Every year around back-to-school time, parents dropping their kids off at school return to their cars to find that they no longer have a window or the stuff they left on their front seat.The smash-and-grab phenomenon seems to continue every year and happened just a few weeks ago at a…
There’s apparently some unwritten rule that members of the media are forbidden to talk about Rep. Ron Paul — at least in the eyes of Jon Stewart — but according to our readers, Paul is most likely to win next month’s “Presidency 5” straw poll in Orlando, garnering more than…
Irene, the first hurricane in the Atlantic in the 2011 season, is expected to reach Florida between Thursday and Friday, according to the National Hurricane Center.According to a release from the NHC at 5 a.m. today, “Irene has become much better organized” overnight, despite bowling over Puerto Rico yesterday.Some of…
We give a tip of our hat today here at the Pulp to Fort Lauderdale Police Detective Travis Mandell, who gave the most colorful description of police-related activity we’ve ever seen from a cop.Around 8:45 a.m. today, a man who was reportedly “expressing suicidal thoughts” decided to hop off the…
As you may remember, Rep. Allen West — the self-proclaimed “modern-day Harriet Tubman” — said the other day that he was starting his own “underground railroad” to get black people away from the “21st-century plantation.”Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, whom West had identified as a “plantation overseer” in the interview, later…
A report prepared by the Broward County Natural Resources Planning and Management Division warns that unless several actions are taken, rising sea levels are likely to flood a small portion of Fort Lauderdale by 2040, and a much larger portion by 2075 — when the sea level could rise by…
Thirty-one states added more jobs in the month of July, and Florida certainly wasn’t one of them.According to the new monthly figures released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Florida lost 22,100 jobs in July, the second-largest drop nationwide, with Illinois losing 24,900.The state’s unemployment rate went from…
Gov. Rick Scott loves to tout how open his office is to records requests — never mind the outrageous price tag — but it gets a little tough to acquire public records when they magically disappear.That’s what happened to the St. Petersburg Times’ Capitol reporter Michael C. Bender, he wrote…
About a month from now, most of the GOP presidential candidates will be in Orlando for the Republican Party of Florida’s “Presidency 5” straw poll.It’ll work a little differently than the recent Iowa straw poll — the 3,500 delegates will be pre-selected, and neither Michele Bachmann nor Mitt Romney will…
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office was a little curious as to why Melissa Siladke allegedly stole $11,196.45 of taxpayer coin while she was an employee of Palm Tran, the county-funded transportation agency.Siladke’s answer: Because her ex-boss was a “gay pervert,” according to an arrest affidavit from the sheriff’s office.Siladke,…
The Daytona Beach cops got a few 911 calls yesterday when they happened to notice an 8-month-old boy in a stroller hanging out in the bed of a pickup truck that was cruising around town.According to an arrest affidavit, 23-year-old Keyona Nichole Davis was babysitting an 8-month-old boy when she…
The Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office announced today that it has charged 19 people at the West Palm Beach Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center with running the place like a pill mill.According to State Attorney Michael McAuliffe, more than 6,000 oxycodone pills were seized as part of a seven-month…
Accountability — it’s a trait that’s seemingly absent from a few of Florida’s politicians, especially after Gov. Rick Scott declared that the state’s credit rating had been upgraded to AAA by Standard & Poor’s.The truth is, Florida’s credit rating was upgraded to AAA — in 2005, under then-Gov. Jeb Bush,…
OK, people, who crapped on the coral?A study led by a biologist from Florida’s Rollins College says human sewage has been leaking into the ocean and is likely the reason the Caribbean Elkhorn coral was added to the endangered species list.The research says Serratio marcescens, a bacteria found in human…
Always a fan of skewed historical references, Rep. Allen West went on Fox News yesterday to proclaim he’s the “modern-day Harriet Tubman,” and says he’s the one that will get the nation’s African-Americans off the “21st century plantation.”The “plantation” isn’t a new reference for West, but being Harriet Tubman and…
Summer Slaughter TourWith the Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel, Darkest Hour, Six Feet Under, Dying Fetus, As Blood Runs Black, Oceano, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Within Ruins, and Powerglove. Revolution, Fort LauderdaleAugust 17, 2011Better than: Autumn Assassination Tour.Metal tours seem to be diversifying themselves these days, as was the case with last night’s…
The State Attorney’s Office is considering whether to charge two boys — ages 14 and 16 — as adults after police say one of them accidentally shot and killed their wheelman yesterday as the trio was allegedly about to embark on a crime spree in Boynton Beach.The Palm Beach County…
Sometimes the Twitter universe finds the news before we do — like the handful of people who happened to witness an elderly gentlemen allegedly jogging naked down Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach.West Palm Beach police spokesman Chase Scott tells the Pulp there’s not much more to it than…
Tampa police arrested 17-year-old Jared Michael Cano yesterday in an alleged plot to set off some explosive devices at Freedom High School.Aside from his criminal history, which includes a recent burglary arrest, Cano’s Facebook profile also gives a little insight into what kind of character the kid might be.He was…
Forget everything you know about the crazy cat lady who lives next door with a dozen cats — the cops say Pennie and Steven Lefkowitz were hoarding 692 cats at their place in Alachua County.The raid for the cats from the Haven Acres Cat Sanctuary happened in June, and whereas…
Boynton Beach police arrested a 24-year-old man yesterday after they say he wrote “bomb threat” on the back of his grocery list, then slid it under a door into a group therapy session at a rehab center.Police were forced to evacuate and block off the Watershed Treatment Center in Boynton…
Republican Rep. Sandy Adams of Orlando is now a subject in a new collection of dolls called the “Lady Republican Series.”Adams joins Sarah Palin, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, South Dakota Rep. Kristi Noem, New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in the plastic GOP, at the…
