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While the case against John Mark Karr disintegrates by the minute, New Times has learned that this isn’t the first time Colorado University Professor Michael Tracey has caused a stir by fingering a “prime suspect” in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case — only to be proved wrong. In 2004, Tracey,…

When vice cops in Boca Raton suspected that a lotions and cosmetics store named La Place was really a massage parlor providing sexual acts, they dove right into a messy investigation. During more than a year of surveillance, police searched Dumpsters and garbage cans, coming up with used condoms, gooey…

More fun with spam comments. Match the quotes below (which were sent to the Pulp by penis enlargement and weight loss companies in hopes that I’d publish them) with those who said them: QUOTES 1. I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber…

That Christian school that killed that kid was unlicensed. That’s the way I would explain the story at the kitchen table. The Miami Herald and Sun-Sentinel had the story. Herald reporters Amy Sherman and Todd Wright whipped the competition, with interesting background on the real force behind Back to Basics…

The Dan Le Batard billboard on Interstate 95 gives a whole new meaning to the term “shit-faced.” It’s a gag, but from the road it just looks drab and dirty…

So the Pulp has been getting barraged lately by spammers who want to make penises bigger across America. That’s not news, but it’s interesting the way they are trying to sneak onto the site. Here’s one “comment” they tried to get past the Pulp: “As James Baldwin wrote, The white…

Epstein The Palm Beach Post behaved like a big-time newspaper this weekend. It was loaded with in-depth stories, ending with Andrew Marra’s utterly fascinating story about Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who has been charged with diddling underaged prostitutes in the confines of his mansion. Marra follows the man’s strange…

Mehlman: So Many Lies, So Little Time The Republican Party is STILL propagating the screwed-up Sun-Sentinel story on the infamous speech by U.S. Rep. Jack Murtha at Florida International University in June. In a letter to supporters, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman writes that Murtha “claims America is more…

My dad never called himself a journalist. He was either a reporter, or later, an editor during this career at the Louisville Courier-Journal. “Journalist” was too pretentious-sounding for him. So when asked, I always told people that my dad, who is now retired, was a reporter (or newspaperman before that…

A reader (and college teacher) sent me this beautifully written e-mail — and it pounds a little newspaper called the DeSoto Sun over the head with a stick. It can get real bad out there, people. Dear Bob, Please clone yourself and send the doppelganger over here to Florida’s West…

Okay, I just finished an usually well-rounded morning entry — and, as God as my witness, the electricity went out just before I hit the “publish” button. Seriously, right when I was leading the mouse to the button, all the work got killed. I know. You’re saying, save it. Well…

John DeGroot, the former Sun-Sentinel writing coach and Sheriff Ken Jenne aide, is back at work. His new employer: Gold Coast Magazine. The mag is a glossy mostly for rich folk, but Publisher Bernard McCormick is an old-school journalist who steers the publication into some serious stuff. DeGroot — who…

The Sentinel Endorses … As the idiotic destruction continues in Beirut, with innocent people being blown up and an entire nation being bombed into oblivion, our local newspapers are basically egging it on. The dunderheads can’t seem to learn. They got it wrong on Iraq and they’re getting it even…

Just east of downtown Delray Beach, a yard-wide pipe runs beneath the beach, dipping under the sandy floor where the Atlantic laps against the shore. About a mile out, 95 feet under water, the other end of the tube opens up. Out of its barnacle-encrusted mouth spews partially treated sewage…

When I went to see Fane Lozman on his houseboat, I really didn’t know what to expect. I knew Lozman had tangled with officials in North Bay Village a couple of years ago. That ended with the indictment of a city councilman and the resignation of the town’s police chief…

Nothing brings a cranky, diverse group together like an apparent scrape with death. Maneuvering your way into an airplane on a Monday afternoon, you can find yourself muttering in irritation at the mere sight of a guy in a Hawaiian shirt in front of you or a women with caked-on…

When local musicians stormed Duck Soup (named for the classic Marx Brothers comedy) to play Hurricane Fest ’06 (so named because the tempestuous season had begun), I had to be there. And not because I had the perfect party dress. My buddy Timb had organized the event to celebrate his…

Emancipation of Mariah You mean she’s not singing directly to Cole? The words of Cole Haddon’s article about Mariah Carey basically amount to defamation of character (Outtakes, August 3)! I hope Mariah’s legal consultants track you down and rip you to shreds. By the way, Cole, are you one of…

I don’t want to seem to be picking on Beth Reinhard, but hey, I go where the material leads me — and I don’t have time to be too choosy. The Miami Herald political writer covered an event for Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Gallagher over the weekend that’s left the…

Rod Smith, Sack O’ Shit The Tribune Co.’s Tallahassee team, Linda Kleindienst and Jason Garcia, tell us of the shameless political smear being used against U.S. Rep. Jim Davis, who is vying against Rod Smith in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Seems some unsavory folk are spreading the information that Davis…

Newspapers are always talking about getting quotes and material from “real people,” i.e. non-officials. But the truth is that corporate rags are afraid of what real people say and cloy onto officials like Mel Gibson onto a bottle of tequila. Sure, they’ll get real people to talk about how their…