Police say 27-year-old Stephen Bradley was in a relationship with 35-year-old Melissa Kaehler of Fort Lauderdale. Then they broke up. Then he killed her.The Broward Sheriff’s Office just released the names of the people involved after finding their bodies Saturday morning — police received two calls around 10 a.m. for…
If you’ve been reading here for a while, you remember former New Times writer Tom Francis, who has since moved on to more mysterious plans elsewhere in the country. Whatever he’s been up to, it’s involved rooting around in the court records of Chris and Jeff George, the Wellington twins who…
Congressman Allen West, everyone’s favorite defender of the Constitution, has joined the citizens advisory board of the Thomas More Law Center, a conservative legal organization that has spent more than a decade trying its best to roll back a rather important section of the Bill of Rights.The Michigan-based firm says…
Data is starting to come together in Fort Lauderdale’s red-light camera program, which dished out more than 25,000 tickets between September 2010 and February 2012. A lot of it is more complicated than just the raw numbers (Where’s that money going? How many people are actually paying them? What about…
There’s plenty to look into when it comes to Fort Lauderdale’s new anti-panhandling ordinance that was passed earlier this week — how do business owners feel about it? How about panhandlers? Homeless people who don’t panhandle? Advocates?But there’s one question we won’t be able to answer for a while –…
Former Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin is accused of felony public corruption. Investigators say her husband made $1.1 million off of taxpayers for writing grants that she helped approve, which we first wrote about back in 2005.The affidavit that went along with Wasserman-Rubin’s 2010 arrest claims that “between 2003 and 2008, the Rubins paid for…
The Department of Justice this week announced a nationwide crackdown on Medicare fraud that snagged 107 people for an alleged $452 million in false billing. The Department of Health and Human Services reported it was the largest group of false billings targeted at one time in the history of their…
The banks used by Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein are still feeling the heat from their involvement in the $1 billion-plus scheme that put him away for 50 years — in two separate cases this week, the two main banks involved in the scheme saw civil proceedings move forward that could…
John Goodman was supposed to get sentenced on Monday. He could have gotten 30 years in jail for killing Scott Wilson in a drunk-driving accident in 2010. The jury found him guilty.But that same jury is what’s standing between Goodman and his sentence — jurors have come forward twice this week…
In case you missed it, Florida’s most famous gun owner got himself a new website. George Zimmerman’s lawyers set up a revamped web presence for the man charged with second-degree murder in the February shooting death of Trayvon Martin, using it to publish statements from the legal team and encourage…
The Bucs did a cool thing this week.We’re not anywhere near Tampa, but the Dolphins have had one winning season in six years, and the Marlins went and stole a half-billion dollars from taxpayers to build a stadium, so here’s a story that shows that at least one Florida sports…
The charming woman pictured at right is accused of stealing checks out of two cars in Wellington and Royal Palm Beach on March 24. From the looks of those wide eyes and her death grip on the steering wheel, she spends a lot of money on caffeinated beverages.I’ve requested more…
The Florida Senate race has gotten some national attention the past few days — two of the Republican challengers to incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson got endorsements from people who used to be running for president.Republican George Lemieux received an endorsement from Herman Cain over the weekend, according to the…
Just a heads-up: The big to-do on the 1200 block of SW 25th Avenue in Deerfield Beach is a response to what the Broward Sheriff’s Office called a “burglary in progress” that sounds like it’s more complicated than just somebody climbing in a window — they report deputies have surrounded…
In a tweet this morning, Congressman Allen West linked to an article detailing a suicide bombing in Kabul, the Afghan capital that President Barack Obama had just departed from, and… took the side of the Taliban.”Pres flew into Afghanistan at night for 7 hrs,” West wrote. “As sun came up,…
The man accused of killing 19-year-old Juliana Mensch in March will go to trial June 25 for first-degree murder. Police say 32-year-old James Ayers drove Mensch’s car to a friend’s workplace and said he’d strangled Mensch a week earlier; he was arrested at a rehab facility later that day.Ayers pleaded…
George Zimmerman might have shut down his bootleg website at therealgeorgezimmerman.com, but his new legal counsel has launched a professionally designed website at GZlegalcase.com to help with the public relations nightmare surrounding the February killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.”We understand that it is unusual for a legal defense to maintain…
A Fort Lauderdale yacht company is being sued over an internal email accidentally sent to job applicant Diane Melton that recommended against hiring her because she was “black and over weight,” which would make customers who wanted to discriminate against both black and overweight people feel uncomfortable.The Luxury Yacht Group…
A rock-wielding burglar broke into five Chinese restaurants in one night, according to police, who suspect him in “at least” 15 other burglaries.Surveillance footage shows the man using a rock to smash the restaurants’ glass doors, then taking all the cash (and coins) out of the registers and, in two…
The sentencing of convicted murderer John Goodman hit a wall yesterday during courtroom interviews Judge Jeffrey Colbath conducted to look into accusations of juror misconduct.Jurors were called in one by one and asked if jurors had said they’d made up their minds before the trial was over, if Goodman’s wealth…
Have you always wanted to ditch your biped friends and expose yourself to brain-controlling parasites but you just didn’t know how? Broward County Animal Care and Adoption is here to help.A new program from the county starts today and offers a free cat when you… adopt another cat.The two-for-one program…
UPDATE, 5/1: A new post is up with more information about the juror responses and the new court dates.Original post, 4/30:Expect much more soon (the hearing is still going on), but a juror in the John Goodman murder trial referred to as “Mr. St. John” just told Judge Jeffrey Colbath…
