Less than two weeks after we found out the Miami Marlins were testing their new aquarium backstop/aquatic nightmare tank by throwing baseballs at it, a video of their long-mocked home-run sculpture in action has made its way to YouTube — and it looks even worse than the pictures.The thing looks…
Congress will be taking a closer look at the Transportation Security Administration this afternoon in a joint hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.Oversight Committee Chairman Darryl Issa said in a statement that the hearing is designed to address “a…
Update, 3/30: Carr’s family has commented about her history of mental illness. The Pulp just got hold of the police report in the case of Jonatha Carr, a 24-year-old Florida Atlantic University student who inexplicably started screaming during a biology class Tuesday. Her tirade, in which she threatened to kill the teacher and…
The jury in the murder trial of Wellington polo mogul John Goodman began deliberations earlier today. There’s no telling how long it will take them to decide whether Goodman is guilty of vehicular homicide and DUI manslaughter in connection with the car accident that killed Scott Wilson two years ago, but…
The Fort Lauderdale City Commission was receptive to a new proposal heard Tuesday about ramping up the city’s red-light camera program from using six cameras to 36. While Mayor Jack Seiler said he was “not for something as massive as that,” according to the Sun-Sentinel, he said he was open…
Welcome to another post in our Allen West Fact Party series, in which we take claims made by the District 22 Republican and attempt to figure out whether they have a basis in reality.Today’s Fact Party analysis has plenty of honesty — the problem, it appears, is in its practicality.Republican…
UPDATE, 3/30: Carr’s family has commented about her history of mental illness. UPDATE, 3/22, 4:50 p.m.: We got the police report in this case, and it’s a doozy.UPDATE, 12:11 p.m.: The student has been identified as Jonatha Carr. The University Press, FAU’s student paper, has the full story.Original post:An unnamed Florida Atlantic University…
Former Republican Gov. Jeb Bush has taken the brave and politically risky move of endorsing presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a long-shot candidate who is only 300 delegates ahead of his competition.Romney has won only 16 primaries, including Florida’s, which was held almost two months ago…
In light of the news yesterday about new evidence from Trayvon Martin’s girlfriend, one might think 28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman is done for. He isn’t.Yesterday’s story revealed that the 17-year-old Martin was on the phone with his girlfriend when Zimmerman killed him with a single bullet to the…
The Center for Public Integrity released its annual state corruption rankings last week — and Florida passed! Technically. The state was one of 11 to get a C-, and its 71 percent score puts it in a tie for 18th in overall integrity. No state got an overall A grade.Florida…
South Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson took to the House floor yesterday and slammed authorities for their inaction in the case of Trayvon Martin, the Miami Gardens 17-year-old who was killed in Martin Seminole County last month, calling shooter George Zimmerman “a renegade wannabe policeman neighborhood watchman.”Wilson, who lives in Miami but…
Somebody get Hallmark on the phone — there’s a new celebratory month, and I have absolutely nothing to send out.March, if you were not aware, is National Purchasing Month, and the Broward County Purchasing Division sent out a news release pointing out that the department has “facilitated 61,341 purchases for…
The organizers of the Red Bull Candola race have announced the final 27 28 teams, selected from “thousands of submissions,” that will race in the New River next month. While “boats in Fort Lauderdale” isn’t anything new, these won’t be the shiny 45-footers with names like Sea Dream II or Fun…
Whatever happened in the 1600 block of NE Second Court in Boynton Beach, it’s all bad news.Sisters Janice Rahming, 54, and Daphne Clemons, 41, were both shot and killed Saturday night by unnamed suspects who police believe are dangerous enough that a Boynton Beach Police spokeswoman sent out an email…
Police still have no idea what could have happened to 45-year-old Claudia Murphy, her husband, Frank Murphy, told the Pulp late yesterday.He rejected reports that she was suffering from amnesia but did say she’d spent several weeks fighting off some kind of stomach problem that gave her “flu-type symptoms” that…
Twenty-two days after 17-year-old Miami Gardens teen Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Sanford, the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice announced late Monday night that they will be investigating his death at the hands of 28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, according to the Miami Herald. The announcement…
A 41-year-old Boca Raton man was indicted on federal mail-fraud charges Friday after authorities say he got free shipping for his internet businesses by setting up accounts with UPS, DHL, and FedEx and saying he was a representative of businesses such as Target, Walmart, and Apple, according to prosecutors.If convicted…
A 19-year-old man was hit by a train early Friday near SW Second Street in Fort Lauderdale. The train, running from Miami to Atlanta, continued with a fresh crew through St. Johns County, where a second person stepped in front of it and died.Contrary to news reports by the St…
If you saw the Miami Herald story this morning about the ten South Floridians killed in car crashes between Saturday night and Sunday night… it gets worse.In addition to the six deaths in Miami-Dade and four in Broward, there were three people killed in Palm Beach County over the weekend…
A quick review of the news you may have missed:–The “very suspicious” files: Authorities have released the 911 tapes associated with the February killing of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old who was shot in Sanford by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. A highlight of the tapes, in reference to Martin, who…
The NFL Network’s Jeff Darlington tweeted this morning that “Peyton Manning personally contacted Dolphins on Thursday to advise them he wouldn’t be signing with Miami,” according to “multiple sources.”As is the case with so many breaking sports stories, we have no idea who these sources are or if their information…
There is a hearing on Tuesday to get public input for a proposed Palm Beach County ordinance pertaining to underaged drinking, which a County Commission brief describes as “an increasing problem” in the area. The commission wants to fight this scourge, this dangerous habit that is being enabled by drinking…
