Gurudeo “Buddy” Persaud is accused of organizing an investment scheme with a fraud that was… cosmic.The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday charged Persaud with stealing more than $1 million from investors between 2007 and the beginning of 2010: He promised them returns of 6 to 18 percent but left…
Martin County Sheriff Robert Crowder is running for Congress. His opponent loves using words like communist, vile, and despicable to describe colleagues he disagrees with.Now Crowder is surprised Rep. Allen West, a fellow Republican, is being mean to him too…
Mitt Romney wants people to think everything stinks and the world is falling apart. But Gov. Rick Scott, with all his talk about Florida improving, is getting in the way.According to a story from Bloomberg today, “Scott, a Republican, was asked to say that the state’s jobless rate could improve…
Documents released this morning show that George Zimmerman admitting that he did not call 911 when he saw Trayvon Martin “casually walking in the rain looking into houses” — he called the Sanford Police non-emergency line — and then says Martin cursed and threatened his life numerous times.Zimmerman also admits…
Fort Lauderdale 18-year-old Victor “Duffleman” Finn is having a bad couple of weeks. Between June 11 and 19, he was accused of making bomb threats, mugging a woman, and throwing asphalt through a rehab center’s window. Now, he’s in jail.On June 11, he allegedly called a rehab center where his…
A group says it filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service yesterday over the recent actions of Terry Jones’ Dove World Outreach Center, which hanged an effigy of Obama outside of its church earlier this month. The D.C.-based group, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, says the…
Despite widespread debate over both the state’s voter purge and its “Stand Your Ground” law, a Q poll released this morning shows both are overwhelmingly supported by the state’s wide Republican base.Of Republicans polled, 90 percent they said they approved the voter purges, despite claims from the U.S. Department of…
Update, 12:35 p.m.: Added comment from FAU President Mary Jane Saunders.Yesterday, the Institute for a Competitive Workforce gave Florida’s four-year colleges an ‘A’ grade on an extensive rubric that includes efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and student access.Also yesterday: The trustees of Florida Atlantic University approved a 15-percent tuition hike, which would ratchet…
Sometimes there are slow news days. Washington Examiner commentary writer Joe Gehrke must have had the slowest of his life yesterday.He was criticizing a blog post by smirking HBO commentator Bill Maher, a nice, soft target for a conservative gentleman. Maher’s post was a meandering meditation on everything from Congress not…
UPDATE: George LeMieux announced this morning that he’s dropping out of the race.A Las Vegas billionaire who has said he could dump as much as $100 million into the 2012 elections has donated $1 million of that chump change to a super PAC backing Republican Rep. Connie Mack in his…
Nicole Okrzesik, the 23-year-old accused of strangling Juliana Mensch with her boyfriend in March, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder on Monday and has had her trial tentatively set for August 6. She could face the death penalty.Though we reported that the original trial, with co-defendant James Ayers, was set…
Congressman Allen West is all about “equality of opportunity.” He blabbered about it, to thunderous applause, back in January. After yelling about beaches and Georgia and how great it is that he has a job, here’s what he said about giving everybody a shot:No matter where you are born, no…
UPDATE, 1:25 p.m.: Sabin was found dead today in a lake behind his apartment complex.Original post, 9 a.m.:Samuel Sabin is 9 years old, about 4’7 and 90 pounds. Police say he went missing yesterday, and are asking for help finding the Oakland Park boy.He was last seen yesterday evening playing…
Last week, we told you about how Miami Herald reporter Marc Caputo called out TV reporter Mike Deeson for “sloppy, trashy Tampa TV reporting.” He said Deeson was misrepresenting accusations that former Gov. Charlie Crist paid to cover up gay affairs, making it sound like the charges were coming from the…
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick is a felon. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges related to his sponsorship of a large dog-fighting ring — he admitted in 2007 to setting up the ring, stocking the kennel with trained pit bulls, traveling to other states for dog fights, and “destroying or…
Around 8 p.m. on May 30, someone attacked a man on the 2500 block of Northwest 8th Street in Franklin Park, according to police. The robber put the man in a chokehold and held what the victim believes was a boxcutter to his throat. The robber demanded money then ran away…
The Miami Herald had a story over the weekend outlining some of the contents of Sen. Marco Rubio’s autobiography, An American Son, due to come out tomorrow. It included a tidbit about Rubio’s drinking habits:Where President Obama, for instance, admitted drug use in his first autobiography, Rubio is silent about…
South Florida let out a collective “buhhhhh” when we found out “Octomom” Nadya Suleman was scheduled for a five-night stripping engagement at T’s Lounge in West Palm Beach. Well, Suleman heard that buhhhhh, along with a few mildly insulting statements made by random T’s Lounge employees on local TV, and she…
When Broward Sheriff’s Deputy David Wimberley arrested 44-year-old Troy Baldeo in a Tamarac 7-Eleven in 2010, he filed reports that said Baldeo was yelling with clenched fists and should be charged with trespassing, resisting arrest, and assault on an officer.Once prosecutors saw the convenience store video, however, different charges were…
A million-dollar scheme in Palm Beach involving bogus government toilet-paper regulation is slowly… unraveling.Three men pleaded guilty earlier this month to conspiracy charged linked to their involvement with FBK Products LLC, which sold a septic tank treatment they claimed helped break down “second generation” toilet paper that was being mandated…
Today, the Obama administration announced the issue of an executive order that says illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children will no longer be deported. It has plenty of caveats — they must have no criminal record, for example, and earn a high school diploma, among other…
Update: No idea why the segment didn’t run. My apologies to everyone hoping to see footage of a flaming lady on national television.South Florida is really giving Nancy Grace a lot of material: There was obviously that whole “Tot Mom” thing, and a few weeks ago, she covered the Fort…
