Sure looks like the folks behind Coral Ridge Ministries are courting the defectors of Fort Lauderdale’s Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. The Coral Ridge Ministries, originally founded as a media arm for the church’s icon, Rev. James Kennedy, is now a separate entity. In a series of Youtube clips the Ministries…
Ron Woodson. The Chicago native was standing on the corner of Wilton Drive and NE 21st Ct., right next to the Wilton Manors police station, with a sign reading “OFFiCER FERTiG LiES”. He claims that six months ago he and a black friend were the victims of profiling in Wilton…
Broward County’s a popular place for retired athletes — for better, and in Jim Leyritz’s case, for worse. Count Errict Rhett in that former category. The former Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back, who starred at the University of Florida and, before that, at McArthur High School in Hollywood. Recently, Rhett…
The news this morning in South Florida:At last night’s Broward County School Board meeting, members discussed a refresher course on ethics. So… like that safety meeting the Soviets had after the meltdown at Chernobyl? [Miami Herald]Crist is going to demand the state review loopholes that allow felons to land jobs…
Garretson said he intervened on Prestige Homes’ behalf to help it get a $500,000 reduction in mitigation fees owed the school board in 2007 only after Stephanie Kraft prodded him to do it. “It’s not unusual for a school board member to contact me about this or that,” he said…
Whattaya say, Broward Dems? Are you willing to pay higher taxes purely for the sake of watching the portly pontificator pack his bags and move to Texas? Am I hearing a yes? Thought so.A recent St. Pete Times article cited a portion of Rush Limbaugh’s radio show in which he…
Watch out, boaters. There are plenty of signs like the one to the left, warning you about those adorable manatees, who have a way of wrapping their fat asses around boat propellers. But if you’re cruising near the Fort Lauderdale shore you may be faced with a choice between hitting…
God only knows how good he is in the pulpit, but there’s no doubting Rev. Greg Barrette is a master of self-promotion. Several years ago, when he was a pastor in Delray Beach, he landed a gig performing the invocation at a Dolphins game:In front of 80,000 fans, he asked…
The Material Girl’s Manhattan neighbors are none too pleased about the singer using her posh NYC pad as a stomping ground for dance rehearsals.Madonna’s upstairs neighbor, Karen George, has filed a lawsuit, saying she was forced to move out of her West 64th Street apartment because of the “intrusive and…
Cops are trained to spot the kind of peculiar behavior that precedes a reckless, destructive act. There was something not quite right about the 23-year-old man standing near the wall to the freeway on-ramp in Boynton Beach. From the police department’s news release:Officers Daniel Griswold and Anthony Magnanti first noticed…
Whatever comes of the DUI manslaughter case against Jim Leyritz, there’s no doubting he’s been humbled by the experience. This past weekend, the former Yankees catcher, who stands accused of killing a motorist while driving drunk in Fort Lauderdale, was barred from an on-field celebration of the 1996 team on…
When you read the first few paragraphs of this weekend’s article about Fort Lauderdale in the Toronto Star, you can’t help but say, “You can’t pay for publicity that good!” Seriously — imagine you’re a gay man marooned in the Frozen North, preparing to go the next six months or…
Sitting at home in Coral Springs last fall, trying to explain the intricacies of the federal bank bailout to their 9-year-old and 11-year-old kids, Shari and Jordy Sopourn hit on the perfect, Jon Stewart-style solution: ridicule.They devised a board game that’s reminiscent of Monopoly, except the players are bank CEOs,…
Mission: Impossible?They say they’re trying to “make a difference, one person at a time.” They’ve provided a home to over “10,000 souls seeking love, understanding, and compassion.” Indeed, The Mission of Saint Francis in Fort Lauderdale seems like an ideal place to temporarily house sex offenders who have served their…
Take it from a recent college graduate: It’s rough out there. With the national economy in a shambles and entry level employment opportunities scarce, AmeriCorps can be a saving grace for recent college grads.That population is part of the reason that in the past 11 months, AmeriCorps received over 144,000…
This Saturday night at around 8:30 local time, the world will be attacked by zombies. They’ll look like the ones in the video above. It’s part of Thrill the World 2009, the global attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the largest simultaneous performance of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” An…
The more we learn about Ronald Murphy’s case, the sadder it is. We first told you about him last week. Then we met the man this weekend. And yesterday a source with knowledge of the case told us that Murphy’s stuck living on a bench in Delray Beach, in part,…
After running to the Sun-Sentinel to defend her husband’s employment with lobbyist Neil Sterling, Stephanie Kraft went mum when the newspaper followed Pulp reports on her financial connection to Prestige Homes. She didn’t return reporters’ calls, but her lawyer, Ken Padowitz, told the newspaper: “She has cooperated and helped the federal…
Here’s your look at what’s in today’s news:Dwayne Blake of Belle Glade is in jail after allegedly shooting an undercover operative who was taping conversations with Blake for a narcotics investigation. [Palm Beach Post]H1N1 vaccinations have started in Broward and Palm Beach, with people aged 2 to 49 first in…
The man who was found dead yesterday at a boat ramp near Weston has been identified as Edward Brown, 40, from Homestead. His death has been ruled a homicide.Brown’s friends and family became worried after he failed to show up for a Sunday barbecue. An officer with Broward County’s Fish…
