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A woman is being sought by Palm Beach Police after selfies that she took with an iPad she allegedly stole appeared on the victim’s home computer. The victim had his iPad and iPod stolen out of his car when he was dropping off his kids at South County Regional Park…

Olivia Newton-John flew in a Catholic priest to conduct an exorcism at her Florida home after a man killed himself there last month. Her main reason: So that potential buyers of her $5.6 million home won’t use the ol’ “This place is haunted!” and try to stiff her on the…

Florida is currently experiencing an environmental hell. Our rivers and estuaries — basically, the coast’s nurseries for baby sea life — are being devastated. Blob-like, the deterioration of South Florida’s waterways creeps forth inexorably from the chemical dump formerly known as Lake Okeechobee. The water there has been polluted by…

On Friday at 4:55 p.m., Broward County sent out a press release lauding vice mayor Barbara Sharief for her role in saving county taxpayers $11.5 million. The state and county had been fighting about which of them would pay disputed costs for Medicaid. The state sent Broward a bill for…

A few weeks ago, we told you about how State Attorney General Pam Bondi had the execution of a convicted murderer postponed because it got in the way of her reelection kickoff party. Well, now Bondi has come out with a “mea culpa” (or a “my bad,” if you prefer)…

I’m writing this blog post in response to the overwhelming outcry in comments, podcasts, and cyberweirdness that I received regarding yesterday’s “PalmCon Probably the Most Depressing Comic Book Convention in History.” People like Jacob A. Hautner had this to say in an email: “the author and probably the editors should…

A woman who hosted a French foreign exchange student ten years ago was attacked and almost murdered by said student because, he says, she needed to be protected by the demons that were coming after her. The Frenchman, Pierre Franchi, 29, allegedly attacked 66-year-old Sue Ann Montfort and tried to…

So, a man in Deltona walked into the water office and handed the cashier an envelope, presumably to pay for his water bill on Monday. Turns out, instead of cash, the cashier found some cocaine inside the envelope. Also turns out, you can’t pay for your water bill with yeyo…

A couple of West Palm Beach city workers were injured when they accidentally set off an explosion after a transformer blew this morning. The two men were taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center under trauma alerts, according to fire rescue. The explosion happened on the 100 block of Clematis Street…

Hell in South Florida is a taupe, one-story house where rusted chains dangle from trees and the smell of feces and decay is so strong it lures rats at night. On even the brightest of days, sunlight doesn’t infiltrate its darkened chambers. And the baying of dogs — 34 pit…

“I don’t do spread-eagle shots for the camera, so I don’t think Hustler is going to work out,” Olivia Sprauer told the Huffington Post in mid-May. Looks like it will, actually. Olivia Sprauer — er, sorry, Victoria Valentine James — has announced she’s doing a Hustler porno shoot. (Today!)…

With his system overloaded with cocaine, amphetamines, morphine, and opiates, William De Jesus went on a bloody spree at a Deerfield Beach RV park in February 2012. He shot and killed a 76-year-old Canadian man, then locked himself inside a trailer with his family. By the time police broke through…

Tico Torres, longtime drummer for Bon Jovi and also a resident of Jupiter, has been having a rough few weeks in Mexico City, where the band was touring. Torres had his appendix removed on September 10, and on Friday it was determined he also needed emergency gall bladder surgery. The…

In the least shocking news in the history of everything, rich and entitled people have ruined something pretty important for others. Thanks to this report about rich moms who hired guides to pretend they were disabled so their spoiled children could skip lines at Disney World, the theme park is…

Back in 2011, a West Palm Beach woman found a helicopter had landed on the roof of her home. Actually, it crashed there after the pilot apparently tried to land the chopper on the street but then changed his mind when he saw power lines in the way. And since…

Apparently we’re that much closer to sharks just walking onto the beach and biting us now. A woman was bitten by a shark in just two feet of water in Ormond Beach over the weekend. She had to be hospitalized with a gash on her foot. According to reports, the…

PalmCon is one of the most depressing places I’ve ever been to in my life. It was basically like going to a mall in which every store sells the same couple of dust-covered items and every person looks like they work at Hot Topic. I had sort-of high hopes for…

The Broward Sheriff’s Office announced over the weekend that Deputy Daniel Rivera succumbed to the injuries he suffered when his squad car veered off I-95 and crashed into a tree last Wednesday morning. Rivera was pronounced dead at 10:20 p.m. Saturday at Broward Health North hospital, according to the BSO…

On Sunday, Lion Country Safari’s wildlife director, Terry Wolf, was checking up on a momma wildebeest who was giving birth when the 20-pound baby was finally pushed out — but then, as it struggled to stand, it fell into a canal. As the Palm Beach Post explains, Wolf intervened: “Like…