It’s getting pretty intense up there in Palm Beach County — for the third time since the weekend, sheriff’s deputies have shot a suspect.A fight between “a group of females” evolved into a fight between several men at the First and 10 Sports Bar shortly after 5 this morning, and…
Quick audible on today’s Jeb Bush update: This post was originally about Bush endorsing Republican Rep. Connie Mack in the Senate race for Bill Nelson’s seat, which is news because people like Jeb and a former governor endorsing a primary candidate means it’s either a sure thing or Bush thinks…
Allen West (and the people working for him) get social media. West was named the most engaging Twitter user in Congress a few months ago, and he’s gained 20,000 since earning the title, putting him at more than 56,000 followers.His campaign Facebook page has more than 96,000 likes and is…
Racial profiling is so prevalent in mostly black neighborhoods of Fort Lauderdale that Broward County Public Defender Howard Finkelstein was forced to write the police department earlier this year to complain. How bad is it? Cops are even citing people for failing to walk on a sidewalk — even on streets…
It’s a hard conch life for Robert Fortunato. Federal prosecutors announced that the 55-year-old Palm Beach County resident has been sentenced to a year of probation and will give up his 15-foot Mako boat for illegally importing 1,500 pounds of queen conch from the Bahamas. …
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wasn’t merely skeptical; he appeared contemptuous of the Justice Department’s argument trying to stop Arizona’s cops from deporting undocumented Mexicans. “But if, in fact, somebody who does not belong in this country is in Arizona, Arizona has no power?” asked the incredulous Scalia. “Are you…
Today in America, one in four Latino voters knows someone in deportation proceedings. The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court don’t care. What else can be concluded from their questions and comments during oral arguments over Senate Bill 1070, Arizona’s notorious stab at ethnic cleansing? And Latinos shouldn’t expect any…
Around noon on a windy fall Sunday, the motorcade began forming. Dozens of African-Americans, ages 5 to 85, poured from the three-story New Covenant Baptist Church and into a coughing, 20-year-old bus, a cramped church van, and their cars. The caravan snaked down Rio Grande Avenue, turned onto Kaley Street,…
In a revelation sure to put a dent in the stock prices of Florida barf bag manufacturers, Octomom Nadya Suleman has canceled her eight-show engagement at West Palm strip club T’s Lounge, according to TMZ.Suleman reportedly took exception to a WPEC interview in which T’s employees said that Suleman is…
Three Fort Lauderdale police officers turned themselves in to authorities last week after they were notified of charges against them for official misconduct, perjury, and falsifying records in relation to their chase of burglary suspect Kenneth Post. At first glance, it’s the word of a beat-up, long-haired criminal against three…
Odebrecht, the giant Brazilian company that has a $225 million contract to help build the new runway at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, is suing the state over a histrionic law that Rick Scott signed last month in Miami, banning state and local governments from doing major business with companies with…
It looks like Deerfield Beach has a twofold problem: The first fold is that the “office manager/comptroller” responding to emails for Housing Authority Chairman Keith Emery has no idea how to read a four-sentence request for simple public records.The second is that they’ve been throwing those public records away.MAOS blogger…
Absent any actual legislative influence or accomplishments of his own to tout in his campaign, Allen West has turned to whining nonstop about Barack Hussein Obama and his evil communist Marxist progressive liberal despicable agenda. Don’t take my word for it — check out West’s Facebook page and look for…
Ever wonder why Florida has outsourced the care of hundreds of troubled kids to private companies? Yesterday, we reported that prison operator Youth Services International donated $88,000 to Florida politicians in the past five years. The Sarasota company’s donations have greased the wheels for roughly $82 million in taxpayer-funded contracts…
Sturgeons are big, ugly fish that look like something a dinosaur crapped out a few million years ago that never properly evolved. Some can top 200 pounds and grow up to seven feet in length, yet they have no internal skeleton and are covered with razor-sharp scutes. And though they’re not known…
Cesar Conda, Sen. Marco Rubio’s chief of staff, received $50,000 to $100,000 from the lobbying firm he used to work for, according to an investigation by campaign finance website Republic Report.Though Conda left the firm before taking the job at the head of Rubio’s office, Rubio spokesman Alex Conant told…
The Fort Lauderdale City Commission will vote tonight on a measure recommending that the speed limit on a section of Dixie Highway be reduced from 30 mph to 25 after being reduced from the 35 mph that a traffic study found to be appropriate in 2009.The request, on paper, is…
We told you yesterday about Michael Wallach, who was shot by police after he reportedly bailed out of a stolen car in West Palm Beach and shot at them.He’s better now and in jail facing charges of, among other things, attempted murder. But the events that led up to his…
Plenty of attention has already been paid to the runaway success of E L James’ erotic 50 Shades trilogy, but the phenomenon goes well past all 180 copies in the Broward County library system being checked out — the scandalous series anchored by Fifty Shades of Grey is also helping the Fort Lauderdale…
Convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein began a new round of questioning yesterday about the details of his $1.4 billion ripoff. His last deposition lasted two weeks and featured him laying accusations against colleagues, hookers, banks, the police, and tons of other people Rothstein says helped him run away with millions.The…
If you’re aiming to win multimillion-dollar contracts to run Florida’s juvenile prisons, it helps to have friends in high places. Youth Services International, the for-profit company that runs Thompson Academy in Pembroke Pines along with seven other juvie lockups in the state, has learned this lesson well. During the five-year…
On Monday morning, while most of you were sucking down coffees and lamenting the Miami Heat’s near comeback, Hector Picard, a double-arm amputee, set out for a 103-mile bike ride from North Carolina to somewhere in Virginia. A few weeks back, we told you about Picard, a local legend who had the majority of both…
