A Pembroke Pines man with multiple aliases was arrested for allegedly punching two Cuban men, kicking their dog, and yelling obscenities about their nationality, police say. Alexander Gomez-Jimenez, 30, who reports say has a long rap sheet that goes back as far as 1999, allegedly approached the two men on…
Alejandro SantiagoSouth Beach wasn’t always a stomping grounds for deep-pocketed rappers and popped-collared yuppies. And things were far from family-friendly. Gays built the Beach, and female impersonators were as ubiquitous during the ’90s as palm trees. South Beach Wanda — born Anthony Lee — made her name as one of…
Christopher Holmes, an American Airlines captain from Wilton Manors, has been arrested on a Texas complaint accusing him of transporting child pornography. According to a federal criminal complaint, Holmes allegedly used online chat services and email to exchange pornographic images of children bound and gagged. Some of the children in…
Maybe we should all just stay home from now on. On the heels of Hollywood Beach losing roughly 800 parking spots to make way for Margaritaville comes the news that parking at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea is about to get jacked up thanks to massive construction on Commercial Boulevard. So if you want…
A Palm Beach County family went public yesterday with ugly allegations of sexual abuse at West Palm Hospital. According to a lawsuit recently filed in circuit court, a troubled 9-year-old boy voluntarily submitted to the facility for psychological observation was abused by a hospital staffer known as “Mr. Dan.” If…
We’ve all got our kinks, but some are more difficult than others to satisfy. Every porn or sex shop sells vibrators and lube. It may even hawk strange and edible undergarments. But what it doesn’t have? Horrendously smelly socks…
State Sen. Chris Smith (D-Fort Lauderdale) announced Monday that he was introducing legislation that would close a loophole in Florida’s Stand Your Ground law. It would prevent people from using it as a defense if they left a place of safety or chased someone, and it would also create “reasonable…
Weston’s Cypress Bay High football coach, Mark Guandolo, has been suspended for two weeks for slapping quarterback Lucas Tellefsen on the helmet during a game Sunday. According to a Broward schools statement, Guandolo has been suspended from work for three days and two weeks from athletic activities. ESPN cameras picked…
Fort Lauderdale Police, with help from the Broward County Animal Care and Adoption Division, have rescued 11 female American Staffordshire Terrier/Lab-mix dogs that had been used for baiting and breeding in an alleged Lauderdale dog-fighting ring. The dogs, which were found living in deplorable conditions, were severely malnourished and had…
Hey, got an extra $70-plus million lying around? Because Celine Dion has put her giant Jupiter Island property/water park/mansion on the market and is asking $72.5 million for it. Cheap! What does a plethora of middling and annoying Canadian pop songs buy you? Why, a luxurious Bahamian-inspired estate with a…
Cleaning out cat litter is no fun. So what do you do when your wife, who is apparently responsible for cleaning out Mr. Whisker’s poop from the box, doesn’t carry out that responsibility? Why, you threaten to throw the cat against the wall and threaten to stab your wife to…
Driving on 595 and I-95 makes you want to light a pillowcase full of kittens on fire and punt it off the overpass you’ve been stuck on for the past hour. It’s atrocious. So, what’s the solution? REVERSIBLE LANES, OF COURSE! That’s right. I-595 will soon be opening reversible lanes…
A Fort Lauderdale man didn’t like a neighborhood pit bull wandering into his yard to check out his dog. So he decided to shoo it away. By throwing an artillery shell at it, injuring the dog so severely that its owner had to have it euthanized. See also: Pit Bulls…
Up in West Palm Beach today, a rare legal case is about to unfold in US Federal court: a fortunetelling fraud trial. Rose Marks, the 62-year-old matriarch of a large local gypsy family, is accused to bilking around $25 million dollars over twenty years from a handful of clients. Although…
On Saturday, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued Donald Trump over his involvement with Trump University — basically, expensive seminars that promised students they’d learn about real estate and investing. The AG alleges the program was a fraudulent get-rich-quick scheme, and is seeking $40 million in restitution. Trump, naturally,…
A few weeks ago, a powerful Tallahassee attorney named Karen Walker posted a warning on her firm’s website about new language in state public records law. It could, she wrote, lead to increased litigation against businesses that provide services to Florida state or local government. The new language comes from…
Buffalo Bills running back C.J. Spiller’s step-grandfather reportedly went on a shooting spree in North Florida that left three people dead, including himself, and two others injured. On Saturday morning, Hubert Allen Jr. shot a man at the trucking company he worked for. Allen also went to the company owner’s…
A Boca Raton “gothic” and lingerie model set fire to five cars across the suburbs, authorities say. The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office told the Palm Beach Post that Rose Cohen, 18, and pal Christoper MacDonald lit across a neighborhood near Powerline Road and U.S. 441, where they also allegedly razed…
A woman arriving at Fairway Elementary school in Miramar to pick up her child coming out of school, when her other child decided she was coming out of her. The woman, nine months pregnant, began to have contractions Thursday afternoon, just as she was arriving to the school at pick-up…
A teacher at Mavericks Charter High School in Pompano Beach — a school Joe Biden’s brother once called “a hope factory” that would “save the country” — was arrested Thursday for using Facebook to solicit sex from at least four students ranging in ages 15 to 17. According to a…
A Broward County grand jury has indicted the man who gunned down David Herr, the 36-year-old tow truck driver that tried to tow his illegally parked vehicle several weeks ago. According to a BSO report, the man, 31-year-old Triston Johnson of Lauderdale Lakes, pulled a gun and shot Herr several…
Broward officials have called for a review of whether the Jewish-oriented Ben Gamla charter school violates the separation of church and state. After an article that appeared in the Israeli newspaper, The Times of Israel, written by JTA, a Jewish wire service, about Ben Gamla founder, former Democratic Congressman Peter…
