George Zimmerman’s legal team shared an Orlando Sentinel guest column this morning that defends Zimmerman on a level a step above the others: It’s not just that he deserves his fair day in court and people are jumping to conclusions. We should be looking up to Zimmerman. Lots of other people haven’t…
Two 22-year-old brothers were shot just before 1 a.m. while driving in Belle Glade, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. One of the men was found near the intersection of SW Fifth Street and SW B Place, and the other was several blocks away in the passenger seat…
People are suddenly getting interested in the Juliana Mensch murder — it got the Nancy Grace treatment late last month, and now the New York Daily News, Huffington Post, Gawker, Death and Taxes, and Slate have joined in. Everybody’s flipping out over the homicidal Google searches allegedly made by James Ayers…
Corey Graham Sr. tried to do right by the son who bore his name. When Corey Graham Jr. was with his dad in the horse country west of Riviera Beach, he obeyed his curfew and kept his grades up, according to court documents from a custody battle. Corey played offensive…
Earlier this week, Lake Park town commissioners struck down Earl Stewart Toyota’s proposal to erect a 340-foot flagpole along U.S. 1. What a bunch of babies. Among the reasons cited for denying the proposal were traffic and noise concerns. So instead of a hulking display of American awesomeness, the commissioners suggested the auto dealer install an…
A grand jury indicted 23-year-old Nicole Okrzesik in the March strangulation of Juliana Mensch, prosecutors say. She is scheduled to go to trial June 25, alongside codefendant James Ayers.Both are charged with first-degree murder — a capital crime.”They both could face the death penalty, although we reserve judgment for now…
In a revelation sure to put a dent in the stock prices of Florida barf bag manufacturers, Octomom Nadya Suleman has canceled her eight-show engagement at West Palm strip club T’s Lounge, according to TMZ.Suleman reportedly took exception to a WPEC interview in which T’s employees said that Suleman is…
Three Fort Lauderdale police officers turned themselves in to authorities last week after they were notified of charges against them for official misconduct, perjury, and falsifying records in relation to their chase of burglary suspect Kenneth Post. At first glance, it’s the word of a beat-up, long-haired criminal against three…
Ever wonder why Florida has outsourced the care of hundreds of troubled kids to private companies? Yesterday, we reported that prison operator Youth Services International donated $88,000 to Florida politicians in the past five years. The Sarasota company’s donations have greased the wheels for roughly $82 million in taxpayer-funded contracts…
The Fort Lauderdale City Commission will vote tonight on a measure recommending that the speed limit on a section of Dixie Highway be reduced from 30 mph to 25 after being reduced from the 35 mph that a traffic study found to be appropriate in 2009.The request, on paper, is…
We told you yesterday about Michael Wallach, who was shot by police after he reportedly bailed out of a stolen car in West Palm Beach and shot at them.He’s better now and in jail facing charges of, among other things, attempted murder. But the events that led up to his…
If you’re aiming to win multimillion-dollar contracts to run Florida’s juvenile prisons, it helps to have friends in high places. Youth Services International, the for-profit company that runs Thompson Academy in Pembroke Pines along with seven other juvie lockups in the state, has learned this lesson well. During the five-year…
Update, again: T’s Lounge has threatened to sue Suleman if she doesn’t show.Update: She’s reportedly changed her mind. Go figure.Last time we heard about government-mooching fetus factory Nadya “Octomom” Suleman, she was a contender in a rumored celebrity boxing match in Fort Lauderdale that, like every other rumored celebrity boxing match…
George Zimmerman has 48 hours to turn himself in to authorities after his bond was revoked at a hearing this afternoon in which prosecutors accused both Zimmerman and his wife of lying to the court about the $200,000 in donations they collected from a personal website in the days leading…
Hollywood City Manager Doug Hewett was arrested on DUI charges after a police officer reported Hewett was swerving on the way home from a male strip club on Easter Sunday. A meeting this morning was held to figure out what was going to happen to him after Mayor Peter Bober called for…
Three members of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department turned themselves in yesterday after being cumulatively accused of more than a dozen felonies related to the 2009 arrest of Kenneth Post.Sgt. Michael Florenco, Det. Matthew Moceri, and Officer Geoffrey Shaffer, who have a combined 24 years of service in Fort Lauderdale,…
Everyone in the country has heard about the case of Rudy Eugene, the Miami man who was killed by police as he, without any clothes on, ate a homeless man’s face under a bridge. But it wasn’t the only case of cannibalism this week.Maryland 21-year-old Alexander Kinyua was denied bail…
Rudy Eugene was shot by police Saturday afternoon as he ate Ronald Poppo’s face near the Miami Herald building. The Herald had the story on Sunday, along with a photo of Eugene, dead on the sidewalk. Tuesday, the Pulp had two other photographs and the story that the Herald photo…
South Florida is a grifter’s paradise. And the latest con to emerge in this skeezy swampland is as brazen as it is complex: staging car accidents. Earlier this week, the FBI announced that at least ten people have been sentenced in a West Palm Beach court for their role in the scheme. Oscar…
It worked just like comedian Mitch Hedberg said it did — “I like the FedEx guy, ’cause he’s a drug dealer, and he don’t even know it. And he’s always on time.”And now 31-year-old Marco Ceja-Moreno is going to prison.Ceja-Moreno pleaded guilty yesterday to drug distribution charges, according to the…
March 13 was shaping up to be another day of protests and partying at Fort Peace, Occupy Miami’s grungy Overtown safe house. More than a dozen members had shaken off their hangovers and emerged to demonstrate against a bank. But before they could gather their handmade signs and head downtown,…
The latest battle over genetically modified organisms is brewing in Key West. On one side, a British biotechnology firm called Oxitec and a mild-mannered Midwesterner by the name of Michael Doyle, who heads mosquito control operations in the Keys. Together, they want to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in the heart of…
