Headquartered in a warehouse in Pembroke Park, film crews have been working for months on a new TV series set in a fictional South Florida town on the edge of the Everglades.”The Glades,” a cops drama, began filming in April, and is set to debut this Sunday on A&E. Creator…
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Palm Beach County environmentalists have good reason to be concerned about the effect that mining will have on the quality of the region’s drinking water. But this video, by the Clean Water Fund, fails to mention that there’s a recent history of mining companies collaborating with corrupt politicians. Palm Beach…
A man who lives at 701 SW 18th Court in Fort Lauderdale has been charged with possession of child pornography after investigators found more than 100 videos and images on his computer that showed children being sexually abused.According to the release by Fort Lauderdale police, Frank Richardson has lived in…
This music video is from Florida Rep. Mike Weinstein from Jacksonville. He’s a Republican — as you probably guessed from the dancing scenes. (Warning: Around the 2:52 mark, a dancer makes a move that’s not quite for the family-values crowd.)I hope some of our South Florida politicians take the cue…
So unless ESPN and every other national sports news source is wrong (it happens), it looks like LeBron James will be joining Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh on the Miami Heat, instantly creating the most interesting and feared team possibly of all time. But before we get to the business…
In what has all the makings of a Faustian bargain, the Heat is on the verge of landing LeBron James to go with Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade. No matter who is signed to fill the remaining spots on the team’s roster, those three players alone make this arguably the…
A 21-year-old man beat an elderly man to death Friday after a dispute over who was entitled to use a fuel pump at a BP station in Lauderdale Lakes. According to the news release by the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the younger man, Ryan Wilson of Lauderhill, was trying to back into…
If the trend continues, there will be a lot of wheeling-and-dealing husbands of elected officials visiting their wives only in prison. Think about it. In Broward County, corruption comes in twos. With most power couples in Broward, it works this way: The wives are fronted as elected officials, and the husbands cut the…
A spin through the local headlines this Thursday morning:LeBron James is said to be “leaning” toward joining Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh on a potentially unbeatable Miami Heat team that will be pure evil. [ESPN]Former Miramar commissioner Fitzroy Salesman will be sentenced today after his conviction for extortion and bribery…
At 1:30 a.m. on February 12, Lisa Pembleton woke to the sound of a man pleading for help. Groggy in the chill of a winter morning, she was bundled inside a thin metal camper. Thick, rural darkness surrounded her. No streetlights or glowing living rooms disturbed the view. Her beloved…
The names of the couples in this story have been changed to protect their identities. If Juan and Juana were going to stage a fake marriage to help Juan get his green card, the two of them figured, they might as well treat some friends to a great meal. They…
Way back in October, this blog used the Tom Ridge terrorist threat chart to rank Broward County’s power couples according to the threat they posed to the integrity of local government. The duo of Richard Rubin and Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin posed an “elevated” risk of committing corruption; and indeed Wasserman-Rubin…
Prosecutors typically don’t cite reporters as a source when they’ve built a criminal case, and today’s indictment of Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin is no different. So here’s a little footnote.Today’s charges would likely have never happened if not for this March 2005 article by New Times columnist Bob Norman…
There’s an old saying that goes something like “never trust the media.” At New Times, we take axioms as seriously as anybody. We don’t even trust each other. For instance, the lunch I put in the fridge? It’s a decoy. My real lunch is in the rafters. See how you…
This week’s New Times feature story is an in-depth look at John Goodman, the multimillionaire polo mogul accused of causing the fatal car accident that killed 23-year-old Wellington native Scott Wilson…
All’s fair in love, war, and NBA free agency. Hundreds of millions of dollars up in the air, along with countless NBA titles. Dwyane Wade is nothing if not competitive — and ruthless. Wade has long known that the Chicago Bulls are his primary competition in luring the other two big…
UPDATED: The probable-cause affidavit (click link) was just released by the State Attorney’s Office. It details how Wasserman-Rubin voted to approve millions in county bond money on three grants written by her husband, Richard Rubin, that netted him three $15,000 bonuses from the Town of Southwest Ranches. It also alleges that Wasserman-Rubin…
A look at the local news for Wednesday morning in South Florida:Within hours of announcing her resignation from the Broward County Commission, Diana Wasserman-Rubin was arrested and charged with unlawful compensation, based on her casting votes on grants for Southwest Ranches that were written by her husband, Richard Rubin. [Sun-Sentinel]Two…
Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin appears to be the latest elected county official to face corruption charges. As usual, Bob Norman has the scoop. Check out his post on Pulp…
