Here are the top headlines today:Charlotte Gilmore Durante, former Delray Beach city commissioner, was arrested on charges of running a Ponzi scheme. The Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office says she stole about $1.8 million from 83 investors. [Palm Beach Post]Palm Beach Gardens High School Student Tyree Patrick was arrested…
Sean Healy sat fidgeting in a low, black-leather chair, stuck in a sixth-floor law-firm conference room overlooking SE Second Street in downtown Fort Lauderdale. It was April 7, 2009, and he was being asked a series of questions usually reserved for Las Vegas barmaids. “Do you know Dennis Rodman?” “Sure,”…
See for yourself. On the right, that’s the cover of the story I wrote in August 2009 about zoophiles — people who love and have sexual intercourse with animals. Now compare it with the image below, which goes with a single, “Round and Round,” by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, a…
Controversial Broward County School Board Member Bob Parks is expected to announce soon that he is withdrawing from the School Board race against challenger Nora Rupert and leave the board after some 24 years in office, according to reliable School Board sources. Parks, facing his first opponent since 1998, may have…
If Rothstein was a mini-Madoff, then Sean Healy was a mini-Rothstein. But as you’ll read in this week’s feature, “mini” doesn’t do Healy’s larger-than-life MO justice: He blew the nearly $16 million he stole from 40 investors on exotic cars, a $2.4 million country club mansion (plus $2.3 million in…
A 20-year-old man from Fort Lauderdale has been arrested and charged in the beating death of Rood Marc Desronvil on May 18 at the Normandy Village apartment complex in Lauderdale Lakes.Late that afternoon, Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call of a large disturbance in the Normandy Village parking…
Baseball’s a funny sport. If you steal a bunch of bases, they put you in the Hall of Fame. But if you steal $15 million, they slap you with a felony indictment — even though Vincent Mazzuto sent some of that wealth to the Yale baseball team.According to today’s story…
Aww. Jeff Greene’s mom is adorable! And she’s just steamed by these “career politicians” who have the nerve to run for reelection against her sweet, rapacious son.But if we send Jeff to Washington, who will dry his mom’s dishes after he leaves? Seriously, I know this brand-new ad was designed…
If you regularly read this blog — and Bob Norman’s Daily Pulp — then you’re liable to develop a slightly cynical perspective, expecting that this will be the day you click over to learn your Broward or Palm Beach neighbor had been plotting murder and/or political mayhem. That feeling of…
Yesterday’s Cooper City Commission meeting melted down in near-chaos in front of a troop of Boy Scouts — and we have video. It all began when a citizen had the audacity to criticize Mayor Debby Eisinger. Longtime resident and former City Commissioner Gladys Wilson, speaking during the public-input part of the meeting, said that…
A rundown of local news items on this Wednesday morning:A Boynton Beach family is devastated by an insurance company’s decision to renege on a guarantee that it would pay for the residential treatment of Ryan Crofutt, 25, who needs treatment for brain damage and was prepared to receive therapy at…
The University of Michigan today announced that its football coaching staff violated NCAA rules for the amount of athletics-related activity its players could perform and the number of coaches who could be employed. Although the investigation concluded that the violations were far less severe than portrayed in local media accounts,…
David Byrne, lead singer of the rock band Talking Heads, has filed suit against the Charlie Crist senatorial campaign, alleging that Crist has used a song that Byrne wrote, “Road to Nowhere,” in a commercial without having received permission from Byrne to do so.Check out the County Grind report from…
Attention, working-class mortals! There’s a crisis atop our local Mt. Olympus (the island of Palm Beach), where the high-society luminaries are in danger of having an ordinary Publix grocery store blight their otherwise extraordinary commercial space.At a recent symposium hosted by the Palm Beach Civic Association, 23 residents of the…
There’s no love loss between Mayor Joy Cooper and rabble-rousing Commissioner Keith London, but it seemed for a moment that there might at least be a period of détente after Cooper finally came around to agreeing with London that the city manager’s position needed a change.Judging by a recent email…
Tonight, Dennis Mele, the lobbyist everyone seems to hate, will again be the object of scorn. When people see Mele come into their town they might as well be looking at swarm of locusts — bad things are going to happen to their land. Don’t worry about Mele though, he’s got to be used to…
The Broward Teachers Union expects that two teachers at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach will be “fully exonerated” after school officials finish investigating a religious argument that occurred in a classroom March 11 in which an atheist claimed that two Christian teachers splashed her with holy water.”We expect…
A glance at the headlines for this Tuesday morning in South Florida:Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood are reporting that they had only half the number of murders in 2009 that they had in 2008. That should lead to an increase in the number of political figures claiming credit for decreasing crime…
My New Times colleague Brandon K. Thorp managed to reach the Rev. O’Neal Dozier today to ask him about the holy-water splashing incident that is the basis for the meeting today between Dozier and pastors from a dozen other local churches. Here’s what Dozier said:”It’s so simple. It doesn’t merit…
