A 15-year-old kid was taken to the hospital after cops say Pops cut off part of junior’s thumb while attempting to cut off the kid’s cast with a circular saw.According to court documents, 33-year-old Lawrence Roberts, who also goes by “Squirrelly,” was jailed on a charge of cruelty toward child…
Port St. Lucie police have released a few new details surrounding 17-year-old Tyler Hadley, who allegedly beat his parents to death with a hammer over the weekend.Police say Hadley created a Facebook invitation to a party at his parents’ place before allegedly taking a 22-inch framing hammer to their heads,…
ESPN’s broadcast of the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup final between the United States and Japan garnered the network’s highest rating for a women’s sporting event in its history, apparently with some saturated viewership out of West Palm Beach.According to ESPN public relations guy Mac Nwulu, West Palm Beach had…
UPDATE: Police have provided us with a few extra details about the alleged hammer murders of Blake and Mary-Jo Hadley.Cops in Port St. Lucie say a 17-year-old kid murdered his parents, then decided to throw a house party at their place — while their bodies were still on the floor…
Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos announced this morning he’s dropping out of the race to take on U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012.Haridopolos was competing in an overly crowded field of GOP candidates to take on Nelson, and despite leading fundraising out of the Republican Senate hopefuls, political reports have…
The Casey Anthony hysteria has now gotten religulous.According to a TV station in Cleveland, Ohio, a church called the In Touch With Christ Christian Center held a retrial for Casey Anthony as part of its Sunday service.Under the guidance of the Rev. Una Keenon, a retired Cleveland municipal court judge,…
The Palm Beach County School District apparently has a bunch of stinkin’ meanies.According to some research by the Tampa Tribune, Palm Beach schools reported nearly 4,000 bullying incidents between 2008 and 2010, which is the most of any district in the state.To put that in perspective, the paper says about…
Thanks to the Florida lawmakers’ successful bid to legislate morality in the state’s public records law, we may never know how 18-year-old Eric Perez died in the hands of state workers.Perez died about a week ago at a West Palm Beach juvenile detention facility, due to either breathing problems, an…
It looks like someone doesn’t want to be part of the Casey Anthony hysteria that’s been sweeping the country.Late last week, we reported that News 9 had interviewed an Oklahoma woman named Sammay Blackwell who was allegedly attacked by a crazy lady driving a minivan.Blackwell told the TV station –…
If your tap water has been tasting a little poopy lately, that’s a problem.The Broward County Health Department sent out a drinking water warning yesterday, saying its water system “detected fecal indicators” in one of the wells in Sunrise.It’s removed that well from service, but the county filled us in…
It’s all fun and games serving an eviction notice until the cops end up shooting the guy who lives there.The Broward Sheriff’s Office was attempting to evict a man from a condo in Pembroke Pines this morning, that is, before police say he set the place on fire.Pembroke Pines police…
U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan denied a bond request earlier this week for Hafiz Khan — a Miami imam who’s among six people charged with conspiring to support the Pakistani Taliban — but the judge made no such ruling for his sons.Jordan didn’t rule on the bond of 24-year-old Izhar…
The Polk County jail is going to be home to some free-swinging criminals starting in August.According to the Polk Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Donna Wood, as part of a cost-cutting measure, the jail will no longer provide inmates with five free pairs of underwear when they’re booked.Now the only way for…
In case you haven’t noticed, Gov. Rick Scott’s approval rating is getting so low that people are running out of politicians to compare him to.A few weeks ago, Public Policy Polling surveyed Florida voters about hypothetical gubernatorial matchups in which Scott was wrecked by everyone he was compared to –…
Allen Mark Levinson likes molesting kids so much that even with a previous conviction for aggravated sexual abuse, he decided to let the cops know again — in a chatroom called “dadanddaughtersex” — that he molested his daughter throughout her childhood.He’s going to prison for that.The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced…
Howard A. Kusnick, a former lawyer at Ponzi-schemer Scott Rothstein’s now-defunct law firm, has been disbarred from practicing law by the Florida Supreme Court.Kusnick, a 58-year-old Tamarac resident, pleaded guilty last month to a single count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud after he was indicted on the basis of…
UPDATE: Sammay Blackwell is reportedly trying to back out of her story that she was allegedly attacked for resembling Casey Anthony.Apparently the Casey Anthony insanity has not reached its peak.”Tot Mom” is still in jail, but in Oklahoma, a woman tells a local TV station that she was followed in…
Apparently there is a handful of people — 17, according to ABC News — who have sent “Tot Mom” Casey Anthony money while she sits in the Orange County Jail.While there are people out there sending her death threats, some people feel sympathy for her — or just plain think…
Here’s a tip: If you’re going act like a pervert around underaged girls in a candy store, try not to creep around a cop’s 15-year-old niece.According to a police report obtained by New Times, an off-duty Palm Beach Gardens cop was in Sugar Happens! at the Gardens Mall on Tuesday…
The fallout from the Casey Anthony trial has brought out the stupid in a lot of people. Folks have been sending hate messages to a guy with the same name, a man allegedly punched a woman over the verdict, and lawmakers across the country have been proposing “Tot Mom”-related legislation.Boca…
The woman who caused an FBI investigation after sending threats to right-wing radio host Joyce Kaufman — leading to the lockdown of more than 300 Broward County schools — was sentenced today to two years in prison.Ellisa Martinez was arrested in November after emailing and calling Kaufman’s radio station, WFTL-AM…
Vancouver cops apparently thought it was a bit suspicious when they pulled over a guy with a bag full of mail. They were apparently right, after they discovered that the Fort Lauderdale resident was allegedly running an international, multimillion-dollar mail-fraud scheme.Juan Hernandez, a 28-year-old Colombian citizen and Fort Lauderdale resident,…
