Glock 17, Free to Good Home.Responsible owners wanted.Should be able to provide proper housing. Previous gun ownership preferable, but not required.A movie theater might give out free passes to a new film. Pet stores might adopt out a free cat with the purchase of cat food and a litter box.When…
Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies fatally shot a woman who was holding her boyfriend at knife-point during a domestic dispute. According to spokeswoman Teri Barbera, police were called to the home in a duplex in the 1400 block of North J Street around 2:30 a.m. by the boyfriend, who said…
There are plenty of passages in the Bible that tell us not to lie, but they don’t say jack about fudging invoices or grant applications! On December 21, a Deerfield Beach pastor, Anthony Davis, was hit with $50,000 in civil fines for having overbilled the government. Davis’ organization, Brotherly Love…
Diane Carle is not an agreeable person. She’s irritable. She’s reclusive. She’s slovenly. But according to Carle, who imprisoned 141 dead and dying cats inside her urine-washed home in one of the largest cases of cat-hoarding in Palm Beach history, she’s no criminal. “I have no record,” Carle of Lake…
Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross met with local media on Monday to discuss the state of the franchise. And it was filled with clichés, talking points, and the nonsensical ramblings of a hobgoblin. In other words, it was exactly what you’d expect from a team that has gone 7-9, 7-9,…
Shawn Day and his pal Patrick Webster pulled into the parking lot of the Budget Inn at 1600 N. Federal Hwy. in a 1995 Mitsubishi. As they did, cops noticed that they might be up to no good. And the cops were right. The area is known as a busy…
Wayne Clark was arrested after cops say he threatened a couple of Walmart employees with a “blood bath” over a bag of cat food and a case of soda. Clark, who is reportedly a transient, tried to scam the store into giving him a cash refund by going to the…
Christopher Petterson, a 67-year-old Jupiter dentist, is facing drug trafficking and fraud charges for writing up fake prescriptions under his patients’ names and then filling them at pharmacies for himself, according to police. Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office says things began to look a tad shady when the office manager…
[jump] In an email to New Times, Planck Chief Operating Officer Ivan Baines stated that its research–regarding “fundamental questions about the biology of the brain”–cannot be done by computer simulation and “requires the use of laboratory animals.” He stated that the institute “is and has always been committed to maintaining the…
Wyatt Duvall worked as a home delivery man for the Sun-Sentinel between April 2006 and October 2010. The business wasn’t new to him: when the Boca Raton resident had pulled stints hauling dead trees throughout his life, including runs in California, his native-Kentucky, and at the now-shuttered Boca News. With…
Catching a Burmese Python can be tricky. And then killing it is no simple matter. There are rules. Many, many rules. To kill the mighty Burmese Python, the untrained and knife-wielding explorer must be vigilant, brave, and apparently blood-thirsty. And — most importantly — must take a 15-minute tutorial. And…
The BCS title game is happening tonight. And there is not one single, solitary fuck we give about it. Because, as it turns out, the Football Gods deemed it necessary that two of South Florida’s most reviled college teams should be playing for all the marbles in our own back…
A couple of Sarasota homeowners got into a neighborhood dispute. So one of the parties involved in the ballyhoo decided to take things up a notch and got some spray paint and covered one of the homes with bright, neon-colored graffiti. Of course, the home covered in spray paint was…
A bit of a brouhaha between a Riviera Beach councilman and a retired Riviera Beach fire chief broke out yesterday. Nasty words were exchanged, particularly from councilman Shelby Lowe, who allegedly called Retired Riviera Beach Fire Chief Richard Wester that word that appears a lot in the latest Quentin Tarantino…
Remember when the House voted for a fiscal cliff bill way back when three days ago? Sure, this might mean some money being taken from your paychecks. But according to a Sun Sentinel report, Florida is one of the big winners in the whole fiscal cliff bill thing. According to…
Back in the early ’90s, shortly after the Fire Ant crash-landed in Palm Beach, we hooked up with some other malcontents and put out an alternative rag called Red Herring. It was an alternative that looked alternative, mainly because it depended on the largesse of a string of eccentric businessmen…
The local personalities, egos, and public figures who swung through the news cycle this week, ranked by New Times’ crack research department using a highly scientific algorithm (i.e., charting the hip jiggles of the 4 p.m. early-bird dancers at King of Diamonds)…
Arlene Mena was yelling at no one in particular while meandering about on the street outside her A1A condo building along the 1800 block of S. Ocean Drive, in a tank top, cutoff jeans, and knee-high boots, about 10:45 a.m. Wednesday. One witness says she looked like she was trying…
On December 15, the day Danielle Sachs and her boyfriend allegedly dined at a Fort Lauderdale Wendy’s, met a man there, went back to his house, and suffocated him, Sachs’ horoscope mood was “curious,” and she was told to “keep an eagle eye out for new people.” Apparently, she did…
After many House Republicans lost their shit over Speaker of the House John “It’s Not Pronounced Boner” Boehner helped them lose their fight over the fiscal cliff bill that was passed on New Year’s Eve, many began to make harrumph noises about whether he was fit for duty. So when…
The folks at the Miami Herald recently erected a paywall to charge people to read their stuff. They call it the Miami Herald Plus +. (We’re not sure if that should read Miami Herald Plus Plus or not, but we digress.) And what do you get for forking over your…
If you’re too busy still hating LeBron James, then you really are missing out on enjoying a player we pretty much haven’t seen in a long time, if ever. As he did last season, James is quietly dominating the NBA with his basketball awesomeness, earning his second-straight NBA Player of…
