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Search Launched for Missing Lauderdale Woman
A 36-year-old woman named Melanie Parada disappeared March 11 from her home on 15 Isle of Venice in Fort Lauderdale. That night, a Thursday, Parada put her 8-year-old daughter to bed. When the daughter woke up that Friday morning, Parada had vanished without a trace.Family members alerted police when they…
Attorney for Victim’s Family Says LeVin Was Driving the Porsche That Killed Tourists
Earlier today, we told you that Derek Cook, the Tamarac man who was allegedly involved in the hit-and-run death of two British tourists last year, has surrendered to police. And now Coral Gables attorney Seth Miles, who’s representing Elford’s family in a civil suit against Cook and Ryan LeVin, says…
Fort Lauderdale Spring Break Has a Pulse?
Or at least it does based on this video, shot Saturday afternoon on Fort Lauderdale Beach. Granted, there’s four dudes for every one female, but isn’t that always the ratio on spring break?[Video shot by joesaho]…
Lake Worth City Manager Gets CNN Treatment
In case you missed it, Susan Stanton was featured in this documentary that aired Saturday on CNN. Alas, it doesn’t have much to do with Lake Worth politics. Rather, it’s primarily interested in the perilous journey that Steve Stanton took to become Susan. Then Susan Stanton was hired to become…
UPDATED: Derek Cook, Alleged Driver in Porsche Hit and Run, Surrenders to Police
Since February 2009, Fort Lauderdale police have been looking for Derek Cook, the Tamarac man who was allegedly racing a Porsche on Sea Breeze Boulevard when he lost control and struck two tourists from Great Britain, killing them.This morning, just before noon, Cook surrendered.Cook, 38, is charged with accessory after…
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Scott Rothstein Was Informant in Mafia Case
After returning from Morocco and before he was locked up on federal charges, Ponzi schemer and disbarred lawyer Scott Rothstein cooperated with federal agents to help build an international Mafia case. The case involves a security company that Rothstein hired at the Versace mansion after he took over management of the famed Miami Beach property last year,…
Tamarac Native Rielle Hunter Gives Her Side of the John Edwards Story
There have been lots of books written so far about the 2008 presidential campaign, but no one’s got a story half as wild as Rielle Hunter. If (OK, when) she writes it, let’s hope she goes all the way back to her childhood in the Woodlands community of Tamarac, where…
George LeMieux Talking Points Get Mangled on Cable News Show
Is there anyone out there besides George LeMieux and his fellow Republicans in Congress who think that this health care issue hasn’t been debated to death? To someone who was appointed to the U.S. Senate this past fall, it may seem like health care reform has sneaked up on Congress,…
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Morning Juice: Grandmother Killed by Deputies in Pompano Beach; St. Patty’s Day Parade Brings Big Shots to Broward
Let’s see what’s happening in Palm Beach and Broward counties this Monday morning:A drug raid around midnight Saturday by Broward Sheriff’s Office led to a deadly shooting after the owner of a suspected drug house, Brenda Van Zwieten, 52, brandished a gun. Van Zwieten’s family says she wasn’t a drug…
“Bar” Group Going After Local Blog
Tobin comes across in the column as an off-the-handle loon, but make no mistake, this isn’t about anti-Semitic idiots who post on blogs (we know better than anyone about that kind of thing). It’s about trying to shut down JAABlog because it has helped to expose a lot of judicial…
Connie Francis on Where the Boys Are… 50 Years Later
Rarely has a single cinematic work shaped the identity of a city like Where the Boys Are did Fort Lauderdale. The spring before the movie was released, 15,000 college kids descended upon the beaches and beer joints of what was then a mostly quiet vacation town. Then in December of…
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UPDATED: The St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Illustrated
This is not the best shot he took at the parade, just the most locally pertinent, since we have both Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Frank Adderley and Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti (who looks like he’s wearing old-peoples’ sunglasses). After the jump, we have the governor, Broward County Mayor Ken Keechl,…
CIF Launches Mobile “Modern Day Slavery Museum”
Ever wondered what it feels like to lift a 32-pound bucket of tomatoes? When the Coalition of Imokalee Workers’ Modern Day Slavery Museum, which kicked off its statewide tour last week, hits town you’ll have a chance. That 32-pound bucket is part of the museum’s multimedia exhibit. South Florida farm…
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Eggelletion: Helping People Led to Prison; Lippman Not Pleading the Fifth
After he tearfully pleaded guilty to money laundering and tax crimes, former Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion called into the Joyce Kaufman show on WFTL 850-AM. Let me say that I never thought I’d see the day that Eggelletion would plead guilty, much less do so with tears and an apology…
Eggelletion Sentence: Two-and-a-Half Years
That does it for the political career of Josephus Eggelletion. Sounds like a sad, pathetic scene at the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach. One tear-choked quote:”What I did was wrong. I’m not trying to hide from it. I’m not trying to run from it.”Just to correct the historical record,…
Crime Duo Steals $6,000 in Cigarettes; Sentenced to Death by Lung Cancer
The Broward Sheriff’s Office is looking for a two-man band of thieves who purloined roughly $6,000 worth of cigarettes from Aunt Molly’s convenience store in North Lauderdale last week.Investigators say that the duo struck around noon on March 5. One thief distracted the clerk while the other went into an…
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Deerfield Commissioner Prepared Grant Request, Then Voted for It
In December 2008, Gloria Battle prepared a grant request for a nonprofit agency seeking funds from the Community Development Block Grant. Three months later, her organization won that $12,000 grant, thanks in part to a vote from Battle, who had been appointed to the City Commission in the period between.The…
Violence at El Toro Loco (Sound Familiar?)
A 23-year-old man has been arrested by the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office in the early Thursday-morning stabbing of a security guard at El Toro Loco. The West Palm Beach-area tavern has been the site of numerous violent encounters over the past year.According to the police report, the suspect is William…
Lawyers Having Heyday; More on Kim’s Suit
Everybody knew it was going to be a lawyers’ bonanza, this Rothstein thing, and now it’s confirmed. I was sent this standard letter to creditors (that particular one went to named creditor Miami metal sculptor Omar Ali) in the Rothstein bankruptcy detailing how much “interim compensation” the lawyers and accountants in the RRA…
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Morning Juice: Eggelletion Prepares for Prison; Norovirus Fears in Broward
Here’s what’s happening in Broward and Palm Beach this Friday:Former Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion will be sentenced today after pleading guilty to charges stemming from an FBI bribery sting. [Miami Herald]Police have identified the man whose remains were found in a box near Jog Road and Beeline Highway in…