A Palm Beach County jury this afternoon found Wellington polo mogul John Goodman guilty of DUI manslaughter, failure to render aid, and vehicular homicide. The conviction comes two years after Goodman sped through a stop sign in Wellington, causing a car crash that killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson. (Read our feature…
Pyschology professors at Notre Dame and Purdue University this week announced a study showing that a person carrying a gun is more likely to “see guns in the hands of others.”It was coincidence that the release of the findings coincided with national outrage over the slaying of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Study author…
Last month, we brought you news of violence involving Mavericks High charter school students in Homestead. One 17-year-old was arrested for bringing a gun to school, and a 16-year-old student was shot and killed by a police officer. Now the Mavericks High in North Miami Beach is making headlines for…
Update, 3/30: Carr’s family has commented about her history of mental illness. The Pulp just got hold of the police report in the case of Jonatha Carr, a 24-year-old Florida Atlantic University student who inexplicably started screaming during a biology class Tuesday. Her tirade, in which she threatened to kill the teacher and…
The jury in the murder trial of Wellington polo mogul John Goodman began deliberations earlier today. There’s no telling how long it will take them to decide whether Goodman is guilty of vehicular homicide and DUI manslaughter in connection with the car accident that killed Scott Wilson two years ago, but…
The Fort Lauderdale City Commission was receptive to a new proposal heard Tuesday about ramping up the city’s red-light camera program from using six cameras to 36. While Mayor Jack Seiler said he was “not for something as massive as that,” according to the Sun-Sentinel, he said he was open…
The jury has just received instructions for deliberating the fate of John Goodman, the Wellington polo mogul charged with vehicular homicide and DUI manslaughter in the car accident that killed Scott Wilson two years ago. Closing arguments will take place this afternoon, and the jury will begin deliberating after that.Goodman…
Don’t walk around after dark, friends warned me. Stay away from certain neighborhoods. Outsiders who have not spent much time in Belle Glade have an image of the small, rural town that is full or fear. But I visited the city on the western edge of Palm Beach County several…
In light of the news yesterday about new evidence from Trayvon Martin’s girlfriend, one might think 28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman is done for. He isn’t.Yesterday’s story revealed that the 17-year-old Martin was on the phone with his girlfriend when Zimmerman killed him with a single bullet to the…
South Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson took to the House floor yesterday and slammed authorities for their inaction in the case of Trayvon Martin, the Miami Gardens 17-year-old who was killed in Martin Seminole County last month, calling shooter George Zimmerman “a renegade wannabe policeman neighborhood watchman.”Wilson, who lives in Miami but…
Whatever happened in the 1600 block of NE Second Court in Boynton Beach, it’s all bad news.Sisters Janice Rahming, 54, and Daphne Clemons, 41, were both shot and killed Saturday night by unnamed suspects who police believe are dangerous enough that a Boynton Beach Police spokeswoman sent out an email…
Police still have no idea what could have happened to 45-year-old Claudia Murphy, her husband, Frank Murphy, told the Pulp late yesterday.He rejected reports that she was suffering from amnesia but did say she’d spent several weeks fighting off some kind of stomach problem that gave her “flu-type symptoms” that…
Twenty-two days after 17-year-old Miami Gardens teen Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Sanford, the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice announced late Monday night that they will be investigating his death at the hands of 28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, according to the Miami Herald. The announcement…
A 41-year-old Boca Raton man was indicted on federal mail-fraud charges Friday after authorities say he got free shipping for his internet businesses by setting up accounts with UPS, DHL, and FedEx and saying he was a representative of businesses such as Target, Walmart, and Apple, according to prosecutors.If convicted…
A 19-year-old man was hit by a train early Friday near SW Second Street in Fort Lauderdale. The train, running from Miami to Atlanta, continued with a fresh crew through St. Johns County, where a second person stepped in front of it and died.Contrary to news reports by the St…
If you saw the Miami Herald story this morning about the ten South Floridians killed in car crashes between Saturday night and Sunday night… it gets worse.In addition to the six deaths in Miami-Dade and four in Broward, there were three people killed in Palm Beach County over the weekend…
Let’s face it: Floridians aren’t exactly oozing with state pride. The intensity of our sports fans is mild at best when compared with a bottle-wielding Boston fan or face-pummeling fatso from Philadelphia. We don’t brag about our oranges like New Yorkers brag about their pizza or bagels or everything else they…
There is a hearing on Tuesday to get public input for a proposed Palm Beach County ordinance pertaining to underaged drinking, which a County Commission brief describes as “an increasing problem” in the area. The commission wants to fight this scourge, this dangerous habit that is being enabled by drinking…
Let’s say you’re sleeping with a multimillionaire who’s on trial for DUI manslaughter, and you also happen to be the defendant’s adopted daughter and trust fund beneficiary. No one expects you to be an unbiased witness. Yet Heather Colby’s testimony in the John Goodman trial yesterday reached new heights of…
Hollywood fortuneteller Olivia Evans was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison Monday and ordered to pay her scam victims more than $400,000. She tried to apologize and reportedly made a relatively big scene in the courtroom, saying, “I was guided in the wrong way of life, and now I realize…
Lisa Pembleton doesn’t drink. Neither do her friends. “I don’t hang out with those kind of people,” she said on the witness stand in a West Palm Beach courtroom today. Her sobriety is just one of many stark differences between Pembleton, a horse trainer and student of the equestrian sport…
It seems like there’s a tattoo shop on every corner in Florida. Along boardwalks, boozed-up tourists can get an offensive T-shirt, a bong, and a tattoo all in one shop. There are posh parlors that charge $500 for an hour of work and so-called artists that’ll give you a lifelong…
