UPDATE: Newsmax figured it out at 3:11 p.m., posting it in a not-so-prominent location.Either Newsmax is the only national media outlet in the U.S. that doesn’t know Donald Trump has pulled out of moderating their debate, or they’re having a real tough time crafting their damage-control plan at their West…
A Boynton Beach woman allowed the father of her 3-year-old girl to take the child for a weekend visit, but seeing as it’s now Tuesday, the cops are thinking the father is headed for Mexico.According to Stephanie Slater of the Boynton Beach Police Department, 26-year-old Feliz de la Cruz Lopez…
Scumbag Scott Rothstein is on day two of chatting up a room full of lawyers in Miami as part of a two-week deposition in which the victims of his Ponzi scheme are trying to get some of their money back.It was decided months ago that the proceedings, in which Rothstein…
It’s not every day that an 82-year-old man (now 83) calls the cops to tell them he just chugged some ammonia and beat his 77-year-old girlfriend to death with a battery, but according to a jury, October 7, 2010, was one of those days.The jury found Alfred Infosino guilty of…
Dieugrand Jacques, a former pastor of the New Alliance Haitian Church in Boynton Beach, was sentenced yesterday to ten years in prison, nearly three months after a jury found him guilty of molesting a 15-year-old female churchgoer during a counseling session in 2007.Over objections from the state, a judge granted…
There are three things Tony Sparano is really good at — chewing gum, wearing a mustache, and sending in the field-goal unit.Apparently none of those helps the Miami Dolphins win football games, so he’s out at head coach.Assistant head coach/secondary coach Todd Bowles was named as the interim head coach…
After allegedly tossing rocks at cops sitting inside their patrol cars, 18-year-old Sean Quinlan was hit with the most poorly named law in the Florida Statutes — “throwing a deadly missile.”Quinlan isn’t even the first alleged rock-tosser this month to be hit with the charge — a felony that could…
Rep. Allen West is still talking about President Obama’s speech in Kansas last week, this time explaining that reputable institutions such as the NFL are based on the “American principle of equal opportunity,” not the president’s idea of “fairness.”Apparently, if Obama were the NFL commissioner, West thinks that Obama might…
The Broward Commission may request that the Transportation Security Administration go back to the old-school gropings pat-downs of passengers at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and ditch the use of body scanners.The item — which was delayed from the last meeting — would be a direction to the aviation director…
Lowe’s Home Improvement is making headlines this week after it publicly responded to a Florida Family Association petition asking for it not to advertise during the show All-American Muslim on TLC.According to the Florida Family Association, Lowe’s would be the 66th company to pull advertising but is the only company…
Todd Wilson Bush is a teacher and assistant football coach at Lake Worth High School.He also allegedly agreed to pay a woman — who was actually a police detective — $120 to have her 12-year-old daughter perform oral sex on him behind a strip mall.According to an arrest affidavit from…
A 20-year-old man was shot and killed at a Dania Beach street party early Saturday morning, and the Broward Sheriff’s Office is looking for both the alleged shooter and a “person of interest” wanted for questioning.Dijon Brown, a Hollywood resident, was shot multiple times and died at the scene around 1:30…
Who fact-checks the fact-checkers?The Pulitzer Prize-winning analysts of political statements over at PolitiFact — a project of the St. Petersburg Times — ran a pretty curious rundown of one of President Obama’s statements this week.The claim: “Some billionaires have a tax rate as low as 1 percent.” PolitiFact spoke to…
Expecting that some sort of confrontation might take place when he picked up his son from his estranged mother-in-law’s house, 39-year-old Salvatore Miglino started the video recorder on his iPhone.Sure enough, the cops say she shot him.Cheryl Hepner, 66, is now in jail on an attempted first-degree murder charge, and…
The Florida Bar has filed a complaint against former Broward Judge Ana Gardiner over what the bar calls a “significant personal relationship” between her and a prosecutor who was trying a capital murder case she was presiding over in 2007.A jury recommended a death sentence for Omar Loureiro on May…
After his polling numbers dropped this fall and he was no longer being invited to the debates with other GOP presidential candidates, the probability of former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson’s running as the Libertarian Party candidate in 2012 looks a bit more likely.He’s still actively campaigning as a Republican,…
Rep. Allen West took about 14 minutes to speak on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday, apologizing to Americans for not really being able to do anything.Right after his apology, though, he made it clear it wasn’t his fault. But he’s sorry.”As we enter the final days of…
Lamont Mayweather has been identified by the Broward Sheriff’s Office as one of two men involved in a January murder on a Deerfield Beach golf course.Lataurus Randall, 35, was golfing with his cousin in Deerfield Beach on January 13 when two armed men wearing masks popped out of some bushes…
The GOP debate sponsored by the West Palm Beach-based Newsmax and moderated by Donald Trump is having some difficulties.It has two confirmed attendees — former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Sen. Rick Santorum — while four have declined, and Rep. Michele Bachmann hasn’t responded.Aside from the “what the hell…
Palm Beach County’s health department is reporting that a woman has acquired the West Nile virus — the first case in the county in five years.The county issued a “mosquito borne disease advisory” yesterday when the case was confirmed, after the woman was diagnosed with the disease by her doctor.Since…
Apparently trolling Gov. Rick Scott during his budget announcement yesterday was just one part of the quest for urine by the staff of the Daily Show With Jon Stewart.Now, “correspondent” Aasif Mandvi is hitting up some more law-making pee at the Capitol in, of course, the men’s room.Rep. Darryl Rouson…
Rep. Allen West posted something on Facebook? Time for a Fox News interview.Chatting with Fox’s Greta Van Susteren yesterday, we couldn’t help but notice West reinvent another moment in American history to further a political talking point.His point was that the government cannot be the arbiters of fairness, claiming that’s…
