Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report says he’s got a new favorite governor — Rick Scott.”Folks, I keep a close eye on America’s Republican governors. They’re like my children — I always have a favorite,” he said on yesterday’s show. “But right now, my current favorite governor is Florida’s Rick…
Hollywood cops spent much of Sunday trying to find the parents of a 3-year-old boy whom a man found wandering around on the street.At least 4.5 hours later, the boy’s aunt called the cops to report him missing, and child welfare investigators decided it was safe for the boy to…
Eric Jotkoff, the Florida Democratic Party’s communications director, has a question: Where was Gov. Rick Scott this weekend?”Anyone else concerned that Rick Scott left the state during hurricane season during wildfire emergency and not tell anyone?” Jotkoff posted on Twitter.According to the governor’s public schedule, he hasn’t had an empty…
New York’s passage of gay marriage equality Friday night has had quite different reactions nationwide — including a couple down here in the Sunshine State.Former Broward Mayor Ken Keechl announced on Facebook that he’s getting married to his partner of 13-plus years, Ted Adcock, in the Empire State.Gov. Rick Scott,…
Ivo Diaz, a former ultrasound technician at Fort Lauderdale’s Holy Cross Hospital, pleaded guilty late last week to sexually assaulting a woman while she was undergoing an ultrasound in 2009.Diaz, now 43, will serve five years in prison and 12 years of sex-offender probation as part of a plea agreement.He…
Broward County Commissioner Kristin Jacobs is putting down the bong-hammer.Scheduled for tomorrow’s commission meeting is a requested motion to direct the county attorney to draft an ordinance that would ban the sale of “smoking devices” to kids under age 18.”Businesses required to be authorized to sell smoking devices under Florida…
Synthetic marijuana, spice, fake weed — whatever you want to call it. It’s back.The feds but the kibosh on the nonweed a few months ago, banning the five chemicals that were producing THC-like effects.Now, manufacturers have developed a new strain for their “incense,” which includes a recipe the Drug Enforcement…
The gifts of prison sentences keep coming, thanks to Scott Rothstein.Debra Villegas, the second in command for Rothstein’s gigantic Ponzi scheme, surrendered to her new home at a minimum-security federal prison last week to begin her ten-year sentence.Villegas, now 44, pleaded guilty last year to forging legal documents and laundering…
Bill Koch, one of the poorer Koch brothers — by “poor,” we mean he’s worth $3.5 billion, compared to Charles and David Koch’s $21.5 billion fortune, according to Forbes — dropped a cool couple of million on a rare portrait of Billy the Kid over the weekend.Koch, head of the…
Ronald Falzini III, the 19-year-old man the cops say ran over a 73-year-old woman in her west Boca Raton neighborhood — which left her body parts strewn across the front yards of several houses in May — has been charged in the woman’s death, according to the Palm Beach County…
Remember that Gov. Rick Scott — a man who doesn’t even read newspapers — wanted people to mass-mail prewritten letters of his endorsement to local newspapers?The “Dear Editor, When Rick Scott ran for Governor he promised…” blah blah blah one?Well, Florida Watch Action has a different idea — send a…
Some lucky folks in western Broward County are going to have a couple of thousand possible illegal immigrants as new neighbors soon.Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it has “tentatively selected” Southwest Ranches, along with a private prison company, to build one of the largest joints for immigrants in the country.ICE…
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman and South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz finally earned a victory against the press — at least in the charity softball game she played last night.After two consecutive losing games and suffering a broken leg at the hands of Capitol Hill reporters, Wasserman Schultz delivered a…
A sixth employee of the Broward County’s jailing system was arrested, this time for allegedly showing up to work with a care package including Newport cigarettes and some blow for an inmate.Tavares Damian West, 34, allegedly brought in a bag with headphones and batteries as well as the aforementioned smokes…
Gov. Rick Scott had a revelation last month: He’s not a guy you want to be associated with if you’re running for president.The voters — according to a Public Policy Polling survey released today — agree with the governor.A plurality of registered Florida voters, 40 percent, said that because of…
Kenneth Andrew Craig — who cops say skipped court 12 years ago after being caught allegedly doing perverted things with young boys in a Deerfield Beach motel room — was arrested in Rio de Janeiro.The U.S. Marshals Service says Craig, now 42, was arrested earlier in the week by Brazilian…
We have no idea how they compiled this “information,” but the dating website Chemistry.com claims people from West Palm Beach have the second-most-organized sock drawers in the country.In fact, they say cities across Florida occupy the top five spots for neatest sock drawers: Miami, Fort Myers, Tampa, and Orlando rank…
What a busy week for the Palm Beach County School District — an elementary-school principal was fired after being accused of stealing thousands of dollars worth of furniture, the janitor found naked in a storage closet was fired too, and a teacher who admitted to having sex with a high…
A 13-year-old girl who sounded like a total badass last week because she kicked off an attempted rapist now tells the cops she made it up, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.The cops say investigators had no reason to doubt her story after she told them, but investigators eventually found…
Keep drinking, kids. Mommy needs to pass her drug test.That’s the essence of what the cops say 35-year-old Angela D. Henderson was arrested on child abuse and drug charges for.Jupiter cops say Henderson’s kids were texting their father, informing them that their mother shut the water off to her house’s…
Need help making sure your boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse/other doesn’t find out you’re getting some on the side? West Palm Beach cop Phillip Immler has an app for that.CATE — the Call And Text Eraser — is the product of Immler’s genius, a smartphone app that intercepts phone calls and text messages from…
Broward County Public Defender Howard Finkelstein thinks that deputies from the Broward Sheriff’s Office are juiced up like Barry Bonds wannabes and that they’ve been hiding it for several years.Finkelstein’s complaint, sent to the Department of Justice last week, contends some devious tactics were involved in not prosecuting the 26…
