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Polk County

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Truck Crash Spews Gallons of Sulfuric Acid Over Florida Highway

    Massive semi-truck crashes can run the gamut from the comical -- liquor everywhere! and milk! -- to the bizarre -- like  that Chinese truck that spewed live fish all over the highway -- to the profitable, when a bank truck overturns and spews millions of coins. It's hard to think of too many pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2012

    Florida Atheists Spray Highway With "Unholy Water" to Protest Religious Blessing

    ​The eternal war between righteous Christians and smarmy nonbelievers has a new ground zero: rural Highway 98 in Polk County, Florida. First, a religious group called Polk Under Prayer blessed the Central Florida asphalt strip with "holy oil" to protect the county from Satan, "evildoers" and "the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Jason Smiddie Stabbed Grandma 100 Times and Shot Her With a Crossbow, Cops Say

    ​Police across Florida are looking for a 19-year-old accused of killing his own grandma as brutally as possible: By stabbing her more than 100 times, beating her in the face with a wrench and even shooting her in the head with a crossbow.Jason Aristotle Smiddie has been on the run since police in ... More >>

  • News

    June 23, 2011

    McKay scholarship program sparks a cottage industry of fraud and chaos

    ​Police across Florida are looking for a 19-year-old accused of killing his own grandma as brutally as possible: By stabbing her more than 100 times, beating her in the face with a wrench and even shooting her in the head with a crossbow.Jason Aristotle Smiddie has been on the run since police in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Polk County Deputy Tied Naked Children to Desk and Spanked them with Sex Toys

    ​Well, there's really no word for how disgusting and messed up this is. Robin Leigh Pagoria, a Sheriff's Deputy in Polk County, Florida, is accused of tying two young girls to a desk, spanking them with sex toys, and capturing it on video so her online boyfriend could watch. Ugh.

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Florida Woman Arrested for Faking Orgasm to Try and Get Her Neighbor's Son to Stop Playing Basketball

    ​Florida residents are world renowned for being exceedingly logical and rational, and so now we bring you yet another tale of Floridians acting completely sane. Ellen Beth Wachs, a woman in Polk County, was feeling a little sick one day when her neighbor's son started playing a loud game of basket ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2011

    Fertilizer Company Pays $10K for Cake Baked by Agriculture Commissioner's 9-Year-Old Daughter

    ​Something doesn't smell right about the actions of The Mosaic Co., a leading Florida fertilizer company. OK, nothing ever smells good about the fertilizer business, but in this sense we mean it smells politically funny. The company ended up shelling out $10,000 at a fair auction for a cake baked ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2008

    Updated: Ringling Bros. Elephant Injures Trainer

    ​Something doesn't smell right about the actions of The Mosaic Co., a leading Florida fertilizer company. OK, nothing ever smells good about the fertilizer business, but in this sense we mean it smells politically funny. The company ended up shelling out $10,000 at a fair auction for a cake baked ... More >>

  • News

    May 9, 2002

    A Man in Full Fight

    Hear why this crusader wants to save you from the evils of gay rights

  • News

    February 28, 2002

    Resegregation Now, Resegregation Forever!

    Are charter-school conversions the vanguard for public education or a scam for resegregating the learning experience and making a lot of money?

  • News

    April 4, 1996

    Scalded: The Afterburn

    A state fraud investigator says he was punished because he tangled with U.S. Attorney Kendall Coffey

  • News

    December 7, 1995

    Scalded

    A long-time aide. A few thousand dollars' worth of dubious insurance receipts. A cauldron of allegations. U.S. Attorney Kendall Coffey has been . . . scalded

  • News

    August 10, 1994

    Road Show

    Want to know more about Jeb Bush? The machinations of Florida's Republican party? Vomiting? Get on the bus.

  • News

    January 12, 1994

    The Amazing Crespo!

    Whether agitating on behalf of Florida's film industry or aiming cruel barbs at state officials, ex-con activist Al Crespo is a gadfly with an attitude

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