People are always whining about how Congress doesn’t do anything, pointing out annoying “statistics” like that its approval rating is at negative 3 percent or whatever. But Republican Rep. Bill Posey and Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson are doing something, don’t you worry. They’re taking a noble stand in the 2013…
A 99-year-old Fort Lauderdale woman thought she was paying Angela Byrd about $15 an hour for in-home health care. At 60 hours a week, that’s around $46,800 a year — which means it’s kind of questionable that she allegedly received $275,000 in 2008, $167,000 in 2009, and $34,500 in the…
The dormitory hallways at Florida Atlantic University were uncomfortably quiet. By 3 p.m. Friday, many residents had left to begin their weekends. The air conditioner thrummed loudly in their absence. A stale odor, mixed with the chemical sting of cleaning products, struck 21-year-old Gabi Aleksinko as she and her friends…
Last week, we told you about Allen West’s assertion that federal student loans are communist, something found “in a book written by Marx or Engels called The Communist Manifesto.” He said in a video posted June 14 that “it’s called the state control of education.”Well, two days after that video…
Read Synthetic Marijuana Ban Seems Like a Good Idea, Probably Won’t Do MuchThe Broward County Commission has started crafting legislation to ban “bath salts and synthetic cannabinoid herbal incense that mimic illegal drugs.” A news release announcing the move included the token Rudy Eugene reference, noting that Miami police are…
Indianapolis man John Gross says he’s the victim of yet another poorly trained TSA agent using made-up screening procedures — this time, on his dead grandfather.He was flying out of the Orlando airport with the ashes of his grandfather, Mario Mark Marcaletti, he says, when a TSA agent open his…
Hold onto your crucifixes — this one’s ridiculous.A Tampa judge has decided a lawsuit can go forward against the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office after a female rape victim accused a prison guard of refusing to give her a doctor-prescribed emergency contraception pill because “it was against the guard’s religious beliefs,”…
Earlier this month, the Justice Department arrested a 26-year-old Boca Raton resident John Michael Romero Mendoza for allegedly using the iPhone app BoyAhoy to arrange a sexual tryst with a 15-year-old boy.According to the criminal complaint, Mendoza’s car was stocked with “condoms, lubricant and homosexual pornographic magazines” when he pulled…
Scharonis Wright was an illegal immigrant who was about to be deported back to Haiti: He was wrapping up a four-year sentence for armed robbery and aggravated assault and needed a way to stick around — so he told investigators he had some dirt on a 2008 shooting in Deerfield…
Patrick Murphy has a great campaign tactic to use in the District 18 race against Rep. Allen West — he can always point out that he isn’t Allen West.Murphy followed West to District 18 after the congressman announced he wouldn’t be running in his home district, ol’ number 22. Murphy’s…
It started about two weeks ago: Miami Herald political reporter Marc Caputo wrote a blog post criticizing the “sloppy, trashy Tampa TV reporting at WTSP” about the Jim Greer corruption trial — more specifically, criticizing reporter Mike Deeson, who Caputo said “seems more determined to file tendentious reports to show…
The above photograph, which Bay News 9 shared on its Facebook page, is of an alligator. It is a very large, very stupid animal. Seriously. A 400-pound alligator has a brain the size of about three olives. It’s pretty much just swim/kill/sleep for old Mr. Gator.But the above photograph is…
Late on Tuesday night, a boat belonging to Guma Aguiar washed up on Fort Lauderdale beach, engines running, the cell phone and wallet of the Floridian Jewish multimillionaire reportedly still onboard. Since then, people have speculated: Was it a dead-of-night escape plot to keep his mother from declaring him mentally…
Louis C.K. has done it again: After ditching the corporate model and putting out a comedy special on his own (he financed it himself — and sold 110,000 copies in three days) the New York comedian is now striking out for an independent comedy tour too.”I’m going on tour this…
South Florida is littered with washed-up celebrities, from Vanilla Ice to Donald Trump. And while it’s easy to riff on these past-their-prime peddlers of spectacle, they at least possess a modicum of some redeeming quality. In other words, they’re not total failures.But the newest edition to Palm Beach’s gaggle of…
The scene of Guma Aguiar’s life before his disappearance at sea Tuesday night launched a strange soap opera, with his wife and mother battling over his estate, according to court documents and a lawyer for Aguiar’s mother.Richard Baron, an attorney for mother Ellen Aguiar, told ABCNews.com that Jaime Aguiar had…
If you couldn’t make it to today’s parade celebrating the Miami Heat’s NBA championship, we’ve got a big pile of photos from the event — there are players, there are fans, there are T-shirts that reference the “Miami zombie.”View photos from the Miami Heat 2012 Championship Parade here…
Just a heads-up, motorists: This Thursday, police will be on the 1300 block of South Dixie Highway in Deerfield Beach, checking cars for “defective safety equipment” and checking motorists for valid license, registration, and insurance paperwork.BSO officers will be conducting the checkpoint between 6 and 10 p.m. Best get to…
We had a four-story package a few weeks ago that looked at Arizona’s SB 1070, the controversial law that would turn local law enforcement into immigration officials — the controversial law that was just gutted by the U.S. Supreme Court.The court said this morning that Arizona was not allowed to…
Back in January 2011, Charles Harper was facing stalking charges from his terrifically estranged ex-foster dad, Broward Circuit Judge John Bowman. The kid was an adult by then and didn’t have much money to speak of, but public defenders were dropping him like a hot potato because of perceived possible…
For the first time, Egypt held a democratic election. Mohamed Morsi was named president-elect of the country, which ousted President Hosni Mubarak last February as part of the “Arab Spring” of democratic protests. Morsi is a former member of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood — which worries some people even in…
There is a serious problem brewing in Fort Lauderdale. No, it’s not the privately run charter schools in academic and legal shambles or the ever-growing list of Broward police officers accused of gross misconduct.No. The problem, you see, is that the utility companies are marking underground lines, and… it’s ugly.A Sun-Sentinel…
