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Former New Times writing fellow P.J. Tobia went to the last place most people would think of spending their Thanksgiving: to an Army base in Afghanistan. The result was "Afghaniscrewed," which ran this week in New Times. Now Tobia's headed back to Afghanistan for, well, who knows what? So I...

So the Florida Supreme Court just accepted the State Attorney's motion to vacate the death penalty conviction of Omar Loureiro. Now we'll have a new murder trial, but there won't be an evidentiary hearing into the allegations against Judge Ana Gardiner. In other words, Gardiner, who broke judicial rules and lied...

Gulfstream Park was a hell of a place to work for some employees, full of cocaine and free gambling. When the scheme was finally discovered, hundreds of thousands of dollars had been stolen from the casino and taxpayers, and the "family-friendly" racetrack was a potential public relations nightmare. A state investigation...

It's official: your monitor, cell phone, toaster, and portable Simon computer game are slowly murdering you.That's according to Broward County Mayor Stacy Ritter, who recently signed this proclamation making next month Electromagnetic Sensitivity Awareness Month. Her proclamation, post-dated for May 1, declares:Whereas, as a result of global electromagnetic pollution, people...

A half-priced downtown condo on the Intracoastal. A $50,000 piece of land. More than $500,000 in cash that was was used to pay off mortgage, buy a second home in Pennsylvania, and pay tuition at an expensive private school.   Family jewelry, a Dell computer, and a widescreen TV. These are just...

Of the 16 Broward Sheriff's Office employees who were tested for steroids three weeks ago, nine came back with clean results and will be returning to work, sheriff's spokesman Jim Leljedal told the Pulp today. The obvious inference is that the other seven deputies tested positive, but Leljedal would only confirm that...

Broward County's Sheriff Al Lamberti and Mayor Stacy Ritter have been waging a high-profile public fight over who wastes the most taxpayer money. Maybe both should be paying more attention to their own campaign finances, though. Lamberti and Ritter, it turns out, are being investigated by the state for how...

Miami Herald photographer Patrick Farrell won the Pulitzer Prize today for the horrific and harrowing images he captured in Haiti during the devastation wrought last year from hurricanes. I've never agreed more with a prize, since Farrell's photographs crush your heart to look at them. Click here to see them. Interestingly, the...

It's been years since the television cameras stopped rolling, but Mike "Bogey" Boguslawski, the television icon who turned consumer reporting into performance art, is still plying his trade -- now in South Florida. A household name in Southern California, Bogey's gruff confrontational style endeared him to audiences in the late...