Apparently Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi doesn’t take kindly to people running scams on people under the guise of natural disasters.Bondi announced yesterday that her office has filed a lawsuit in Broward County Circuit Court accusing Hallandale-based hurricane shutter company Rolladen Inc. of taking big deposits from people but never…
The first jailhouse coup de grâce approved by Gov. Rick Scott has been delayed by the Florida Supreme Court.Manuel Valle — convicted of killing a Coral Gables cop in 1978 — was scheduled to be executed on August 2, but the court delayed it until September 1.According to the Florida…
Sir Michael Philip Jagger, the only member of the Rolling Stones to be granted knighthood, turns 68 today.Much of the recent focus on the Stones has been their lack of touring and that rift between Jagger and Keith Richards that’s been around for about 50 years. But Jagger’s been keeping…
Centerfolds are now contraband in Florida prisons, thanks to state prison boss Edwin Buss.According to a memo from Buss to all state Department of Corrections facilities, any inmate found “introducing, possessing or passing pornographic material shall be punished to the maximum extent” of the state’s administrative code.The problem, apparently, was…
It looks like the guy who called Gov. Rick Scott “a stud” is currently leading the field of Republican presidential hopefuls for the 2012 election.According to an American Research Group poll of 600 Republican voters, 16 percent would choose Texas Gov. Rick Perry as the person to take on President…
It’s 2011, and people are still chatting up people they believe to be kids on the internet for sex.The latest of the bunch, allegedly, is Frederick G. Wade, who was pretty sure he was about to have sex with a young teenaged girl he met online.Of course, that teenaged girl…
Oh, the squabbles between millionaires and billionaires.A Florida Circuit Judge ruled last week that billionaire Donald Trump has to repay 77-year-old Harry Theodoracopulos $200,000 after Trump wrongly gave him the boot from the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach in 2009, according to the Daily Mail.Trump reportedly kicked…
Well, it didn’t take too long for Rep. Allen West to make a statement that people are seeing as more outlandish than his last one.West was asked by an audience member at a speech Saturday night about openly gay people serving in the United States military, according to the Tampa…
The New York Times has been the recipient of 106 Pulitzer Prizes as one of the most historic newspapers in the country, but the paper’s weekend piece about Port St. Lucie’s alleged teenaged hammer murderer, Tyler Hadley, was a little strange.The story — which ran in the “A” section of…
Within a week, police in South Florida arrested two young people for allegedly killing the ones who raised them — 17-year-old Tyler Hadley is charged with murdering both his parents with a hammer last Saturday in Port St. Lucie, and 21-year-old Gerard Lopes has been charged with killing his adoptive…
Running a congressional campaign against a (partially) well-liked incumbent is a tough task, which typically leads to some more-outlandish or extreme campaign tactics.As an example, here’s the new website started by former West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel, who hopes to take on Rep. West in 2012 — westhateswomen.com.As part…
The creeps from the Westboro Baptist “Church” didn’t show up at the funeral for 24-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Jordan Christopher Schumann in Fort Pierce last night, which is good news for the rest of the 6.95 billion people on Earth who aren’t part of the Kansas cult.On the other hand,…
Andrea Miller apparently isn’t the best at picking boyfriends, since the cops say that during a confrontation yesterday, her ex-boyfriend grabbed a gun and shot at her while her current boyfriend had already run away.According to Boca Raton police, Miller was with her boyfriend, Kunta Kinte Riddick, at a West…
The unemployment rate in Florida didn’t change — still at 10.6 percent for June — but Broward County, among others in South Florida, posted growing unemployment rates.Broward County passed the national unemployment rate of 9.2 percent, increasing from 9 percent in May to 9.5 percent in June.Palm Beach and Miami-Dade…
It looks like Rep. Allen West came away with two great accolades this week for his email tirade to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz: The love of Stephen Colbert and the “Worst Week in Washington” award from the Washington Post.The award from the Post comes courtesy of Chris Cillizza, who runs…
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit against a Jewish nursing home in Boca Raton for allegedly attempting to force a Seventh-day Adventist to work on the Sabbath.The EEOC says it has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Menorah House, accusing the nursing home of…
The Kansas crazies are coming.Westboro Baptist “Church” Pastor Fred Phelps tells New Times that the church’s minions are coming to Fort Pierce tonight to protest the funeral of 24-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Jordan Christopher Schumann, who was killed July 5 in Afghanistan.Schumann and his fellow soldiers were in a vehicle…
Malinda Knowles says she was about to fly out of LaGuardia Airport last year, headed for West Palm Beach, until JetBlue employees allegedly committed what the New York Post is calling a “panty air raid.”Knowles, a 27-year-old financial consultant and former model, says she was wearing a baggy blue T-shirt…
As much as Gov. Rick Scott likes to make the rules, it looks like his Cabinet’s idea for making new hurdles for ex-convicts to have their civil rights restored was pulled out of their collective asses, according to implications from a recent study by the Florida Parole Commission.The study says…
Remember how old-school Gov. Rick Scott was when he asked his supporters to send out prewritten letters about himself to newspapers around the state? Well, he has been outdone by the South Florida Tea Party, which is embracing the height of 1980s telecommunications technology — the fax.That’s right, the South…
Former New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress was supposed to show up to a Fort Lauderdale school today — a month and a half out of prison — to teach some youngsters about his life experiences and how to make good choices.The kids learned at least one thing from…
Since a gathering of the religulous assembled for a protest against Margate’s Masjid Jamaat Al-Mumineen in early June, we’ve been waiting to hear any shred of evidence aside from accusations in a federal indictment against the mosque’s former imam, Izhar Khan.Khan was one of six people charged with conspiring to…
