Cocaine Megayacht Captain, Jonathon Costenbader, plead guilty to conspiring to import cocaine in federal court in West Palm Beach on Friday. Back in October, we told you about the 34-year-old Costenbader, who captained a 132-foot luxury megayacht called the Secret Spot. He was also apparently captaining around a literal boatload…
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a lieutenant general in the Confederate army that people who still think this is 1861 will tell you was a pretty awesome dude. His nickname was the Wizard of the Saddle. He was also apparently more than a wizard of the saddle, however. He was a…
All these times George Zimmerman has been arrested and then freed is hurting him financially, what with legal fees and all. According to some reports, George is about $2.5 million in the hole. So, Zimmerman has decided to sell an original work of art that he did on eBay. And,…
The poker player’s white Nikes had just hit the concrete outside New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport the night before Thanksgiving. The sky was bruising over with twilight. Terminal 5 was a hectic holiday beehive of passengers hustling for last-minute JetBlue hops. And there was Eric Riley, Jamaican-born, 32 years…
On November 11 — Veteran’s Day — 59-year-old Sunrise man Fredy Gutierrez climbed onto an overpass with a rifle as morning rush-hour traffic flowed below on I-595. Police scrambled to the scene. Miles of traffic stalled. For the next few hours, as Gutierrez drank a beer, put a noose around…
The 30-year-old Dolphin Research Center in Grassy Key is inviting people to bring holiday props such as Santa hats and reindeer antlers and get their pictures taken with a dolphin. One reader worried that the facility was inviting people to put reindeer antlers on the dolphins — and that this…
You know by now that commuting in Florida is about the worst thing you can do, next to having someone punching you in the crotch or slamming your hand into a plugged-in waffle iron. But now our driving horribleness as been documented and ranked. And the findings show that Florida…
Former Chicago Bull, children’s book author, and sometimes SoFla resident Dennis Rodman is reportedly headed back to North Korea on Thursday for a third time. Rodman, who has somehow nudged his way into the good graces of Kim Jong Un as the Unofficial Ambassador of WTF! to the United States,…
On Wednesday, Clearwater Police arrested a man after they found him driving a stolen vehicle. The man was wanted in connection to a break-in at a private residence in Safety Harbor. The home owner’s car had been swiped. It was a routine arrest, where they cuffed the perp, threw him…
We’ve been writing and writing about Rick Scott’s sudden drive to look like he’s getting things done lately, thanks to the fact that his first term is soon coming to an end and he wants to stick around for another four years. And now Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic National…
Your Miami Dolphins took down the New England Patriots 24-20 on Sunday, ending a seven-game losing streak against the Pats, bringing Fins fans everywhere a most welcome Victory Monday, and silencing a multitude if obnoxious douchebags all across New England. And the best part of all is that they were…
You spoke, we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s Mug-Shot Monday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, derp faces, and femmes fatale…
Police responded to reports of a man who claimed to have a bomb strapped to his body at a bank on Dania Beach Boulevard. Police were called about a man trying to hold up the Chase Bank at 300 E. Dania Beach Blvd. by claiming he had a bomb at…
A 62-year-old Florida grandfather was hit by a stray bullet that flew through the driver’s-side window that had been open only four inches as he drove his granddaughter home from school. And lived. The bullet, which was probably shot from miles away, apparently bounced off the man’s head and hit…
According to campaign-finance reports for November, lawyer and pro-medical marijuana advocate John Morgan has put more than $500 grand into the People United for Medical Marijuana campaign. All told, he’s put in about $972,125, bringing this thing almost to a cool million. Meanwhile, United for Care is launching its “day…
This is one of those columns that practically writes itself. In fact, I could just point you towards Ilya Katz’s website and let it go at that: www.katz4uscongress.com. But noooo. Annoying little twerp that I am, I’m going to have a bit of fun with Dr. Katz (trained in “Early…
On the Monday night before Thanksgiving, a Metroliner III cargo jet shuttling between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico struck a mountainside about 25 miles from its destination. The two pilots at the controls both died in the crash. Now, the family of copilot Steve Gullberg are charging that the…
Robert Levinson, a Coral Springs private detective who disappeared in March of 2007 while visiting Kish Island in Iran, was working for the CIA on an unapproved intelligence-gathering mission, the AP is reporting. And now, the missing man is at the center of a modern scandal for the intelligence community…
The State Attorney’s Office of Brevard and Seminole counties have announced that George Zimmerman will not be facing his domestic violence charges. And now that he’s free to go, Zimmerman is also free to get back the arsenal of weapons seized from his home that could arm a small South…
Gov. Rick Scott is hungry for more souls to eat four more years, so he’s announced that he wants to cut $401 million in driver license and registration fees. In an appearance in Tampa, Scott whipped out a proposal that will apparently cut auto registration fees that would save motorists…
Tracy Morgan is now your co-grand marshal of the Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade in Fort Lauderdale. What could possibly go wrong? Actually, this is pretty fantastic news, seeing how he’s replacing Tori Spelling. Yes, the one from 90120. Yes, she’s still alive. See also: Tracy Morgan on Biggie…
Last week, we broke the big holiday news about Chaz Stevens putting up a Festivus pole next to a Nativity scene in the Florida Capitol. The event has swept the Internet and gotten ahold of the 24-hour news cycle. But something isn’t really a big deal until Stephen Colbert gives…
