Eighteen-year-old Christopher Thompson is dead after staging what one spokeswoman said was “like an ambush” on police Friday.Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies were called shortly after 4 p.m. with reports of a man in West Palm Beach’s PBC Credit Union parking lot shooting a rifle into the air. When police arrived,…
There weren’t many details available Friday about the Deerfield Park RV-park standoff that left three dead and two critically injured, but as police discover more, the story gets stranger and stranger.The incident appears to have started Thursday evening, when 41-year-old Volusia County man William De Jesus drove his wife and…
If you clicked on this, you probably already know the story: It was 1986, and Metallica released their third album, Master of Puppets to wild acclaim. They took their Damage, Inc. tour on a massive swing through Europe, only to have the excursion interrupted by a bus crash in Sweden. Everyone escaped…
Welcome to the inaugural post of the Broward-Palm Beach edition of Mug-Shot Friday, a long-standing 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…
Sixteen-year-old Michael Robertson was in the 3600 block of Kewanee Drive in Lantana, police say, when the boy who killed him walked up. The boy accused Robertson of stealing his bike; the two argued. Robertson made fun of the boy. He told Robertson he was going home to get a…
Details are slowly emerging about a Deerfield Park hostage situation in which a man killed another person in an R.V. park, then took his own family hostage and killed himself and his 9-year-old son.Someone reported a shooting to police at 6:20 p.m. Thursday, and by the time deputies arrived, a…
One of two abortion bills under consideration in the Florida House of Representatives seeks to significantly reduce the amount of time women have to request an abortion, and if it doesn’t contradict a Florida Supreme Court ruling, it certainly sidesteps it.HB 839, which passed the Civil Justice Subcommittee late last month,…
Police arrested a couple on Tuesday after a child in their care was found to have what police called a “grotesquely deformed” hand as a result of untreated burns that left her missing an entire finger and parts of two other fingers. Fort Lauderdale Police spokesman Travis Mandell said he…
Just after Christmas, Congressman Allen West sent out two tweets about a colonoscopy he’d just had — short, innocent messages; one used the phrase “doggone bran cereal.” Like most everything else on Twitter, they should have just passed through the ether and quietly disappeared. Instead, 71 people retweeted them.And, for…
Update, 1:56 p.m.: In a new post, we look into whether Chevelier is a Maryland hip-hop artist with a criminal record.Fort Lauderdale Police went to a home on Saturday to investigate reports that children at the house were being tortured. There, they encountered 22-year-old Irma Mustamu and a young child…
Pill-mill kingpin Christopher George was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison last Friday for his role in founding one of the largest pill mills in American history.George, his wife, mother, and twin brother all pleaded guilty last year to charges related to pain clinics operated all over South…
Update, 2:17 p.m.: Added comment from Hurley’s judicial assistant.Update: 3:05 p.m.: Added comment from the president of Women In Distress.Plantation’s Joseph Bray is accused of pushing his wife onto a couch, putting his hand across her neck, and raising his fist to punch her. He was arrested and went before Fort…
Democratic congressional candidate Patrick Murphy’s campaign just announced that he will be moving from his original plans to run in District 22 up to the newly drawn District 18 to challenge Congressman Allen West for a seat in the House of Representatives.West announced last week that he was giving up…
Under proposed revisions to Florida law, drivers could be hit with DWI charges even if they were totally sober while they were driving, according to an interpretation by a Broward County DWI lawyer.SB 1810 is sitting in several Florida Senate committees and would revise the state’s law regarding driving under…
UPDATE, 2/8/12: Both Norman and Reich are off the hook — state’s attorney spokesman Ron Ishoy says “The Parkland property owners… have agreed that the issuance of a trespass warning to the two journalists is the appropriate course of action in this case. Those warnings are expected to be issued…
Congressman (and former high school history teacher) Allen West gave his Facebook followers a “comparative history lesson for America” yesterday in which he blamed Jimmy Carter for “the resurgence of radical Islamic totalitarianism” and then compared it to Obama’s calls for then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarek to step down, a move…
To give you an idea of how bad this report is, the words gross mismanagement are in the title of the report, and the terms flabbergasted and loosey goosey appear on page one…
Former Fort Lauderdale state Sen. Mandy Dawson will plead guilty to two counts of tax evasion and three counts of failure to file a tax return, according to documents filed yesterday in federal court. She faces up to 13 years in prison.Dawson was indicted last year after authorities say she…
The board will consider a proposal tomorrow to review plans for “perpendicular structures along Singer Island” to try to slow the rate of erosion. A similar proposal was floated last year but failed for the same reasons this plan is being criticized: baby turtles…
CBS News had a story today about a fee built into the two-month payroll tax cut extension approved by the House just before Christmas — to help pay for the cut, legislators added a tenth of a percent fee to loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.Rep. Allen West…
Imagine you’re at a high school pep rally: The football players are in their jerseys, the cheerleaders are yelling, and the students are getting ready for the school spirit contest. But first, a student is invited to the microphone to give an inspirational message.”Let us pray,” he says. Some of…
The Republican National Committee is not happy. It wanted a drawn-out primary contest, one that would give less-organized or less-funded candidates a shot to prove themselves.Instead, we’re stuck with a brutal runoff between Guy Smiley and “the walrus of American politics,” and yesterday, RNC members explained why: It’s all Florida’s fault.They carefully…
