A new startup in West Palm Beach is hoping to combine the more traditional public relations sector with the new media niche of women who blog. There are a lot of them, and they are likely more active than most of their male counterparts, some studies might suggest.Seeing the gap…
On the day that Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein missed his first payment to several investors in what was a billion-dollar scam, his friend Ovadia “Ovi” Levy called on the Plantation Police Department. Levy didn’t mention the massive crime that was beginning to unfold when he contacted police on Friday, October 23. Instead…
As every other movie attests, being an FBI agent is exciting! Except in a place like in Wichita, Kansas, where crime-busting business is so slow that agents apparently have time to take their investigative leads from their fax machine. And that’s how they met one of your Boca Raton neighbors,…
Last night on NBC’s Sunday Night Football, the world saw a new dimension of Devin Hester. Late in the game, with his team desperate for a first down the Riviera Beach native, U. Miami alum and current Chicago Bear ran a crossing pattern. But his quarterback, Jay Cutler, threw the…
It’s Thanksgiving week. Let’s check the headlines:Take a wild guess why a “youth minister” is in the news. (It’s the only reason they’re ever in the news.) [Sun-Sentinel]As classmates mourn the deaths of the three Coral Springs teens killed last weekend after their car plunged into the canal, police say…
Fort Lauderdale attorney Bill Scherer is about as good a source on the money end of Scott Rothstein’s Ponzi scheme as you’re going to find right now. He’s representing about $100 million in investor losses, including those of the Doug Von Allmen family. Von Allmen and his family members invested in Rothstein’s…
Signs have been appearing on telephone poles around Fort Lauderdale neighborhoods, dangling a proposition to cash-strapped homeowners: Rent out your home to a group of football fans visiting for the winter bowl season. The sign lists a phone number (866) 95 GRAND and claims to help land a rate of…
I’m not gonna lie, we had a hard time coming up with a “funny” list this week. With Dolphins fans still reeling from the news Ronnie Brown is out for the season with a foot injury, we figured we’d do “The Most Famous Feet in South Florida” or something like…
If you feel at all sorry for Fort Lauderdale businessman George Levin for apparently losing a great deal of his money — or other people’s money — in Scott Rothstein’s Ponzi scheme, you can stop now. Levin was behind the Banyon Investors Fund, which drew other hedge funds and investors…
Watch this video of an assault and car theft that occurred at a BP gas station in Pompano Beach. Maybe I’m jaded, but it’s at least a little comical how the man in the wifebeater comes out of the mini-mart, hugging a 12-pack of Corona, only to see that some…
No, this one didn’t involve Scott Rothstein. It was the lonely, forlorn creature to the left, who came to the SunTrust at 501 E. Las Olas this morning, then waited patiently for other customers to leave. This is from the Fort Lauderdale Police news release:Once he was alone in the…
Jodie Kelly, a horse dressage rider from a well-known family in Destin, has been sued by a woman who says she relied upon Kelly’s opinion in buying a $38,000 horse that proved to be lame.The plaintiff is also from Destin — Victoria Guennewig, who in 2007 was shopping for a…
If you’ve read this week’s New Times cover story on the rise and fall of South Florida’s daily newspapers, you’re familiar with the Sun-Sentinel’s infamous memo-writer, Lee Abrams. He’s the chief innovation officer for the Tribune Co., the Chicago-based media giant that owns the Sun-Sentinel.Abrams’ goal is to get the…
Nearly 23 years ago, Pembroke Pines-based Survival Research Foundation launched an investigation into whether the deceased really survive death, existing in a parallel world. Dr. Arthur Berger, head of the foundation now headquartered out of Aventura, tells me there is sufficient evidence that suggests there is life after what we…
Just got back from a Bill Scherer press shindig outside the courthouse and will have vids later, but first I’m just going to ring off some highlights from the suit he just filed against Scott Rothstein. Here’s a link to the entire 147-page lawsuit. There’s some good information on Rothstein’s…
Technology. It’s supposed to be our friend. But friends don’t conspire with a Deerfield Beach company to help police officers write more speeding tickets. In its methodical march toward world domination of the ticket-writing technology market, Advanced Public Safety on Fairway Drive just landed a contract with the police department…
There’s something that’s been irking me for some time now. It’s the one reason I least enjoy most technological get-together events, even the purely local ones here in South Florida. The problem? It seems that most of these events aren’t about meeting people, finding out who’s around locally doing tech,…
The wild card in the race for the Republican nomination to U.S. Senate is the endorsement of Jeb Bush. To get a read on whether he’s leaning toward Charlie Crist or Marco Rubio, I consulted a source who — in exchange for his or her candor — we will simply…
For those who missed a day and need to O.D. on Vitamin C:The Juice’s Thomas Francis interviewed Holocaust-denier David Irving, who claims his website and private email account were hacked. The touchy Nazi historian abruptly ended the interview with the mention of the Anti-Defamation League.Twitter is taking over, and it…
The stabbings that occurred October 26, during a presentation by a Nazi historian at the Ritz-Carlton were a one-sided affair, it seems. That is, Christopher Nachtman stabbed John Kopko — multiple times. And now the attorney for Kopko suspects that the Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office is considering a charge…
