Is the West Palm Beach condo called South Tower CityPlace for white people only? Yesterday, the Fair Housing Center of the Greater Palm Beaches Inc. announced that it filed a federal lawsuit against Al Coker & Associates, GB West Palm, Gulfstream Capital Partners, and Cervera Real Estate — the developers…
On November 1, Patricia Montes, 15, and Erica Avery, 16 invited an estranged friend over to a home in Hollywood. There, they allegedly stripped her, beat her, and held her down as she was raped by a 19-year-old man. On Friday, our sister paper in Miami posted photos of Montes’…
The family of Mary DeLorenzo Knight, one of the victims slain by Aaron Alexis during the Washington Navy Yard massacre this past September, has filed a lawsuit on her behalf in federal court in Tampa. The suit, filed Tuesday morning, alleges negligence by the government. Alexis, who was a contracted…
Pedro José Maldonado, a Weston father and husband, went on a premeditated murderous and violent rampage that ended with him killing himself in a motel after murdering his wife and one of his sons with a crossbow. According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Maldonado shot his wife and son with…
As he’s done for the last 11 years, yesterday Gary Karp stepped in front of cameras again and demanded answers for his daughter, Marissa. Since the teen’s body was found shot in the Everglades in 2002, the Broward dad has pressed investigators to act. Now, the man many believe to…
According to a report, DNA that matches FSU star quarterback and Heisman hopeful Jameis Winston has been found in a sample taken from the underwear of a Tallahassee woman who has accused him of sexual assault. The report also says the State Attorney’s Office investigating the case has been in…
As we reported last night, Rep. Trey Radel, who represents the 19th Congressional District in the Fort Myers-Naples area and calls himself the “Hip Hop Conservative,” was arrested on October 29 for “unlawfully, knowingly and intentionally” possessing “a quantity of cocaine.” Now, new information has surfaced that says the arrest…
A judge ruled on Tuesday that George Zimmerman is not allowed to possess weapons or ammunition and will be monitored with a GPS. The judge also set Zimmerman’s bail at $9,000. Zimmerman was arrested Monday afternoon after a domestic dispute with his pregnant girlfriend. According to the girlfriend, Zimmerman pointed…
George Zimmerman was arrested Monday for allegedly pushing his pregnant girlfriend, making it his latest brush with the law, which is shocking because he’s such a law-abiding guy, as he displayed when he once shot an unarmed 17-year-old black kid who brazenly decided to walk down the street with a…
George Zimmerman has been arrested in Orlando after an apparent domestic incident at a residence. Zimmerman was arrested by the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office about 1 p.m. today, authorities said. The Sheriff’s Office stated it will release the 911 call and the police report as soon as they become available…
This just keeps happening again and again. This week, Boca Raton Police tossed the cuffs on another psychic accused to using her connection to the spirit realm to line her pockets with cash. Stephanie Thompson — who did her cosmic business under the name Stephanie Lee — had a plan…
Palm Beach Police have a released a video of nine suspects, seven of them minors, in the burglary of the Toys ‘R’ Us located in the 20000 block of South State Road 7 in Boca Raton. On the video, it appears a family of nine — one adult male, one…
It’s terrifying when your kids can’t walk down the halls of school without ducking a possible sexual assault. Over at Blanche Ely High, one underaged girl was allegedly assaulted in a hallway bathroom by a fellow student Tuesday. Now the 18-year-old boy is in custody. The whole thing went down…
The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office busted gang members after they posted a video on YouTube of themselves rapping while brandishing firearms. The PBSO stumbled onto the video, which shows several gang members showing off their guns and displaying gang signs with their hands. The video not only led authorities to…
The two two teens accused of gang-raping and beating a 16-year-old girl have been ordered to jail without bond. Jayvon Woolfork, 19, and Lanel Singleton, 18, were a part of a group of five teens arrested for being a part of the gang beating and eventual rape of the victim…
Albert T. Lambert, a 52-year-old emergency room doctor at Florida Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, overdosed on drugs yesterday just before police could arrest him for the murder of his ex-wife, Kimberly Lindsey, a nurse at Bak Middle School of the Arts in West Palm Beach. Police records also mention…
I’ll never forget Halloween when I was seven years old. After a night of picking up the goods going door-to-door in the neighborhood, I immediately dump my new stash out on the living room floor. A Baby Ruth first. I take those first delicious bites. Suddenly, a sharp pain blitzkriegs…
On Thursday evening, the body of Port Saint Lucie resident Alisa Susan Kerman, 52, was found in her home. She had been bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer. The two people who lived with Kerman, David Weingard, 27, and Georgia Scordamaglia, 31, had gone missing, along with some firearms Kerman…
What if Fort Lauderdale Police mapped the city’s gun owners and increased patrols only in those neighborhoods where guns were concentrated? And if those neighborhoods were mostly black? Or Hispanic? Or white? How about if cops, taking advantage of a smart partnership with big data experts IBM, targeted crime-heavy neighborhoods…
Let’s just get this out of the way first. OK, that’s better. Now, last week, a familiar face on the Boca Raton party scene was taken into police custody after allegations of sexual assault arose. When we say party scene, we’re not talking about nightclubs. Jesse Coursey is a dance…
Anthony “Little Tony” Ferrari, who had been accused of having Miami Subs founder Konstantinos “Gus” Boulis rubbed out in a Mob-style hit, has been found guilty of murder and murder conspiracy. The jury handed down its verdict after seven hours of deliberation. Ferrari and Anthony “Big Tony” Moscatiello were accused…
Henry “Bud” Read III, an 84-year-old Fort Lauderdale community leader, is facing child molestation accusations, police say. Read was arrested after the two young girls he allegedly fondled last November came forward. The victims say this wasn’t the only time Read did this…
