The gloves are off!

The gentlemanly race between incumbent U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings (top right) and former Florida chief medical officer Dr. Marion Thorpe exploded into a free-for-all.

The brouhaha started last night when Thorpe swore out a police complaint, saying Hastings threatened his life after a candidates forum in Boca Raton. Hastings apparently got ticked off when his impeachment skeleton was brought up at Temple Beth El. Boca P.D. is investigating.

Hastings, meanwhile, countered with this doozy: That Thorpe stopped paying child support for his daughter and was behind by $40,000 in May.

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Here’s something else in the home that could kill you: The ol’ back massager from the specialty gadget store.

Just ask Delray dentist Robert Adami.

A $160 shiatsu massager may have caused more than $1.3 million in damages and the death of Jake, his dog, in a spectacular fire in west Delray Monday.

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It’s gangsta rap meet gangsta meatballs!

The appropriately named Fat Joe, the South Florida rap star, slipped into the kitchen of Café Martorano in Fort Lauderdale to cook up some of the joint’s famous meatballs.

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Camelot baby Caroline Kennedy returned to Palm Beach County on behalf of presidential candidate Barack Obama, whom she compares to her dad, John F. Kennedy.

A child of the 1960s whose Camelot included Palm Beach vacations, Caroline Kennedy returned to the area today for a rare political appearance.

Wearing a T-shirt reading HOPE with a trail of diamonds across the O, the 50-year-old daughter of deceased former President John F. Kennedy passed through Port St. Lucie and West Palm Beach to push the supporters of presidential hopeful Barack Obama to vote early.

She took advantage of the appearances to repeat what she wrote an eye-opening editorial in a Jan. 27 editorial in the New York Times: That like her dad, Obama is the stuff legend! (Read more…)