Congressman Allen West’s campaign isn’t paying its taxes.The question, however, is if it owes any. A review of campaign finance disclosure documents shows West has spent well over $300,000 since the beginning of 2012 on consulting, staffers, and costs directly associated with his staff. But, while Democratic opponent Patrick Murphy,…
Everybody is getting their collective jimmies rustled over the allegations that Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll was caught having a lesbian liaison with aide Bibi Ramos and then fired Carletha Cole, the woman who discovered them. Everyone’s honed in on the lady-on-lady action, but there are way, way shadier things going…
How mad is Rep. Connie Mack at Barack Obama? So mad. And Big Socialist Barry is going to be on a tour of Florida in the next few days, so it looks like Mack decided to get all hopped up on scotch and 5-Hour Energy drinks and write a really…
Well, this is awkward. Gov. Rick Scott’s state is playing host to the Republican National Convention in Tampa next month, and nobody can say whether they’re going to let the guy speak at it.When RNC Chair Reince Priebus was asked about Scott and Sen. Marco Rubio’s roles in the convention,…
Delray Beach 20-year-old Vitaly Zdorovetskiy raised eyebrows last month when he traipsed around Miami pretending to be a face-eating zombie. He posted a second, less timely prank last week in which he, dressed in a suit, makes a Boca man think his briefcase is about to explode. The Boca man…
On Sunday, the Tampa Bay Times editorial board members explained to readers why they thought Republican Dave Weldon was a better choice than Rep. Connie Mack to face Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson in the fall. They were not kind:Rep. Connie Mack IV of Fort Myers has the famous name, the…
Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll has finally responded to accusations that she fired a staffer because the staffer discovered her in the midst of a gay tryst with an aide: “Usually black women that look like me don’t engage in relationships like that.”Oh dear.WTSP found Carroll over the weekend at the…
A jury has found 17-year-old Wayne Treacy guilty of attempted first-degree murder for using steel-toed boots to attack 15-year-old Josie Lou Ratley after she sent him a text making fun of his “dead brother.”Treacy had reportedly discovered the body of his older brother several months before the attack; he had…
Good news, Florida druggies! You’re no longer burdened by that whole “innocent until proven guilty” thing — the Florida Supreme Court last week upheld a 2002 law that forces some defendants caught with drugs to prove their innocence, rather than placing the onus on prosecutors to prove anything. Phew!Oh, wait…
Investigators say BSO Deputy Gerald Wengert beat up a 17-year-old and had a police dog chew on him because Wengert’s girlfriend told him to.The incident in question happened December 1, 2010: 17-year-old Mark Visconti was driving on Stirling Road in Cooper City after school when he and a passenger spotted…
Many blogs have already been written of Congressman Allen West’s Friday announcement that he’d raised well over $2 million between April and the end of June. What we didn’t know until Sunday afternoon, however, was how he spent it. Documents filed with the Federal Election Commission reveal West took in…
Prosecutors say Port St. Lucie 17-year-old Tyler Hadley killed his parents last July. They say he sneaked up on his mother while she was on the computer, then beat her head in with a hammer. When his dad came in to see what was going on, police say they locked…
Last night around 10:45, 30-year-old Karl Gross was sitting on a porch on Ocean Drive in Boynton Beach when someone shot him. He was taken to the hospital, as people with bullets in them so frequently are, and it was discovered he had an outstanding warrant for drug trafficking.”So,” writes…
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…
Congressman Allen West, along with anybody else up for election in November, is really ticked off about the U.S. Supreme Court’s upholding the terrible progressive Marxist Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.West, however, is the only one calling it the “Patient Protection Unaffordable Tax Act (PPUTA),” which is a lazy…
Democratic freshman Rep. Ted Deutsch will endorse Patrick Murphy, the District 18 challenger to Rep. Allen West, at an event tomorrow that a Murphy press release will feature “over 150 seniors from Century Village, Cypress Lakes, and Golden Lakes.”West tried to win over the Century Village crowd back in April…
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…
The Florida mortgage crisis has hit the Broward County Commission: Lighthouse Point Commissioner Chip LaMarca is facing foreclosure on his home after, records show, he stopped paying his second mortgage, per Gossip Extra.”I’ve been on the phone with the bank, and I’m hoping they’ll work with me,” LaMarca said. “People…
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 to…
Republican Senate candidate Connie Mack started the day yesterday with some ugly press: The National Journal was looking at the possibility that Republicans could take back the Senate in November, and they weren’t optimistic about the chances:The odds of Republicans taking back the upper chamber are no better than 50-50,…
The good news: The section of Broward Boulevard between SE Tenth and 12th avenues is getting a face-lift from the county. The bad news: That section of the street is going to be narrowed to one lane in either direction, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. every weekday, plus Saturdays. The…
The Miami Heat has reached a settlement to recoup part of what it says was a $3 million loss from its involvement in the $1.4 billion Scott Rothstein Ponzi scheme, according to documents filed last week. The RRA bankruptcy trust initially sued the Heat and its affiliate, Basketball Properties Ltd.,…
