Kechevella Wallace, assistant director of the Palm Beach County Housing Authority, has been arrested along with three other housing authority employees on fraud-related charges in an alleged apartment-renting scheme, the Palm Beach Post reports.Wallace, 26, was supposed to manage the county’s waiting list into its 712 public housing units. Instead,…
Gov. Rick Scott has shown us he can kill 4,500 jobs with the stroke of a pen, but sending him to Canada for a week on a “trade mission” to bring jobs back to Florida didn’t go so hot.Scott’s camp says he and his delegation met with 120 Canadian companies…
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman and South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is fed up with Rep. Anthony Weiner’s phallic frolic.Or at least, that’s what the 30-second statement she read sounded like.Wasserman Schultz held a news conference over the weekend, asking for Weiner to resign after sending a picture of his…
Brit-killing dunce Ryan LeVin is headed up the river for a bit, although unrelated to making roadkill out of two men with his Porsche.LeVin is scheduled to turn himself over to the cops in Chicago this morning due to a parole violation related to pummeling three other people with his…
If you don’t want the cops finding the 2,000 pounds of weed you left in your van, don’t park it across multiple parking spots like a douchebag.Now the cops want to know who that douchebag is.”Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are looking for the rightful owner of 38 bales of marijuana…
Daniel Hay Lewis,a Hallandale Beach resident charged with criminal transmission of HIV after allegedly trying to bite a police officer while being arrested for shoplifting, doesn’t actually have HIV, according to his public defender.After allegedly trying to steal $12,000 worth of garden products from a Home Depot on May 30,…
Michi Nogami-Marshall, the wife of Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall, was arrested at her husband’s house this morning, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.Part of her pre-trial release after allegedly stabbing her husband in April was to stay 500 feet away from his Southwest Ranches house and have no contact…
Gov. Rick Perry Jr. Rick Scott sure has been providing a lot of “charades of the day” recently, including today — after the governor signed a declaration for a day of prayer, he then proceeded to say that he didn’t.Out in Texas, Gov. Rick Perry decided to hold an event…
The death of Ian Owen Atkinson — the 19-year-old man found dead on the doorstep of his Lauderhill home Thursday morning — has been declared a homicide, police say.Atkinson’s uncle had gone to the house in the 7000 block of Sienna Ridge Lane around 7 a.m. Thursday to find the…
Just to be clear, nothing about Allen West’s Twitter gaffe involves the congressman’s wiener.It does, however, come at a time when members of Congress should be careful about how they’re using Twitter. But if you’re not careful, blame it on the intern.About two hours ago, West’s Twitter account retweeted the…
The United States is famous for its ghost towns, like Tombstone, Arizona; Bodie, California; and the Palm Beach Mall. The latter — which had most of its property foreclosed on in 2009 — is doing something to change that.West Palm Beach is hoping for some ritzy retailers to help rebuild…
It’s hard to keep up with all of the valuable legislation being signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott, so we’ve got the rundown of a few you might have missed:State Sen. Gary Siplin finally got his wish — no more asses hanging out at public schools.Siplin has been trying…
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is looking into former Lauderdale Lakes finance director Larry Tibbs for allegedly taking sick-leave money he didn’t deserve, while former City Manager Anita Fain-Taylor — who’s been accused by commissioners of providing them with fraudulent information — is momentarily off the hook.It’s not yet…
We’re not sure what’s more laughable — the fact that the South Florida Tea Party can’t keep up on its bills for a Donald Trump rally they held in Boca Raton, or the fact that they held a rally for The Donald to begin with.The city has sent invoices for…
Boca Raton police say Scott Romberger was supposed to be a “responsible party” who would bring in his medicated friend to the dentist’s office for surgery. That didn’t happen.The cops say while Romberger, 30, was driving the 20-year-old woman to her dentist appointment, he admitted to the woman that he…
Police have identified the body that was discovered on a Fort Lauderdale beach this morning.Nolan Morrand, a 46-year-old Miramar resident, was found washed up on the beach wearing only jeans around 6:40 a.m., according to the Sun-Sentinel.Police had cordoned off the area where Morran’s body was found this morning –…
Chickens aren’t very good at flying — unless they’re allegedly coming from the throwing arm of Milton Talbert Jr.Police say Talbert was arrested early this morning after hurling a piece of chicken that hit his wife in the face.After popping her in the face with the poultry, the cops say…
If you placed a bet in a Broward County gambling den on the Miami Heat in game three of the NBA Finals, don’t count on getting paid.Broward’s Money Laundering Task Force took down three illegal gambling operations — one in Pompano Beach, one in Fort Lauderdale, and one in Hollywood.The…
Now for Gov. Rick Scott’s charade of the day — making up a scientific study on drug use by welfare recipients on a nationally televised CNN interview.As you know, the governor signed H.B. 353 into law last week, requires Floridians on welfare to pass a drug test before they get…
Two bodies were discovered this morning — seemingly unrelated — one at a Lauderhill house, the other washed up on the shore in Fort Lauderdale.In Lauderhill, a man went to his 19-year-old nephew’s house around 7 a.m. on the 7000 block of Sienna Ridge Lane to find the teenager dead,…
The indictment of Izhar Khan — the former imam of Margate’s Masjid Jamaat Al-Mumineen mosque — has sparked outrage from religious groups and tea party members, leading to the their protest attempting to force an investigation or close down the mosque.The problem with their logic is that neither the mosque…
It must’ve been a chick fight for the ages — a West Palm Beach man’s wife pulls in to a dead end street in her Mercedes-Benz SUV, ready for a fight with the man’s girlfriend, who rolls up in her BMW and a loaded .45-caliber handgun.The man’s girlfriend, 24-year-old Yanelys…
