If you haven’t seen Mattel’s newest addition to the Adult Barbie Collector line, it’s an appalling creation they’re calling “Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken.” This week brought news that the doll is, in fact, a real product the company is really selling to real adult collectors (and really warped, seriously…
Let’s see what’s in the news this morning.All these political scandals lately and none involving Hollywood? Well, the City Commission wasn’t going to stand for that! Yesterday commissioners fired Gil Martinez, director of their beach community redevelopment agency, after accumulating evidence he was a reckless spender. [Miami Herald]The Broward Sheriff’s…
I was in the Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport, getting ready to board a flight to Lome, Togo, when my heart stopped beating. Or maybe it didn’t stop entirely. It certainly sputtered. I’ve been told I collapsed at the Air France boarding gate. The suitcase I was carrying, crammed…
A ratty blue tarp is wrapped tightly around a huge sphere in a Lauderhill driveway. It takes up a full parking space and is nearly as tall as the simple white house behind it. It looks like a captured UFO. As Joel Waul throws aside cinder blocks to remove the…
Just after noon today, Boynton Beach Police responded to a report that a mailman was slumped over the wheel of his mail truck. Cops say that the mailman, Kevin Michael Crocilla, then scored a spectacular .264 on a Breathalyzer test — more than three times the legal limit. From the…
[UPDATE: The FBI is holding a consensual search at the offices of Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler tonight — it’s not huge news but worth knowing. There’s a great number of agents — I’m hearing about 35 — crawling around the firm. Word is that Rothstein is still chilling out with federal prosecutors.] When Broward County Mayor Stacy…
John Hammond, a 37-year-old man who had been in the Broward Main Jail since last week for stealing a car, committed suicide Tuesday night, according to a Broward Sheriff’s Office news release:On November 3, a BSO detention deputy was conducting a security check around 9 p.m. when he was alerted…
Details remain vague, but Fort Lauderdale Police are investigated a shooting that occurred near the Broward County bus terminal downtown involving an off-duty officer. From the release:Preliminary investigation has revealed that a Police Sergeant was working an off-duty detail at the Broward County Main Bus Terminal. The Sergeant was advised…
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department will have a press conference in one hour to give information on a shooting that involves a cop. That’s all the information that’s available at the moment. We’ll update when there’s more…
Rumors are circulating that Scott Rothstein, whose current whereabouts aren’t known, spent a marathon 18 hours in talks with federal prosecutors last night and this morning. Sources say he was not only confessing to his own crimes but pointing the finger at others, including Gov. Charlie Crist, who was so close to Rothstein…
That’s video of an October 6 meeting of the Deerfield Beach Commission meeting at which city leaders voted to allow Island Water Sports to stage its “Midnight Madness” sales event on October 23. An innocuous bit of city business — except that according to blogger Chaz Stevens, Mayor Peggy Noland’s…
South Florida’s Jewish community just can’t catch a break. First Bernie Madoff, now an alleged Ponzi scheme by Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein — what gives?Madoff lured Jewish friends at the Palm Beach Country Club to be investors in his Ponzi scheme, and when his fraud collapsed, Jewish charities lost…
It’s been a discouraging week to be a South Floridian, so it’s high time we renew our Panning for Gold series, in which we attempt to prove that ours is the (slightly) superior civilization. Concerns about over-fishing in the Florida Panhandle led the National Marine Fisheries Service to put the…
ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap (the best sports journalist in television for our money) put together a fantastic package on the former Yankees catcher and one-time World Series hero that included Leyritz’s first televised remarks about the drunk driving accident that killed a Fort Lauderdale woman two days after Christmas 2007.Three hours…
Joe Kessling isn’t ready to start naming names, but suffice to say they’re big — literally. He has commitments from Miami Dolphins, among other South Florida athletes, all dedicating part of their Saturday, November 21 to raising money for Michael Brewer, the Deerfield Beach 15-year-old who was set on fire…
It’s been a question that has dogged Scott Rothstein for the past couple of years: Where is the money coming from that he’s spending all over town? Von Allmen The answers are coming slowly, and they point to the fact that a great deal of the money came from his friends and neighbors…
Ever since lawyer Scott Rothstein went missing last week, only to return to the country amid allegations of running a $400 million Ponzi scheme, some observers have wondered how this news might affect one of the story’s subplots: the March 2008 murder of Melissa Britt Lewis, a young attorney who…
It would have been a more fortuitous sign for Marco Rubio if Doug Hoffman hadn’t lost his congressional race in upstate New York, but the fact that a Conservative Party candidate won 45 percent of the vote has Rubio more hopeful than ever. The same can be said for the…
This week’s New Times feature details my foray into the world of scambaiting — the practice of turning the tables on email scammers by playing along as a gullible victim — with advice from a worldwide scambaiting site called 419Eater whose main administrator lives in Broward County.In Nigeria, the people…
For a third-hand manager, Joe Girardi’s doing pretty well for himself. In 2006, the Marlins fired the feisty Girardi after he got a verbal altercation with team owner Jeffrey Loria. Then Girardi’s longtime team, the Chicago Cubs had a chance to hire him, instead opting for the more experienced Lou…
It’s Wednesday. Here’s the local news:A bruising campaign for mayor of Lake Worth will go a few more rounds as Rene Varela didn’t quite win enough votes to avoid a runoff with Laurence McNamara. In the Commission races, conservative Scott Maxwell beat Ron Exline and Jo-Ann Golden won reelection. [Palm…
