Welcome to another post in our Allen West Fact Party series, in which we take claims made by the District 22 Republican and attempt to figure out whether they have a basis in reality. In case you were wondering, they usually don’t.President Obama came to South Florida on Tuesday, giving…
Update, 6/28: Rosenberg was on WFAN earlier today and discussed, among many other things, the DUI case. Click here for the arrest report.Original post, 4/13:Popular Miami sports radio host Sid Rosenberg was fired earlier this week after being arrested on DUI charges. After news of his arrest broke on the…
A Hillsborough County woman called authorities yesterday when she found an injured bobcat on Route 301 in Riverview, outside of Tampa. It was hit by a car but wasn’t seriously injured, according to WTSP.One thing led to another, and now it’s going to die…
In this week’s cover story, we explore the strange living situation and gruesome death of Ron Vinci, who had just moved into the Tarpon River home where he was found dead in a bag by the side of the bed. His girlfriend, Catherine Pileggi, faces trial for the murder.According to…
Last week, Sea World took in an approximately 1,700-pound manatee that had been bashed up by a speeding boat. It’s the seventh sea cow taken in by the facility this year alone, and regulations to stop boats from hitting the sweet morons have been debated, sort of.A new study suggests,…
UPDATE: The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office reports Miranda was found in Boca Raton, which seems awfully far to shuffle in an afternoon. Will update if we find out how she got that far.Palm Beach County officials put out an announcement today looking for help in locating 75-year-old Amelia Miranda,…
UPDATE, 2:10 p.m.: Just heard back from a PayPal spokesperson who said this wouldn’t work, so we tested it out with our own accounts. Post has been updated (heavily) to reflect what we found, which is that PayPal will gladly take your penny but wouldn’t charge the recipient.Maybe ditching his lawyers…
Involving Muslims in the American political process is a frightening prospect to guys like Joe Kaufman. Judging from a rant he wrote in February, Kaufman, head of the anti-Islam group Americans Against Hate, doesn’t want Muslims to vote, work for the federal government, or get fair legal representation. Kaufman’s view…
A warehouse in Pompano Beach is full of fancy stuff seized by the government: watches, wines, iPods, and diamond bracelets taken from criminals of every sort by U.S. Customs & Border Protection, Immigration & Customs Enforcement, the IRS, and the Secret Service. And starting Friday, they want to sell it…
Nothing has changed in Casey Anthony’s probation check-ins over the past few months, but all of you folks Googling her keep getting sent to our post from last November, so here’s her March check-in paperwork.It says she’s still unemployed, living somewhere in Florida, and isn’t in debt. There’s also still…
I have to admit, I didn’t realize we sent a photographer to President Barack Obama’s “policy speech” at Florida Atlantic University on Tuesday, which taxpayers, not his campaign, paid for despite his having three fundraisers the same day, according to the Miami Herald.We do indeed have a slide show from…
The bulk of the background information for this week’s feature story about the murder of Ron Vinci came from evidence released by the prosecutor’s office at the end of last year, during an initial media inquiry. At the time, media outlets had been reporting that Vinci’s body had been found…
A day after George Zimmerman’s lawyers held a news conference to announce they were quitting as his legal counsel, special prosecutor Angela Corey charged Zimmerman with second-degree murder in the February 26 death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford.Talk about timing.His lawyers yesterday complained that Zimmerman had completely cut off…
It started with a Palm Beach Post article posted late Tuesday night that said Congressman Allen West stated that as many as 80 House Democrats are members of Communist Party “but wouldn’t name names.”By Wednesday, there was video of the statement, in which West very clearly says “I believe there…
There’s a website to rate and rank everything these days. You can rate professors, fecal mater, boobs, dicks, ex-girlfriends, piles of vomit, funny pictures, mullets, Mustangs, and pretty much anything else you would be compelled to sit in judgment of. Now there’s a new website, PeekYou, that ranks how important people are…
Nine months ago, Ron Vinci, a wealthy former car dealer, moved into a $4 million house at 101 Coconut Drive in Fort Lauderdale. Less than two weeks later, his body was found in the guest bedroom, mutilated and stuffed into a bag. Today, the scene of his death is clean,…
Time to start dusting off those protest signs — Planned Parenthood opened new digs in Wellington on Monday, and they want to bring your kids — gasp! — sexual education.Palm Beach County will have a total of three Planned Parenthood facilities after one in Lake Worth closes this summer, according…
Welcome to another post in our Allen West Fact Party series, in which we take claims made by the District 22 Republican and attempt to figure out whether they have a basis in reality. In case you were wondering, they usually don’t. Today’s fact-check comes from not one but two…
Well, the Sun-Sentinel paywall went up on Monday, and it appears to be operating at full steam — which means that once you read 15 artlcies, you’re SOL until next month, trapped behind the paper’s new Press+ “digital memberships” system. And, unlike the New York Times paywall, links from Facebook…
Florida lawmakers tackled lots of pressing issues this past legislative sessions. They debated whether the barking tree frog should be the Sunshine State’s official amphibian. They clashed over making it a crime to pick up pecans that have fallen from privately owned trees. The even considered making trees painted purple a symbol for no trespassing. There…
Well, the Marlins have suspended Manager Ozzie Guillen for getting quoted in Time magazine saying “I love Fidel Castro.” Looks like we found out pretty early in the season how the Marlins front office feels about its new skipper.This is not Guillen’s first off-the-wall statement. Before he landed in Miami,…
As promised, the Sun-Sentinel unveiled its new paywall (“digital memberships”) system yesterday, and starting right now, if you don’t pay up, you’re limited to 15 articles per month.One big question that’s been answered is whether the paywall would be porous — if links from social networking sites like Facebook and…
