See also: Sally Ride Revealed to Be Gay: Her Sister, on Ride’s Life, Death, and Desires for Privacy.Well, internet, it looks like if you want to more accurately label late astronaut Sally Ride’s homosexual relationship, you’re going to have to look to people other than Sally’s sister, Bear Ride.Much has…
Our Miami compatriots told you yesterday about Robert Brown, the Tampa children’s entertainer arrested this week on charges he was planning on kidnapping a child to rape, murder, and eat him — quite literally the stuff of nightmares.He claims it was all just fantasy — which, though it’s unseemly, would…
Some people took issue with the way the Tampa Bay Times analyzed the application of “Stand Your Ground” cases in Florida last month. They’ve come out with another case study, however, and this one’s way less ambiguous: They looked at more than 100 cases in which people got out of…
Court documents reveal that Howard Saltz, editor of the Sun-Sentinel, bailed on more than $3 million in debts just months after arriving in South Florida last year. There is also evidence of numerous foreclosures, repossessions, and short sales on properties Saltz invested in over the course of about ten years,…
Update, 1 p.m.: Added just-released information about the victims and suspects.A man is in critical condition after being shot in his Boynton Beach motel room, police report, and the two suspects wanted in the robbery escaped before police could arrive.Police say 45-year-old Neil Rogers is the owner of Florida Sewer…
We told you a few weeks ago about South Florida activist Robert Platshorn, who is raising money to put out hundreds of informercials informing senior citizens about how weed is, like, so good for you. He says the senior demographic is key to the legalization movement, and his Kickstarter is…
Dania Beach 68-year-old Randy Jerome Pozdol was found guilty of drugging his girlfriend’s two young children and filming himself having sex with them. He was in court yesterday for sentencing and presented a series of defenses that, believe it or not, actually made him seem even worse. The Miami Herald…
UPDATE 2, 7/25: Also see our latest post, Sally Ride’s Sister, on the Wikipedia Debate Over Homosexuality: “Sally Hated Labels of Every Kind.”UPDATE, 8 p.m.: The post has been updated to include comment from Bear Ride, Sally Ride’s sister. See also: Sally Ride Dead at 61.Sally Ride, the first U.S. woman…
Former astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died of cancer today at the age of 61, according to her organization’s website, which has since crashed.Born in Los Angeles, Ride earned multiple degrees in physics and English from Stanford in the late ’70s, which is also when she…
See also: Jennifer Carroll Lesbian Fling Case: Five of the Weirdest Unanswered Questions.Carletha Cole has not been shy about her accusations against Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll regarding Carroll’s alleged lesbian rendezvous with aide Bibi Ramos — but now prosecutors are saying she’s gotta shut up.”Attorneys for the defendant have spoken…
See also: Chris and Jeff George’s Pill Mill Operation: Your Pulp Reader.Two doctors who prescribed pills at the South Florida pain clinics of Chris and Jeff George have been charged with dealing the drugs that played a role in the deaths of nine patients. They were originally indicted (with 30…
You may have already seen the signs, towed behind planes in Palm Beach County: “Beware thug prosecutors,” “Dump McAuliffe for prosecutor, vote for Elmer Fudd,” “Smile if You Think Mikey McAuliffe Is a Putz.” The Palm Beach Post got to the story of those planes — and the millionaire funding…
Though former Fort Lauderdale legislator Mandy Dawson said in April that “no different than any other person walking the streets of America” with tax problems, she’s certainly different from people walking the streets now: She’ll be locked up.Dawson was sentenced to six months in prison today after pleading guilty in April…
If you somehow haven’t heard, 12 people were killed last night at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, just outside of Denver. Forty other people are estimated to have been wounded, and nobody knows why. Much will be written about the victims, though probably less…
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: George Zimmerman: It Was “God’s Plan” for Me to Kill Trayvon Martin.George Zimmerman was going to do a second interview. He was going to have a sit-down with Barbara Walters, according to the New York Post, but she, after flying to Florida to meet with him, left him behind…
Another chapter has been written in Rep. Connie Mack’s devolution from a lackluster congressman into a sneering, whining toadstool of a Senate candidate, and it’s a stupid one. It started, more or less, back in April, when Mack’s father, former Sen. Connie Mack III, wrote a letter to the Tampa…
Do you recognize this woman? Have you worked with her? Has one of her large, bulgy eyeballs brushed against you at a bus stop? The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office is looking for her, because they say a car was burglarized and she committed check fraud using the person’s identity…
See also: Barbara Walters Ditches George Zimmerman Interview; “Appalled” By Demand.Hey, guys! Did you know George Zimmerman was on Fox News last night? Yeah, it was in like, a living room or something, and Sean Hannity, who couldn’t be bothered to put a tie on because it’s only national television,…
In 2010, the formula for OxyContin, a slow-release form of the powerfully addictive painkiller oxycodone, was changed to make it harder to abuse. It became almost impossible to grind up and dissolve effectively, making it mostly useless to addicts who would snort, smoke, or inject the drug to get an…
West Palm Beach activist (and convicted drug-runner) Robert Platshorn wants to get marijuana legalized, and he says the key to doing it is simple: old people. He’s been traveling extensively and giving talks to senior citizens as part of his “Silver Tour,” which he launched in 2010 to reach out…
Conservatives of South Florida — do not go see The Dark Knight Rises. It is a piece of liberal progressive Marxist propaganda, and it is all an elaborate scheme by Barack Obama to make you hate Mitt Romney.So declareth West Palm’s favorite genius, Rush Limbaugh, who first called the film…
