Town of Palm Beach police officer Artemis Saridakis has filed a gender-discrimination and harassment lawsuit. Turns out the 27-year-old Saridakis models swimsuits and other sexy outfits, reports Gossip Extra. As it is with these kinds of things, Saridakis claims in her suit that her supervisor, Capt. Scott Duquette, said she…
We weren’t really sure about writing about anti-abortion fanatic militant Randall Terry until we came across the photo, below, taken from his debate last December with Vermin Supreme. (Randall’s the one without a boot on his head.) After that, we had no choice. Vermin, you may not know, is running…
Remember all the hoopla surrounding the “Suck For Luck” campaign last year? Yea, there was a reason for that. The Colts’ Andrew Luck decimated the Dolphins defense, leading Indianapolis to the 23-20 victory over Miami on Sunday. Luck went 30-of-48, and set a rookie record by surgically removing the Dolphins’…
We’ll miss a lot of things about covering Barack Obama’s addresses — all that hopey changey stuff, the enthusiasm, the fact that we’re not cheering another old white dude — it just gets us. But what we won’t miss? Yesterday. Yesterday, Obama said all of the things one might expect…
In the least shocking news ever, turns out voting in Florida has been a goddamn mess. Rick Scott refused to extend early voting, people had to wait in line for up to 9 hours, Florida Democrats sued the state to extend early voting, polls opened Sunday, then closed again, chaos…
Every few months the Florida Supreme Court lays down the law on attorneys who’ve been acting a fool.Last time around the court doled out 22 reprimands, including the disbarment of five attorneys. This round is a bit more tame: 18 attorneys disciplined, including two who were disbarred and five who…
Former President Bill Clinton said a lot of things during his his hour-long speech in Tampa last night before a crazed crowd of 1,000 supporters at a campaign rally here Friday night. It would be nice to know what most of it was. We’re not sure whether it was the…
Was Bain Capital, the company founded by presidential candidate Mitt Romney, built with help from covert Iran-contra operatives? New information uncovered by New Times raises the possibility. The story starts in 1984, when Romney solicited start-up money for Bain at a meeting in Miami with a small group of Latin…
Marco Rubio hates The Gays. He hates them so much, he voted against aLGBT-inclusive reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. He hates them so much, he doesn’t even agree with Mittington Romney, who hates The Gays too, but at least supports a Federal Marriage Amendment (allegedly!) And now, Rubio…
The last time the Miami Heat were in New York, they were busy denting Knickerbocker ass on their way to a first-round playoff series victory, the first of many on their way to the title. Remember when New York managed to win one game in that series and Madison Square…
A botched bank robbery, an injured Broward Sheriff’s deputy, and a shot suspect has I-95 shutdown in North Broward. According to Pompano Beach Fire Rescue spokeswoman Sandra King, the deputy crashed his car into the center median of I-95 northbound near Sample Road during a pursuit. The deputy, taken to…
With the election mere days away and Florida in a virtual tie, Barack Obama will be holding a grassroots rally in Hollywood this weekend. The rally will be on Sunday, which makes sense, since Rick Scott won’t let Floridians vote on Sunday. So, let’s have a rally! The rally is…
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie joined forces to help that state recover. Christie then made some news when he appeared on Fox & Friends and the Three Trogs that host that show asked him if he would pretty please have a…
It’s over — the election, that is — and we’re already back to business as usual in Palm Beach County: favorable official treatment of questionable businesses, hypocritical maneuvering by powerful lawyers, and rampant dissembling by deep-pocketed merchants of crap.What’s that you say? Election Day is Tuesday? Don’t kid yourself. The…
Words that are rarely combined in common nomenclature: parking garage, art, and intellectual property. But somehow a strange showdown on South Beach has brought them all together for local photographer, Hester Esquenazi. Who knew taking pictures of the 1111 Lincoln Road parking garage, which has become one of the most-photographed…
During the 2008 elections, early voting lines went long. So then-Gov. Charlie Christ extended early voting, allowing more people the chance to vote. That was pretty much when the Republicans started to hate him because a lot of them blamed Obama winning Florida on that move. Because everyone being allowed…
Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter tells New Times she plans on filing an assault complaint against Tom Lauder, a blogger for the local conservative website RedBroward. Allegations that Lauder printed out a fake press pass and has been harassing voters at an early-voting site in Coral Springs first surfaced on rabble-rouser Chaz…
While Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was busy raping little boys in the shower, his bosses apparently not only looked the other way but tried to sweep the whole thing under the rug. Because nothing ruins the hallowed sanctity of a university with a long, rich tradition like telling authorities little…
Arguments were heard in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta in Florida’s appeal of a lower court Thursday on the decision halting enforcement of a 2011 state law mandating drug tests of applicants for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. Basically, the law says that those who…
According to John Heyman of CBS Sports, the Miami Marlins have hired former Florida Marlins catcher Mike Redmond to be their next manager to eventually be fired by Jeffrey Loria. Heyman reports that it’s a three-year deal…
Now that all the candy’s been handed out and the toilet paper cleaned off the trees and the egg yolk scrubbed off of front doors, it’s time to see who our next president is going to be. While presidential Halloween masks are probably the most unoriginal, uncreative, and lamest of…
Keiser University of Fort Lauderdale hasn’t admitted any wrongdoing.But the company/school agreed yesterday to provide free retraining — and not to mislead prospective students. That is pretty horrible stuff coming from an educational institution.As our feature story showed not long ago, many for-profit universities are under scrutiny these days for not…
