Apparently everyone wants a chance to sue Rick Scott.The Florida Police Benevolent Association filed a third-party intervention today to join 11 others in state government to sue Gov. Scott and several other state department heads over the new law mandating that 3 percent of salaries for employees enrolled in the…
The feds have admitted that Ponzi-schemer extraordinaire Scott Rothstein has been singing like a bird, but now it’s a bit too much.Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s office entered an objection to a ruling made by a U.S. bankruptcy judge ordering the return of Rothstein to Fort Lauderdale for a deposition…
Florida doesn’t have an open-carry law to show your piece off in public, but it’s now OK to “briefly and openly” flash your firearm to the populace.Since Gov. Rick Scott signed SB 234 into law Friday, it’s been legal to show off your hardware — but just for a little…
In the fourth recent lawsuit targeted at policies of Gov. Rick Scott, the Florida Education Association is now suing over a 3 percent pay cut to the salaries of teachers and other school workers.According to a news release from the union, the lawsuit was entered today in circuit court, alleging…
The cops say a Friday machete attack — possibly started over fruit theft — put both the attacker and his victim in the hospital.According to the Sun-Sentinel, the man on the receiving end of the machete whacks “lost a lot of blood” and was being treated for life-threatening injuries at…
The Haitian pirate-radio station that broadcast on 92.7 FM is no more, thanks to the Broward Sheriff’s Office and the Federal Communications Commission, according to the Sun-Sentinel.That led to the arrest of 31-year-old Mercius Dorvilus, a North Lauderdale resident who the cops say was running the station out of a…
Deerfield Beach is holding a special election on July 19 to replace former District 2 Commissioner Sylvia Poitier — who’s facing five misdemeanor counts of falsifying public documents — and out of the four qualified candidates, one has already been accused of abusing public funds.The Rev. Anthony L. Davis –…
Dalia Dippolito — the Boynton Beach escort/newlywed convicted of trying to hire an undercover cop to kill her husband — was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday. Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath called her plot “pure evil” and said she was taking advantage of her husband, Michael, “a guy that…
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission isn’t too happy with David T. Beckett after they say his seven-foot Burmese python escaped its enclosure and began wandering around residential areas.FWC says Beckett, 51, was charged with two misdemeanors — illegal possession of a Burmese python without a permit and improper…
New Times Best of Broward-Palm Beach edition is here, folks.In his rookie season, Marlins first baseman Gaby Sanchez hit .273 — the third-highest among regular starters, behind Hanley Ramirez and Dan Uggla.His rookie counterparts — Logan Morrison and Mike Stanton — were fantastic playmakers as rookies but didn’t have nearly…
If you stole a dollar from a Palm Beach synagogue the other day, give it back to the rabbi and he’ll give you $1,000 — no questions asked.Somebody broke into the Chabad Palm Beach Synagogue on Tuesday night and stole a collection box that contained one lonely and blessed dollar…
Mitchell Olin — the former Broward attorney who jacked more than $380,000 from his clients — was sentenced to eight years in the slammer yesterday.As a real estate and insurance claims lawyer for seven families, Olin took the money from a trust account belonging to the families and decided to…
Six members of Krazy Locos — a Lake Worth-based gang — were sentenced to prison time yesterday for a few crimes.By “few,” we mean the U.S. Department of Justice’s Southern District Office says the gang has engaged in murder, weapons trafficking, and providing security at brothels as well as slangin’…
If you got one of those pesky tickets from a red-light camera for blowing through an intersection in Pembroke Pines, you could be in luck.The city has announced it’s going to be giving refunds to anyone who paid for a red-light-running ticket from a camera they received before July 1,…
As you may know, there are around 420* wildfires blazing through the state right now, and Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency for Florida.Around 93 percent of the state is in a drought at one level or another, according to Sunshine State News, and more than 300,000…
For once, the pizza boy taking forever to deliver a pizza was a good thing.Four North Lauderdale women waited in the driveway of a vacant home for so long to rob the pizza boy that two neighbors called 911 and Broward Sheriff’s deputies showed up before any sign of the…
New Times Best of Broward-Palm Beach edition is here, folks.Even as Gov. Rick Scott continues to go lower and lower in the ranks of sanity every week, Joyce Kaufman is still the area’s number-one object of political hatred.Kaufman, Rep. Allen West’s former chief of staff, has been a consistent teller…
Dalia Dippolito — caught on camera two years ago promising to pay a hit man to kill her husband — was sentenced to 20 years in prison today by Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath.UPDATE: Click here for details on Dippolito’s sentencing.There wasn’t much ambiguity in Dippolito’s murder-for-hire charge. The trial lasted…
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman and South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has apparently run out of things to complain about.Her target this week is Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who’s in the middle of a fundraising tour through Florida.The New York Times reports that while Romney was meeting unemployed Floridians…
Schools in the Broward and Palm Beach school districts have been asked to determine whether cheating occurred on Florida’s Comprehensive Assessment Test in their schools, according to the Florida Department of Education.Deborah Higgins, an information specialist for the Florida Department of Education, tells New Times that schools in 14 districts…
If you’re a state employee — not in the Department of Corrections — you don’t have to detox quite yet to get those doobies out of your system.Gov. Rick Scott sent out a memo to agency heads on Friday stating that departments do not yet have to comply with his…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office has now released a new “detailed” report on the arrest of Daniel Hay Lewis, claiming that Lewis stated he had AIDS several times before attempting to bite a deputy.Lewis, a Hallandale Beach resident, was arrested May 30 while allegedly trying to steal $12,000 worth of garden…
