It looks to be a coincidence that the Tampa Bay Times published an analysis of Florida stand-your-ground cases on the same day George “Fib About PayPal” Zimmerman got tossed back in the clink, but it would have been a good read either way.A poll last week showed that only 35…
Update, again: T’s Lounge has threatened to sue Suleman if she doesn’t show.Update: She’s reportedly changed her mind. Go figure.Last time we heard about government-mooching fetus factory Nadya “Octomom” Suleman, she was a contender in a rumored celebrity boxing match in Fort Lauderdale that, like every other rumored celebrity boxing match…
Back in 2005, Ozzie DeFaria was ordered by a judge to stay away from both his ex-wife and her new boyfriend.Now, both of them are endorsing him for Congress.It’s just one detail of a knotted public relations quagmire that came to the surface last week, when shark-tank.net political blogger Javier Manjarres…
George Zimmerman has 48 hours to turn himself in to authorities after his bond was revoked at a hearing this afternoon in which prosecutors accused both Zimmerman and his wife of lying to the court about the $200,000 in donations they collected from a personal website in the days leading…
Hollywood City Manager Doug Hewett was arrested on DUI charges after a police officer reported Hewett was swerving on the way home from a male strip club on Easter Sunday. A meeting this morning was held to figure out what was going to happen to him after Mayor Peter Bober called for…
Boynton Beach Police are investigating the origins of a giant brick of marijuana that was fished out of the Atlantic earlier this week and is large enough to keep Frito-Lay in business for the next decade.Covered in barnacles and weighing in at around 40 pounds, the bale of ganja looks…
Three members of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department turned themselves in yesterday after being cumulatively accused of more than a dozen felonies related to the 2009 arrest of Kenneth Post.Sgt. Michael Florenco, Det. Matthew Moceri, and Officer Geoffrey Shaffer, who have a combined 24 years of service in Fort Lauderdale,…
Everyone in the country has heard about the case of Rudy Eugene, the Miami man who was killed by police as he, without any clothes on, ate a homeless man’s face under a bridge. But it wasn’t the only case of cannibalism this week.Maryland 21-year-old Alexander Kinyua was denied bail…
(Running updates whenever we add another article about the case)Tonight at 8, the Nancy Grace Show on HLN will feature the murder of Juliana Mench, the 19-year-old found strangled in a room in Fort Lauderdale in March. Barring some kind of creative editing, a certain Pulp blogger wearing a charming…
The ruling is in — old people smell different, and a study released today reveals that people can identify the smell even when there isn’t an actual old person around.A study from Philadelphia researchers called “The Smell of Age: Perception and Discrimination of Body Odors of Different Ages” dealt with…
MSNBC host Chris Hayes did something dangerous last weekend — he tried to think. And Congressman Allen West isn’t happy about it.In a weekend in which cable news channels filled hours of time with teary-eyed flag-waving, Hayes wanted to have a discussion about the word hero.”It is very difficult to…
Rudy Eugene was shot by police Saturday afternoon as he ate Ronald Poppo’s face near the Miami Herald building. The Herald had the story on Sunday, along with a photo of Eugene, dead on the sidewalk. Tuesday, the Pulp had two other photographs and the story that the Herald photo…
It worked just like comedian Mitch Hedberg said it did — “I like the FedEx guy, ’cause he’s a drug dealer, and he don’t even know it. And he’s always on time.”And now 31-year-old Marco Ceja-Moreno is going to prison.Ceja-Moreno pleaded guilty yesterday to drug distribution charges, according to the…
Donald Trump, devoid of any meaningful role in American culture outside of a television show in which he fires marginally famous people from imaginary jobs, has settled nicely into a new, strange role as a political commentator, a role with all the hubristic indulgences of his campaign for president without…
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told Italian news website Linkiesta that “If Romney would offer me the post of vice president, I would consider the proposal very carefully.” At least according to a rough translation of the website.I don’t know how Saint Petersblog writer Peter Schorch found it, but he…
Update 2, 5/31: A Maryland man was just arrested on charges that he ate a man’s heart and brain.Update, 5/31: Our order was canceled by the third-party company that handles the Herald’s photo orders.Original post, 5/29:If you went anywhere near social media over the weekend, you’ve already heard about Rudy…
Nicole Okrzesik and James Ayers have been arrested in the March murder of 19-year-old Juliana Mensch.We’ve already brought you the creepy text messages between Okrzesik and Ayers after the crime and the homicidal Google searches Okrzesik allegedly made, but there’s more: In addition to text-message arguments about what to do…
Earlier this month, Shaquille O’Neal graduated from Miami’s Barry University with an Ed.D. in Leadership in Education. You’ll be happy to know Dr. O’Neal has been putting his freshly polished brain-pieces to work and is doing his darnedest to exercise Leadership in Education for Harbin Brewery, a Chinese company that decided…
If you haven’t already heard about the weirdest DUI arrest since the Ron Jon Surf Shop guy got caught drinking Four Loko in his car, a quick run-down: Police say Orange County anesthesiologist Zachary Bird was arrested on DUI charges after he almost side-swiped a cop car and failed sobriety…
Update, 5/28: The boil advisory has been lifted, per WSVN. More on what the heck happened later this week.Original post, 5/25:A Broward County water plant serving Pompano Beach, Deerfield Beach, Lighthouse Point, and Coconut Creek has tested positive for “fecal indicators,” according to a statement just sent out by the…
There has been a lot of blogspace spent on the Sunlight Foundation’s latest study, which found that the speech patterns of members of Congress have gotten markedly simpler over the past 15 years or so.”Is Congress getting dumber, or just more plainspoken?” its headline asks, and the whole country at…
We’ve got a twofer of animal stories out of Palm Beach County. The first is from Delray Beach: According to police, two men tried to break into a house on Swinton Avenue on May 17 by chucking a brick through a window but fled when they discovered the windows were…
