Initial reports about the earthquake in Haiti are terrifying. Good-hearted individuals around the globe will be looking for a way to help. We already know one local charity, Planting Peace, which works primarily with orphanages in Haiti, will be working to get people shelter, food, and water. The best way…
California video artist Scott Gairdner (ScottGairdner.com) has captured the ethos of Florida’s issues with sex offenders — sleeping under bridges and on park benches, or, in the bungalow across the street from you — pretty well in his video “The Sex Offender Shuffle.”…
For anyone with lingering doubts about Dalia Dippolito’s alleged plot to have her husband killed, this is required viewing.Dippolito doesn’t realize her longtime friend has become a confidential informant for the police, and his car is wired with surveillance equipment. At the end of their conversation,she gives him $1,200 to…
Hamilton Forman, the man who was to Broward County what Montgomery Burns is to Springfield, died last night at age 90. The old man had a facility for making friends with powerful figures — especially when it was a simple matter of writing a check to a campaign. That style…
Legendary, tough, and strong-willed land baron and powerbroker Hamilton Forman died last night at age 90. Forman once owned most of Davie and built a real estate empire in Broward County that has been shepherded by his son Austin for the past 20 years. Hamilton Forman controlled the North Broward Hospital District — and…
Like the buttered toast that always falls face first on the kitchen floor, city code inspectors tend to be tough on the conscientious property owner, only to be lax when it comes to the most negligent property owners. Or at least that’s the experience that poor Robert Rosenberg has had…
Benton Lineau is the name of the man who was driving a gold Lincoln Navigator last night, when he was shot in the chest, say Boynton Beach Police. The 23-year-old, who crashed into a home on the 2000 block of Northeast 3rd Street, died later at Delray Trauma Center.Police were…
Let’s patch together the clues of last night’s blaze at a quadplex in Boca Raton: You’ve got only one occupied unit. A cop is a resident of that unit, which is upstairs. And there’s a piece of graffiti in the vacant unit where the fire started that says, “Cop Killa…
We all love dolphins. But few of us love them as much, or as literally, as Malcolm Brenner, who lives in Southwest Florida. Of all the zoophiles I interviewed for this controversial New Times feature story in August, Brenner’s story is the one that most shocked readers. Brenner described how…
Last year, we brought you the case of Ronald Murphy, a convicted sex offender who, for nearly two months, was legally confined to a bench outside of his parole officer’s building in Delray Beach. In 1998, Murphy was convicted of raping a woman on, of all places, a park bench…
Pet Supermarket, the national pet supply store based in Sunrise, is reporting that a device for teaching cats to use human toilets is among its biggest sellers. The Litter Kwitter uses color-coded “training disks” to condition a cat to perform its dirty deeds in a most discreet fashion, by crouching…
The news in Broward and Palm Beach this Tuesday morning:A double shooting late last night in Boynton Beach where one man is dead and another is in critical condition. It appears the shooting occurred on the road and that the dead man — who hasn’t been identified — was driving…
Back in November, I likened the Scott Rothstein scandal to a slow-motion wrecking ball moving through Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti’s command staff. It’s still doing damage. Since Rothstein imploded, the sheriff’s onetime right-hand man, Lt. David Benjamin, has been demoted from Lamberti’s inner circle and is the subject of several…
If it’s not completely clear, the clip above shows a 76-pound male greyhound named BB’s Story Book (referred to by the announcer as “the five”) falling in the first turn of a race at Mardi Gras Racetrack and Gaming Center in Hallandale Beach, getting up, running the wrong way on…
It’s liable to get lost in the avalanche of pregame media coverage, but on January 30, Fort Lauderdale’s Lockhart Stadium will host the first-ever Junior World Championship, pitting 45 of America’s best football players against 45 of the best who play the sport outside the U.S.For the age 19-and-under foreign…
Michael Meldeau, who is on the deposition list in the Scott Rothstein bankruptcy case, told me this morning that he’s not sure why he has been called but said he never invested any money in Rothstein’s Ponzi scheme. Meldeau also confirmed that he had written the comments under his name…
WFTL’s Joyce Kaufman is getting pretty good at managing political stunts. A couple of years ago she collected thousands of shoes to take to Washington to protest illegal immigration. That same year she switched parties — from Democrat to Republican — on the air.And last week Kaufman kicked up such…
For critics who thought her best-selling travel memoir Eat, Pray, Love was a collection of self-indulgent ramblings from an overly privileged woman, Elizabeth Gilbert came prepared to live up to their worst expectations Saturday night.She began her talk at the packed Temple Israel in Miami by bluntly begging the audience…
When the DEA raided a Parkland grow house at 7773 NW 124th Terrace on September 12, 2007 — was Stephen Febonio’s body crammed into a freezer in that very garage? Or had the freezer been moved out just days earlier, while the DEA had the house under surveillance? Documents related…
Jean-Carlo Baptist told police that he was tired and trying to sleep after working a night job, when his 11-week-old daughter wouldn’t stop crying. His wife was working at Walgreens at the time. Baptist had told paramedics that his daughter had fallen out of bed, but after questioning by Boynton…
A couple of years ago, if you’d have said “virtual goods” to someone, they would have assumed you meant digital consumer items like electronic books or music. Not anymore. Now, Virtual Goods are the hottest new market on the Web and it’s expected to hit $1 billion or more next…
