Gainesville pastor Terry Jones says his church has been contacted twice by the Secret Service in response to the display at the Dove World Outreach Center that features an effigy of President Barack Obama hanging from a noose. (The photograph sent to us shows an Uncle Sam dummy hung up;…
UPDATE, 4:30 p.m.: We just finished an exclusive interview with Jones.UPDATE, 2:30 p.m.: The Secret Service is investigating Pastor Terry Jones’ Dove World Outreach Center for hanging a dummy of President Barack Obama outside of its church.”The Secret Service is aware of this incident and will conduct appropriate follow-up,” said spokesman Brian…
You’re out of luck if you were hoping a debate or two would help better understand Connie Mack’s “freedom pilgrims freedom America” policy positions on his campaign website. The Tampa Bay Times invited Mack to debate his Republican primary opponents, and his campaign responded by challenging Bill Nelson to a…
George Zimmerman’s legal team shared an Orlando Sentinel guest column this morning that defends Zimmerman on a level a step above the others: It’s not just that he deserves his fair day in court and people are jumping to conclusions. We should be looking up to Zimmerman. Lots of other people haven’t…
Two 22-year-old brothers were shot just before 1 a.m. while driving in Belle Glade, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. One of the men was found near the intersection of SW Fifth Street and SW B Place, and the other was several blocks away in the passenger seat…
This week’s issue includes a four-story special report from Village Voice Media about SB 1070, the Arizona immigration law that both casts criminal suspicion on anyone who looks Latino and transforms local law enforcement officers into immigration investigators. It’s featured nationally because it is of national concern — the U.S…
People are suddenly getting interested in the Juliana Mensch murder — it got the Nancy Grace treatment late last month, and now the New York Daily News, Huffington Post, Gawker, Death and Taxes, and Slate have joined in. Everybody’s flipping out over the homicidal Google searches allegedly made by James Ayers…
A grand jury indicted 23-year-old Nicole Okrzesik in the March strangulation of Juliana Mensch, prosecutors say. She is scheduled to go to trial June 25, alongside codefendant James Ayers.Both are charged with first-degree murder — a capital crime.”They both could face the death penalty, although we reserve judgment for now…
People have a lot of opinions about our quaint little corner of the country, but there’s one thing that’s above dispute: Florida never defies expectations.So when you hear that a report was released yesterday laying out state-level statistics about public corruption, which state would you expect to be at the…
It’s getting pretty intense up there in Palm Beach County — for the third time since the weekend, sheriff’s deputies have shot a suspect.A fight between “a group of females” evolved into a fight between several men at the First and 10 Sports Bar shortly after 5 this morning, and…
Quick audible on today’s Jeb Bush update: This post was originally about Bush endorsing Republican Rep. Connie Mack in the Senate race for Bill Nelson’s seat, which is news because people like Jeb and a former governor endorsing a primary candidate means it’s either a sure thing or Bush thinks…
Allen West (and the people working for him) get social media. West was named the most engaging Twitter user in Congress a few months ago, and he’s gained 20,000 since earning the title, putting him at more than 56,000 followers.His campaign Facebook page has more than 96,000 likes and is…
In a revelation sure to put a dent in the stock prices of Florida barf bag manufacturers, Octomom Nadya Suleman has canceled her eight-show engagement at West Palm strip club T’s Lounge, according to TMZ.Suleman reportedly took exception to a WPEC interview in which T’s employees said that Suleman is…
Three Fort Lauderdale police officers turned themselves in to authorities last week after they were notified of charges against them for official misconduct, perjury, and falsifying records in relation to their chase of burglary suspect Kenneth Post. At first glance, it’s the word of a beat-up, long-haired criminal against three…
It looks like Deerfield Beach has a twofold problem: The first fold is that the “office manager/comptroller” responding to emails for Housing Authority Chairman Keith Emery has no idea how to read a four-sentence request for simple public records.The second is that they’ve been throwing those public records away.MAOS blogger…
Absent any actual legislative influence or accomplishments of his own to tout in his campaign, Allen West has turned to whining nonstop about Barack Hussein Obama and his evil communist Marxist progressive liberal despicable agenda. Don’t take my word for it — check out West’s Facebook page and look for…
Cesar Conda, Sen. Marco Rubio’s chief of staff, received $50,000 to $100,000 from the lobbying firm he used to work for, according to an investigation by campaign finance website Republic Report.Though Conda left the firm before taking the job at the head of Rubio’s office, Rubio spokesman Alex Conant told…
The Fort Lauderdale City Commission will vote tonight on a measure recommending that the speed limit on a section of Dixie Highway be reduced from 30 mph to 25 after being reduced from the 35 mph that a traffic study found to be appropriate in 2009.The request, on paper, is…
We told you yesterday about Michael Wallach, who was shot by police after he reportedly bailed out of a stolen car in West Palm Beach and shot at them.He’s better now and in jail facing charges of, among other things, attempted murder. But the events that led up to his…
Plenty of attention has already been paid to the runaway success of E L James’ erotic 50 Shades trilogy, but the phenomenon goes well past all 180 copies in the Broward County library system being checked out — the scandalous series anchored by Fifty Shades of Grey is also helping the Fort Lauderdale…
Convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein began a new round of questioning yesterday about the details of his $1.4 billion ripoff. His last deposition lasted two weeks and featured him laying accusations against colleagues, hookers, banks, the police, and tons of other people Rothstein says helped him run away with millions.The…
Update, 6/5: Found out how Wallach allegedly got hold of the stolen car.Original post, 6/4:The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office says 22-year-old Michael Wallach is expected to be released from the hospital “today or tomorrow” to face charges that he shot at police, stole a car, then ran from authorities…
