Today’s egregious Florida gun crime comes to you from Port St. Joe, where police say 59-year-old Walton Henry Butler shot a man in the head last night, then sat down and ate dinner while the victim lay bleeding at his door. Police say he was upset because “he had only…
In a move I wish was slightly more surprising, Congressman Allen West has posted another petulant Facebook message that includes an entire Wall Street Journal column he didn’t write.”It seems the inept community organizer has failed. A second term? One must be stuck on stupid!” he wrote. “It is evident that…
Police say 30-year-old Brian T. Magan was riding a double-decker bicycle down Purdy Lane in West Palm Beach on Saturday night. He was wearing dark clothes and had his bike painted gray. He wasn’t wearing a helmet, and his mutant bike didn’t have reflectors.And he got hit by a van…
See also: Directors of Fort Lauderdale Airport Security Unlicensed; Company Ignored It, Investigators Say.Broward County Administrator Bertha Henry tried to downplay an investigation into the unlicensed managers of the company overseeing security at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and the Seaport, according to letters released this morning.A report from the Broward…
Update, 3:15: Added comment from AlliedBarton.See also: Broward County Admin Bertha Henry Doesn’t Care if Airport Security Managers Are Licensed.Two of the people in charge of security at both the Port Everglades Seaport and the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport weren’t even licensed Florida security guards — and one of them,…
The latest ruling in the upcoming corruption trial of former Florida GOP Chair Jim Greer: A four-page report of unknown embarrassing accusations is public record and might be admissible in court, a judge said yesterday, and there is no limit on the records Greer’s lawyers can subpoena from the party.It’s…
A man in Pompano Beach was suspicious — he was on his way to cash his paycheck July 5 at a store on NE 33rd Street, and he was pretty sure a short man in a blue Ford F-150 pickup was following him. At the store, he confronted the suspicious…
HEY! SOMEONE DISAGREES WITH ME ON THE INTERNET! LET’S CALL HER A BITCH.Sometimes, New Times stirs the pot. Sometimes, we put out something controversial, and sometimes, people get agitated and call us idiots and fax us letters saying they’re going to murder us. It happens.Just usually not on a mostly…
Good news, Chick-Fil-A: Your attempts to rebuild public opinion of your company and its gay-hating president has another supporter: In addition to failed governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and failed senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum, both paragons of tolerance themselves, your company now also has the support of…
Good morning! Today New Times brings you a story making the rounds by merit of its own horrifying, senseless brutality. Last week, a 52-year-old man grabbed a gun and stood his ground right into the back of a door-to-door salesman’s head.The victim, 30-year-old Nick Rainey, worked for Blue Ribbon Steak…
Remember how the Palm Beach Post figured out that Florida covered up the worst tuberculosis outbreak in 20 years and that “the itinerant homeless, drug-addicted, mentally ill people at the core of the Jacksonville TB cluster are almost impossible to keep on their medications” and that they were stumbling all…
While plenty of candidates are going to be trying to make their opponents look like off-kilter, rhetoric-spouting do-nothings, it’s not likely any have an easier time of it than Patrick Murphy, the Democratic candidate aiming for the District 18 seat.He’s running against that velvet-voiced charmer Allen West, and, in what…
Welcome to this week’s post of the Broward-Palm Beach edition of Mug-Shot Friday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mug shots from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, and femmes fatale. Check out Miami New Times’ Riptide blog for the Miami-Dade edition…
See also: Rob Lopicola Child Sex Arrest: The Creepiest Text Messages You’ve Ever Seen.The principal of Polo Park Middle School in Wellington has been arrested on charges he used the internet to lure a 15-year-old boy to have sex with him at a hotel; the boy was actually an undercover…
If you’re wondering what the next ridiculously destructive posturing move House Republicans are going to be embarking upon (other than seeking reelection), it just might be outlined in a letter that they sent to Speaker of the House John Boehner.Details started coming out this week about the letter, which asks…
Police say 29-year-old James Newman and 18-year-old James Misleveck escaped from a Wisconsin correctional facility last week, then stole cars and a shotgun and kidnapped a woman from a casino. They were then allegedly spotted at a robbery in Hillsborough County on Sunday, thousands of miles away.After a high-speed chase…
Popular real-estate website Trulia.com has been tracking you, international real-estate buyers. And now it’s telling everybody.While a study released earlier this week found that searches for U.S. homes from other countries has dropped 10 percent on the website since 2011, there was other information that was pretty interesting: Of the…
We told you yesterday about how a review of Florida “Stand Your Ground” cases revealed that many of the people getting away with homicide had (several) previous arrests, and we told you before that about the Tampa Bay Times study that found that the law, which allowed Floridians to kill…
Former Deerfield Beach High School football standout Steven Feagin was accused in 2008 of raping a woman in Pompano Beach — charges that he got out of when the alleged victim started accusing people specifically exonerated by DNA evidence and saying the FBI was covering something up.That case, however, did…
In July 2011, the writers and editors of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel were called together in their ninth-floor newsroom in downtown Fort Lauderdale. It was a staff without a leader — Editor in Chief Earl Maucker had retired almost a year earlier, and the staff’s numbers had dwindled to the…
Robert Delgado was an American soldier. He left behind his pregnant wife to serve under Allen West in Iraq, where Delgado was wounded by fire from an AK-47. He was saved, he says, from body armor West gave to him, and he says it in the latest West campaign ad.This is…
The bad news is that there are now pictures floating around the internet of a 60-year-old Florida rep without a shirt on. The good news is that he isn’t trying to get laid.You might be inclined to freak out over Palm Harbor Republican Peter Nehr showing off his bod online,…
