Florida Falls From Daily Show‘s Top Spot After South Carolina Guy Shtups a Horse

The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10cThank You, South Carolina!www.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorSpinal Tap PerformanceApparently, Florida has disappointed the staff of Comedy Central’s Daily Show with its failure to more consistently deliver bizarre and deeply disquieting news stories. On Monday’s show, Jon Stewart cited the…

A Caper That’s Genius for Its Simplicity

Jewel thieves tend to over-think the heist, often with disastrous results — as you might remember from Before the Devil Knows Your Dead. A thief who hit Galleria Mall yesterday did not make this mistake. He simply walked into Zales and… let’s let the Fort Lauderdale Police Department take it…

A Department Or a Demolition Derby?

Just as cats get nine lives, Hollywood Police officers get 9 wrecks. Or at least that appears the case with Officer Joel Francisco, who averaged almost one per year over an 11-year career, according to a review of his personnel file by the Sun-Sentinel.Francisco and his cohorts are going to…

Video Ambush in Deerfield Beach: Did Mayor’s Husband Fake Injury?

That’s video of Lt. Howard Noland, the firefighter husband of Deerfield Beach Mayor Peggy Noland. It’s the bomb that Acts of Sedition blogger Chaz Stevens dropped at tonight’s commission meeting to a stunned audience.Noland, says Stevens, claimed to have been injured in 2001, after which he collected 860 hours of…

On TV News, How Gay Is OK?

Former WPLG-10 anchor Charles Perez says he was demoted for being too gay. Here’s a promo of a television show he did before he came to work in South Florida. Too gay?Mighty gay, but in Perez’s defense, it’s not quite Wham! video gay. To be fair to the station, Perez…

South Florida to Feast on Canadian Bacon

In a real estate industry that’s grown fierce since the bubble burst, it’s time to band together and focus on a goal we can all profit from: Fooling Canadian homebuyers.That starts with fooling the Canadian media, and we’re looking good so far, if this recent report in The Gazette of…

Hollywood Man Charged With Murder After Shaking Girlfriend’s Baby

Cecil Weekes was scheduled to take a polygraph examination today in connection with the mysterious death of his girlfriend’s baby. Instead, he’s in a Broward County Jail because he allegedly confessed yesterday to shaking the child on June 12, the night she was found not breathing. Eleven-month-old Angeliah Duncan died…

Godly Truck Used for Evil Errand

It’s one thing to boost a truck from a church. It’s another thing altogether to then use the church’s truck to steal from landscapers. But the Palm Beach’s Sheriff’s Office is reporting that the two incidents over the past three days in Jupiter are related.The truck disappeared from Calvary Chapel…

Fort Lauderdale Gets “Bump” in Gay Tourism

Bump! is the name of a television series on Logo — MTV’s gay channel. It scopes out tourist destinations for gay travelers, and this past week, it tackled Fort Lauderdale.That link lets you watch the whole episode. The camera crew makes stops in the gay-themed resorts like the Royal Palms,…

Broward Deputy Charged With Sex Crimes

A grueling summer for the Broward Sheriff”s Office just got worse. The agency arrested one of its own this morning on charges he sexually exploited illegal immigrants. Here’s the agency’s news release:A Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy who disgraced his badge by preying on illegal residents was arrested Monday morning on…

Dead End in Effort to Rename Street for Pastor

New Mount Olive’s the Rev. Mack King Carter will retire a rich man, but he will not be immortalized on a Fort Lauderdale street sign. This summer, admirers of Carter had filed requests for NW Ninth Avenue, from Sunrise to Broward Boulevard, to be renamed in the pastor’s honor.Fort Lauderdale…

Ritter Wants Answers About BSO’s New Toys

It wasn’t quite the finger-wagging sitcom scene I predicted in Friday’s post, but we were right in guessing that Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter is disappointed in Sheriff Al Lamberti’s choosing the flamboyant Dodge Challenger to round out his agency’s fleet of cars.Here’s the note Ritter sent Juice: While I am…

Family Claims Body of 1983 Murder Victim

In 1983, a female body was found in a vacant field in Pompano Beach. But no family had reported the woman missing. It wasn’t till 2008 that the fingerprints were matched to those of a young woman who had multiple arrests in Broward County: Tina Moore. Or at least that…

Boca Dateline Spoils Reality Show Suspense

That’s the trailer for Megan Wants a Millionaire, VH1’s most recent attempt to exploit the world’s most loathsome people. As you can see, the conceit for this show is to finally score a sugar daddy for Megan Hauserman, who’s famous for… being dumped? On TV? Yes, and there’s loads of…