You can kill animals. You can eat animals. You can even torture animals — and press charges against anybody who photographs you while you’re at it. But you can’t make sweet, sweet love to animals. Not anymore.This is a sad week for Florida’s zoophiles, for as I write this, there…
The 14-year-old boy who filed a lawsuit alleging he was twice sexually assaulted by a counselor at the Thompson Academy juvenile detention center last year was a willing participant in the encounters, lawyers for the Pembroke Pines center allege.In court documents, the defendants say that the boy, identified only as…
WSVN-7 ran a small item yesterday about the yanking from the classroom of a Blanche Ely High School teacher who was arrested on charges of domestic battery and cruelty to a child. The yanking, it seems, was caused by the arrest. The man hasn’t been convicted of anything. If he…
She used to host a popular progressive radio show, but Nicole Sandler got some unexpected press last week when she tried to ask a question at an Allen West “town hall” event, was not answered, continued asking her question, and was led out of the Calvary Chapel in handcuffs, taken…
Do you know what your Senate was doing yesterday?Among other things, it passed HB 1127. This is an anti-abortion measure, I suppose, but it’s so profoundly useless that it’s hard to imagine it seriously offending even Florida’s baby-hatingest abortionists. Here’s the summary…
Prosecutors dropped criminal charges today against a Palm Beach County man who had claimed a medicinal marijuana defense in a case that could have sent him to prison for five years for growing pot plants.Jeffrey Kennedy, a 53-year-old Boynton Beach resident, had turned down a plea deal in the case…
We’ve come face-to-face with Broward Circuit Court Judge Ilona Holmes, and she runs a tight ship over in the courthouse. She once directly addressed a New Times reporter sitting in the back row during a pretrial felony hearing, asking his name and intentions.Apparently she has a similar take-charge philosophy on…
Today, two stories appeared in Floridian media outlets that didn’t seem to have much to do with each other but did.The first: “Florida’s Crime Rate the Lowest in 40 Years.” The title is a bit misleading — Florida didn’t begin tracking crime rates until 40 years ago, so our historic…
Boynton Beach’s most shameless newlyweds are in court this week, as Dalia Dippolito goes to trial for allegedly plotting to have her husband, Michael, killed. (Read New Times’ cover story on the case for all the juicy details.)Yesterday, Dalia’s attorney presented a strange opening argument, saying that the murder-for-hire plot…
The bad news: After percolating through subcommittee and getting yeaed and nayed half to death, Senate Bill 432 is headed to the Senate Floor today. SB 432, please recall, is the bill that would prevent pediatricians from asking parents whether they own a gun. (Pediatricians generally ask parents about guns…
In America, one hopes, one must at least attempt to commit a crime before being punished for it. Not so if you happen to be Pastor Terry Jones, the irretrievably stupid Floridian preacher and Muslim-baiter. Last week found Jones in Dearborn, Michigan, preparing to protest the country’s largest mosque. Before…
According to the official record, the crowd at Fishtales “disarmed and subdued” Brian Krebs after he stabbed Jimmy Pagano to death during a bar fight April 17. But witnesses say it was more dramatic than that — a handful of patrons and employees descended on Krebs. Krebs managed to stab…
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall is at Broward General this morning after being stabbed in the stomach with a knife last night, according to ESPN. Marshall was taken to the hospital late Friday night after a 911 call and underwent surgery this morning. He reportedly wanted to go home,…
If you haven’t heard, so-called “SlutWalks” are all the rage among feminists and the otherwise forward thinking types who not only oppose rape, but also find reprehensible the idea that a rape victim might at any point be asked what she (or he) was wearing at the time.The first SlutWalk…
Wearing your money around your neck can prove a volatile investment. Gold necklaces and jeweled pendants have long been a preferred mode of conspicuous luxury for nouveau-riche athletes and musicians who have risen from poverty.A few days ago, Michael Mooney wrote about Dolphin Brandon Marshall’s role in a story about…
Here are a few facts about a man named Grady Bell. Try to picture him.Bell is 67 years old. Since 1998, he has been arrested 120 or more times. Last week, he appeared in the court room of Palm Beach County circuit court judge Christa Marx to face charges of…
There are 7 billion people in the world. A little more than a quarter of them are connected to the internet. Of those, most could slap together a simple website if they really wanted to. Many have.Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the comely congresswoman from Florida’s 20th, thinks Google should closely monitor…
Last month, this blog reported that a Delray Beach oilman named Harry Sargeant III may have overcharged the U.S. government by more than $200 million while fulfilling military contracts. Now, according to MSNBC.com, Sargeant is being accused of bribing Jordanian government officials to secure land routes through Jordan. (Full disclosure:…
Sixty souls were apprehended in Polk County over the last week, as Polk’s finest spent your tax payer dollars arresting sex-workers and their clients. Among the apprehended were a sex-starved Disney mechanic and a man with breast implants who advertised his services on Backpage.com. (Backpage.com is a classifieds website owned…
The above is a not-entirely-fair video filmed at FAU, in which Allen West is asked a question he plainly has no idea how to answer — by a long-haired, peace-loving NORML activist, no less; a species with which West has had little experience in dealing, and which must strike him…
Last week, we told you about the lawsuit filed against a South Florida porn production company claiming that one of the female stars of a movie called Cum Fiesta was actually a 15-year-old runaway from Palm Beach Shores. Producers claim the girl known as “Bieyanka Moore” deceived them, saying she…
Last week’s issue of Sports Illustrated featured an incredible story by senior writer Thomas Lake, about the mysterious 2007 murder of Denver Broncos defensive back Darrent Williams. The story chronicles Williams’ last night alive, a New Year’s Eve he spent in Denver with friends and teammates. One of those teammates…
