Sorry, Fox News, but ol’ Jeb ain’t quite ready to announce his support for Marco Rubio. He’ll need a bigger stage than Neil Cavuto’s show. It’ll happen at a time and a place when it can do maximum damage to the Crist senatorial campaign. And when it happens, let’s all…
Now that former U.S. Congressman Mark Foley has begun his unembarrassed return to Republican politics, it’s tempting to recall the many other disgraced Floridians who perhaps should have stayed hidden longer. Blithely ignoring the infamy of their scandals, these public figures insist on resurrecting their careers. Shouldn’t there be a…
Raymond Holmes and David Tillman, coaches at Hollywood Christian Academy, have been arrested for lewd and lascivious battery after they allegedly had sex with teenaged girls on the track team. According to the probable-cause affidavits, the two teenaged victims skipped school this past Friday, phoning Holmes and Tillman, who picked…
Here’s an outrageous piece of video, courtesy of Acts of Sedition.com. It’s from last night’s Deerfield Beach Commission meeting. You’ll see City Attorney Andy Maurodis talking to the commissioners about his failure to get any response from his requests for financial records from Arlington Park Family, a nonprofit that accepted…
A Midwest basketball legend who spent a brief retirement in South Florida, Deon Thomas didn’t take long to establish success as a coach. This month, in his first head-coaching job, Thomas led his junior college team deep into the post-season tournament.Thomas had settled in Pembroke Pines after a legendary career…
Here’s what’s happening in Palm Beach and Broward:The Broward Sheriff’s Office received a tentative agreement with Pompano Beach, but the commission approved a deal for just two and a half years, not five, and Sheriff Al Lamberti will have to demonstrate he can control salary increases and the cost of…
Lingerie Football League executives, being the true arbiters of class and taste that they are, have put two of the best players in the league on probation for — of all things — having too much on during a recent photo shoot.Mariam Mortaza, sister of the league founder, recently informed…
He won’t give his name, but as he sat across from me in a Fort Lauderdale eatery today, he was clearly stressed as he talked about the place of worship, the Downtown Jewish Center Chabad. The chabad has been in the news because Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein was not only a dedicated…
By the end of tonight’s meeting of the Deerfield Beach Commission, local lawyers will be licking their chops. That’s because the city appears to be on the brink of filing lawsuits against a number of nonprofit agencies that have been slow to give the city a better look at the…
Two Palm Beach sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a man in Lantana this morning while serving him a warrant for violation of probation. The Palm Beach Post has identified the man this afternoon as Allen H. Hunter, 45. Hunter’s brother told reporters that Hunter suffered from a bipolar disorder.Sheriff Rick…
There’s the pride of Broward County, George LeMieux, talking about the terrible suspense as he waited to hear whether his best friend, Charlie Crist, and Crist’s chief of staff (a position LeMieux held the year before) were going to appoint him to be a U.S. senator.It’s a heartwarming story and…
The graphic on the right comes from an email that Deerfield Beach’s forensic auditor sent Monday to the city attorney. It shows the income that Dan Poitier drew over three years of running the Westside Deerfield Beach Businessmen Association, a nonprofit organization that received federal funds through the city for…
The murder of Melissa Britt Lewis in March 2008 was devastating to many people. A bright, talented, 39-year-old attorney, she was the social coordinator for her friends and a generous aunt who had planned to take her niece to a Jonas Brothers concert just before she died.To Debra Villegas’ family,…
John Thrasher and Jeff Atwater worked as an attorney and a banker, respectively, before they became state senators and declared themselves experts on how to educate your Florida child. You see, it’s quite simple: Good teachers inspire students who score high on standardized tests; bad teachers cause students to score…
Well, GOP consultant Roger Stone was deposed in the Scott Rothstein bankruptcy case yesterday and, true to his usual form, he didn’t disappoint. And of course, most of the good stuff didn’t concern the real business at hand, which is whether Stone owes Rothstein creditors $60,000 that was listed as…
A glance at the local news: Josie Lou Ratley’s mother talked to the media yesterday about her daughter’s condition following the brutal beating that occurred last week at a bus stop on the campus of Deerfield Beach Middle School. [WPLG-10]The Broward County auditor says that if the Broward Sheriff’s Office…
In April 1993, Debra Taylor, the tall, boisterous woman who would become Scott Rothstein’s treasured secretary, gave birth to a son. Already caring for two daughters from a previous relationship, Debra, then 25, wasn’t in a position to handle this baby alone.When the baby was a few months old, Debra…
There’s still no official word on what evils the forensic auditor found in its recent analysis of Deerfield Beach finances, but Chaz Stevens isn’t the type to wait. Back on March 1, as that auditing firm was arriving in town, Stevens composed these lyrics, which he sent to city staffers:You…
As Tiger Woods tunes up for the Masters, Mrs. Tiger Woods has left the couple’s Orlando-area home for a trip to Palm Beach — specifically, to hop aboard Privacy, the yacht docked there.Before leaving shore, Elin Nordegen had better be careful there aren’t any stowaway mistresses. Shortly after reports of…
Fort Lauderdale police have just released a description of the SUV driver who struck and killed Carolyn Bianco and injured her friend, Victoria Kirby, earlier this month:He has been described as a white/light skinned male, 30s, dark hair, possibly worn slicked back, clean shaven, and slender built. Anyone who may…
