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Usually, we go easy on columnist Frank Cerabino. The Palm Beach Post soothsayer, who looks like he should be ensconced in a cubicle somewhere selling insurance, seems like a nice guy. And, make no mistake, it’s harder than it looks to write five 700-word columns per week — and be…

Hey. Whaddaya know. George Zimmerman gets to go free. Again. Despite apparently pulling a gun on his wife, Shellie, and allegedly threatening her and punching her father, charges won’t be pressed against George Zimmerman. According to Lake Mary Police Chief Steve Bracknell, Shellie and her father told authorities they would…

In March, Jennifer Carroll resigned as Rick Scott’s lieutenant governor after becoming, as the New York Times put it, “an embarrassment to the man who chose her for the job” during a tenure “marred by scandal and poor judgment.” Farther north, Scott Brown, a rare Republican in liberal Massachusetts, relinquished…

Update: Audio of Shellie Zimmerman’s 911 call has been released. You can listen to it here. “He’s in his car and he continually has his hand on his gun and keeps saying step closer,” Shellie says. “He’s just threatening all of us.” Shellie also adds that Zimmerman puncher her father…

A stray kitten that was found near Lake Park in the 9000 block of Old Dixie Highway has died of rabies, and the person who rescued it is being treated. According to the state health department in Palm Beach County, the Florida State Laboratory found that the kitten, who was…

There are slightly fewer hookers walking around central Broward today, thanks to a sting operation by the Broward Sheriff’s Office that netted a dozen suspects. The sting was actually done with the cooperation of Broward residents, who helped cops nab the alleged streetwalkers and their alleged pimps. Cooperation!…

Update: The lanes at Dixie Highway and Glades Road in Boca Raton have re-opened to commuter traffic. A person apparently ended his life Monday morning when he jumped in front of a train in Boca Raton. The incident happened at the intersection of Dixie Highway and Glades Road, shutting down…

Rapper Gucci Mane, one of the most prolific and controversial rappers to come out of the South in the last decade, has taken legal shrapnel again. In the last few weeks, he’s been arrested and accused of striking a fan with a champagne bottle, sued for overbooking shows, beefed on…

Back in May, basketball Hall of Famer and sometime South Florida resident Deniis Rodman asked his “friend for life” Kim Jong-un to release Korean-American Kenneth Bae, who has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. North Korea caught Bae in the country in 2012 with a hard drive containing…

Looks like George Zimmerman’s lawyer has parlayed his success in getting his client set free for killing an un-armed teen into a sweet TV gig. Mark O’Mara, the Orlando-based criminal defense attorney who helped win Zimmerman’s acquittal for shooting Trayvon Martin, is officially the new legal analyst for CNN. On…

Apparently a couple named Harry & Potter were busted for having sex in an abandoned hotel in Ft. Lauderdale. Sometimes the Floriderp Files find something so Floriderpy, we think it’s made up. But, nope. It’s true!…

Born in Damascus, Dr. Hadi Yaziji has been a Miami resident and a U.S. citizen for some years now. He is a pathologist by training and, as conflict has consumed the land of his birth, he has turned his analytical skills from medical problems to the disease of war. Dr…

One state senator would like to get spray paint cans out of the hands of kids. Particularly, he says, by imposing a $500 fine for businesses caught selling anyone under the age of 18 a spray paint can. State Sen. Darren Soto, D-Orlando, filed a bill that says that the…

The police t-shirt police were out in full force at the Universal Studios theme park in Orlando when they basically ruined a girl’s sweet-sixteen when they kicked her and her family out of the park. The girl’s father, it turns out, was wearing a t-shirt that said “Police” on it…