Former WPTV weatherman (and, uh, New Times’ 2002 best weathercaster) Robert Lopicola was arrested Monday on charges he gave fellatio to two teen boys who responded to ads he had posted on Craigslist.Police say the alleged sexual relationships started via text message — and they included some of those sent…
South Florida’s favorite ‘roid-pushing, Twitter-pontificating baseball meathead has made a triumphant return to major league baseball: During the MLB All-Star Game on Monday night, the Kansas City TV market got to see Miami’s son, Jose Canseco. The first 40-40 man in history was there, right in the middle of the…
Last month, Terry Jones (the “Burn a Qur’an Day” guy) hanged President Barack Obama in effigy on the front lawn of Dove World Outreach Center, the Gainesville church where he was the pastor until late last year. It earned him a few calls from the Secret Service and an IRS…
See also “Reggae Great Buju Banton Is Locked Up on Drug Charges. Was He Entrapped?” and “Buju Banton’s Legal Team Blasts Feds”Buju Banton’s attorney on Tuesday filed a motion with the Middle District of Florida requesting that the incarcerated reggae star be granted a new trial.The filing follows a recent…
See also: Former Broward Teachers Union President Patrick Santeramo Arrested, Faces 200 Years in Prison.Former Broward Teachers Union President Patrick Santeramo turned himself in today after being charged with 20 counts of various racketeering, theft, and money-laundering charges. There are dozens of pages of accusations to wade through, but one…
UPDATE, 11:45: Documents show Santeramo allegedly steered BTU funds to the political campaigns of both Hillary Clinton and Alex Sink.Original post, 10:59:Prosecutors announced last November that they were investigating Patrick Santeramo, who was then president of the Broward Teachers Union. Now, the shoe hath dropped: Squarely onto Santeramo’s ass.He turned…
Former WPTV weatherman Robert Lopicola has been arrested on charges he had sexual relationships with two underage boys he met through Craigslist. The Wilton Manors 42-year-old, who now works as a personal trainer, allegedly met up with an anorexic 15-year-old from Boca Raton in October 2010 and performed oral sex…
All they wanted to do was fly from L.A. to Fort Lauderdale.About 100 passengers were stuck in Houston on Sunday after an unruly 81-year-old man forced a Spirit Air red-eye flight to make an emergency landing in Texas, according to ABC News. The man was “like, touching everybody,” according to…
There’s been a lot of drama — too much, really — surrounding Nadya “Octomom” Suleman’s alleged contracts to strip at South Florida gentlemen’s clubs — first she was going to do a five-night engagement at T’s Lounge Palm Beach, then she got mad and changed her mind, and then, according…
See also “Florida Government Keeps Tuberculosis Deaths of ‘Poor Black Men’ Secet as Disease Spreads” and “Are Medical Marijuana Claims Made in Reggae Songs True?”The Palm Beach Post’s Stacey Singer on Sunday delivered a stellar investigation into the state’s worst tuberculous outbreak in two decades and how the health department…
The big business brains over at Forbes compiled a list of 200 American cities that the magazine says are the best for “business and careers.”Don’t get your hopes up, folks. Fort Loddy Doddy did terrible, coming in 192 out of 200. We barely beat out notorious hellhole Flint, Michigan…
An outbreak of tuberculosis has spread from Jacksonville to as far south as Miami and was kept secret from the public, according to an expose by the Palm Beach Post. The CDC team investigating the spread said it is the worst it’s investigated in 20 years. At the time of…
Sandwiched between “Thou shalt not commit adultery” and “Thou shalt not bear false witness” on one of two stone tablets allegedly presented to Moses on Mt. Sinai, God clearly listed “Thou shalt not steal” as one of the Ten Commandments. For one Catholic priest in North Palm Beach, however, the…
It’s the old trick-’em-with-candy-and-steal-their-iPhone routine, a favorite among delinquent children and young girls in pigtails. And it happened twice last week in Wilton Manors. According to the Sun-Sentinel, police are looking for two underaged perps who burglarized two separate businesses at gunpoint candypoint. A boy and girl, “including one in…
Police say 17-year-old Joel Fabian Davila is on the run and should be considered “armed and dangerous” after allegedly shooting his mother’s boyfriend during a fight.The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office says Davila shot the man at the Sand & Sea Mobile Home Park on the 1600 block of NW 21st…
While most of us were basking in freedom hangovers and post-Fourth laziness, Fort Lauderdale officials released their proposed 2013 budget.Overall, the city plans to encounter $470 million in expenditures, including $300,000 for a few coats of paint on the revoltingly bland City Hall. City officials are looking for an operating…
Previously: “The Rise and Fall of the Hallmark Kid,” the run for president, and the suit for adult child support.Eleven years ago, New Times writer Wyatt Olson crossed paths with Ryan Lipner, one of the nuttiest, most indiscriminately self-promoting individuals we’ve ever found in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Lipner had…
Officials have confirmed that a decomposed body discovered by hikers in Coconut Creek’s Tradewinds Park yesterday is 45-year-old Claudia Murphy, who was last seen wandering away from a Margate restaurant in March, according to NBC Miami.Murphy’s family spent weeks passing out fliers and searching for her; her husband, Frank Murphy,…
There was a hearing today in the case of Matthew Bent, who was found guilty of aggravated battery for setting then-middle-schooler Michael Brewer on fire in October 2009. He was supposed to be sentenced July 23, but now the conviction itself could be on the rocks after allegations surfaced in…
Quick parenting note: If your malnourished 14-year-old son does tons of drugs, don’t let your trailer catch fire. The cops will find out about it, and get, like, so mad.That’s what happened Tuesday, when 47-year-old Darin MacDannald was arrested in Deerfield Beach on child cruelty charges. Police say his son,…
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…
For a guy who acts like he carries his testicles around in a wheelbarrow, Allen West is sure going to great lengths to avoid confrontation on the campaign trail.In addition to refusing to debate primary opponent Bob Crowder, West is ducking the editorial board of the Palm Beach Post, whom…
