Whoever this guy is, he’s traipsing around Broward and Palm Beach counties, making hip-hop dating videos with lyrics like:”I’m lookin’ for a girl that I can call my Ms. Right (yeah) / 5’5, pretty, slender, and polite (Unh).”…
Add one more sentencing to the long list of guilty pleas associated with Christopher and Jeffrey George’s South Florida pill mill scheme. Forty-eight-year-old Beau Boshers was one of 13 doctors charged in the $40 million scam and one of 28 people to plead guilty so far; he was sentenced to…
Twenty-nine thousand dollars for a vintage barber chair, $3.3 million for a hundred-year-old Oldsmobile. Clocks, an organ, a giant carousel. The Milhous brothers sold it all over the weekend, emptying out a 39,000-square-foot Boca Raton warehouse stuffed with things they’d collected in their travels over the years.It took Bob and…
Five-time MLB All-Star catcher Benito Santiago was “disoriented and did not know where he was at” when he was arrested next to Fort Lauderdale High School late last month, according to court documents.The former Marlins catcher, who now lives in Fort Lauderdale, was accused of hot-boxing his Mercedes, speeding, and…
If you missed last night’s Lauderdale-by-the-Sea fundraiser with Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti, you’ve got another shot to hang out with the Gray Mustache from 11 a.m. to noon tomorrow at Gino’s Italian Market, at 5729 Johnson St. in Hollywood. He doesn’t like us very much, but maybe you’ll have more luck.Also,…
It should be noted up-front that Larry Tibbs hasn’t had a chance to respond to the charges lined up in a Broward Inspector General report leaked yesterday — he has 30 days to submit a rebuttal, which he said yesterday he fully planned to do.But the allegations of wild mismanagement…
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…
A draft of a report by the Broward Inspector General was leaked today outlining the office’s finding when it comes to “gross mismanagement of public funds by the City of Lauderdale Lakes” — check out our original post for a run-down of the allegations.There are a looot of details about…
Lauderdale Lakes is in some hot water, and not all of it is old news.A preliminary report dated yesterday outlines the findings of the Broward Office of the Inspector General regarding the “gross mismanagement of public funds” in Lauderdale Lakes. The OIG says preliminary reports aren’t public record until the…
Allen West is outraged that it’s so expensive to keep gasoline in his car. It cost him $70 last night, he posted on Facebook today.Seventy bucks! An outrage! An aberration! Sarcasm aside, that’s a TON of money to be paying for gas. Especially since West drives such a compact, fuel-efficient…..
We told you earlier this month about SB 98, a bill that passed the Florida Senate that would allow prayer in Florida’s public schools. It would have to be approved by both the Florida House and Gov. Rick Scott to become a law, and at the time, nothing had happened…
The details just keeps getting darker and darker in the case of William DeJesus, the man who executed a Canadian snowbird at a Deerfield Beach RV park and stabbed his own wife and two young sons before killing himself.One son, a 9-year-old with autism, died; his 7-year-old son spent a…
Congressman Allen West has had enough of these half-assed wars in the Middle East.While West was focused mainly on Obama’s spending policies at his town hall meeting in Deerfield Beach on Wednesday afternoon, he was also very critical of cuts to military funding and foreign policy interactions that he said…
Last October, a mother and her 3-year-old daughter were plucked from a Pembroke Park lake after the woman swerved into the lake while reportedly being hit by her husband. When divers went into the lake later to recover the car, they “bumped” into another, according to Local 10.Yesterday, Broward Sheriff’s…
If you’ve got anything you want to share with Congressman Allen West, he announced two town hall events yesterday: Today’s event is at Deerfield Beach City Hall from 3 to 5 p.m., and Friday’s is up in West Palm Beach, at the First Baptist Church at 1101 S. Flagler Drive,…
A new anonymous e-book that looks like it was penned by the same person (persons?) who published the e-book taking shots at the Broward Sheriff’s Office last month.You can buy the book on Lulu.com for $12.50, a $2.51 price hike from the BSO book. It looks like the book was…
The Palm Beach County School District is all atwitter today over a racist video posted to YouTube by two girls from Santaluces High School. We’ll never know what made them think it was a good idea to post a public video on the internet saying, “I don’t like black people…
Update, 3:50 p.m.: We’ve added a list of the top four racist YouTube rants by stupid young people, if you’re interested.Santaluces High School in Lantana has some extra police officers today, according to the Palm Beach Post, after two white teenagers from the school posted an online video of themselves…
A state Senate bill mandating all Florida public schools teach students about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, passed an education committee this morning.SB 1422 seeks to add “the events surrounding the terrorist attacks occurring on September 11, 2001, and the impact of those events on the nation” to the list…
The day Broward Vice Mayor Kristin Jacobs held her official campaign kickoff for the U.S. House of Representatives, fellow County Commissioner Chip LaMarca told the Sun-Sentinel he’s “very seriously considering” running for Allen West’s old seat too.LaMarca, a Republican, has been “considering” a run for a while — he told…
As you may have heard once or twice or a million times, Congressman Allen West is switching districts for the 2012 race, moving north to the newly drawn District 18. He already has an avowed general election opponent in Democrat Patrick Murphy, but West could also be up against two…
Today, in turtle-wonkery:We told you last week about the big fight to keep Hillsboro Lighthouse from being turned out by sea-turtle activists, even though the sea-turtle activists say they love the lighthouse and don’t want it turned out at all.The advocates even sent the Coast Guard a list of things…
