“God Can Judge Me,” says the tattoo on Jovon Gibson’s neck, but it looks like a Broward County judge will get the first crack. The 22-year-old from Miami has been arrested for the murder of Richard Burke, 48, of Wellington, last April.The Broward Sheriff’s Office release contains few details of…
Not quite depressed enough about your failure to resolve the Gulf spill and the educators being sacked at Broward County schools? Then let’s learn about Oskar Garcia.The 6-year-old kindergartner at the Sagemont School in Weston loves birds in a way that most of us should but can’t. Oskar’s been devastated…
Sprechen sie deutsch? If so, you know that Schlitterbahn is German for “slippery road,” and Fort Lauderdale commissioners had better tread carefully in their dealings with the Texas-based developer that wants to put a massive water park on the land occupied by Lockhart Stadium, near the city’s airports.Schlitterbahn’s most recent…
Here’s what’s happening in South Florida this Thursday morning:On the jailhouse phone, 15-year-old Wayne Treacy talks to his parents about living in Key West after serving time for nearly beating to death Josie Lou Ratley at a Deerfield Beach school bus stop in March. [Sun-Sentinel]Hollywood eye doctor Alan Mendelsohn is…
We’ve seen indictments, we’ve seen handcuffs, we’ve seen some of the worst elements in this town go down hard. But please don’t think that things have changed. They haven’t. This place is still run by the lowest common denominator. There’s still a whole lot of work to be done. I…
For the past year, New Times staffers and freelancers have sacrificed themselves for you. They’ve eaten the best pizza. They’ve logged their time at stellar art shows, plays, music venues. They’ve become barflies at strip joints and coffeehouses. They’ve paddled the coolest kayak trips and hiked the top trails. So…
Twelve years ago, Jose Saenz was a Los Angeles Unified School District dropout and run-of-the-mill tagger known on the east side of Los Angeles as Smiley, a nod to the way he flashed his trademark brilliant grin. At age 22, he sidled up to two young east-side men peddling dope…
The date on this video is June 16. So what’s Marco Rubio doing giving speeches for Republican women in San Diego during the heat of the Senate race? Don’t tell me that this young whippersnapper would win the U.S. Senate only to leave his term early to run for president…
The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office doesn’t have the same flair for giving its criminal suspects colorful nicknames as the Broward Sheriff’s Office, but maybe we can help. In this surveillance photo, you can see two women wanted for using a stolen credit card to make purchases at Target and Best…
Can you smell the desperation in the air? It’s coming from Broward judges who have drawn unexpected opponents in their reelection attempts. They’re scared. They’re desperate. And increasingly, they are turning to the most ruthless political hustlers around for help. Merciless sharks like 77-year-old Norma Goldstein, the notorious frizzy-haired retiree at Kings Point…
In what’s becoming an annual tradition, the Deerfield Beach Mango Festival is exaggerating the role that the Broward Sheriff’s Office has at the June event.Last year, event organizers claimed that BSO deputies ensured that cash collected at the gates wasn’t skimmed. BSO contradicted that claim, saying that its deputies only…
The South Florida housing market is a wreck. The school districts are laying off teachers by the thousand. Every government agency has had to slash services. There’s record unemployment. And yet Florida’s saving grace is, as always, the tourist industry.But can it survive the millions and millions of gallons of…
If you wondered what the political fallout of the Scott Rothstein case would look like, you can see it in Arizona right now. Former congressman J.D. Hayworth, who is running for the U.S. Senate seat held by John McCain, has been hammering away at the 2008 GOP presidential nominee for taking so…
The news this Wednesday morning in Broward and Palm Beach:Palm Beach County doesn’t trust BP to protect its sensitive marine life. The county is looking to hire a private contractor to install booms that can soak up oil along 14 miles of waterway. BP will be expected to pick up…
The blame game started about a second after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon opened a geyser of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, and it’s too late to stop the game now. So we may as well try to at least separate fact from fiction, starting with the POTUS.With…
When Debra Villegas pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering last week, one detail in her testimony stood out. Villegas, the former chief operating officer at Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, told Judge William Zloch that she originally thought the legal settlement documents she prepared for Scott Rothstein were legitimate. But…
I guess it’s too much to expect aspiring actors to make their money the honest way, by performing Hamlet on the sidewalk, where passersby could put a tip in a jar. Rather, they’re plying their trade in a North Lauderdale Mobil station, where on Memorial Day a three-man troupe created…
Times are tough for American men’s tennis, which desperately needs a colorful character like John McEnroe or Andre Agassi to revive national interest in the sport. It’s not enough for him to be talented; this player has to be a fiery competitor who will either hit an amazing shot or…
For the past year, our staffers and freelancers have sacrificed themselves for you. They’ve eaten the best pizza. They’ve logged their time at stellar art shows, plays, music venues. They’ve become barflies at strip joints and coffeehouses. They’ve paddled the coolest kayak trips and hiked the top trails. So now,…
It’s not often that Republicans pounce on a Barack Obama idea to claim it as their own, but this oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has a way of creating strange bed partners. After reports surfaced Sunday that Barack Obama was preparing to demand that BP open an escrow account…
