Monkeys use him as a punching bag. He attracts lightning better than a tree. A rattlesnake bit him. Sharks think he’s a prime rib dinner. He’s…. THE UNLUCKIEST MAN IN THE WORLD. Erik Norrie, a longtime Largo fisherman and business man, was recently bitten by a shark in the Bahamas,…
There’s a bit of a brouhaha brewing between West Palm Beach Police Chief Vincent Demasi and Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg. Apparently, Demasi made some comments a few days ago that prosecutors aren’t doing a good enough job keeping career criminals off the streets. Aronberg saw them as…
A student at Broward College South was arrested for attacking a fellow female student with a pair of scissors. The student, who didn’t know the woman, reportedly thought she and a male companion were laughing at him as they stood in front of a campus building. So, he went off…
A Lauderdale Lakes tow truck driver was gunned down in the middle of the day after he tried to tow away a car that was parked illegally. The incident happened just before 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, in a parking lot of the St. Croix Apartments located at 4150 NW 34th…
The fierce arm-wrestling between Palm Beach County moneybags Paul D. Pope and his mother Lois looks like it’s cooled down — at least for the time being. Since March, mother and son have been squabbling over what’s left of the family fortune built off the proceeds of the National Enquirer,…
Following nearly two weeks of relentless criticism over a viral video that shows three Dirty Blondes’ bouncers battering a patron, owner AJ Yaari has fired the security personnel involved. In an effort to quell an inferno of outrage, he released a statement late yesterday, vowing to improve the bar’s security…
Update: According to the incident report, the reporting officer writes that Atkins-Grad called the family walking by wearing light green shirts “white trash that were trying to get her removed from office.” Also according to the report, Atkins-Grad “shouted at them that they would burn in hell for what they…
Eighteen-year-old Steven Rutty was found shot dead by his stepfather in the bathroom of their family’s Lauderale Lakes home on Monday. The home was ransacked, but there were no signs of forced entry. According to some neighbors, the door to the bathroom appeared to have been kicked in. Rutty appeared…
Boynton Beach police have released surveillance video of two unidentified men who allegedly broke into a home and robbed around $3 million worth in jewelry. On July 2, a silver four-door sedan pulled up to a home, and one of the men jumped out and rang the doorbell. Later, the…
A friendly tip to female co-workers of Omar Trevino. Don’t leave your phones laying around unattended near him. Because he’ll go through your nude selfies and email them to himself. That’s what Trevino, a 31-year-old Palm Beach County Sheriff’s dispatcher, stands accused of, after a female co-worker says he grabbed…
It looks like Gov. Rick Scott has decided to get back on that voter purge of “noncitizens” horse again, thanks to the Supreme Court’s ruling gutting Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Scott went on his mostly ineffective, mostly arbitrary voter purge last year after state officials sent local…
Which way to the MacArthur Causeway?Our news story this week tracks the incredible ascent of Vitaly Zdorovetskiy, the Russian 21-year-old who, through juvenile and very funny antics, has managed to conquer South Florida YouTube. (Let’s not speculate on what his popularity says about us as a society.) Among this Boca…
Three masked burglars arrived to their intended target, a Pompano Beach warehouse, with just one thing in mind: smash their way into the building by any means necessary, expertly disable the building’s alarms, and steal several briefcases filled with gold bullion. And by “several briefcases filled with gold bullion,” we…
Carlos Gato is quickly becoming man’s worst enemy. “Husbands hate me,” says the newly engaged 30-year-old. “They’re always coming up to me telling me they’re upset because they feel like they have to top me.” Gato, if you recall, coordinated with the IKEA in Sunrise to put together an extremely…
Jeb Bush took to Twitter Monday night to accuse Matt Damon of limousine-liberal hypocrisy after the actor told the Guardian he would not be sending his children to public school…
Ever since our sister paper’s report on Major League baseball players obtaining performance enhancing drugs from the Coral Gables-based clinic, Biogenesis, broke, players have been falling by the wayside via suspensions. But now the biggest fish in the barrel has apparently fallen, as ESPN is reporting that New York Yankee…
Federal prosecutors won’t be charging Buju Banton jury foreman Terri Wright with criminal contempt charges, even though a New Times report revealed that Wright admitted to misconduct. Thanks to that New Times report, a federal judge in Tampa tossed out one of two convictions that sent Banton to prison in…
Pinellas County bus driver John Moody will not face criminal charges after a brutal beating of a teen boy went down on his bus last month. On the afternoon of July 9, three 15-year-old boys attacked a 13-year-old boy aboard a school bus. The three stomped on the boy more…
A manager at a Goodyear tire store in Winter Haven thought he might defraud a customer to get more money in his pockets. And he chose the perfect target. An entire sheriff’s office. FOOLPROOF…
Scribbled into the DNA of every person born beneath the Mason-Dixon line is a simple credo: thou shall love Cracker Barrel. This creates a lot of regional confusion for those of us born in more civilized parts of the country (this writer included) because, really, cool rocking chairs aside, Cracker…
Ted Koran and his wife, Karen, have been taking in unwanted or neglected animals for the past 25 years. The couple owns The Critter Place in Weeki Wachee,Florida, a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to saving animals. The two acre property, which also includes their mobile home, currently cares for 68…
The Miami Dolphins opened up the 2013 NFL preseason by dropping what was a slopfest to the Dallas Cowboys 24-20 Sunday night. As part of the Hall of Fame Game, the Fins were poised to reveal their new-look uniforms, and a new-look team, bringing irrational, over-the-top enthusiasm for the fans,…
