Analiz Osceola pleaded not guilty to aggravated manslaughter charges in Broward Circuit court on Wednesday morning. Osceola was charged after her 3-year-old stepson Ahziya was found dead wrapped in garbage bags and stuffed in a box inside her home in March. Additionally, Osceola’s request to have her bond reduced from $230,000 to…
Broward County has gone ahead and pushed through regulations for ridesharing app-based companies such as Uber and Lyft. Even as Uber threatened that they simply could not do business in the county under the regulations, the commissioners voted for new regulations to be imposed, including more thorough background checks for…
In an action called, “Expose the Slaveholders,” activist group the Dream Defenders is in Boca Raton today to protest GEO Group, the Boca-based private prison corporation, which is having its annual shareholders meeting this week. For the past few years, protesters have demonstrated in Boca for GEO Group’s shareholders meeting,…
Gov. Rick Scott has is suing Barack Obama, alleging the federal government was trying to make Florida expand Medicaid, which is something Scott had once said he wanted. Specifically, Scott is claiming that the federal government ended the Low Income Pool (LIP) healthcare program in an attempt to coerce the…
The Florida House of Representatives cut short their legislative session by three days on Tuesday, meaning that any hope of getting any kind of medical marijuana initiative passed will have to wait until 2016. A couple of medical marijuana bills had been introduced into the current session, including HB 683,…
On Tuesday, our sister paper Miami New Times published an article by Luther Campbell (aka Uncle Luke) with the headline “Pat Riley Needs to Reevaluate Whether Erick Spoelstra Is Right For the Heat.” Allow us to retort. Erik Spoelstra is fine and Pat Riley doesn’t need to do anything with…
On Monday we told you about how the Town of Palm Beach’s sand re-nourishment project has killed endangered sea turtles in Midtown Beach. But now it seems that the project may have been fouled up further. According to the Palm Beach Post, town officials are saying that the sand brought…
Palm Beach County has its fair share of deep-pocketed party animals. But none of the usual trust-fund wild men has the same tabloid pedigree as Paul David Pope. Son of the founder of the National Enquirer, Pope is best-known today for his frequent legal battles with his mother over what…
When Republican state representative Bill Hager walks around his district in Delray Beach, he says it’s not a rare occurrence to see fights, drug transactions, and even mattresses getting thrown out of windows. And he blames sober houses for blighting the quality of life in the trendy beachside city. “The…
Claire was a tall, athletic 26-year-old from the Midwest who boasted a 3.97 GPA, often appeared on the dean’s list, and had earned her master’s degree in philosophy. She had been accepted by three doctoral programs in philosophy but chose the University of Miami. Claire was a perfectionist. On top…
Back in April of 2010, Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office Deputy Ramesh Nandlal fatally shot 44-year-old Richard Montero after the officer and his partner got into a scuffle with an inebriated Montero. Montero was unarmed when he was shot. A little over a year later, Deputy Nandial and his partner, Victor Blackman,…
Dr. Krishan Tripuraneni, a Wellington-based gastroenterologist who plead guilty to tax evasion in January, has been sentenced to two years in federal prison, plus one year of supervised release. Tripuraneni, who hid $18 million from the IRS, filed more than $6 million in fraudulent tax returns. Tripuraneni, 57, ran the thriving Palm Beach Gastroenterology…
Local activists last week protested Boca Raton-based GEO Group for abuses in the highly profitable private prisons it runs. Meanwhile, the company is under scrutiny by the Department of Justice for wasting at least $3 million while operating a troubled rural Texas prison that has seen riots and death in…
The Senate is set to vote Tuesday on two bills — SB1582 and SB1486 — that opponents are calling “The Fracking Secret Chemicals bill[s].” During the process of fracking, oil and gas exploration companies inject chemicals into the ground in pursuit of natural gas reserves. These chemicals could potentially end up…
The mangled flipper resembled a piece of rotting chicken, the shredded meat looking like it had been caught in the blades of a lawn mower. The flipper belonged to a loggerhead turtle, one of several endangered sea turtle species that nest in the sands of South Florida. But this mauling…
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will be deciding if they’ll be issuing Black Bear hunting licenses in Florida. The Black Bear, which is native to Florida, had at one time been an endangered species. But that was a mere three years ago, and the animal continues ti face…
In an effort to raise public awareness about exploitation of marine mammals, the Animal Activists Network (AAN) has held several peaceful protests this year in front of the Miami Seaquarium. This weekend, they’re trying a new venue: the home of a park executive. On weekends the animal rights activists regularly…
Florida is still living in the dark ages when it comes to marijuana – and the possibility of a medical marijuana bill seems to have been killed because lawmakers just can’t figure out how to write one, despite nearly half the country already implementing some sort of medical marijuana legislation…
A criminal complaint filed by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida reveals how flakka is brought into the U.S. and distributed by a dealer. On Thursday, authorities announced the arrest of a 22-year-old Palm Beach woman named Jaime Lewis for importing flakka from China, where authorities say…
A police dashcam video captured a 2013 incident where a Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office deputy shooting down an unarmed black man. The video, obtained by WPTV, shows then-20-year old Dontrell Stephens riding on his bike as the officer is following him. When Stephens realizes he’s being followed, he jumps off…
A massive fire engulfed an 80-foot yacht docked behind the Bahia Mar resort on Fort Lauderdale beach Wednesday night. Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue says they received a 911 call from Marina staff at around 10:30 p.m. at the marina located at 801 Seabreeze Boulevard. They say no one was aboard the…
The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida has announced that they have arrested a 22-year-old Palm Beach woman with importing and possessing with attempt to distribute flakka. DEA Agents stationed in London received information from British authorities over several packages that had been intercepted from a chemical…
