According to state education rules, around 3,350 third-graders in Broward County and 2,400 in Palm Beach County are supposed to be repeating the grade due to their FCAT reading scores — which they won’t, thanks to a few “loopholes.”By state standards, those scoring a “1” on the FCAT reading scale…
It’s the most infamous car used by cops and taxi drivers, and even comes with a big red button when driven by Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black — the Ford Crown Victoria.But according to a Palm Beach Post investigation, the cars are essentially big bombs that have killed…
Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Pletcher is on paid vacation administrative leave after a woman accused the deputy of making a racial slur, giving her the finger, then proceeding to steal her cellphone and driver’s license.Neyda Osorio, a Hispanic woman, called Plantation police after she says Pletcher — who was off…
Alan Mendelsohn — the convicted government scam artist as well as a former Hollywood ophthalmologist, GOP fundraiser, lobbyist, and adviser to former Gov. Charlie Crist — has a lot of friends.Mendelsohn was sentenced to four years in prisons after he pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge alleging he was scheming…
Ryan LeVin — the hard-partying, Porsche-driving, Brit-killing douchebag — managed to escape prison time in his sentencing yesterday.Judge Barbara McCarthy sentenced LeVin to two years house arrest, ten years probation, and 1,000 hours of community service for making roadkill out of two British tourists in a hit-and-run on Fort Lauderdale’s…
The lawyer for Dalia Dippolito — the escort who was found guilty of trying to hire an undercover cop to kill her husband — has filed for a new trial, this time not to focus on the reality TV defense he tried last time around.Her attorney, Michael Salnick, filed a…
Delray Beach is considering putting 637 parking meters in its downtown area because the city is running low on cash.A study conducted for the city says it would cost $1.95 million to install the new meters but “could” raise $2.1 million per year.Aside from business owners already complaining about the…
It’s not often that there’s a showdown between the NRA and doctors, but anything goes in the Sunshine State.Three Florida medical groups are threatening to sue over the “docs and Glocks” law — we’re going with “Glocktor” because it sounds more brutal — a Gov. Rick Scott-approved piece of legislation…
Broward County Judge Fred Berman has declared police officers writing tickets to drivers running red lights is unconstitutional — at least in his court.Berman’s ruling is in response to red-light cameras, saying it’s not fair for police and cameras to co-exist in ticketing drivers for running red lights because they…
Apparently finding the Broward County School District superintendent is about as hard as becoming the president of Egypt — because no one wants to do either one right now.That’s probably why when the deadline passed for superintendent applicants yesterday, and district officials had to sift through the zero applications they…
Jean-Carlo Baptist — the 22-year-old Boynton Beach man police say beat his 11-week-old daughter unconscious in January 2010 — was sentenced yesterday to four years in prison.According to a Boynton Beach police detective, police were called by hospital medical staff on January 9, 2010, to investigate a “suspicious head injury.”Baptist’s…
As soon as we were done telling you about 48-year-old Bryan Garnett, from Utica, New York, slapping a male JetBlue flight attendant on a flight from Palm Beach International Airport to Boston, it happened again — this time with a little more booze and punching.According to the Palm Beach County…
Raymond Herisse — the 22-year-old Boynton Beach man shot and killed over Memorial Day weekend on the streets of Miami Beach — has been identified by Boynton Beach police as the gunman in a November shooting at a BP gas station.Police say Herisse tried to hit several police officers on…
Three former Deerfield Beach politicians — Commissioners Steve Gonot and Sylvia Poitier, as well as Mayor Al Capellini — will all be spending time in Broward courthouses this month.Gonot was convicted last month of submitting a false campaign report, a felony that carries a penalty of up to five years…
Surely late actor Leslie Nielsen couldn’t still be making jokes, six months after he died of pneumonia, could he?He is, and don’t call us Shirley.Pictures today show Nielsen’s Fort Lauderdale gravesite at Evergreen Cemetery — which, of course, wouldn’t be complete without a couple of one-liners…
If you drop off your kid for school and drive away with the kid’s backpack stuck in the door and don’t notice you’re dragging your kid along the street because you’re too busy texting, it’s probably time to put down the iPhone.Apparently in the Broward County School District, this kind…
Tamara Strulovici may have set the benchmark for the term “ugly divorce,” which included holding a steak knife to her husband’s throat during her demand.Strulovici, now 53, came up behind her husband in their Tamarac home in May 2009 and put the steak knife to his neck, demanding he sign…
Apparently elementary school teachers don’t like getting loaded guns as presents from their 8-year-old students or their students’ grandmothers.Regardless, that’s what Palm Beach County School District officials are saying happened at Allamanda Elementary School in Palm Beach Gardens.The kid even knows a thing or two about present-giving etiquette:…
The National Republican Congressional Committee says it’s not giving out free campaign money to Republicans facing a tough reelection campaign anymore — you have to earn it.That’s why it started the Patriot Program for the last election cycle, making different benchmarks for lawmakers to meet before it throws them the…
As a candidate for worst mother of the year, a Coral Springs woman tried to kill her kids yesterday by plowing her car into a house, police say.According to Coral Springs police, 46-year-old Jane Gonzalez told her two kids in the back seat of her Ford Mustang to take their…
It turns out government scammer Alan Mendelsohn’s hopes of being sentenced to home confinement, probation, and community service were a little optimistic — he was sentenced today to four years in prison.U.S. District Judge William Zloch handed down the sentence this afternoon to the 53-year-old Mendelsohn, who pleaded guilty in…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for somewhere in South Florida to be able to house as many as 2,000 alleged immigration-law offenders, and the town of Southwest Ranches has partnered with the private prison industry and entered a bid.ICE has taken in three proposals for the new facility –…
