One of the bouncers who savagely battered a Dirty Blonde’s patron and incited sweeping outrage across South Florida has been arrested, Fort Lauderdale police reported this morning. Authorities have charged Arnald Thomas Darrah, 29, of Oakland Park, with one felony count of battery. See also: – Instagram Captures Dirty Blondes’…
Greg Oden will sign with the Miami Heat. Oden, the former first-overall pick of the 2007 NBA Draft, has agreed to a two-year deal with Miami worth the veteran’s minimum, with an opt-out next Summer, according to ESPN. Oden, who has had what was a promising career derailed by knee…
It looks like Florida’s State Board of Education has found itself a replacement for recently resigned education chief Tony Bennett. At least until they can find a full-time replacement. And it so happens to be the same person they appointed when the last education chief had to resign. The Board…
Medical marijuana activist John Tracey was arrested (see video, below) in the parking lot of Cruzan Amphitheatre before Wednesday night’s Black Sabbath concert in West Palm Beach. He was attempting to gather signatures for a petition to allow a referendum on medical marijuana on Florida’s 2014 ballot. According to a…
A kid got sucked into a drainpipe in Fort Myers during a storm. One moment, he was splashing and playing in a water-filled ditch; the next, he was sucked into the netherworld. Like some damned Neil Gaiman novel. Amazingly, the boy — who survived the ordeal — was underwater for…
The violent video showing three Dirty Blondes’ bouncers savaging two patrons that has sparked sweeping and nationwide outrage may soon spill over into the courts. According to a statement released this morning by two lawyers “overseeing the lawsuit against” Dirty Blondes, the recent violence inflicted upon Alex Coelho and David…
This not-at-all-creepy-looking bespectacled gent you see here was arrested twice in the past week for having sex with two different dogs, with one other dog possibly awaiting the man’s amorous advances. The 52-year-old James Lee Lyons, who also happens to be a registered sex predator, because of course he is,…
On a sunny afternoon, a rotund, tall man named Andre Brown had just stepped out of his Boca Raton apartment when a bronze-haired stranger approached him wearing a black suit, leather gloves, and an expression stitched with alarm. “Are you who I’m supposed to talk to?” the man asked in…
Lake Worth City Commissioners are set to ignore the will of city voters Tuesday and overturn the results of a legally valid election. They’re doing so to chase after a development pipe dream rather than work at real solutions to the city’s problems. See also: – Gulfstream Hotel: A Red…
Florida is (again) scheduled to kill a man who many say is too sick to die. John Errol Ferguson — a 65-year-old paranoid schizophrenic who claims he is the “prince of God,” has powers from the sun, and will be resurrected after death to foil a communist plot against America…
A Florida man was sentenced to 24 years in prison in Brooklyn federal court Thursday after he was found guilty of being part of plot to murder Long Island Judge Joseph Bianco and prosecutor Lara Treinis Gatz, then preserve their heads in formaldehyde as souvenirs. Dejvid Mirkovic, 38, of Lake…
A Broward Sheriff’s deputy shot and killed an Oakland Park man who was wandering the streets with a Winchester air rifle. According to the BSO, the man was ordered by the deputy to drop the gun several times. Instead, the man pointed the rifle towards the officer, prompting the deputy…
In a bid to prove that most city commissions hate fun, the West Palm Beach City Commission is trying to figure out how to get rid of those trucks that drive around town advertising strip clubs. Some of the trucks are straight up ads, featuring photos of women and advertising…
Several men in military-style garb and armor, armed with machine guns and various weapons, were spotted on the roof of a parking lot in Boca Raton. Alarmed onlookers immediately called police, who rushed to the scene. Once there, they converged on the armed men and drew their firearms, demanding the…
UPDATE: Bennett has officially resigned. See his press conference statement below Tony Bennett, Florida’s Education Commissioner, will resign after allegations of his changing a charter school’s grade in Indiana to benefit a big money bags Republican donor cropped up earlier this week. The news of his resignation comes a day…
For the past year, a pastor at a Boca Raton church has been serving up the good word from the pulpit while higher-ups in the faith look into allegations that he was sexually involved with a teenager in the 1980s. Kirk A. McCormick has been a pastor for the past…
At a time when the power of new media is quickly supplanting — and even out-reporting — traditional media, the “Boycott Dirty Blondes” Facebook page was a poster child of a new era. It was explosive, fast, and exclusively crowd sourced. In just one day on Facebook, it crested an…
One of our very favorite global corporate octopi — right up there with the GEO Group and Monsanto — is at it again, chalking up another victory for “free enterprise,” de-regulation and all that’s good, right, true and…Freedom! Turns out that Halliburton, the company formerly helmed by Darth Vader, has…
The cops lay motionless and silent on the sand — two ink stains on an already bruise-black night. Through night-vision goggles, they surveilled the concrete skeleton of a building in the distance. Covered in graffiti, it rose like a crumbling tombstone against the desolate Mexican desert. Behind broken windows flitted…
It’s hard to hang onto a reporter’s notebook when a pro dominatrix is smacking your ass. That’s the lesson Scary Mary Santa is literally hammering into a visitor touring her new Fort Lauderdale dungeon. She’s showing off her St. Andrew’s cross, a domination rack where willing slaves (and reluctant reporters)…
On the day of the murder-suicide, Scott Edgerton sat in his Chevrolet truck gripping a Kel-Tec 380 handgun while he scribbled on a notepad. Edgerton, 63 years old, had just discovered that his wife of 26 years, Sharon Bellingham, was cheating with her gray-haired and handsome colleague, Michael Wodchis. So…
Looks like George Zimmerman is taking his “Have Gun, Will Travel, Will Likely Shoot an Unarmed Black Kid and Then Totally Get Away With It” Tour to Texas because, according to a report by TMZ, he was stopped for speeding in Forney. And yes, he had a gun with him…
