Nicole Okrzesik, the 23-year-old accused of strangling Juliana Mensch with her boyfriend in March, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder on Monday and has had her trial tentatively set for August 6. She could face the death penalty.Though we reported that the original trial, with co-defendant James Ayers, was set…
If you’ve always wanted to work for a company with a shady academic track record and legal headaches, here’s your chance. Mavericks High in Palm Springs, the newest in a chain of for-profit charter schools headed by Vice President Joe Biden’s brother, is holding a job fair next Monday. According to…
Congressman Allen West is all about “equality of opportunity.” He blabbered about it, to thunderous applause, back in January. After yelling about beaches and Georgia and how great it is that he has a job, here’s what he said about giving everybody a shot:No matter where you are born, no…
UPDATE, 1:25 p.m.: Sabin was found dead today in a lake behind his apartment complex.Original post, 9 a.m.:Samuel Sabin is 9 years old, about 4’7 and 90 pounds. Police say he went missing yesterday, and are asking for help finding the Oakland Park boy.He was last seen yesterday evening playing…
Last week, we told you about how Miami Herald reporter Marc Caputo called out TV reporter Mike Deeson for “sloppy, trashy Tampa TV reporting.” He said Deeson was misrepresenting accusations that former Gov. Charlie Crist paid to cover up gay affairs, making it sound like the charges were coming from the…
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick is a felon. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges related to his sponsorship of a large dog-fighting ring — he admitted in 2007 to setting up the ring, stocking the kennel with trained pit bulls, traveling to other states for dog fights, and “destroying or…
Ten relatively obscure species found in the Sunshine State have landed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in a legal tussle.The black rail, the Georgia blind salamander, a siltsnail, and the purple skimmer are among the animals that Fish and Wildlife has failed to adequately protect, according to the Center for Biological Diversity. On…
Around 8 p.m. on May 30, someone attacked a man on the 2500 block of Northwest 8th Street in Franklin Park, according to police. The robber put the man in a chokehold and held what the victim believes was a boxcutter to his throat. The robber demanded money then ran away…
The Miami Herald had a story over the weekend outlining some of the contents of Sen. Marco Rubio’s autobiography, An American Son, due to come out tomorrow. It included a tidbit about Rubio’s drinking habits:Where President Obama, for instance, admitted drug use in his first autobiography, Rubio is silent about…
South Florida let out a collective “buhhhhh” when we found out “Octomom” Nadya Suleman was scheduled for a five-night stripping engagement at T’s Lounge in West Palm Beach. Well, Suleman heard that buhhhhh, along with a few mildly insulting statements made by random T’s Lounge employees on local TV, and she…
When Broward Sheriff’s Deputy David Wimberley arrested 44-year-old Troy Baldeo in a Tamarac 7-Eleven in 2010, he filed reports that said Baldeo was yelling with clenched fists and should be charged with trespassing, resisting arrest, and assault on an officer.Once prosecutors saw the convenience store video, however, different charges were…
A million-dollar scheme in Palm Beach involving bogus government toilet-paper regulation is slowly… unraveling.Three men pleaded guilty earlier this month to conspiracy charged linked to their involvement with FBK Products LLC, which sold a septic tank treatment they claimed helped break down “second generation” toilet paper that was being mandated…
For a long time, South Florida has been a three-newspaper land. The Palm Beach Post, the Sun-Sentinel, and the Miami Herald all overlapped to some degree, giving this stranger-than-fiction region a little competition in the newspaper business. That sets us apart from the rest of the country, but it’s all…
Remember 2010, when the Medicare scooter-riding lunatic fringe of the Republican Party swept to power? Two years later, the people who gave you Allen West and Michele Bachman have stopped making daily headlines, but their influence is still strong.Billionaire oil barons Charles and David Koch, the sugar daddies behind the…
I remember the exact moment I decided that I would never again smoke synthetic marijuana. I was in the shower watching my heart beat out of my chest. I wasn’t panicking or anxious or very stoned, just severely uncomfortable. The muscles in my face cramped tightly. A headache bore through my temples, shot…
On a day when President Obama announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will take steps to stop deporting people who came to the U.S. illegally as children, there’s more big news on immigration close to home.ICE has issued a press release to the media, as reported by Local 10…
Today, the Obama administration announced the issue of an executive order that says illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children will no longer be deported. It has plenty of caveats — they must have no criminal record, for example, and earn a high school diploma, among other…
Update: No idea why the segment didn’t run. My apologies to everyone hoping to see footage of a flaming lady on national television.South Florida is really giving Nancy Grace a lot of material: There was obviously that whole “Tot Mom” thing, and a few weeks ago, she covered the Fort…
Police are looking for a blue pickup truck or SUV in connection with a hit and run that killed 17-year-old Gabriel Amaya last night.The Broward Sheriff’s Office reports that Amaya was riding his bike east on Prospect Road around 9:40 last night when a GMC or Chevrolet truck hit his…
Update, 4:25 p.m.: The post has been changed to reflect that the line of questioning was specifically about Preve and did not involve Levin.Last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges against George Levin and Frank Preve, who they say used their firm, Banyon Investments, to shovel millions of…
Earlier this week, we told you about the latest allegations that Charlie Crist paid men to cover up gay affairs and about how they weren’t coming from anyone who’d actually investigated anything. They were coming from a lawyer in the Jim Greer corruption trial — and now all the drama…
The Allen West fundraising machine lumbers on.Last month, he formed a joint fundraising committee with Georgia Rep. Paul Broun, who likes using phrases like “walk up the hill of liberty” and is a fellow fan of calling Barack Obama a Marxist. This month, it’s a different Georgia congressman — Lynn…
