Imagine for a moment all of the strange things that have to happen in the backseat of a taxi in the Florida Keys.Now imagine that the driver of that car may not have been some burned out beach bum, but instead an undercover cop.We’d like to think the detectives from…
UPDATE: Medical examiner changed his mind; reportedly says it was “accidental.”The death of a missing Hollywood man who was found 13 feet underwater in a canal inside his Mercedes-Benz convertible has been ruled a suicide, according to the Fort Lauderdale cops.David Senkowsky, 52, was last seen on December 11 in…
Occupy Wall Street — it’s like a fictional organized-crime syndicate that rides around on motorcycles, according to Rep. Allen West.West celebrated the 238th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party on Friday, and of course, couldn’t go without insulting someone along the way.”We remember them today in celebration of our hard…
Simone Paolercio teaches children during the week at Lakeland’s Highlands Middle School, but this Saturday, she was allegedly tossing hash browns at a McDonald’s employee.According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Paolercio, 39, rolled through the McDonald’s drive-through around 9:45 a.m. on Saturday, and ordered around $20 worth of food.When…
Even though Florida’s bestiality ban didn’t go into effect for another nine months, Tomas Bautista still received a jail sentence for his chihuahua-fingering episode back in February.Whereas the new bestiality ban makes sexing an animal a misdemeanor, Bautista entered a plea of no contest on a felony animal-cruelty charge, and…
The Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office, the Palm Beach County School District’s police chief, along with other law-enforcement officials were proud to announce today that they’ve arrested more kids.”Operation D Minus” nabbed 12 students for drug charges this time around, according to the Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office.They didn’t announce…
Sheldon Hepner, the husband of Cheryl Hepner — who’s accused of shooting her son-in-law after he arrived at her Tamarac home to pick up his son — has been charged as an accomplice in the December 7 shooting.According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Sheldon Hepner lied to detectives, telling them…
A copy of Broward Inspector General John Scott’s report on the county’s Office of Economic and Small Business Development went out today, and it ain’t pretty.The report claims “gross mismanagement” within the office, which Scott says has been going on since 2007, and continues to the present day.In just one…
The sun rose again this morning, meaning another entry in the expanding catalog of Shit Allen Says.Let’s preface Rep. Allen West’s most recent outlandish statement with the disclaimer he gave shortly after his explanation of the Democratic Party:”Once again, you guys will take whatever I say, and you will spin…
Another year has just about gone by, which means it’s time for South Florida to appear once again on the American Tort Reform Association’s list of “judicial hellholes.”Every year since 2003 — when they actually just picked Miami-Dade County — South Florida has maintained its spot among the crappiest civil…
There was a bit of dissent from some Margate residents, but the city’s commissioners followed through on a promise to animal-rights activists to ban devices used to mistreat circus animals.The intent of the activists was to prevent the Cole Bros. Circus from coming to town, but they seem pretty pleased…
Less than three months after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of the Inspector General came to Deerfield Beach to look into its housing authority, its executive director is moving north.Pamela Davis, who’s been the Deerfield Beach Housing Authority’s executive director for more than 20 years, has…
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — the apparent front-runner for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination — has been an advocate of the “free market” approach to reducing the number of foreclosures in the country, coupled with his wish to repeal the “Dodd-Frank” bill signed into law last year.He should probably…
Michael McClintock, 21, found out a pretty successful method of being held without bond on a capital sex-battery charge — by allegedly telling the cops he was having sex with an 11-year-old girl, but she started it.The Marion County Sheriff’s Office didn’t much like that response.The 11-year-old girl went to…
According to the results from our highly unscientific reader poll yesterday, nearly 44 percent of our readers thought Gov. Rick Scott’s “Israeli trade mission” was more of a political vacation.Nearly 37 percent of readers really didn’t care why the governor was in Israel, as long as he stayed there.Shortly after…
The Broward Commission voted yesterday to go through with its complaint to the Transportation Security Administration against the body scanners at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, but the conversation that took place before the vote apparently didn’t quite satisfy some of the TSA’s harshest critics.A columnist over at the Lew…
To most people, winning the golden ticket means you get to go to eat candy with an eclectic chocolatier for a day. If you win Rush Limbaugh’s golden ticket, you get blindfolded and taken to his studio in Palm Beach and that means you already bought some of the crap…
For former Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Shawn Barber’s 41st birthday, his wife bought him tickets to see Def Leppard at the Hard Rock Casino for $626.04.The day of the concert — March 29, 2008 — the babysitter canceled.Apparently, the best option Barber could come up with was to fill out a…
Here’s something we learned about self-proclaimed “banker and pimp” Scott Rothstein today: He writes his emails like a total douchebag.A civil lawsuit filed on Tuesday implicating car salesman Ted Morse in Rothstein’s scheme — which is explained at length by the South Florida Business Journal — includes a bunch of…
In September, Joshua Kusnick — the son of convicted Scott Rothstein associate Howard Kusnick — sued local attorney and sports agency owner Darren Heitner, claiming he made libelous comments on his blog about Joshua Kusnick’s sports agency and the elder Kusnick’s role in the company.Now, Heitner says that lawsuit has…
Going through the list of Florida’s top 50 trading partners — compiled by Enterprise Florida — you may notice Israel sure isn’t on the list.Apparently, Florida engages in more trade activity with countries like Guyana, the Netherlands, and Malaysia.Call us crazy, but with a 26 percent approval rating, it looks…
Hey, Spirit Airlines is good for something (probably) — making the average airfare from the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport the third-lowest in the country, at $266.The ranking was done by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, which found that only the airports in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Long Beach, California…
