Jayvon Woolfork, the lone suspect in the brutal gang rape of a Hollywood teen not to have taken a plea deal, had an outburst in court Thursday where he demanded to see proof of his guilt. This despite the fact that he gave police a taped confession at the time…
Rene Roberge, 47, of Quebec is facing ten-years-to-life in prison after getting caught trying to arrange a sexual tryst in Broward with who he thought was an underage boy. According to a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Roberge traveled from Canada to Fort Lauderdale on…
Everybody sitting on the edges of their seats in eager anticipation of Jeb Bush’s announcement for presidency can now circle a date on their calendar. W’s little brother tweeted out an image of himself staring at an ominous, alien aircraft-like light, similar to that scene in lose Encounters of the…
A coyote has attacked and killed at least one dog in West Boca this week, stoking obvious concerns and fear for the residents of the area. The president of the Timberwalk Homeowners Association, where the dogs were attacked, has hired a trapper to catch the coyote, according to the Sun-Sentinel. The…
A tentative agreement between the Palm Beach County school district and the Palm Beach County Classroom Teachers Association means that Palm Beach County teachers are going to get a 2 percent raise. Teachers and the district have been negotiating proposed salary increases for months, but on Wednesday the two sides…
Last month, animal advocates from Pets Broward held a peaceful protest at the groundbreaking ceremony for Broward County’s new $15.2 million, 40,000-square-foot animal care shelter. The protest focused mainly on the county not keeping to the No Kill Resolution commissioners ceremoniously instituted in 2012, as well as the overall poorly managed…
When Dwyane Wade signed a two-year deal worth $31,125,000 with the Heat last summer, fans were shocked. The shocking part wasn’t that Wade was sticking with the only team he’s ever known in his 12-year career, but that he was re-upping for an estimated $10 million less than what he…
According to numbers released by the Delray Beach Police Department Tuesday, if you did heroin in the beachside town last month and are still alive, consider yourself lucky. Delray Beach cops say seventeen people overdosed and three people died while chasing the dragon in May. Those numbers account for the…
When Caitlyn Jenner (formerly known as Bruce Jenner) made her public debut in a series of Annie Leibovitz photos and the cover of Vanity Fair, folks from all walks of life showed support via Twitter with a #CallMeCaitlyn hashtag. Jenner also became the fastest person to get over a million…
Stephen Budd, the former Rosarian Academy Elementary School teacher accused of child molestation, has been found guilty on all counts on Tuesday. Budd, 53, has been sentenced to serve three consecutive life sentences, and another 15 years. In 2003, Budd was arrested as he was leaving his West Palm Beach apartment after…
Governor Rick Scott. Hi. Hello. How are you? We see that you’ve been busy hosting a summit in Orlando of several potential GOP presidential candidates today. Neat! This summit includes some All-Stars in the world of being ridiculously shady and dubious. Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Chris Christie, Mike…
Last month, grand juries cleared two police shooting cases that were brought to them by the state attorney’s office in Broward County, including a case in which an elderly security guard was killed after he had called police to report a suspicious person. In September, 2012, Earl David Brown, 73,…
The week before he was killed by a brick-wielding, 400-pound mental patient, Terry Young told his mother not to worry. It was a Saturday in late April 2013. Bettye White, a retired elementary-school principal, had made her weekly trip to see to her 53-year-old son at the Liberty City Hope…
A couple of teens have learned how the humble brag can get you in trouble with the law. Broward Sheriff’s Office reports that they’ve arrested three juveniles and an 18-year old after they made a video of themselves boating about the stolen cash, and stolen jewelry they took while sitting…
When the shots rang out, they came in flurries. The pops drowned out the music echoing through the Spot, a Caribbean restaurant in Liberty City that by midnight had transformed into a nightclub where dozens of local young people, some in middle school, flirted and rubbed sweaty bodies in the…
The City of Tamarac has decided to turn off their red light cameras, for the time being, putting a temporary end to traffic lights taking photos of cars at ten different intersections throughout the city. Since 2013, when the cameras first went operational, there have been 23,756 violations in total. …
Last week NOAA said that this year will be a below-normal Hurricane Season, and now well-known forecasters Phil Klotzbach and William Gray of Colorado State University are basically saying the same thing. Much like last year, Klozbach and Gray say we can thank El Niño being extra strong this year,…
In the world of psychic scammers — fake mystics and fortune tellers who use New Agey mystical babble and a variety of old school tricks to con money from vulnerable victims — there is a strong pipeline connecting New York City to South Florida. Often, as we have documented in…
Police shootings are often kept in a shroud of secrecy until an investigation is completed – and in Broward County, those investigations can take several years. But in Hallandale Beach, the city paid a $150,000 wrongful death settlement in October, 2014 to the family of an unarmed man who was…
First week of June. This is where the fun begins. Summer is upon us, hurricane season starts this week, and the school year is over. All of this adds up to one simple thing: It’s going to rain, and the kids are going to drive you batty. Summer time means…
Last week, Heather Hironimus signed a consent form to allow the circumcision of her four-year-old son, seemingly putting an end to a months-long battle between her and her husband, Dennis Nebus, who has wanted their son to have the procedure. Nebus was given permission to travel anywhere in the U.S. to…
Late May is the time of year when just about every high school senior class is giddy with the end of school and start of summer. Unfortunately, the good times have been clouded over at one Broward high school due to a tragedy. American Heritage School senior Liza Angulo was…
