The case of city-hall gadfly Fane Lozman’s houseboat — known as Riviera Beach v. That certain unnamed gray, two-story vessel approximately fifty-seven feet in length — may finally have come to an end.More than two years after U.S. marshals came and towed away Lozman’s houseboat with all of his possessions,…
Rep. Allen West, who said when he was elected that he was revamping the Congressional Black Caucus by “resurrecting the entrepreneurial spirit of the African-American community, particularly through small businesses,” is now having second thoughts.Faced with video clips of other Congressional Black Caucus members decrying the Tea Party this morning…
David Britto — last year’s Officer of the Year from the Boynton Beach Police Department who was arrested in July on a meth-trafficking charge — is now a fugitive, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.Barry Golden of the Marshals Service tells the Pulp that on August 24, Britto cut off…
Believe it or not, Rep. Allen West said something rational yesterday at a town hall meeting in Palm Beach Gardens — and even said it without name-calling.In response to GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s idea that she’d be willing to drill for oil and natural gas in the Everglades, West…
A man in the Florida Keys told police he’s Sam Elliott — the mustached man of cinema fame — and that he just won millions playing the lottery. The cops, on the other hand, say that he’s 62-year-old Ira Bershatsky and that he just stole a boat off the side…
It’s not every day a couple gets arrested for smuggling jaguar skins from Mexico to sell to people in South Florida, but today’s one of those days.According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Elias Garcia Garcia and Maria Angela Plancarte, both 52 years old, were arrested late last week on a…
Michael J. McNerney — a founding partner of the Fort Lauderdale Brinkley, McNerney, Morgan, Solomon & Tatum law firm as well as a founding partner of the Mutual Benefits Corp.’s Ponzi scheme — was sentenced late last week to five years in prison.As outside counsel for the Mutual Benefits Corp.,…
In the Florida Keys, cocaine is a hell of a drug.First there was 53-year-old Thomas Swindal, who died earlier this month after snorting a mysterious white powder that was eventually found to be cocaine, and then there’s 32-year-old Alena Larrazabal, whom police say they found rolling around naked in the…
Finally, there’s a third option to dealing with human remains aside from the age-old choice between burial and cremation. Now, bodies can be liquified as a more eco-friendly alternative.The Anderson-McQueen funeral home in St. Petersburg has just installed the device from a Glasgow-based company to give it the option of…
Well, now we have an idea of why GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann thinks she can get gas prices down to $2 per gallon — she wants to start drillin’ stuff, like the Florida Everglades.Unfortunately, that was only the second-dumbest idea Bachmann had on her Florida trip, after she said…
Update: Stahl is now sending packages of emails from atheists to “Christians only.”Pastor Michael Stahl — or “Pastor Mike,” as he’s known on the net — posted on his blog about a year ago saying he was pretty sure he was going to start a grassroots organization to keep a…
Jason Fayne Brown — who killed a 3-month-old girl while driving high on cocaine and Valium through West Palm Beach last year, then tried to walk away from the crash — entered a guilty plea today and was sentenced to ten years in prison.Around 2:30 p.m. on January 30, 2010,…
The Broward State Attorney’s Office has confirmed to the Pulp that sexual assault charges have been dropped against Steven Feagin — the former Deerfield Beach High School football standout who went on to play running back at the University of Illinois — in an alleged rape that took place on…
Who says Gov. Rick Scott looks incredibly awkward in social situations? Probably anyone who’s seen this video.The governor apparently spent Sunday at the Golden Lion Cafe in Flagler Beach, playing tambourine and singing alongside State Sen. John Thrasher and an actual musician to reenact some tunes from Bruce Springsteen and…
Apparently a crowd of five lining up to get an autograph is enough for a Tea Party “witch” to make an appearance on Fox News’ O’Reilly Factor.Late last week, Christine O’Donnell — famous for losing a U.S. Senate race in Delaware — dropped by the Coral Ridge Yacht Club in…
After Gov. Rick Scott’s office made a stink about a television contract approved by state prisons boss Ed Buss for MSNBC to film its Lockup show at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution, the show is now back on, but Buss is out of a job.Buss didn’t offer a comment on…
Hurricane Michele will be hitting South Florida today as GOP presidential candidate and occasional John Wayne Gacy fan Michele Bachmann has decided to spend an extra day in the Sunshine State.Bachmann just spent the last three days with some of the more boring stops across the state, including a sandwich…
A 19-year-old woman was arrested Friday night after police acquired a video of her trying to murder her 2-month-old daughter with a big piece of concrete, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.MCSO Deputy Becky Herrin says investigators from the Florida Department of Children and Families turned over the video…
Strangling his girlfriend with telephone cord, bashing her over the head with a lamp, attempting to scoop her eyes out with tweezers, and trying to drown her in a bathtub didn’t kill Murray Bloom’s former flame, but he’ll spend the rest of his life in prison for trying anyway.On January…
Democratic State Rep. Scott Randolph is no stranger to expressing his grievances against Gov. Rick Scott and his “get-to-work days.”First he complained about the governor “pretending to be a working Floridian” at the Tampa doughnut shop at the beginning of the month, and now he’s moved on to Scott’s playing…
GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann begins her five-stop tour of Florida today, starting at a sandwich shop belonging to a self-proclaimed “Bible thumpin’, gun totin’ capitalist pig.”That would be Ed Malin, owner of Angie’s Subs in Jacksonville Beach, who told Fox News a couple of months ago that he is…
With the complete release yesterday of statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau on same-sex couples, Wilton Manors is officially the second-gayest city in the country, and Fort Lauderdale is the gayest midsized city in the nation.The statistics were compiled by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, and…
