We’ve been telling you about Andre “Loki” Barbosa, the 23-year-old Brazilian squatter who moved into a $2.5 million Boca mansion via the vague “adverse possession” Florida property law. As we reported, Loki has issues with Bank of America, which served an eviction notice last week. See also: -Andre “Loki” Barbosa,…
A guy was arrested over the weekend for drunk driving. Except that the vehicle he was drunk driving in was a motorized shopping cart. And the place he was drunk driving was inside a Walmart. Because, you know, FLORIDA! But hey, if there was ever an incentive for getting shitfaced before…
Back in April of 2009, Heath Miller, a popular band teacher at H.L. Watkins Middle School in Palm Beach Gardens, was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting four of his eighth-grade female students. See also: A Popular Band Teacher Killed a Man, Then Was Accused of Raping His Own Students…
As we’ve pointed out here before, LeBron James’ game is more than just taking shots and making dunks. It is insanely balls-out efficient. Last night against the visiting Charlotte Bobcats, LeBron showed that his massive efficiency grades were currently at gamma ray levels, going 13-for-14 — a nut-demolishing 98.2 field-goal…
Riding a nine-game winning streak and perfect 8-0 ACC score card, the University of Miami’s men’s basketball program hit another milestone yesterday: a spot on the Associated Press’ top 10. According to the number crunchers, the team is currently the eighth best in the country. Those new bragging rights are…
Late last year, an Oxbow executive named Kirby Martensen arrived at an isolated splash of mountainous land near Aspen to tour Bill Koch’s “19th century western town.” Bear Ranch, he soon learned, was accessible by only one road and didn’t have cell-phone reception. No way in or out. The entire…
What’s left to do after you’ve grown your little ice cream shop into a worldwide brand and sold out to a corporate giant for $326 million? Hiding underneath that mountain of cash is Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream — still acting like the hippie he was in…
Last week, we told you about how FBI agents raided the West Palm Beach medical office of Dr. Salomon Melgen, an eye doctor and contributor to New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez. Melgen also may or may not have provided the senator with underaged Dominican hookers. Then, we told you…
AARP has 2.8 million members in Florida, and a good number of them want people to stop it with all the texting and driving already. Mostly because they’re not sure what texting is. Is it for sex? We kid, we kid. It’s really dangerous, and people shouldn’t text and drive…
True the Vote, a nonpartisan, nonprofit grassroots organization whose mission seems to be to keep election integrity, is suing the St. Lucie County and Florida Supervisor of Elections after they supposedly botched the Allen West-Patrick Murphy recount back in November. Specifically, the group is looking to get election authorities to…
After he left the governor’s office in 2008, Jeb Bush set up an education nonprofit group, and last week, The Nation charged that Bush “could be using his education reform crusade for personal gain.”The dust-up began when the union-affiliated research group In the Public Interest (IPI) used the Freedom of Information Act…
Horrifying and sad news out of Boynton Beach as police say a man killed his two youngest sons and then himself as a punishment to their mother. According to police, Victoria Zavala called police to her home on SW Eighth Ave. about 1:50 a.m. Saturday after her husband, Isidro Zavala,…
UPDATE: Florida Wildlife Spokesperson Carli Segelson said the python hunt has, in fact, accomplished its intended goals. Organizers primarily wanted to raise public awareness concerning the Everglades’ python epidemic. “We definitely had success,” she said.ORIGINAL POST: For the heat and hyperbole, who knew it was going to be this bad?…
Even though she’s been out of custody and ducking underground for the last year and a half, it’s been a busy few weeks for America’s most hated parental unit. The latest updates came with a one-two punch: first, word that an appellant court had decided to drop two of the…
So yesterday, we reported that Donald Trump was harassing rapper Mac Miller on Twitter over a song the artist recorded called “Donald Trump,” which Trump actually liked but then got weird about it when the song went viral. Trump send out a series of tweets calling Miller an ungrateful dog…
Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein’s wife, Kim Rothstein, pleaded guilty on Friday on her conspiracy charge to commit money laundering after it was discovered that she and her pals concealed more than $1 million worth of jewelry from the federal government, including a 12.08-carat diamond ring worth 450 grand. Her hubby…
Chris Bosh is a beloved figure ’round these parts. He’s a half-man, half-dinosaur, he has a silky smooth jumpshot, and he’s the greatest photobomber in the history of the NBA. Now he’s looking to endear himself with us even more with his latest commercial (costarring Ray Allen!), in which he…
The Sun Sentinel’s Dave Hyde picked the wrong damned time to coddle Dan Marino. Five days before the New York Post broke the Marino love-child story, Hyde wrote a piece on the Dolphins quarterback’s work with autism. And that’s cool. However, the first paragraph in that column read thusly: People…
The local personalities, egos, and public figures who swung through the news cycle this week, ranked by New Times’ crack research department using a highly scientific algorithm (i.e., charting where all those 18 shell casings fell on Las Olas, then comparing with a map of the zodiac)…
We tried to get some comment this week from the attorneys representing Palm Beach Circuit Court Judge Barry Cohen, a famously outspoken liberal who’s facing some of the most transparently bogus ethics charges ever to go before the Florida Supreme Court.No dice. Neither Scott Richardson nor Donnie Murrell, grizzled veterans…
Everyone, lay off Dan Marino. So he’s got a love child. Who doesn’t these days? Man + random woman = love child is an equation that’s deeply rooted in the annals of human history. Going all the way back to the nation’s founding, love children came, and love children went…
On Wednesday, we told you about how FBI agents raided the West Palm Beach medical office of Dr. Salomon Melgen, an eye doctor and contributor to New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, who also may or may not have provided the senator with underaged Dominican hookers. See also: – FBI…
