Birthday wishes are in order! Best start baking the cakes now — it’s cool, you can just get the money out of the federal treasury.Last week, we wrote about Rep. Connie Mack’s illegal mailers that he sent to 90,000 Floridians. The postcards said they were a “legislative update” to the…
From Friday evening, in case you missed it: Wellington polo mogul John Goodman was sentenced to 16 years in prison at a hearing that lasted more than two and a half hours and featured the interrogation of a juror, testimony from victim Scott Wilson’s mother, and the reading of a…
Update, 5/14: We just posted a selection of text messages between Okrzesik and Ayers.Original post, 5/11:Police say 21 22-year-old Nicole Okrzesik was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree murder in the strangulation of 19-year-old Juliana Mensch in late March.Police say Okrzesik and James Ayers, her boyfriend, killed Mensch after getting high…
Note, 4:30 p.m: This liveblog is over. More updates to come in separate blog posts; check out The Pulp for more soon. And thanks for sticking with us this whole time.) Hello, crime-gawkers — here’s where we’ll be liveblogging the 2 p.m. hearing in the John Goodman murder trial. For…
UPDATE, 1:30 p.m.: Got in touch with the president of the PAC. He said he was upset. Added comment to the end of the story.A small New Jersey-based political action committee had its website torn to little, vulgar shreds last night by lunatics who appear to have come from the…
Hostess Brands, the makers of Twinkies, Ho Hos, and Ding Dongs that declared bankruptcy in January, has filed paperwork with the state warning of at least 479 potential layoffs all over the state.And it’s not just a Florida thing — reports of layoff warnings are coming out all over the country,…
Sound the alarm! Slide down the polls! Gold Five to Red Leader, we have inbound data sets!That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, the U.S. Census Bureau released a new batch of data yesterday, and the Pulp has done some spreadsheet surfing to bring you the hottest numbers from the report. You’ll…
Republican Senate candidate Connie Mack has had to deal with a bit of drama the past few days. And the check pictured above could mean that the drama isn’t over.The trouble started when Mack, who bills himself a fighter of liberal “spending sprees,” decided to spend a pile of federal…
Here’s the latest from a 9:10 p.m. press conference from authorities about the shooting this afternoon; information is pulled together from the FBI, Broward Sheriff’s Office and other news sources.From FBI spokesman Tim Donovan:It started at about 2:20 p.m., when a man stole a car at the intersection of 75th…
There isn’t any evidence to prove that Rep. Connie Mack intentionally used $18,000 in taxpayer money to send political postcards all over the state, but there isn’t anything about the situation that makes Mack look good.If you haven’t heard about it already, all the recent hullabaloo is over 90,000 mailers that Mack…
Good news for all you Marlins fans who were worried that you were going to have to pay prices inflated by people actually wanting to go to the games: Tickets for Sunday’s game against the Mets are now online for as low as $2.99, and tix for next Tuesday’s game…
Tuesday night, the guy who lives at 420 SW 18th Ave. in Fort Lauderdale couldn’t sleep. He was put out of his house by a termite infestation and was staying elsewhere while exterminators draped a giant tent over his house and filled it with poison gas.It was around 4 a.m…
If you’ve got a TV or an internet connection, you’ve probably already heard about President Barack Obama’s statement to ABC News that “I think same sex-couples should be able to get married.”If you frequent Think Progress, you’ve seen the gigantic “THANK YOU OBAMA! PRESIDENT OBAMA ENDORSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY” banner they’ve…
This morning, I wrote a mean blog post about attorney Jose Baez’s upcoming book, Presumed Guilty, Casey Anthony: The Inside Story, coming out in July. I called it a “‘let’s make some cash off Casey Anthony’ book” and called Baez “the guy who sold bikinis on the internet before writing…
If Fort Lauderdale’s red-light program has helped traffic safety, there’s no way to actually tell yet. Crashes at the six intersections where cameras are currently installed actually went up slightly after their installation, but it went from 21 to 24 crashes over ten months, so it’s not clear what changed.Despite…
Niagara Falls is one of the most recognizable natural wonders in North America, 165 feet tall in places and as majestic as a bald eagle flying in slow motion with a golden scepter in its talons.So it was good news when Allegiant Air announced last month that it would be…
Note: We’ve since had the opportunity to chat with Baez about the book (and about this blog post).Texas-based BenBella Books announced yesterday that Jose Baez, the South Florida attorney who successfully defended Casey Anthony on murder charges, will be releasing a book in July that “exposes shocking, never-before-revealed, exclusive information…
Workers at the Mardi Gras Casino say management has been adopting illegal union-busting tactics with its workers, and now they’re planning a king-hell spectacle to bring attention to it.Event organizers say they have 500 “confirmed” participants for a rally tonight that will start at B.F. James Park on NW Ninth…
Republican Senate candidate George LeMieux released a sequel to his “Two and a Half Macks” campaign ad against primary opponent, Connie Mack, yesterday. While the first ad’s thesis was essentially “Connie Mack is a doofus,” this one takes a more specific route — the Lemieux campaign says Mack doesn’t live…
The sentence for 35-year-old James Mozie was handed down in federal court yesterday: life in prison, plus ten years of supervised release. Dude’s going to have a parole officer in the afterlife.Mozie was convicted in December of one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor, eight counts…
The Allen West national fundraising machine got a new arm yesterday, when the South Florida congressman filed forms with the Federal Election Commission to form a joint fundraising committee with Georgia Rep. Paul Broun.The “Broun-West Committee” was listed on a revised statement of candidacy from West yesterday and formed a…
The operators of a West Park meat market and Miramar packaging and shipping store were arrested yesterday on charges that they ran backroom gambling operations that could take in more than $25,000 in a single day.The investigation, rather straightforwardly named “Operation Hidden Bet,” pointed to 43-year-old Ramon Contreras Rodriguez and…
