The latest saga revolving around Jason Wetherington has come to an end. Wetherington, a former GOP staffer who boasted of having a sexual relationship with Charlie Crist in 2006, made headlines again in August when he was charged with stealing a wedding ring and other jewelry worth an estimated $19,000 from the…
The New York Times is reporting that the human body’s ability to cannibalize its own cells is a major factor in maintaining human health. In short:Increasing our body’s ability to self-destruct may, paradoxically, let us live longer.And no local bodies self-destructed as spectacularly as Ken Jenne, Beverly Gallagher, Joe Eggelletion,…
A Broward Teachers Union poll taken of the county’s school teachers illustrates just how much the people closest to the Broward County School Board feels that it is an abject failure. To put it lightly, teachers don’t trust this board, and they don’t think elected board members know what the hell…
This summer, the Juice raised ethical questions about the City of Pembroke Pines’ decision to outsource its building department to a private, Fort Lauderdale-based company, Calvin, Giordano & Associates. Because the firm also handles multimillion-dollar engineering projects for the city, it could face serious conflicts of interest when reviewing building…
In case you missed International Swingers Day on August 15, there’s still time to get your costume ready for the inaugural HOT SWINGERS PARTY on Halloween, the first of a series of “themed” events devoted to a celebration of open relationships and the people who love them. And wipe that…
Joe Zada, the alleged fraudster who owned a home in Wellington and a patron of that town’s equestrian scene, told a Detroit newspaper that he expects to receive an enormous payment that will allow him to resolve outstanding debts to such investors as hockey star Sergei Federov.From an article in…
It’s hard to make a celebrity marriage work. Golfing great Greg Norman and tennis great Chris Evert made it only 15 months before they separated last week. And this weekend, Norman’s ex, Laura Andrassy, who last year scored a $120 million settlement in the divorce, gave a wide-ranging interview to…
To my fellow wage slaves, making regular payments to a Social Security program that will never pay us back: Let’s take comfort in the knowledge that our contributions are helping to finance the twinkle-toed retirement of ladies like octogenarian Lee Wachsetter. From Sunday’s edition of the Toronto Sun:A few years…
Two Labrador retrievers that belonged to sugar baron Pepe Fanjul Jr. and his wife, Lourdes, died over the weekend, forgotten in the back of a locked Range Rover for more than five hours, where temperatures reached 88 degrees. The Shiny Sheet reports the couple was confused about who was supposed to…
Despite the popularity of a free flu shot and buffet promotion at Rachel’s Gentleman’s Club in Casselberry, managers at Rachel’s in West Palm Beach say they won’t offer those kinds of shots here. Instead, they’ll concentrate on offering “world-class adult entertainment.” Boring. For the past six years at the Casselberry location, which is…
Here’s a look through the headlines on this Tuesday morning.A nurse at Broward General Medical Center used IV bags contaminated with other patients’ fluids, exposing some 1,800 patients to risk of disease. [NBCMiami]The H1N1 vaccine shots are coming next week, though there’s still no date as to exactly when doctors…
So I solved one of the outstanding mysteries of the indictment of GOP moneyman Alan Mendelsohn: The mysterious figure called “Contributor #4” is veteran Broward credit counselor Howard Dvorkin. But this really isn’t about Dvorkin — who almost surely isn’t in any trouble — but about the man who got him into…
Late Friday, one day after staffers at Deerfield Beach City Hall met to discuss bids by local restaurateurs for the space at the end of the city’s pier, JB’s on the Beach has withdrawn from the competition.Of course, in August, JB’s won that bid only to have it thrown out…
Hollywood Police just updated the media about its findings in shooting incident that occurred in the late afternoon Sunday in Boulevard Heights. It’s a murder-suicide. The shooter’s name is Zacaria Fernandez, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after he shot Yvonne Magdalena Rios, the sister of his estranged wife,…
That’s some recently posted footage from the 25-year-old heavy metal band’s appearance this weekend at Revolution. I’m not fluent in “GWAR,” but I’ll give this a try: An Obama figure who gets his head torn off and spits geysers of blood through his neck means that a heavy metal band…
I know. It’s early, but check out this report from the Broward Sheriff’s Office in Dania Beach:A female called 911 and advised that someone knocked on the door at 150 NW 13 Ave. Dania Beach. A man dressed in business suit, with a tie and a briefcase asked the man…
Linda Ferrara, a former Cooper City commissioner and longtime School Board appointee and volunteer, was among what is really turning into a rogue’s gallery of attendees for the party on the Intracoastal thrown by the FBI in December. Funny thing is that Ferrara knows all about partying at the expense of taxpayers — she…
They call them Flippers, Flippers,Faster than lightning;No one you seeIs smarter than they….That’s right folks, our favorite highly intelligent mammal has been spotted cavorting in Florida waters. Florida Trend reports that the flipper is schooling again, only this time the goofy grin is for real and these animals really are…
That’s Coral Springs ninth-grader Alexis Thompson, starring Friday at the Navistar LPGA Classic in Alabama. Besides that interview with ESPN, Thompson took a call from one of the legends of women’s golf, Nancy Lopez.Thompson came down to Earth on Saturday, falling eight strokes behind the lead, but she still came…
Austin Forman, the land heir, developer, and political power broker, has branched out to the Panhandle, where he’s got several pieces of apparently environmentally sensitive parcels of land, a pending lawsuit, and a small herd of donkeys. I’m most interested in the lawsuit, since it tangentially involves my newspaper. Forman…
A 56-year-old man is in Palm Beach County lockup on a $1,500 bond for illegal use of a dairy case or egg basket, possession of a stolen shopping cart, and indecent exposure. Ernest Wend, whose address is listed as “at large,” was arrested Saturday at 8 a.m. by Palm Beach County…
