This morning, the Broward Sheriff’s Office announced a shooting inside a Lauderdale Lakes bar — 12 people were hit by bullets, and two died.The cops now say the alleged shooter is 26-year-old Vishna Beepot, who died shortly after the gunbattle that occurred inside the bar.The unarmed man Beepot is said…
After six months of conflict-of-interest questions about Gov. Rick Scott’s urgent-care chain Solantic, the deal has finally gone through.The investment firm that bought Solantic — which the Jacksonville Business Journal reports bought a controlling interest in April — finished its purchase of the company yesterday.At the time Scott took office,…
The winner of Miss Florida USA will no longer don a chic animal-carcass coat, according to a local animal-rights group.Don Anthony of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida tells New Times that fur will no longer be included in the Miss Florida USA pageant, a change the group has been…
The death of 70-year-old Ronald Vinci — who was found dead and wrapped in duct tape in his Fort Lauderdale mansion — is being considered “a suspicious death” by police, which we’re hoping they usually say when they find a body wrapped in duct tape.Vinci, who earned his millions as…
A 15-year-old girl was beaten with a baseball bat, stabbed, and had her 8-week-old puppy slammed into the sidewalk in Oakland Park by a 46-year-old woman and her daughter, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.Deputies arrested Naomie Jeanite and her 17-year-old daughter Tuesday after the alleged attack on the 15-year-old…
An argument at a Lauderdale Lakes bar early this morning led to 12 people being shot, two of whom died, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.The BSO’s Dani Moschella tells New Times they got a call at 3:19 a.m. about a shooting at the South Rock Lounge Bar & Grill,…
In what could possibly be the quintessential display of irony in our generation, Chris Hansen — famous for letting perverts know to “have a seat over there” on his Dateline NBC show To Catch a Predator — was reportedly caught on camera in a rendezvous with a woman who is…
Joe Kaufman really, really doesn’t like Muslims, and apparently that’s enough of a political platform to run for congress.Kaufman, the head of the oxymoron crew Americans Against Hate, has announced he’s challenging Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz for her congressional seat in 2012.The first order of business for Kaufman’s campaign was…
Miramar-based Spirit Airlines — probably most-famously known for nickel-and-diming their customers to death — has apparently run a little short on ideas in their marketing department, as they’ve decided recently-convicted Illinois politician Rod Blagojevich is their key to selling tickets.The ad is on Spirit’s website, which shows a guy who…
Richard Rubin — husband of former Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin, who still faces seven felony charges of her own — was sentenced this morning to ten months in federal prison.Rubin, 66, pleaded guilty in April to federal tax evasion after failing to report $100,000 in fees he received from…
Harry Sargeant III — the energy mogul, Delray Beach billionaire, and former Florida Republican Party finance chairman — is under investigation by the Department of Justice to determine whether his oil company bribed the country of Jordan for an exclusive shipping line through the country.In case you’re unaware, this is…
Just in time for the Fourth of July weekend, the State Division of Forestry says there are no more brush fires in Palm Beach County, thanks to a few days of rain.The Palm Beach County fire marshal put a burn ban on the eastern half of the county that does…
The Pulp was checking out MSNBC last night to see what the liberals were up to when Rachel Maddow began a segment on Gov. Rick Scott’s trip to the Koch brothers retreat in Colorado that seemed awfully similar to a story we wrote earlier in the day.Lo and behold, that…
Are you aware of a “game” that involves splitting a bottle of vodka and pushing a drunken person who can’t swim into a river?Neither was the jury that convicted Billy Tyner of a manslaughter charge yesterday.Defense attorneys for Tyner, 48, contended that their defendant had pushed 28-year-old Robert Lee Merritt…
As Gov. Rick Scott’s disapproval rating keeps climbing, pollsters have run out of people to compare him with — that’s why Public Policy Polling says a hypothetical gubernatorial race between Scott and a ham sandwich would be a runaway for the lunch meat.The pollsters were surveying for the governor’s approval…
If you see a seven-foot lizard in your Broward or Palm Beach residence, that’s a problem, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.Nile Monitor lizards, native to Africa, have been popping up around the two counties — enough times to warrant a hotline and a website dedicated to…
Ever wonder what a 23-foot-long disgusting giant squid looks like?Absolutely repulsive is what it looks like.We got a hold of a photo from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, taken somewhere between the discovery of the squid off the coast of Jensen Beach, its necropsy at a Palm Beach…
The day a trial ends and jury deliberations are set to begin isn’t a good time to let the judge know that almost the entire jury has been sleeping throughout the trial.That’s what the Palm Beach Post reports happened today, as jurors were about to receive deliberating instructions in the…
If you know anybody who drives a 2000 to 2002 maroon Jaguar S-Type and the car is missing a few front-end parts — as if the car had recently killed a bicyclist by launching him over some train tracks — the Broward Sheriff’s Office would like to know about it.The…
There are a few ways 58-year-old convicted child rapist Jonathan Steinberg could’ve gotten his overdue rent check, but allegedly lighting his tenant on fire apparently wasn’t such a good idea.Boynton Beach cops say Steinberg was in an argument with 52-year-old Ronald Rohde over rent money yesterday evening on the 1600…
Anonymous, an online community of anarchist hackers, is taking on its new hacktivist cause — an apparent “war” on the City of Orlando for the recent arrests of “food terrorists.”The group Food Not Bombs — which has recently been sharing food with people in parks across Florida — says 21…
We finally have an answer as to where Gov. Rick Scott was this weekend, and it confirms our suspicion: at the billionaire Koch brothers’ secret conference outside Vail, Colorado.St. Petersburg Times reporter Alex Leary got the information out of him, a day after the governor’s spokesman wouldn’t confirm or deny…
