The Tallahassee Police Department screwed up the Jameis Winston rape case. This, according to Winston’s accuser, who is now asking Gov. Rick Scott’s office to open an internal investigation of the Tallahassee PD. According to a report from TMZ, the accuser’s attorney, Patricia Carroll, says she’s sent letters to Scott’s…
Tea Party groups in Palm Beach County are getting hyped on the national movement’s latest hobby horse, a convention of states to rewrite the U.S. Constitution. The scheme is deeply, consciously antidemocratic, giving Wyoming, for example, with fewer than 700,000 residents, as much say in the process as California, with…
You’re screwed. Yup, no question. It might not be your fault. It’s been a busy couple of weeks, what with work, family, friends. But here it is the weekend before Christmas, and you haven’t bought any gifts yet. Santa’s sleigh is empty. The malls this weekend are going to be…
Yesterday afternoon, I heard a story about a group of students at Eastside Catholic School in Sammamish, Washington. They staged a sit-in to protest the forced resignation of their gay vice principal. This was due to his recent marriage to another man. Because the high school is a private Catholic…
Hollywood Beach is the best place on Earth. It’s not even close. When you’re walking around Hollywood Beach, you’re walking on sunshine. Sure, there are other places in Broward and all parts in between. By why the hell even bother? If hitting up the beach to lie out, take in…
Legal blogs are abuzz with chatter saying that Gisele Pollack, a Broward County judge, came to work drunk Tuesday, causing such a scene that Chief Judge Peter Weinstein had to be called out of a meeting to deal with the matter. Pollack is said to have come into work Tuesday…
On Wednesday, we told you about how Olivia Sprauer (AKA Victoria James), the Martin County High English teacher that was fired for moonlighting as an “eyecandy model,” had landed on the cover of Hustler magazine. Sprauer is slated to be on the March 2014 cover, and have her own 14-page…
Al Goldstein, onetime Pompano Beach resident and publisher of Screw magazine, died Thursday at a nursing home in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. He was 77. Goldstein was a pioneer of smut mags when he introduced Screw in 1968 to a world in which porno magazines had to be sold under the…
And now, for a special Floriderp: Holiday Edition story. Three Grinches almost ruined Christmas for one family when they robbed gifts from under their tree. Of course, they could have gotten away with it if they had just heeded simple traffic rules. Like, obeying a stop sign or two or…
The Satanic Temple of Florida is inexplicably getting the shaft from the state’s Department of Management Services, keeping the group from putting up its holiday display in the Florida Capitol rotunda. The DMS claims to be open to any group or person who sends in an application and follows its…
One of the more rabid of our local right-wing outfits proved itself mentally defective last weekend, posting a bizarro-world image with an anti-immigrant theme on its Facebook page. See also: – Everett Wilkinson: Tea Party Extremist, Media Darling Neither the image nor the sentiments were atypical of the group, the…
What is wrong with people? Some mysterious sadist in the Keys is going around slashing the mouths of poor pelicans, and earlier this month, someone shot an 18-month-old female endangered Florida panther in the Big Cypress National Preserve. Yesterday, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced a $12,000 reward…
The poker player’s white Nikes had just hit the concrete outside New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport the night before Thanksgiving. The sky was bruising over with twilight. Terminal 5 was a hectic holiday beehive of passengers hustling for last-minute JetBlue hops. And there was Eric Riley, Jamaican-born, 32 years…
Outside a $600,000 Coconut Grove condo, the pool glittered blue in the afternoon sunlight and tennis balls popped off a green asphalt court. Inside, a tornado hit. Sharon Cohen watched her heavily tattooed Spanish husband, Alvaro, slam his head over and over against a TV set. She’d recently filed for…
Classic rock artists and country music acts have been bailing on SeaWorld’s Bands, Brew & Barbecue music fest left and right ever since several Change.org petitions were launched in response to the documentary, Blackfish. And now, the park has finally issued a statement about the petitions and cancellations, calling the…
Rick Scott’s pollster, Tony Fabrizio, has some bad news for Rick Scott. According to the poll, either Charlie Crist or Bill Nelson would beat Scott in a mano-to-mano general election hoedown. The poll also shows that ex-GOPer/ex-Independent/Brand New Democrat Crist is suddenly a lot more governory than long-time Democrat Nelson…
The Florida Department of Education released its annual public high school grades for the state on Wednesday, and it was mostly good news for Broward and Palm Beach schools. Most schools in Broward received an A or B grade, while the three that didn’t didn’t get anything lower than a…
In pretty much the worst headline you’ll read all day: a man punched a puppy. He also threw it against the wall. And, according to an examination on the animal, it would appear that this wasn’t the first time this happened. Juan Camilo Florez, 26, of Coral Springs, was apparently…
Retired Miami Dolphins star Ricky Williams is alleging in court that his former financial adviser ripped him off to the tune of $6 million. According to a lawsuit filed in Houston, Williams trusted Fort Lauderdale-based Peggy Fulford with almost all of the money he made since 2007 — more than…
Yesterday, the interwebs went all haywire once again thanks to some George Zimmerman-related news. This time, however, it didn’t involve domestic violence. Turns out, this racist asshole wannabe tough guy person has found a way to deal with being the least liked person in the Republic: making terrible art. “Shitty…
Olivia Sprauer (AKA Victoria James), the 26-year-old English teacher at Martin County High School who was fired by the school for moonlighting as an “eyecandy model,” has landed on the cover of Hustler magazine, the publication has announced. Sprauer had said she wasn’t going to do porn, but obviously things…
A Deerfield Wal-Mart employee did the most Wal-Mart employee thing ever when a co-worker was chosen as Employee of the Month over him. He shot up his co-worker’s car. The two worked at the Deerfield Beach Wal-Mart store on South Military Trail, and when the Employee of the Month was…
