Over on the West Coast, at the offices of the Washington State Attorney General, the phones have been buzzing with angry callers. Florida is the reason why. Until recently, the two state’s shared reciprocity for concealed weapons permits, meaning that the right paper in one state would greenlight you to…
There are several things that Brian Andrews absolutely does not like. For one, the CBS4 newscaster doesn’t like being videotaped in public by strangers. He also doesn’t like explaining why he doesn’t like being videotaped in public in strangers. He furthermore doesn’t like law firms — they may be out…
It’s been beaten up, watered down and almost died a slow painful death, but it looks like the bill that will ban texting and driving in Florida is going to become a law as soon as Gov. Rick Scott signs it. See also: – Texting-and-Driving Ban May Be Dying a…
Lindsay Lohan could be taking her hot-messness to the Lukens Institute in Palm Beach Gardens, if her father has his way. See also: -Michael Lohan Is Publishing Memoir, Has Moved to Boca According to wptv.com, Lohan’s attorney has set her up to enter rehab in Morningside Recovery in Newport, California…
Adam Justin Griffith spotted himself a gorgeous lady playing with her kids in the playground at the Anderson Snow Sports Complex. He apparently needed to meet her and inquire if she was single or not. So he decided to approach her by laying down the smoothest pick-up maneuver possible: by…
A former Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy took to YouTube to release a video accusing BSO Sheriff Scott Israel of turning his back on him and making allusions to his becoming “the next Christopher Dorner,” the ex-LAPD officer who went on a revenge-motivated shooting rampage in Los Angeles back in February…
Samuel Little is not the guy you’d want to bump into alone in a dark alley. A hulking former boxer armed with a cold glare, on paper he’s a career criminal with a rap sheet stretching across 24 states. Police now believe Little was actually a vicious serial killer who…
People won’t stop breaking into the homes of Miami Heat players to steal stuff. Udonis Haslem’s Southwest Ranches home was broken into by would-be burglars, the Broward Sheriff’s Office says. See also: – Chris Bosh Burglar Left Heat Championship Ring This just days after someone broke into Chris Bosh’ house…
A defining moment of Rick Scott’s political career is at hand, in a form no one would have predicted. New legislation concerning the death penalty is on its way to his desk. If he signs it, the Sunshine State may embark on an official killing spree. Florida has long stood…
On Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott’s offices sent out a news release that declared, “Gov. Scott Announces Anthem Education Expansion in Fort Lauderdale, 70 New Jobs.” It explained that the for-profit college will be locating its “North American headquarters” to Fort Lauderdale, spending $300,000 on a building and furniture, and creating…
Driving through Hialeah, where strip malls line boulevards like concrete-and-metal kudzu, a federal agent offers a reporter $1 for every strip mall he can spot that doesn’t house a medical business. Let’s just say the reporter is still broke. In this city, streets are a jumble of doctors’ offices, physical…
It’s Tuesday morning and Paul Pope’s staff is hustling around a walk-in closet in his Spanish Colonial spread in Highland Beach. A buxom 30-something with cascading brunet hair sits on the floor cradling a black-belt-fed M60 machine gun. Nearby, a stocky middle-aged man in a baggy white sports coat casually…
A Boynton Beach man and his special lady friend were arrested after cops caught them having sex on a Manalapan beach. The result was lewd behavior and indecent exposure charges for both, as well as a couple of fantastic mug shots that tell the tale of their crime…
The Florida Highway Patrol says it will arrest and charge the suspect in the horrific April 3 wrong-way head-on collision on I-95 that killed Dennis Ortiz, 31, of California, and Albertson Anthony Almase, 31, Kristina Almase, 26, and Lily Azarcon, 26, of the Philippines. See also: -Four Dead in Horrific…
Just two weeks ago, the Senate unanimously pushed through Bill SB 52, which would ban texting while driving on Florida’s roads. Then, on Wednesday, the House passed the ban. So that’s the end of it. The Florida Legislature at work yaay!! Except that, no. Because the bill might not even…
Apparently trying to smuggle cocaine into the U.S. by stuffing bags of it up one’s rectum is something the feds are on to. So the next logical step was to try to stuff coke into hollowed-out coconuts and smuggle them in that way, because coconuts is not a person’s rectum…
James F. “Jim” Ellis, the Ponzi pitchman who duped his Wilton Manors friends of $10 million, was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in federal prison. Ellis, 70, worked for fraudster and former day trader George Elia and used Elia’s wealth as a means to convince friends to invest money,…
Could the Occupy movement get a shot of reinvigoration today? Adbusters, the Canadian magazine that initiated the Occupy Wall Street movement, and its related network of activists (or “culture jammers,” as they call themselves) are calling on people to gather outside of Goldman Sachs offices around the world and “shut…
Nerds, rejoice! A frat bro was served his comeuppance! The day is ours! Alex Fanaian, former president of the FAU fraternity Iota Nu, was arrested on Sunday after police found him naked, bound with metal hangers, totally schwasted, bro, and having just sprayed a fire extinguisher all over his neighbor’s…
The news of Jason Collins’ coming out was met with mostly support (and some stupidity), particularly in NBA circles. See also: -Heat, Dolphins Stars React Very Differently to Jason Collins Story Dwyane Wade was the first of the Miami Heat players to express his support via Twitter. And now LeBron…
House Bill 7169, the Florida Senate’s alternate legislation to provide 1 million Floridians with needed health coverage, was approved by the Senate on a 38-1 vote. The measure is expected to head back the House, where it was already rejected and probably will be again…
A Vero Beach man explained to an Indian River County Sheriff’s deputy that the pants he was wearing where the cop found crack cocaine and marijuana were not his but were, in fact, stolen pants. “As I began to search his pockets, he stated quickly that the pants he was…
