National economies present some of the most complex problems in the world. At this very moment, some of the globe’s most eminent minds are debating how to pull mankind out of its recent economic torpor. And yet somehow, those Nobel Prize-winning economists can’t see what’s perfectly obvious to Florida Sen…
Union protesters outside TD Bank in Miami, where they handed out Scott Rothstein fliers that ask “What Other Illegal Activity Are They Capable Of?” (More on this after the jump). [UPDATED: Just learned from a JAABlog post that a typically weak and negligent Florida Bar investigation regarding the Ana Gardiner…
House Rep. Joe Gibbons of Hallandale Beach says he will ask Gov. Charlie Crist to commute the sentence of a man sentenced to 20 years after the death of his infant daughter. In 2007, as a rookie representative in the Florida House, the first piece of legislation Gibbons passed was a…
Your daily spin through the headlines in South Florida:Nearly two years after New Times’ Bob Norman printed allegations of misconduct against Broward Circuit Judge Ana Gardiner, the Judicial Qualifying Commission has filed formal charges against her on the basis that she discussed a pending death row case outside the courtroom…
The day after Valentine’s Day last year, Heath and Mirelle Miller went to dinner with friends and arrived home to their Wellington duplex in high spirits. They were in their bedroom, celebrating the holiday properly, when Heath Miller thought he heard a noise outside. He pulled back the window curtain…
Brother Micah is back.For those who aren’t familiar with him, Micah Armstrong is a radical Christian preacher who travels to college campuses in the Southeast, preaching his beliefs and calling students porno-watchers and fornicators.He’ll be on Florida Atlantic University’s Boca Raton campus until Friday. While Brother Micah sings “it’s not…
A pain clinic on Dixie Highway in Lake Worth was one of three raided today by Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office deputies. At least one local blogger thinks that the operator is the very same person who just last week was boasting that his was a “legal business.”In a February 25…
Sachia Vickery is the Miramar girl whose mother worked two jobs in order to pay for a world-class tennis education. That investment is starting to pay off, judging by Vickery’s unofficial debut on the national tennis scene Monday night in an exhibition match at Madison Square Garden.That was the site…
The Fox boys, Donald and Earnest, must have heard the legends of the land where painkiller prescriptions grow on trees. The Central Ohio pair allegedly paid a visit to one of our local pill mills, in Hollywood. From the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette:Doctors at a pain clinic signed off on those prescriptions…
Finally. The Judicial Qualifications Commission — nearly two years after I broke the story about Circuit Judge Ana Gardiner’s improper contact with former state prosecutor (and RRA hire) Howard Scheinberg — has filed formal charges against the judge. Rumors are swirling that Gardiner is set to resign her position as soon as today. We knew that…
Monday night was full of surprises for Jasper Morland Jr. It appears the 29-year-old Deerfield man had romance on his mind when he booked a room at the Super 8 in Pompano Beach. A fine place for an intimate evening with a woman he met in an online chatroom.But before…
It seems like a fairly straightforward case. On October 26, during a speech by Nazi historian David Irving at the Ritz-Carlton in Manalapan, a man named Christopher Nachtman invited another member of the audience, John Kopko, outside the banquet hall to settle a disagreement. Nachtman pulled a knife and stabbed…
This afternoon, the Palm Beach County School Board will vote on whether to fire two H.L. Watkins Middle School teachers who admitted to having sex with former band teacher Heath Miller on school grounds.As this week’s New Times feature story explains, these affairs came to light after Miller was arrested…
UPDATED: The impending Debra Villegas plea deal has for good reason taken top billing in the Rothstein case today. I spoke with Villegas’ attorney, Paul Lazarus, this morning, and he told me that he wouldn’t confirm or deny the existence of a plea deal. “Without an OK from her, I will not discuss the case,”…
A self-proclaimed “Tea Party activist” from Coral Springs filed three complaints again Ron Saunders of Key West, the House Democratic leader, yesterday. James K. Barnes, a salesman by trade, alleges Saunders violated the public trust by “double dipping” on travel and per diem expenses and by violating campaign finance rules.”Rep…
Hark! Be that the ghost of Sen. Henry Clay, former champion of the Whig Party? The Great Compromiser was a fierce opponent of Andrew Jackson and is credited with creating the Whigs, a party that vanished around 1856, shortly after Clay’s death; but it’s being revived in Florida because, why…
Let’s see what’s in today’s local media:Two teachers will be fired today by the Palm Beach County School District for having sex with former band teacher Heath Miller on school grounds. One of those two women says that Miller raped her, but the district finds that claim unconvincing, since the…
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Uninformant www.thedailyshow.com Daily ShowFull Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform I’m so glad after Rick Sanchez left Channel 7 to go national with CNN (and MSNBC prior) that Jon Stewart has picked up the mantle of skewering Miami’s favorite…
Eight days before he was murdered by his mother’s ex-boyfriend, Atlanta-area football star Rajaan Bennett wrote an essay tracing the brutal challenges he had weathered by the age of 18. An excerpt of that essay from a story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:In the year of 2000, I moved from the…
I sympathize with people like Linda Casey, who was traumatized by her discovery of her daughter’s dead body in the driveway of her North Carolina home, then mortified when the local news played her 911 call in a telecast. But that is still the lesser of two evils.If such 911…
