Chairwoman and South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz ought to know, when she’s invited to a Fox News interview, it’s probably a trap.Naturally, when she was invited on to Fox & Friends this morning, it wasn’t to talk about constituent services or even to comment on…
GOP presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry has announced the details for his swing through Florida — a five-stop tour that includes events in both Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale.In what his camp is calling the “Sunshine State Kickoff,” he’s scheduled lunches, dinners, and receptions in Tampa, Fort Lauderdale,…
Finally, a pair of Gainesville biologists have discovered another reason for men having ring fingers longer than their index fingers, and as folklore would have it, it’s related to sex.The findings of the University of Florida College of Medicine developmental biologists, Martin Cohn and Zhengui Zheng, add to the long…
Police served a warrant Thursday at Claudio Vidal’s Boca Raton apartment, suspecting he’d been downloading child pornography.Sure enough, the cops walked in and found Vidal’s computer screen on and mid-download on some new kiddie porn, according to an arrest affidavit.As part of an operation by the Palm Beach County Sexual…
On the list of things not to bring on a high-speed police chase through Boynton Beach, someone else’s 5-week-old baby is probably pretty high.Lester Edward Schwalm, however, did just that last year, and a jury convicted him Thursday on three charges related to his stolen baby/stolen SUV escapade.On December 16,…
Howard Kusnick — a former lawyer at Scott Rothstein’s now-defunct law firm and associate to his $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme — was sentenced today to two years in federal prison.Kusnick is now the second person in the current round of Rothstein-related indictments to receive his prison sentence, after Stephen Caputi…
It appears as if the economy is hurting our nation’s marijuana horticulturists as well — the average price for an ounce of high-quality weed in Florida is just below $350, but South Florida is one of the most expensive regions in the state for pot.Using user-submitted statistics from Price of…
Just when you thought you’d heard the most far-fetched ideas from GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann during her trip to Florida, she struck again.Tampa Bay’s 10 News published its lengthy interview with Bachmann on Thursday in which she expands on her idea to drill for oil and natural gas in…
Yesterday, Gov. Rick Scott and law-enforcement leaders announced Florida’s new statewide hotline to report suspicious activity to the cops called “If You See Something, Say Something.”Long story short, if someone does something shady, call 1-800-FLA-SAFE and the appropriate authorities will check it out.A few hours after the announcement, the Florida…
A Pembroke Pines woman says she’s going to “destroy Facebook’s lead in the social networking universe” with her new social networking website that costs $45 a year.Good luck.Evelyn Castillo-Bach says her website, UmeNow, is everything Facebook isn’t — as far as advertising and privacy are concerned.”Our service is all about…
Thanks to a reader tip this morning, we’ve discovered that Michael Stahl — the Florida pastor who devised the plan for “The Christian National Registry of Atheists” — is now sharing the email addresses of anyone who’s emailed him to say how crappy his idea is.”Pastor Mike” is offering to…
In the battle for “Worst Governor Ever” — hosted online by the Transport Workers Union of America — Gov. Rick Scott still maintains his lead, but Texas Gov. Rick Perry has surged in the election, right behind Florida’s own.On August 11, the union’s new media head, Jeff Rae, told the…
A DUI probationer in Palm Beach County ruined 31-year-old Sayied Khan’s alleged bribery scheme Tuesday after the probationer called the cops thinking it was a bit creepy that Khan called her one night asking her to meet him in a parking lot to fake her community service hours for $300.According…
Rep. Allen West, the self-proclaimed “modern-day Harriet Tubman,” sent a letter to Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emanuel Cleaver yesterday, accusing other caucus members of being racist.In reference to Rep. Andre Carson — who said some Tea Party members would like to see black people “hanging on a tree” — West…
On Monday, 33-year-old Daytona Beach resident Jennifer Finch was arrested for the 49th time, this time for allegedly trespassing, then trying to bring drug paraphernalia into the jail.It’s been just over ten years since her first arrest, according to a mug-shot archive of the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, many for…
Boynton Beach cop/alleged meth trafficker/federal fugitive David Britto is still getting paychecks from the Boynton Beach Police Department, according to a statement released from the department this morning.The only hitch there is that the department isn’t directly depositing the checks into his back account, so he’d have to come down…
