A glance at local headlines this January 20:A 6.0 quake rattled nerves in Port-au-Prince this morning, but there’s not much left to destroy in a city where the death toll is at 72,000 and counting. [Miami Herald]The Broward County School District has to trim $47 million from its budget, and…
Let’s give some recognition to the Boutin family of Fort Lauderdale for their heroic deeds in Haiti. Georges Boutin (Facebook profile here) is a 73-year-old orthopedic surgeon at Imperial Point Medical Center who is joined in Haiti by his daughter, Pier Boutin, and his physician son-in-law Mark Hyman. The group…
Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein purchased more than $20 million in jewelry from just two Las Olas stores, says a source close to the case. The bulk of the jewelry was purchased at Levinson Jewelers, and a sizable amount also came from J.R. Dunn Jewelers, said the source. Both stores have already turned over receipts and…
It’s hard to blame Jean Gianacaci for being frustrated. She’s the mother of Christine Gianacaci, one of the four people from Lynn University who are still missing in the rubble of the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince. That video posted today.Considering the scenes of devastation, I don’t know whether more troops…
Welcome to South Florida, you delirious pigskin fans, you! Now that you’re here, remember not to fixate on Miami pre-gaming: The party has been moving steadily northward for years, and anyway, you’ll need to run things on the cheap to afford getting scalped on Super Bowl Sunday. For a complete…
This financial fraud fad just hit close to home, literally. Denny Hughes, a real estate agent awaiting trial on charges of felony theft, kept a Fort Lauderdale office at the corner of North Andrews Avenue and Northeast 4th Street — next door to the luxurious headquarters of New Times, Broward-Palm…
A Guatemalan immigrant in Jupiter is facing deportation after Federal Express employees in Riviera Beach opened a package, inspected its contents, then reported a possible illegal alien to immigration officials, who swooped in when a group of Guatemalans arrived to pick up the package on January 6.The case, which appears…
One week after an earthquake that devastated the Haitian capital, the Floridians for Immigration Enforcement (FLIMEN) are trying to pull off a very delicate public relations maneuver: stating their sympathy for the Haitian people, while also communicating in no uncertain terms that Haitians are not welcome here, no matter how…
One of the latest came at the end of December, on I-75 in western Broward county. It was a 110-pound male, crossing the highway around 1 a.m. Last year, 17 Florida panthers were killed by vehicles, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. That’s nearly 20 percent of…
[jump] table lamp.” Boden’s attorney, David Vinikoor, has denied in news reports that Boden took anything. After moving out of the Castilla house, Boden moved into a condo at Las Olas River House (you know, the big blue building) rumored to be owned by former teen idol David Cassidy. Bankrutptcy records show that…
Here’s what’s in the local news this Tuesday morning:Mereille Dittmer, the 50-year-old woman from Pembroke Pines who somehow survived for five days in a tiny space within a collapsed Port-au-Prince grocery store, told her amazing story to reporters Monday. [WPTV]The families of the four Lynn University students still missing in…
The University of South Florida residence halls have been the sight of two bizarre, terrifying sex crimes in the past three months, both involving young men who were visiting the school. Last week a 23-year-old woman was allegedly raped in her sleep by a man who was a friend of…
Looks like the zoophiles we interviewed for this New Times feature didn’t convince Sen. Nan Rich. The Sunrise-based state legislator has re-introduced a bill that would make it a crime for a human being to have sex with an animal.Last year, though, her bill’s first draft made human-animal sex a…
The photo speaks for itself, so today I want to tell you about Fane Lozman, a city activist whose home has been seized by the federal government and is now being sold out from under him by the City of Riviera Beach. It’s a case in which a vindictive city is crushing a…
If you’re running for U.S. Senate like Marco Rubio, it’s hard to break the habit of speechifying, even if you’re just stepping outside your car and walking into a new campaign office in Clearwater. But just stick with it a few minutes. A few sympathetic people are bound to stop…
Every championship team needs overachievers — players who are performing far better than anyone could have expected. Players like Fort Lauderdale native Benny Sapp, who helped the Minnesota Vikings stomp the Dallas Cowboys this past weekend.Sapp, who was profiled this past week in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (story’s available only to…
It used to be the best gravy train on the tracks: If you were a frat brother of Charlie Crist at Florida State, you could practically name your job. Harry Sargeant landed a prestigious gig as the finance chairman of the Republican Party of Florida. Crist appointed another “Pike,” Mike…
If you’ve followed the recent machinations of the Florida Bar Association, it’s hard to imagine it will hold Sen. George LeMieux accountable for what appear to be grievous professional sins he committed in 2008.But at least there’s some pressure building, as evidenced by this weekend’s Miami Herald article about the…
Environmental activists and some Riviera Beach residents are fed up with living with “one of the dirtiest power plants in the entire state of Florida,” according to a news release from the Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition. The coalition, along with the Riviera Beach Civic Association, will host a public…
With the spread of cloud computing, social networking, and client-based technologies, fewer and fewer of our computing tasks are taking place on our personal computers. More of them are going online — into the cloud. We have more usernames and passwords to manage than ever.The most reckless web surfers use…
