UPDATE, 3:41 p.m.: The original post had incorrect information about the first crash. It’s been fixed, and comment from the PBSO has been added.Two 23-year-old men were killed in Wellington less than 12 hours apart, according to police.The first happened at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday — James Duemig was driving…
Lauderhill 32-year-old James Ayers visited a friend at work last Wednesday, according to police, and “went into great detail as to how he strangled ‘Julie’ and left her body in a room that he was renting somewhere in Broward County where he and Julie were staying.” Ayers said the stench…
The politician who goes SCUBA diving with American flags has now officially co-opted “The Duke.” How long until Captain America shows up to a fundraiser playing Toby Keith songs on a guitar strung with hairs from Osama bin Laden’s ponytail?It’s the first high-profile endorsement of the 2012 election cycle to…
UPDATE, 4/2: The police report has more details of how Ayers got busted. Hint: Police say he just went around telling people about it.Police say 32-year-old James Ayers called a friend Wednesday and said he killed a woman named Julie on March 23. The friend turned him in.Fort Lauderdale Police then arrested…
The FAU student featured in a viral YouTube video showing her threatening to kill a professor has struggled with mental illness for more than a decade, according to her family.Jonatha Carr had a breakdown in a biology class at Florida Atlantic University on March 20, and cell-phone videos of the…
Florida’s 2005 “stand your ground” law has gotten plenty of attention over the past month because of the Trayvon Martin shooting. But the case involving George Zimmerman is not the only “stand your ground” case that’s come about since 2005 — it’s been cited in at least 130 cases, according to…
Welcome to this week’s post of the Broward-Palm Beach edition of Mug-Shot Friday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mug shots from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, and femmes fatale. Check out Miami New Times’ Riptide blog for the Miami-Dade edition…
The South Florida-based pianist will hit the road April 17, when his first concert will be in West Palm Beach. Before that, he’ll answer questions from fans in an April 11 webcast featuring questions from fans, according to a release.All of this coincides with the release of his latest concert…
More than one in five South Florida residents said their employers were firing workers in 2011, according a Gallup poll released this morning.In a Gallup ranking of the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas, the “Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach” area ranked 44th out of 50 for job creation last year — the worst…
Earlier this week, a 35-year-old Jacksonville man, Christopher Chaney, pleaded guilty to charges that he hacked into celebrity email accounts and leaked nude photos of several of them, including Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis. He faces up to 60 years in prison, according to the Associated Press, for gaining access…
Bear with me — this is cool.Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas make things look cool for a living. They lead Google’s “Big Picture” data visualization group. They’re of a special breed of nerd — how many people do you know with a résumé that includes a doctorate in mathematics and…
Congressman Allen West took to Facebook this afternoon to “vehemently condemn” the $10,000 bounty put out by the New Black Panther Party for the “citizen’s arrest” of George Zimmerman, the man who shot Trayvon Martin.West called the ransom “reprehensible” and called on the Department of Justice to prosecute the group,…
If you’re concerned about the big roadblock on Andrews Avenue near the courthouse on SE Sixth Street, don’t be — it’s all under control, according to Fort Lauderdale Police spokesman Det. Travis Mandell.Authorities are still trying to unravel what actually happened, but Mandell said initial information points to reports of…
Everybody’s trying to ride the Trayvon Martin case’s publicity coattails — politicians are making statements about it left and right, a column in the Huffington Post tried to connect an FAU student’s freakout to racial anger, and now, the University of Missouri is trying to tie a psychology study to…
There’s been all manner of hullaballoo the past week or so about reports that an increasing number of employers have been asking job applicants to hand over their social media log-in information as part of the job application process — if you want the job, you have to show them…
A 31-year-old DJ who ran a Haitian, reggae, and rap station out of a room in a Pompano Beach home must pay the Federal Communications Commission $10,000 by the end of next month or face a suit from the Department of Justice, according to federal documents.FCC enforcement agents raided a…
Update, 3/30: Carr’s family has commented about her history of mental illness.Dr. Boyce Watkins has been actively involved in racial commentary for a long time. He’s been on CNN, he’s written books, he runs a constantly updated website called Your Black World. That, combined with his status as a “scholar…
It’s not a secret that Jose Canseco, South Florida’s most infamous meathead slugger turned reality-show washout, has a wildly popular Twitter account — well over 400,000 followers eagerly awaiting the next 140 characters of weird, deluded complaining about how terrible and unjust it is that someone who writes two books…
Somewhere in Palm Beach County, there is a man with red gloves, a Barack Obama mask, a silver handgun, and a pile of money that smells like French fries.The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office sent out another news release yesterday about the string of four fast-food robberies that started in…
A 1997 study found that one in 255 high-school athletes had a “serious or potentially serious” heart defect that had the potential to preclude them from athletic participation. Although awareness of the issue has grown over the years, there are no mandatory tests for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which is the technical…
Update, 3/30: Carr’s family has commented about her history of mental illness. Last Tuesday, video surfaced of Florida Atlantic University student Jonatha Carr yelling things like “I will kill the fuck out of you” in a biology class. Police documents state that, after hitting a student in the forehead and yelling, “White…
A Broward Sheriff’s Office internal affairs investigator who admitted to lying in a report earlier this year is teaching criminal justice classes at the ITT Technical Institute in Fort Lauderdale, according to documents just released.Sgt. Mary Guess, who has worked in BSO internal affairs for 14 years, is being investigated…
