In 2010, a Florida man named Craig Robert Wiggen started the website Florida.arrests.org — after he himself had done three years in prison for stealing credit card numbers in Tallahassee. He began collecting free mug shots of people who had been arrested. His intention was not to humiliate people, he…
A bunch of squirrels have been harassing families like a gang of fuzzy-tailed thugs in a state park in Tampa. Apparently, these little varmints are so aggressive, they jump onto baby strollers, run up to people, and generally act like little furry assholes, doing whatever they can to get food…
Marco Rubio, who has been so good at saying what he would do if he were President without giving much detail, says that Obama needs to stop being a scared little ninny, and act like a President during this terrible government shutdown that Rubio’s own party is responsible for. Rubio,…
A 2016 Florida Senate race between Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and former Rep. Allen West would be like the Super Bowl, Yankees vs. Red Sox, Godzilla vs. Mothra, Rocky vs. Clubber Lang, the Beatles vs. Rolling Stones, and Wrestlemania all rolled into one. Political junkies and douchey news bloggers collective…
A Boca teen and a couple of his friends drove around West Boca Raton in his parent’s Chrysler convertible, setting random cars on fire. According to this report, Nick DeSalvo and his friends also set fire to American flags. Police were able to nab DeSalvo thanks to surveillance footage of…
Two students at Mulberry High School were banned from participating in any activities for their homecoming week. The heinous crime the students perpetrated? They passed out condoms to their fellow students. The condom handout was part of a campaign Dalton Wiggs and Montana Fulkerson put together for homecoming court with…
Publicly funded FAU professor of communications James Tracy is little more than humanoid-shaped automaton programmed to peddle sophistry at times of national mourning and fitted with tousled brown hair. He has exactly one idea. Sometimes he changes proper nouns — for the purposes, likely, that a new a headline can…
Why anyone would want to be saddled with the leadership of the Palm Beach County Republican Party is a mystery. Reeling from their unexpected loss in the 2012 presidential contest (they really thought Thurston Howell III Willard was going to pull it out) and riven by Tea Party wilfullness, the…
You spoke, we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s post of the Broward-Palm Beach edition of Mug-Shot Friday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, and femmes fatale…
Kaitlyn Hunt has accepted the new plea deal offered to her by the prosecution on Tuesday. Hunt, 19, is facing two counts of lewd and lascivious battery and one count of transmission of material harmful to a minor. But prosecutors had offered a deal in which she would have to…
The Everglades restoration bill is being threatened to be Hiroshima’d by the government shutdown, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Florida politics as a whole has traditionally screwed the state’s environmental priorities to begin with, but now the the Water Resources Development Act is about to lose its…
A man thought he scored big when he met an attractive woman at a strip club who agreed to come home with him. Later that night, he was beaten, robbed, and tied up by the woman’s two male accomplices. Perhaps meeting a woman at a strip club was a bad…
Yesterday afternoon, Rep. Patrick Murphy gave us a shout to talk about the briefing he’s holding in Washington, D.C., today for members of Congress regarding the nasty pollution that’s flowing from Lake Okeechobee through two rivers and killing everything all the way to the east and west coasts of Florida…
A car explosion rocked a Plantation neighborhood Wednesday night. Police were called around 7 p.m. after residents of Townhouses of Jacaranda, located in the 8100 block of Cleary Boulevard, reported hearing a loud explosion and seeing a plume of smoke coming from a parked car in the area. According to…
A federal appeals court has sided with the Navy after environmental groups challenged its plan to hold undersea warfare training 50 nautical miles off the coast of northeast Florida. The training, the environmental groups contended, will be extremely harmful to whales in the area. Specifically, the area where the training…
Ours can be a callous and unforgiving state. When health-care reform was initially passed, there were two major things it was to accomplish. First, it meant the federal government would provide to low- and middle-income earners subsidies on a new health exchange — which would mimic the free market on…
The wall: a six-foot stack of blue bricks. The mission: go up and over it, the first hurdle in a 16-part obstacle course. Me: suddenly, surprisingly nervous. The vertical lift has resurrected some anxiety from seventh-grade gym, where the prospect of flinging my pear-shaped, hormone-chemistry set through a public display…
“They are stealing my, my boat in the back,” Yasmin Davis stuttered into the phone. Seconds earlier, the pretty Peruvian architect had been eating lunch in her $2 million Miami Shores mansion. As she tucked a slice of sushi into her mouth, she glanced out the huge glass windows and…
Folks in Lantana, Boynton Beach and Boca Raton began reporting a gas leak between Lantana Road and Boynton Beach Boulevard this afternoon. But, according to the Palm Beach County Fire Rescue, there is no reason for alarm. It’s not a gas leak, as many residents had feared. Only thing is,…
A Fort Myers man decided he’d teach his dope dealer a lesson when her mom yelled at him by turning her in to police. He had an ironclad plot against her too. Clear and irrefutable evidence that would surely put her behind bars in no time. The man’s evidence that…
Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Gerald Wengert, a cop who was a dog handler on the Learning Channel’s now-canceled Unleashed: K-9 Broward County, is being sued for beating up a Hollywood man and then inventing a reason to arrest the man to justify it. Just this past April, Wengert was acquitted of…
Hey, Fort Lauderdale, we’ve dethroned San Francisco as the city with the highest concentration of gay couples in the United States! ::SPRINKLES!:: Awwwww yeah. That’s right. This, according to recently revealed data from the U.S. Census (the website is down thanks to the government shutdown, so you’re just going to…
