If you watched the above video of Boyton Beach cops telling Dalia Dippolito that her husband had been killed, then you might pick up on a line that sounds a bit racially insensitive.If you haven’t followed the news, Dippolito allegedly hired a hitman to kill her husband. The hitman was…
Looks like Hollywood Police Ofc. Dewey Pressley did a little bit of Walt Disney in another DUI case. Pressley, the Hollywood officer who was caught on tape framing a woman for a car accident caused by a fellow cop, clearly lied under oath in a case involving a defendant named Steven Berglund. And, again, Pressley’s video cam in his…
Good luck finding the full, unedited video of Tuesday’s barnburner of a Deerfield Beach commission meeting. The one currently posted on the city’s website is only a fraction — the uncontroversial fraction — of what transpired that night. So says the blogger who claims to be a victim of those…
There are a great many lessons to be learned from the sad story of Dalia Dippolito, the Boynton Beach woman who’s accused of paying a hitman (who was actually an undercover agent) to kill her husband.The first is that you shouldn’t marry someone only to try killing them six months…
I know we’re supposed to hate all things connected with the New York Jets, but it’ll be hard not to pull for Kareem Brown. He’s a native South Floridian who suited up for the U. and then — through no fault of his own — was drafted by the odious…
The funny thing is, Sylvia Poitier knows that she gave her nemesis, Chaz Stevens, exactly what he wanted. But Deerfield Beach’s vice mayor still couldn’t resist. Because Stevens gets to tee off on her at his blog, Acts of Sedition, and her weapon is the commissioner remarks, the freestyle portion…
A settlement between federal prosecutors and UBS, accused of helping America’s wealthy cheat Uncle Sam out of his taxes, appears likely to be struck tomorrow in Miami’s federal court. The deal — brokered through intense negotiations by diplomats — is not likely to produce the names of the approximately 52,000…
Somebody’s lying in Deerfield Beach. – I’m afraid I may have jinxed the Marlins with a mention on Monday. Since then they’ve dropped two in a row to the lowly Nationals. But I’m not alone among South Florida media that may have failed the team. When I hear team broadcasters Tommy Hutton and Rich…
It was pouring rain just after 1 p.m. Monday, July 20, when a man burst into a Honduran grocery store on NW 36th Street in Miami. A shirt was wrapped around his face as he gripped a black semiautomatic handgun. The lanky 20-year-old African-American, Charles Bell, shoved the pistol into…
You’ve probably heard about the Hollywood cops who framed a woman in a car crash involving a fellow officer. And you’ve likely seen the video from a cruiser’s dashboard camera that shows the lead officer, Dewey Pressley, talking about his willingness to “Walt Disney” the facts and make up stories to protect…
Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s famous beret is gone. His iconic beard is filthy and matted against skeletal cheekbones. One bushy eyebrow arches over his half-open eyes. As a Bolivian country surgeon methodically saws off his lifeless hands, Che appears vaguely amused. Gustavo Villoldo, a stocky figure in green army fatigues, stands…
You may have seen the Pulp post about the suspension of a Deerfield Beach Parks Department worker who did not seem sufficiently dazzled by the sight of Mayor Peggy Noland. Apparently, Noland and her obsequious Parks director, George Edmunds, didn’t count on that employee, Cassandra Moye, sharing her suspension memo…
You’d think that South Florida, with one of the largest Jewish populations in the U.S., would be a mecca for young people looking to marry within the faith. How many times has your Bubbe tried to set you up with a nice young doctor whose great-aunt is her neighbor in…
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10cThank You, South Carolina!www.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorSpinal Tap PerformanceApparently, Florida has disappointed the staff of Comedy Central’s Daily Show with its failure to more consistently deliver bizarre and deeply disquieting news stories. On Monday’s show, Jon Stewart cited the…
Jewel thieves tend to over-think the heist, often with disastrous results — as you might remember from Before the Devil Knows Your Dead. A thief who hit Galleria Mall yesterday did not make this mistake. He simply walked into Zales and… let’s let the Fort Lauderdale Police Department take it…
Miami Herald Publisher David Landsberg sent a company-wide email this morning announcing that the company is laying off more employees, including some in the newsroom. In the email, Landsberg wrote: To all Herald employees: Today we are announcing reductions affecting 34 positions, part of our ongoing effort to weather the economic uncertainty that…
It looks like Deerfield Beach Fire-Rescue isn’t very eager to boast about the thoroughness of its recent internal investigation. That is, the one that came after a March report that its firefighters were engaged in improper political conduct. Since reporting on the department’s findings nearly two weeks ago, I’ve made…
Just as cats get nine lives, Hollywood Police officers get 9 wrecks. Or at least that appears the case with Officer Joel Francisco, who averaged almost one per year over an 11-year career, according to a review of his personnel file by the Sun-Sentinel.Francisco and his cohorts are going to…
A Deerfield Beach city employee has been suspended from work for failing to say hello to the mayor. It sounds like a joke but it’s true. On Monday, Deerfield maintenance worker Cassandra Moye was given notice by her supervisor, George Edmunds, the acting Director of the Parks and Recreation Department, that she…
You have to squint past the bad wig and lipstick, maybe pause at the 40-second mark, but the hottest mess in this train wreck of a movie trailer is Leslie Nielsen, the actor who like all good Canadians bought property and is now your South Florida neighbor.But hey, don’t judge…
No doubt the web has largely become a collection of sites designed to help you waste time at work, and one of the best out there is Thereifixedit.com. It’s a collection of stuff fixed (poorly) by people who shouldn’t be fixing stuff. It was hard not to think of the…
Look, I’m going to admit it right now: I DVR’d Tiger Woods’ fart. I was sitting there watching him about to pick up another Buick Open championship and he let one rip. Or he seemed to have let one rip. These things are often difficult to prove, as we all know, but…
