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Entries from LAist tagged with 'palmbeach'

May 2, 2007

With 268,138 millionaire households, our county, the largest in the nation, holds 3% of the nation's millionaires, or 23% of the state's. And California, that's just for starters: 1. L.A. 2. Cook (Chicago) 3. Orange 4. Maricopa (Phoenix) 5. San Diego 6. Harris (Houston) 7. Nassau 8. Santa Clara 9. Palm Beach 10. King (Seattle) From CNN Money Photo by Kristo via Flickr......

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March 3, 2007

#140 Vietnam vet and retired paratrooper dies in Palm Coast. Family pays over $4,000 to have him dressed in a jumpsuit and placed in a crate enclosed in cardboard box and sent to his family in Kentucky. His nude body arrived in a wet cardboard box tied with two pieces of nylon. [Kentucky.com] #141 A pack of pit bulls is still on the loose in Deerfield Beach. They have attacked a man at a......

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February 17, 2007

#106 Electricity is not restored to elderly woman's Cutler Bay home for 15 YEARS - CBS4 #107 The FDA says that marijuana has no medical value, but then goes ahead and approves the "LaserComb" from a Miami company that claims to be able to restore hair to balding scalps - EarthTimes #108 Palm Harbor man found guilty of sexually touching an 8 year old girl on a Southwest flight - Local 6 #109 And......

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January 22, 2007

#58 Tallahassee man shoots a one-pound duck, brings it home, puts it in the fridge, two days later his wife asks, "is that a live duck in our fridge or are you just happy to see me." - WREG #59 Palm Beach fines Donald Trump $1,250 a day for his huge flagpole - Orlando Sentinel #60 Ft. Lauderdale literally about to nickel and dime their townsfolk by adding 250 more parking meters - Sun-Sentinel......

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January 14, 2007

#46 St. Augustine Motherhood Maternity agreed to settle lawsuits with would-be employees who were not hired because they were pregnant, and with a woman who was fired when she was suspected to be pregnant - Miami Herald #47 Palm Beach County's violence reminds some of Miami in the 70s & 80s: "Today, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw says we are on the cusp of becoming another Miami. The gang names have changed —......

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January 6, 2007

#18 Handcuffed man in the back of a police car dies after being tasered by cops - Palm Beach Post #19 The director of the Central Florida Police Benevolent Association, a law enforcement union that represents sheriffs, police, corrections, probation and public employees, is accused of molesting two girls when they were 8 and 12 - AP #20 Quasi hog-tie of an autistic teen by Miami police leads to coma and then death -......

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January 3, 2007

Miami Dolphin Head Coach repeatedly told the press that he would not jump ship and go coach college boys in Alabama for millions of dollars, today he announced that he is jumping ship and going to coach college boys in Alabama for $32 million dollars - USA Today Miami Herald headline: The anti-Shula bails out as a greasy, dishonorable coward Don Shula disses Saban on the way out: "My reaction is that Saban in......

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January 2, 2007

Florida fucks up every day. They're a blight to this country. We love 'em, but they blow. Big Time. The hide in the corner of the nation in shame and they should. Every day we will list three or four troubling things that they should be sorry about. We won't stop until they change their motto from "The Sunshine State" to "We're Really Really Sorry". 4. Palm Beach County's homicide rate rose by 26%......

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January 1, 2007

Every day, if not several times a day, someone in Florida does something stupid. Usually really stupid. Or disgusting, or ridiculous, or laughable. So every day LAist will keep an eye on the three to four worst things of Florida and present them to you. Why? Why not. 1. 68 year-old man stabbed to death today in what is the first murder of Broward County - CBS4 2. Jacksonville child molester wanted for "violent......

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December 18, 2006

- Chandler family may buy back LA Times - AP - That kid to took the salad dressing jar into the mens room and topped it off with his own special sauce, allegedly? That's his mug shot - Smoking Gun - E!'s Giuliana DePandi to marry game show contestant (which, yes, is an upgrade from Jerry O'Connell) - E! Online - Asian lawyer from Nor Cal wins Survivor - Palm Beach Post - Even......

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June 27, 2006

Who would have ever thought that the biggest druggie in LA radio would be on the conservative KFI, and their most out-spoken anti-drug proponent? Indeed Rush Limbaugh was caught again for drugs that didn't have his name on the bottle and instead of hillbilly heroin this time the Florida resident was busted for pecker pills. "While going through routine Customs inspection of luggage at Palm Beach International Airport upon his return from an international......

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April 28, 2006

Cigar-smoking right-wing nutjob Rush Limbaugh, the former Oxycontin addict, has been arrested in West Palm Beach, Florida for prescription drug fraud. According to the AP, authorities discovered he'd gotten 2,000 painkillers in 6 months, prescribed by 4 doctors. That is, by our count, more than 10 pills per day. Limbaugh was released on $3,000 bail — how much Oxycontin would that buy? Also out on bail: USC freshman quarterback Mark Sanchez had to cough up......

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