As far as identity thieves go, Coral Springs resident Dorothy Boulin is among the scummiest.Last week, Boulin was sentenced to five years in prison and three years’ probation for running a scam that pilfered the social security numbers of U.S. Marines and filed fraudulent tax claims in their names.Court documents…
Prosecutors say Port St. Lucie 17-year-old Tyler Hadley killed his parents last July. They say he sneaked up on his mother while she was on the computer, then beat her head in with a hammer. When his dad came in to see what was going on, police say they locked…
Last night around 10:45, 30-year-old Karl Gross was sitting on a porch on Ocean Drive in Boynton Beach when someone shot him. He was taken to the hospital, as people with bullets in them so frequently are, and it was discovered he had an outstanding warrant for drug trafficking.”So,” writes…
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…
Congressman Allen West, along with anybody else up for election in November, is really ticked off about the U.S. Supreme Court’s upholding the terrible progressive Marxist Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.West, however, is the only one calling it the “Patient Protection Unaffordable Tax Act (PPUTA),” which is a lazy…
See also: the latest on Aguiar’s disappearance, and the lawsuit against Aguiar spurred by this natural-gas deal.In 2003, Texas geologist John Amoruso had a hunch that there was a lot of natural gas, and big money, in a previously unexplored geological area about midway between Houston and Dallas.It was a…
Democratic freshman Rep. Ted Deutsch will endorse Patrick Murphy, the District 18 challenger to Rep. Allen West, at an event tomorrow that a Murphy press release will feature “over 150 seniors from Century Village, Cypress Lakes, and Golden Lakes.”West tried to win over the Century Village crowd back in April…
Fort Lauderdale Police have released some new details from their investigation of Guma Aguiar’s disappearance. They have narrowed down the time he left his house in Fort Lauderdale to about 6:57 p.m. and say he almost certainly boarded the boat alone.According to a release from Det. Travis Mandell, a witness…
In 2010, the formula for OxyContin, a slow-release form of the powerfully addictive painkiller oxycodone, was changed to make it harder to abuse. It became almost impossible to grind up and dissolve effectively, making it mostly useless to addicts who would snort, smoke, or inject the drug to get an…
See also “U.S. Fish and Wildlife Faces Lawsuit for Not Protecting Ten Florida Species”The nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity has filed a massive petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service demanding that a total of 53 reptiles and amphibians be granted protection under the Endangered Species Act.Ten of the…
The Florida mortgage crisis has hit the Broward County Commission: Lighthouse Point Commissioner Chip LaMarca is facing foreclosure on his home after, records show, he stopped paying his second mortgage, per Gossip Extra.”I’ve been on the phone with the bank, and I’m hoping they’ll work with me,” LaMarca said. “People…
West Palm Beach activist (and convicted drug-runner) Robert Platshorn wants to get marijuana legalized, and he says the key to doing it is simple: old people.He’s been traveling extensively and giving talks to senior citizens as part of his “Silver Tour,” which he launched in 2010 to reach out to…
Republican Senate candidate Connie Mack started the day yesterday with some ugly press: The National Journal was looking at the possibility that Republicans could take back the Senate in November, and they weren’t optimistic about the chances:The odds of Republicans taking back the upper chamber are no better than 50-50,…
Last Friday night, NBC’s Dateline aired an episode based on “My Father’s Bones,” a New Times cover story about the murder of David Jackson and his son’s efforts to find him. It’s one of the screwiest, most unbelievably family tales of recent Florida history, full of twists.After the jump, we’ve…
Last month, the Department of Transportation announced that it will fork over an $18 million TIGER grant for the first phase of Fort Lauderdale’s proposed Wave Streetcar. The plan, which city officials have been molding since 2004, features a ten-station, 2.7-mile trolley-like system intended to shuttle folks around downtown. Reps…
The Miami Heat has reached a settlement to recoup part of what it says was a $3 million loss from its involvement in the $1.4 billion Scott Rothstein Ponzi scheme, according to documents filed last week. The RRA bankruptcy trust initially sued the Heat and its affiliate, Basketball Properties Ltd.,…
The good news: The section of Broward Boulevard between SE Tenth and 12th avenues is getting a face-lift from the county. The bad news: That section of the street is going to be narrowed to one lane in either direction, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. every weekday, plus Saturdays. The…
On the same day that the parents of a student killed in a marching band hazing session filed a lawsuit against Florida A&M University, its president, James Ammons, has resigned, according to the Associated Press. The move comes a month after the university’s board of trustees passed a vote of…
Lauren Orban is a music teacher at a Bradenton elementary school in Manatee County. She’s at the center of a debate there that could end up costing her career: She wrote on Facebook that “I’m fairly convinced that one of my students may be the evolutionary link between orangutans and…
He sent money to a lecherous Rabbi, his wife asked for a divorce, opponents wanted his mental-health records, and then he sailed off into the dark.Ever since Guma Aguiar disappeared at sea, his mother and her fiancé have been trying to gain control of his many millions in assets, scattered…
See also “Genetically Modified Bugs Glow Red and Self-Destruct, but Can They Keep Away Disease?”A petition against the experimental release of genetically modified mosquitoes in Key West has garnered more than 95,000 signatures. In the past 24 hours, more than 10,000 people have signed it.But if the petition hits its…
