Considering that Bernie Madoff built himself a cabbage patch of investors, it’s fitting that his former Manhattan penthouse would be purchased by the couple who made their millions from the Cabbage Patch franchise of dolls, Al and Patsy Kahn, who talked to the Times of London.And you’ve gotta love this…
Because if you’re a pedestrian, you run the risk of bumping into a pirate who’s wearing a rat on his shoulder, like this guy at the Delray Beach Art Fair: But hey, at least some people like pirates. Does anybody like the people who shove fliers in the faces of…
Looks like Deerfield Beach forgot to tell its taxpaying citizens that in early 2009, it paid nearly $100,000 to the feds to make up for its misuse of public housing dollars. In fact, those city officials nearly forgot to mention this to the forensic auditing firm specifically investigating how Deerfield…
Christopher Thornton, a 27-year-old coach and child tutor who lived in Lauderhill, has been arrested in a Fort Lauderdale police sting and charged with child sex crimes. According to the department’s news release, investigators tracked Thornton’s IP address to downloaded child pornography. That was enough to get a search warrant…
We already know that Miramar-based Spirit Airlines caters to cheapskates. And we also know that its advertisements and promotions cater to customers who enjoy sexual innuendo. So maybe it’s inevitable that the company would find a lucrative way to merge these two facets of its business.In this article about Spirit’s…
This is a short clip from a documentary by two University of Florida film students. The students, Roman Safiullin from Fort Lauderdale and Jon Bougher from New Hampshire, were in Haiti in January when the big earthquake hit. Despite a university travel ban, the students went back to Haiti several…
Even after weeks of media coverage and national attention, two graduate film students at the University of Florida might not be able to graduate in a few weeks because of a documentary they are making about Haiti. School officials have ruled that the film made by Roman Safiullin of Fort…
Here’s your look at the local news this Monday morning:Horrifying details have emerged in last week’s murder of Nova professor Joseph Morrissey in his Plantation home. Randy Tunidor, 43, a tenant who was to be evicted from a property owned by Morrissey, has been arrested and charged with murder along…
The alleged killer of scientist and Nova Professor Joseph Morrissey was once charged with a 1989 hit-style murder and was himself shot and critically wounded in a shooting in 1993. Tundidor Randy William Tundidor, Morrissey’s townhouse tenant, allegedly served as a hit man for a homicidal brake shop owner named Bentsy Muram. Muram, according to historic published reports, took out a…
UPDATED: Still out of pocket, but I’ve already read the details about the day’s dramatic developments in the comments. You guys have done an admirable job holding down the fort…
Here’s the mug shot of Randy William Tundidor, who has been charged by Plantation police in the murder of Nova Southeastern University Professor Joseph Morrissey. The 43-year-old Tundidor, whose business, Gator Tint, serviced a lot of Plantation police officers, is listed on the arrest report as six-foot-one and 297 pounds. He’s charged with premeditated murder, home invasion…
Busy with a million things but wanted to share this photo of Broward’s proposed new “ethics czar,” Norman Ostrau. It’s Ostrau arm in arm with megalobbyist Ron Book. An ethics czar to be photographed glad-handing Book is sort of like a federal organized crime prosecutor being photographed giving a smooch to Sammy the Bull. It…
Nine students–some pregnant–and two staff members were hospitalized Friday afternoon when a student attacked another student with pepper spray at Seagull Alternative High School, says the Broward County school board. “The perpetrator has been arrested, there’s been a suspension, and an expulsion is recommended,” says spokesperson Marsy Smith.According to district…
There have been rumors in the local legal community that Broward County Judge Lee Seidman is considering a campaign to challenge Broward Circuit Court Judge Susan Lebow, who’s been notorious since February, when she dismissed a death-penalty murder case over a scheduling conflict and a clash with the prosecutor.With exactly…
A search has been launched for a 14-year-old girl, Jainy Santos-Ramos, who is said to be a “habitual runaway.” The girl’s father first reported that the girl disappeared on January 25. She returned on February 3, only to vanish again that night. Santos-Ramos, who lived in unincorporated Broward, hasn’t been…
The Miami firefighter killed Thursday night when his motorcycle was struck by car has been identified as Leslie F. Luma, 37, from Miramar.According to details just released by Hollywood Police Department, Luma was riding his 2005 Suzuki motorcycle north on State Road 7 Thursday night at 8:46 pm when a…
Squawk Radio guru Joyce Kaufman, whose show airs daily on 850 AM WFTL, has announced that Citizens for National Security (CFNS), a nonprofit Public Charity, “has completed an exhaustive 14-month research study which conclusively reveals that a vast number of Florida’s elementary and high-school history and geography textbooks are Islam-slanted.”And…
The last time the Deerfield Beach Housing Authority’s board met, the topic of conversation was Acts of Sedition blogger Chaz Stevens — specifically, whether his blog posts alleging corruption in the housing agency’s contracting process amounted to libel.Yet there’s a good chance that at the next meeting of that board,…
The Sun-Sentinel is reporting another cop shooting this morning. A Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy evidently shot and killed a man, ***44-year-old Richard Montero ***, during a traffic stop at Summit Boulevard and Jog Road in West Palm Beach around 6:30 a.m.UPDATE: It now appears that as with the PBSO…
Six years ago Antonio Balta, a then-27-year-old horse groomer working at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, left his 9-month-old daughter, Veronika, in the car as he waited inside for his girlfriend to get off work. It was mid-March and the temperature was in the low 70s. He went out to…
Free Video HostingCynthia Morrison may seem a typical 50-year-old woman; she lives in West Palm Beach and for 21 years she’s worked in the automotive services industry. But Morrison has an alter ego with a taste for danger. The Great Cindini, as she calls herself, has lately enjoyed a fascination…
