Almost two years after George Zimmerman shot and killed unarmed Trayvon Martin, and months after Zimmerman was acquitted for it, the new police Sanford chief is banning neighborhood watch volunteers from carrying guns. Chief Cecil Smith said the changes are coming due to a lack of accountability in the town’s…
Broward School Board member Katie Leach announced her resignation from District 3 via an email on Wednesday morning, reports the Miami Herald. In the email, Leach cited family reasons for her departure. She says her last day with the school board will be on December 21. She says that she…
It’s not even November yet, and a record number of manatees has died this year. The total of 769 is more than has perished in any year since record keeping began, according to the Save the Manatee Club. More than 100 of them were babies. Almost 300 of them died…
I’ll never forget Halloween when I was seven years old. After a night of picking up the goods going door-to-door in the neighborhood, I immediately dump my new stash out on the living room floor. A Baby Ruth first. I take those first delicious bites. Suddenly, a sharp pain blitzkriegs…
Your NBA Champion Miami Heat megastars kicked off the 2013-14 season by getting their rings, raising their third championship banner into the rafters, and then obliterating the Chicago Bulls 107-95. And while the season is just getting started and there’s plenty of basketball left to be played, Chris Bosh is…
A woman somehow got a hold of nude pictures of her roommate and, instead of just making fun of her and leaving it at that, she took it the extra step and told the woman to pay her $1,500 or she’d make the photos public. Just so happens that the…
Lionfish. Burmese pythons. Rock pythons. Giants snails. Tegu lizards. All weird animals in Florida that come from elsewhere are either freaky as hell or dangerous or both. And all are wreaking havoc on the environment. Well, now you can add a brand-new species: the crazy ant. Crazy ants are apparently…
A Florida man’s cell phone saved his life when it stopped a bullet shot at him during an armed robbery. According to a WESH report, an armed man shot a Winter Garden Hess gas station clerk during a robbery. It’s a good thing he chose to skip those Walmart prepaid…
Like we don’t have enough to worry about, now it’s forests. According to environmentalists touring the Southeast with the traveling teach-in “The Growing Threat,” the creation of enormous plantations of genetically engineered trees — by corporate interests allied with Big Energy — poses ecological risks and endangers human safety and…
Broward County has been the home to many a star and celebrity. But did you also know that many of those stars and celebrities are now dead? It’s true! So how about we have ourselves a seance right here on The Pulp and conjure up the spirits of the seven…
When the Miami Heat opens its season at home tonight at 8 versus the Chicago Bulls, most people will logically be watching the basket. But the real game will be taking place at knee level. Rose tore his anterior cruciate ligament 18 months ago. It was repaired by Brian Cole,…
Fresh off ditching his own immigration reform bill, Marco Rubio — along with Rep. Trey Radel — have introduced a bill that would delay the individual mandate under Obamacare until the Obamacare website is fixed. Rubio promised he would do this last week, and now here we are. HE’S A…
On Thursday evening, the body of Port Saint Lucie resident Alisa Susan Kerman, 52, was found in her home. She had been bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer. The two people who lived with Kerman, David Weingard, 27, and Georgia Scordamaglia, 31, had gone missing, along with some firearms Kerman…
Oh, that Rick Scott. Champion of the GOPers and conservative government ideals. He’s all about small government, you see. Cutting back on frivolous spending and slashing government so that corporations can get tax breaks and the middle class gets screwed more jobs can be magically created. Scott is all about…
Well now, here’s a feather in your cap, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. According to the Transportation Security Administration, you have intercepted more guns than any other Florida airport this year. It’s the second consecutive year the airport has that distinction, sort of making it the Miami Heat of airports that…
What if Fort Lauderdale Police mapped the city’s gun owners and increased patrols only in those neighborhoods where guns were concentrated? And if those neighborhoods were mostly black? Or Hispanic? Or white? How about if cops, taking advantage of a smart partnership with big data experts IBM, targeted crime-heavy neighborhoods…
Let’s just get this out of the way first. OK, that’s better. Now, last week, a familiar face on the Boca Raton party scene was taken into police custody after allegations of sexual assault arose. When we say party scene, we’re not talking about nightclubs. Jesse Coursey is a dance…
After the Miami Dolphins choked away their game against the New England Patriots on Sunday, center Mike Pouncey, 24, was served with grand jury papers outside the locker room by Massachusetts police. According to Sports Illustrated, the subpoena is related to the investigation into Aaron Hernandez, who was a former…
Anthony “Little Tony” Ferrari, who had been accused of having Miami Subs founder Konstantinos “Gus” Boulis rubbed out in a Mob-style hit, has been found guilty of murder and murder conspiracy. The jury handed down its verdict after seven hours of deliberation. Ferrari and Anthony “Big Tony” Moscatiello were accused…
A Marion County man was awakened by the sounds of thumping and banging at 4 in the morning outside his back porch on Tuesday. So he grabbed his .357-caliber Magnum to confront the intruder and protect his home. He shouted to the would-be burglar that he was armed and unafraid…
Henry “Bud” Read III, an 84-year-old Fort Lauderdale community leader, is facing child molestation accusations, police say. Read was arrested after the two young girls he allegedly fondled last November came forward. The victims say this wasn’t the only time Read did this…
Although Mike Miller is no longer with the Miami Heat (he was amnestied over the summer and is now with the Memphis Grizzlies), he’ll always have a special place in Heat lore. Who can forget his Game 5 NBA Finals performance against the Thunder, when he put down seven three-pointers?…
