Less than a year after he was escorted from Fire Rock Pizza in downtown West Palm Beach in handcuffs by Federal Marshals, 36-year-old Thanos Papalexis has been handed a life sentence today for murder by a British court. A London jury dealt Paplexis a guilty verdict on September 4 for…
Residents and businesses on the island of Palm Beach got a harsh green lesson this week when they were invited to the first of three water conservation “workshops” on Monday, to discuss a dirty little secret that many have known but few have talked of openly: the town is guzzling…
Foxy Newsweek blogette Holly Bailey over at The Gaggle wonders if yesterday’s skunks are smelling a lot like today’s roses: It appears that politicians who have been tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail (or even better, bundled off to prison) are soon enough able to step…
Welcome to South Central Lake Worth, Gateway to the Top-6.Within a week, three separate stabbing incidents have been reported in Lake Worth, two of them in a southern neighborhood downtown. This weekend, a man was killed at a residence on South E Street in what police are speculating was a…
Hookers in 19th-century London knew to be very, very afraid of a serial killer who was slitting the throats and occasionally disemboweling the working girls of Whitechapel. They called him “Jack the Ripper” because of his particular modus operandi. Life as a prostitute was no fun back then, and it’s…
More than 12 years after she disappeared, leaving not a trace to console her grieving relatives, Gail Schoening’s body was discovered in a submerged magenta Mitsubishi Eclipse not 100 yards from her Plantation condo at Gatehouse on the Green. A New Jersey blog, mycentraljersey.com, reported yesterday that Shoening’s body was…
Nobody’s missed the news about the 91-year-old man in Lake Worth, Robert Thompson, who jumped out of bed naked and held an “intruder” at gunpoint until the cops arrived, right? But what’s missing from the Fox, Associated Press, and Sun-Sentinel reports is one crucial piece of information: In Lake Worth,…
It’s a topsey-turvey world on the island of Palm Beach. A 51-pound pet Vietnamese Pot Bellied Pig named Piggy Pie Freckles has been ordered to leave the island. The pet’s illegal according to the town’s code enforcement board, which forbids swine living on the island. The family who owns him…
Oh good Christ. Now Delray Beach Republican House Rep. Adam Hasner is crowing about a Florida investigation of ACORN, as if that organization weren’t already a corpse riddled with right-wing arrows. Hasner appears to be terrified that the dead will rise and, once risen, perhaps even stalk around collecting fake…
If the recent ACORN video stings hadn’t convinced you that the right wing is a whole bunch savvier and sneakier than the left, then a comparison of the net worth of our Florida House reps ought to definitively settle the contest. Florida Trend’s look at our politicians’ net worth, published…
South Florida homebuyers who can afford to buy mansions are opting to buy, well, un-mansions, according to a story on yesterday’s huliq.com. Huliq reached its conclusion by looking at home sales in South Florida and studying census figures: Turns out the average size of a new single family home declined…
Stories in the New York Post and today’s Palm Beach Post confirm that the tan, leggy hooker in the ACORN hoax videos is in fact an FIU student. Hannah Giles, one of two college kids who traveled around the country on a $1,300 budget shooting videos of ACORN workers making…
Oh Woe is ACORN. The U.S. Senate has just voted today, 83-7, to cut housing funds to an organization which has long been the darling of the far Left — and which is now so utterly disgraced it has nowhere to go but down. The vote would make ACORN ineligible…
Amnesty Day is coming up on October 3, but that’s amnesty for you, not for our scaly friends. Owners of exotic reptiles may turn in their anacondas at Gatorland in Orlando, no questions asked. It’s time for Spot the reticulated python to find a new home, if he survives the…
Look at a map of zones where sex offenders are allowed to live in Palm Beach and Broward counties, and the picture bears a creepy resemblance to old-style European ghettos. A Broward task force took up the problem in July and found that a new proposal to prohibit sex offenders…
Hard up for dough? You might not want to be in too big a rush to send off your Rolex, your class ring, your MC Hammer-inspired gold pants, or that solid-gold golf club. Chances are that unlike Ed McMahon, you’re going to be disappointed with the $11 check you get…
I don’t know about you, but if I were planning to produce a radio talk show with a disgraced former Republican congressman whose pedophilic Instant Messages to a 16-year-old page had made headline news a mere three years ago, I don’t think I’d call my new radio program “Inside the…
Wild critters in Florida have many subtle ways of fighting the predations of man. And now that Florida has declared open season on invasive pythons, it’s a good bet that the snakes are going to have the last word, even if it’s spoken with forked tongue. Python meat is a…
We’ve followed the ups and downs of 70-year-old feminist/population-control activist/gadfly Joyce Tarnow for about as long as this paper has been in print. Tarnow first caught our attention when she ran an abortion clinic in Fort Lauderdale: We reported she occasionally wore a flak jacket to work and had managed…
Lake Worth politics have turned into a minefield. On one side, realtors and pro-development folks advocate fast growth; on the other, a progressive element (some, like bloggers Lynn Anderson and Wes Blackman, would call it radical element) plan community gardens, push for renewable energy, and practice grassroots advocacy. The latter…
Yesterday’s Health Care Forum at the Palm Beach County Government Center, sponsored by the Republican Party of Palm Beach County, was a fairly subdued affair. A total of two protesters turned up outside the center in support of Progressive Democrats of America: They held a banner favoring a single-payer system…
Transgendered Lake Worth City Manager Susan Stanton seems to be adapting to her new dual roles as a female and as a city employee very well indeed. A group of citizens from the Tropical Ridge Neighborhood Association had spent months pestering Stanton to meet with them for a walking tour…
