In the annals of criminal enterprise, this has to have been tried before. It’s the old I-don’t-know-what-you’re-talking-about-officer-I-was-blacked-out excuse. Unfortunately for one Jupiter resident who allegedly made off with a stash of expensive jewelry, when police confronted her with the evidence, this was all she could come up with. A successful…
In case you were trapped under something heavy, the big news is that the New England Patriots won their fourth Super Bowl last night by defeating the Seattle Seahawks 28-24. Much to the chagrin of Dolphins fans everywhere, the Patriots are the picture of sustained excellence in the NFL. This…
Update 3: According to PBSO spokesman Eric Davis, the man has surrendered and is in custody. Update 2: According to PBSO spokesman Eric Davis, police are negotiating with the man to surrender his weapon and come down off the roof. No one has been harmed, and there are no hostages…
Thursday saw the opening statements in the Aaron Hernandez first-degree murder trial, where prosecutor Patrick Bomberg said he has surveillance video of Hernandez and a couple of his friends with victim Oldin Lloyd on the night Lloyd was murdered. Hernandez has also been named as a person of interest in…
Update: Check out our review of the wedding ceremony. The Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau is hosting a sunrise beach wedding and vow renewal ceremony for 100 LGBT and straight couples on Thursday, February 5, and former N’Sync pop artist Lance Bass will serve as the event’s ambassador…
Solar is good. It’s good for the environment. It’s good for you and me. And, apparently, it’s good for the state’s massive utilities, who have steadily been rolling out large-scale solar projects. These project unveilings come after the utilities spent the past year edging the private solar providers out of…
Food Not Bombs of Fort Lauderdale has filed a federal lawsuit against Fort Lauderdale over the city’s recent homeless feeding ordinance. The group is saying that the city violated its First and Fourth amendment rights through the regulations passed in October last year. Since the ordinance was passed, members of…
Remember those wild and crazy BSO deputies who were suspected of leaving a West Palm Beach strip club and then shooting at a nearby Walgreens? Well, one of those deputies has turned himself in on charges of “discharging a firearm from a vehicle” — a second-degree felony. Deputy Norman Stepelton,…
Chins up, strip club aficionados. Because thanks to the Palm Beach County Commission, you can now get a steak with your lap dances. On Thursday morning, commissioners approved a zoning change that will allow the Double D Ranch and Saloon strip club to serve food. Despite some Palm Beach residents…
“A vote for Amendment 2 is a vote for legalizing marijuana forever in the State of Florida,” Florida Sheriffs Association President Sheriff Grady Judd said in a vehemently anti-medical marijuana video released last April. With the video, titled The Devil Is in the Details, Judd’s anti-medical weed group No on…
It might be several months before the autopsy results of Khamis Shatara, the 21-year-old shot and killed by his off-duty PBSO deputy father on Christmas Eve, are released to the public. That’s because the death is being investigated as an “officer-involved shooting” even though the elder Shatara was at home…
Cruises pretty much sell themselves on their care-free vibes: Come stay with us on this floating five-star hotel, where you don’t have to worry about anything except getting to the buffet before the cheese blintzes run out. The truth is that there’s a shady underbelly attached to the cruise business…
With Fort Lauderdale’s mayoral election just days away on February 10, Jack Seiler is looking to likely retain his seat. But coming off a time when his popularity has taken a serious hit — particularly with the city’s handling of the homeless ordinance — Seiler might be vulnerable to a…
Lisa “Noodles” Hayden, a longtime piano teacher and fixture in the Fort Lauderdale music scene, has gone missing since Saturday night. At least one friend said she last saw Hayden on Saturday night, following the Keller Williams show at Revolution that night. According to friends and family, Hayden was last…
With Uber and county commissioners trying to hammer out a proper ordinance to allow the ride-sharing company to operate in Broward comes news that since the county ordered Uber to cease operations, drivers have been fined a total of $35,000. For its part, Uber says it will pay off any…
A brutal sex trafficking ring that was first busted in 1998 is finally coming to an official close with the last two leaders of the multinational network pleading guilty in federal court. Alberto Cadena-Sosa, a 46-year-old Mexican national, was sentenced to 15 years after pleading guilty to conspiring and holding…
For years, boxing fans the world over have been waiting for Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao to agree on a date and get things rolling already. There’s no argument that this card would be the most highly anticipated, most viewed boxing match in decades. But for one reason or another,…
Dean Parker is a surfer who went from West Palm Beach to Costa Rica, then in November on to Syria, where he helped Kurds resist the advance of the Islamic State. Parker made headlines around the world after he participated in a radio interview and the world learned of his…
Gov. Rick Scott announced on Tuesday a plan to dedicate $5 billion for Everglades restoration over the next 20 years. He also proposed another $150 million for land acquisition and management to help protect the Florida panther. The proposed amount will be included in the governor’s budget recommendations that he’ll…
Miko Grimes, wife of Miami Dolphins Pro Bowl cornerback Brent Grimes, went full scorched Earth on the NFL on her Twitter last night. Though Miko’s saying inflammatory things on Twitter is nothing new and though she says nothing revelatory about the NFL, it’s still the most public lambasting of the…
The blizzard that allegedly was supposed to smack the Northeast is now affecting flights in and out of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport with massive cancellations and multiple delays. As of 7:30 a.m., FLL is reporting 112 canceled flights and 20 delays. “Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is experiencing major impacts to…
This week in federal court, a Palm Beach County man tied to a strange case of international espionage pleaded guilty to the rack of criminal charges he was facing. Rather than fight his case, Christopher Glenn admitted he hacked into classified computer files while working as a private contractor at…
