It looks like the Westboro Baptist “Church” is interpreting State Rep. Pat Rooney’s military funeral buffer-zone bill as an invitation.The Kansas crazies haven’t placed it on their public schedule yet, but the Palm Beach Post reports the “Thank God for Dead Soldiers” and “God Hates Fags” sign-wielding loons are planning…
We all know that many Floridians have been getting high over the past few years, but a new report says they’ve been getting way, way too high — to the point of death.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a “morbidity and mortality” report chronicling drug overdose deaths in…
Florida’s Safe Haven law allows mothers with unwanted children to drop off their youngsters at a hospital or fire station up to seven days after their birth. Amanda Mathe was about ten years late for that one.Fort Lauderdale cops spent a good portion of Friday trying to identify a kid…
In an odd progression of events, the death of 70-year-old multimillionaire Ronald Vinci — which started as a “suspicious death” when Fort Lauderdale cops were called to the scene of his duct-taped body and quickly morphed into a stabbing, shooting, throat-slashing, skull-bashing all-in-one murder — now includes a link to…
There might not be much sightseeing from the window seat of a commercial airplane between Baltimore and Fort Lauderdale, except for maybe a rocket going into space next to your plane.The Huffington Post reports these pictures of the space shuttle Atlantis launch were taken by Ryan Graff, who was making…
Update: TSA agent Nelson Santiago is not the first agency employee to be arrested on theft charges.While most Transportation Security Administration employees are busy groping people or taking naked pictures of them, the cops say one of those employees was putting fliers’ electronics down his pants.The Broward Sheriff’s Office says…
We’re still a pair of Novembers away from seeing the fate of Rep. Allen West’s congressional seat, but 28-year-old Patrick Murphy looks like he’s already giving the congressman a run for his money — lots and lots of money.Murphy announced that he raised $450,000 in the second quarter, on top…
State Rep. Pat Rooney isn’t too happy about the “Thank God for Dead Soldiers” and “God Hates Fags” sign-wielding lunatics from the Westboro Baptist “Church” in Kansas parading around funerals extolling their hate under the protection of the First Amendment.For the second straight legislative session, Rooney is introducing a bill…
Miami Dolphins receiver Brandon Marshall finally gave a statement to police after refusing several times to talk to the State Attorney’s Office voluntarily, according to Fox Sports.Marshall was hospitalized in April after being stabbed in the gut, and his wife, Michi Nogami-Marshall, was arrested shortly thereafter.The charge of aggravated battery…
Earlier in the week, a hacker going by the name Abhaxas claimed to have gained access to part of Florida’s election system — allegedly releasing handfuls of voter data to prove a point.”Who believes voting isn’t being tampered with?” Abhaxas had posted on Twitter.Officials from Southwest Florida counties assured inquiring…
It will be the closest the Stanley Cup has been to South Florida since the Florida Panthers’ extremely brief NHL championship appearance in 1996: Former Panther Nathan Horton is bringing the premier trophy won this year by the Boston Bruins to Fort Lauderdale.We know Floridians are a bit apathetic about…
Do you know where to find “Adult Obese Dating Thong Big Boobs” and other glorious titles on the internet? On a Boca Raton police officer’s work computer, according to an internal affairs report released to the Sun-Sentinel yesterday.Officer Samuel McCoy, 30, was suspended for a few days after the investigation…
Our news yesterday of 30-year-old Transportation Security Administration worker Nelson Santiago’s being arrested after apparently being caught stuffing a passenger’s iPad in his pants and allegedly stealing $50,000 worth of electronics from luggage went around the world — from Australia to the United Kingdom.But Santiago is hardly the first TSA…
Casey Anthony defense attorney Cheney Mason is not facing a Florida Bar review after giving a celebratory middle-finger salute to the public shortly after the verdict was read Thursday.The Associated Press had reported a self-described attorney from Coral Gables filing a complaint with the Florida Bar alleging that Mason had…
Darryl James Swanson — the Oregon man arrested for allegedly threatening President Barack Obama in a series of phone calls to the U.S. attorney’s offices in Portland and Seattle, as well as the Palm Beach County Commissioner’s Office — also enjoyed calling a local newspaper quite often.The Palm Beach Post…
Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley — a Republican from West Palm Beach who represented Florida’s 16th congressional district for more than a decade — announced he has prostate cancer, according to Newsmax.Foley, 56, told the news outlet he’s scheduled for surgery in an Orlando-area hospital on Friday.He said his doctors…
Chalk this one up as a “plus” for Rep. Allen West — he’s asked the acting inspector general of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to launch a “full investigation” into the Deerfield Beach Housing Authority.For those keeping score on the local government scene, Deerfield’s housing authority has…
Briton-killing douchebag Ryan LeVin will spend the next eight months up the river, according to the Chicago Tribune.When LeVin decided to go to Florida to face charges related to killing two men in Fort Lauderdale with his Porsche 911 Turbo, he didn’t tell authorities in Illinois that he was going…
Even though Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s comment that Florida’s voting laws were Republican attempts at Jim Crow laws led to her half-apology, former President Bill Clinton made a comment along the same lines yesterday.As a speaker at the Campus Progress National Conference, part of Clinton’s comments came in reference to Gov…
What started as “a suspicious death” after Ronald Vinci’s duct-taped body was found in his Fort Lauderdale mansion now includes multiple stab wounds, a gunshot to the head, blunt-force fractures to his skull, and a large cut to his throat, according to details released by the cops yesterday.According to an…
We’re all about improving Gov. Rick Scott’s image over here at New Times — and now we could use your help.That’s why we created the game “Ricky’s Rugs,” so you can help rebuild the man that is Gov. Scott and help get his approval ratings back on the incline.Posting a…
Apparently Nancy Grace fans aren’t the only ones up in arms over the fact that Casey Anthony was found not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter.Republican State Rep. Bill Hager, who represents Boca Raton, announced today that he’s currently drafting legislation he’s calling “Caylee’s Law.””Caylee’s Law,” he says, would make…
