Recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, have raised questions about the militarization of American police departments. When angry protesters took to the streets to demand justice, Ferguson police responded with force. Cops in riot gear fired tear gas and stun grenades at marchers. At least one officer pointed his loaded assault…
Whatever your plans for this Friday evening, just be sure of one thing: Do not drive like an asshole. That’s because the Broward Sheriff’s Office is unleashing a cavalry of units known as the Broward County Aggressive Driving Task Force onto the streets to make sure you people pump the…
Remember Colin and Andrea Chisholm? The couple owned a yacht, lived in a Lighthouse Point mansion, and touted themselves as Scottish aristocrats, all while collecting public assistance. This past March, they were chased down by the FBI, caught in the Bahamas, extradited to Port Everglades, and summarily arrested. Not long…
The Sex Pistols railed, “God save the queen/She ain’t no human being.” The Dead Kennedys sang, “Blow it out your ass, Ronald Reagan.” And now, here comes Wolfcat, getting all up in the face of our twice-divorced, thrice-married, yet gay-marriage-denying attorney general, asking her (more tunefully than their punk predecessors):…
Ryan Lipner is no stranger to the pages of New Times. From his weird crusade to own a greeting-card store empire to his continual campaigns for political office to a lawsuit against his own parents for child support, trouble always seems to be following the dude. Now, after years of…
Prom is a time to create either precious memories or future therapy fodder, depending on what clique you run with. But for a group of Jensen Beach High School girls, the event was reason to craft a bizarre lawsuit and file it in federal court…
Diego Rastrojo, the extradited drug kingpin authorities say was the leader of a Colombian organization mainly responsible for drug trafficking to the U.S., was sentenced in a federal court in Florida, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Wifredo A. Ferrer, announced Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Patricia A…
In one of the bloodiest incidents in recent Palm Beach County history, three teenagers were murdered Monday in Mangonia Park. Nineteen-year-old Carley Chapman and 17-year-olds Martavious Brown and Se’sawn Danford were shot to death in a Mangonia Park apartment on Australian Avenue, Palm Beach deputies say. Neighbors reported shooting just…
Usually, you don’t see enough high-level punking among grown adults in corporate positions. Bravo. *Slow clap* According to a lawsuit now grinding through the legal system in Chicago, Florida arena-football owner David Pearsall isn’t a guy you want to mess with. A former owner with the Arena Football One league,…
On Wednesday, Broward Circuit Judge Lynn Rosenthal entered a no-contest plea to a reckless-driving charge after ramming her black BMW SUV into a police car in the Broward County Courthouse parking lot back in May. Rosenthal, who was not in court while her lawyer entered the plea, was sentenced to…
Being stuck in traffic sucks. But now, instead of having to look up why the traffic in Palm Beach suddenly got so wretched while still driving or waiting for the next update from the radio station, you can get an audio update thanks to a new traffic app. The PBSO…
As support for Amendment 2 picks up across the state, Floridians are eager to get their hands in the medical weed industry game. But it’s become clear recently that the Republican-controlled Legislature might cap the number of dispensaries and limit the number of people who can cash in. Consider California…
The nickname of Fruitland Park, Florida, might be “The Friendly City,” but something sinister is lurking behind the Lake County city’s façade of Southern hospitality. Deputy Police Chief and Fire Chief David Borst stepped down last Thursday after the FBI confronted him with evidence that he was involved in the…
It was Fourth of July in St. Augustine when a cop spotted Raul Reinoso Martinez pushing a beaten-up bike down A1A. A car braked as he cut across the road, and the homeless-looking man angrily slammed on the vehicle’s hood. When Officer Todd Smith called the man over, he noticed…
Eddie Wayne Davis, from Polk County, will be the seventh execution in the State of Florida so far this year when — at 6 p.m. today — he’s injected with midazolam hydrochloride, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride. In 1994, when Davis was 25, he was in a community development in…
Happy Fourth of July everyone! Now that you have your entire day free and know how you plan to celebrate America’s butt-kicking of Britain, here’s what you need to know: The Broward Sheriff’s Office will be conducting a countywide DUI saturation patrol today and throughout the remainder of the holiday…
A short list of the worst ways to get back at an ex: poison the goldfish, glitter-bomb the car (shit never vacuums up), and here’s a new one: Have your mom write a tell-all book, then ship the skinny out to everyone in his or her life. That’s the scenario…
Although it flopped like a dead grouper when it hit in 2008, the straight-to-DVD “The Onion Movie” was a rare misplayed hand by the world leader in smart-ass news. Since launching in 1988, The Onion has burrowed a niche deep into the American news cycle by uncorking snark and scathing…
“Where’s the crime?” — that’s the unfortunate refrain you hear from law enforcement and prosecutors when it comes to fortunetelling crimes and psychic scammers. As we documented last year in an in-depth investigation, too often these fraudsters construct elaborate schemes targeting emotionally fragile folks. When the veil drops, victims go…
Everyone’s seen the moms who treat their children like really high-maintenance pomeranians and drag them around shopping malls on leashes. That is, however sadly, a thing. What’s definitely not a thing is branding your children with a hot stick like cattle. Nope. Not even a little bit. That’s what Port…
A West Palm Beach psychic claims the $10,000 in cash a client had given her to pray over was burned up at a church altar. The psychic, Sonya Gallego, was given cash after she promised the client that the money would be returned once it had been prayed over in…
Apparently, laser pointers are huge problem for both local law enforcement and the FBI. Nope, not your high school physics teacher who just realized she had a red LED light on her forehead the entire time some smart-ass was asking when the class would be “learning about lasers.” Not your…
