A 33-year-old Miramar man was sentenced today to ten years up the river for drunkenly mowing over and killing a motorcyclist in 2009.Robert Jones pleaded guilty a few weeks ago to killing 43-year-old Eric Maron while he was drunk-driving his fiancée’s daughter to school on September 9, 2009.The sentence handed…
Two men have been arrested in the weekend shooting in South Beach of an off-duty detective from the New York City Police Department after one of the men dropped by Broward General Hospital to be treated for a gunshot wound.Mustafa Cornelius Lee, 28, and Francisco Henriquez, 35, have been charged…
The Root, an African-American culture magazine, says that there’s “a job opening out there for a black Ronald Reagan” but that Rep. Allen West don’t fit the bill.The magazine says West, along with Rep. Tim Scott and presidential candidate Herman Cain, are black Republicans who have had the opportunity to…
A Dodge Charger apparently decided to play Knight Rider’s KITT at a Boynton Beach car wash yesterday when a man was “thrown” from the car and it kept on going, according to Boynton Beach police.The cops say a 68-year-old employee of the Main Street Car Wash in Boynton Beach was…
The case of cocaine delivery man Mackle Shelton — who received an 18-year sentence for practicing his trade in 2005 — sparked a federal judge to rule part of Florida’s drug laws unconstitutional yesterday.Judge Mary S. Scriven of Federal District Court, in a 43-page order, threw out Shelton’s cocaine-delivery charge…
Gov. Rick Scott may have just instituted a personal policy that’s going to be popular with just about everyone — staying informed about the world around him.For the first time, the governor’s public schedule includes a “review of Florida and national news,” which is coming from the guy who said…
Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer says the New Orleans Saints have worked out a trade to bring running back Reggie Bush to the Miami Dolphins, as long as Bush agrees to a new contract with the Fins.UPDATE: The deal has reportedly gone through, as Bush is said to have agreed to…
The extremely creepy Casey Anthony mask that was going for around $24,000 on eBay yesterday morning ended with a $999,900 bid last night.In all, 105 bids were placed on the mask, which is said to be one of nine masks created by a sculptor for use in a Casey Anthony…
Convicted murderer Frederick Barrett was captured this morning by the U.S. Marshals Service, nearly 32 years after he hopped a few fences at the Union Correctional Institution in Raiford during a power outage and disappeared.Barrett, now 60, was found living in a marijuana grow house in Montrose County, Colorado, where…
Florida hasn’t tested out the new lethal-injection drug it has planned to start using, but letters to Gov. Rick Scott from the drugmaker’s president — sent before Scott signed off on the first lethal juicing of his governorship — show that the company’s president practically begged the governor not to…
Ellisa Martinez — the woman who recently received a two-year prison sentence after sending a threatening email to right-wing radio host Joyce Kaufman, leading to the lockdown of more than 300 Broward County schools — has finally given her side of the story in the incident.Martinez — who hasn’t spoken…
Howard Simon, executive director of the ACLU of Florida, has sent a letter to Gov. Rick Scott asking that the state end the practice of selling driver’s license information, saying that the sales violate Floridians’ expectations of privacy.The sales of the information — which includes a license holder’s home address,…
Gov. Rick Scott took his armchair president skills to CNN this morning as part of his belief that he has a say in federal government, and the CNN anchors made him look like a fool — again.In early June, the governor went on CNN to defend his advocacy of drug-testing…
About two months ago, a reporter from our sister paper to the south, Miami New Times, decided to see how easy it would be to get a high school diploma that could be used to be accepted into a few local, taxpayer-funded colleges.He called a local diploma mill after seeing…
Herbert Stettin, the Chapter 11 trustee for victims of Scott Rothstein’s $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, has filed a lawsuit against TD Bank, alleging it was at fault for allowing Rothstein and his Ponzi pals to continue to rip off his investors.As you may recall, Rothstein’s computer nerds for his now-defunct…
If you’re into absolutely terrifying people, eBay has just the thing for you.Bidding ends tonight on this Casey Anthony mask, which is probably creepy enough to make kids and adults cry out of fear.According to the seller, “prophunter,” it’s one of nine Casey Anthony masks made by the pop artist…
Somebody call Al Gore.Sen. Marco Rubio’s official website has been down for nearly an entire day, and the St. Petersburg Times thinks President Barack Obama is to blame.Obama asked last night that people call all of their legislators to ask them to find a compromise on all this debt-ceiling drama,…
U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan decided not to grant bail to Izhar Khan — who was the 24-year-old former imam of Margate’s Masjid Jamaat Al-Mumineen mosque before his arrest in May on charges of supporting the Pakistani Taliban — despite the feds releasing no new evidence against him.His brother, Irfan…
It looks like there’s something a bit more ridiculous to Lois Frankel’s claim that Rep. Allen West hates women unless he gives $1,000 to the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence to prove he doesn’t.Peter Schorsch — who runs the politicking website Saint Petersblog — noticed that Frankel, the former mayor…
David Tillman, the former Hollywood Christian Academy track coach arrested last year for sexing up a young girl on the team, pleaded guilty today to a reduced charge.Instead of the initial lewd and lascivious battery charge dropped on Tillman, he pleaded guilty to a child-abuse charge — which spares him…
Rep. Allen West made an appearance at Capitol Hill yesterday, alongside a group called Citizens for National Security, to unveil the “first-ever report of its kind” detailing the Muslim Brotherhood’s supposed infiltration of America.In the words of the Citizens for National Security, William Saxton, “It details exactly how the Muslim…
Gov. Rick Scott seems to like the idea of being president of the United States — he’s hinted that he’d make a good president because of the “tough choices” he’s made as governor, and now he’s playing armchair president from the governor’s mansion.Sunshine State News caught up with Scott talking…
