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Can a Serial Killer Save a West Palm-Based Television Network?
Durham County has a sneaky way of getting under your skin. Maybe it’s the familiar anytown where it’s set. Or the way the characters line up along a moral spectrum that gets so blurry that even the serial killer seems human. Or at least not the monster that serial killers…
Condo Lender Corus Bank Fails, Leaving Tao and Trump in Limbo
After a summer of dire predictions, Corus Bank’s failure late Friday was almost an after-thought. The Chicago-based bank gorged itself on condo loans during the real estate boom, then hemorrhaged cash as many of the projects it financed sat empty. But the bank’s demise has serious ramifications for condos in…
Bike-Riding, Guilt-Ridden Rape Suspect Makes Easy Target for Broward Deputies
Eduardo Josue Ortizromero, an 18-year-old suspected of raping two women, aged 18 and 25, has been arrested by Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies in Dania Beach. Judging by the news release, he made it easy for cops and prosecutors — riding the bike associated with one rape and then giving a…
Town of Palm Beach is Sex Offender Ghetto — PENIS UPDATE
Look at a map of zones where sex offenders are allowed to live in Palm Beach and Broward counties, and the picture bears a creepy resemblance to old-style European ghettos. A Broward task force took up the problem in July and found that a new proposal to prohibit sex offenders…
Lauderdale Stock Broker a Tokin’ Case for Fortune Article on Medical Marijuana
If anyone can convince the squares who read Fortune magazine about the medicinal qualities of marijuana, it’s Irv Rosenfeld. After all, his dozen-joint-per-day habit hasn’t kept him from being a successful Fort Lauderdale stock broker.The massive article begins with Rosenfeld picking up the Fortune reporter in a cannabis-clouded SUV, then…
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Former Plantation Councilman Alleges “Political Assassination”
Well, Maj. Pat Roberts can’t claim to be an ethics crusader anymore. The veteran officer with the state’s Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco lost the moral high ground. Now he’s just another mercenary playing politics and looking to make a buck. Roberts, as you may recall, went on a…
Match Point Meltdown: Should Serena Get Anger Management Therapy?
That’s video from the tantrum that Serena Williams threw on Saturday to lose match point in the U.S. Open semifinals against Kim Clijsters. It was so compelling that it upstaged the feel-good story of Clijsters winning the title yesterday after two years away from competitive tennis following the birth of…
Morning Juice: Dolphins Fumble to Falcons; a New Suspect in Cancer Cluster
Your Monday in South Florida news:Turnovers killed the Dolphins on opening day. For a team with one of the league’s toughest schedules, this game against the Falcons was the closest thing to a gimme. It’s going to be a long year. [NFL.com]The Broward County School District is a finalist in…
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Your 912 Project Scavenger Hunt
[jump] From this, we have the Tea Party protests (where the other half of the country finally learned that government is bad, especially if it’s run by people with whom you disagree) and the under-reported upon 9-12 Project. Beck lists nine “principles” (they involve liking America and God and family and…
Juiced: A Week in One Gulp
Sample-sized appetite-whetters for the discriminating news consumer: Joyce Tarnow, the woman who ran an abortion clinic and ranted at Pompano Beach Commission meetings, has been missing from local media these last few years, but Juice unleashed the hounds, who found her cooped up in a remodeled cottage in Dixie County and still…
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Deerfield Beach Football Star Getting Buzz for Big Game; Another Won’t Be Playing
That’s the long, long highlight video from Denard Robinson’s career at Deerfield Beach High School. Impressive, but no more so than Justin Feagin’s highlight reel of a year before. Feagin played at American Heritage, but he’s also from Deerfield Beach. Both played quarterback. And both players accepted scholarships to play…
Car Crash Brings Suspicion of Teacher – Student Affair
The extramarital affair is a grown man’s game. Looks like beginner’s luck finally ran out for 19-year-old Christopher Peterson. In the South Florida Times, Elgin Jones reports that Peterson, who this past year was a student at Life Skills Center in Oakland Park, got into a fender bender on July…
Hollywood’s Hometown Hero: Killer Pecs, But Can He Find Young Circle?
You know how you make your porn name by using your childhood pet’s name and the name of the street where you grew up? Apparently, the formula for professional wrestlers is:(First name of favorite action movie actor) + (last name of favorite movie character)And that’s how Dolph Diggler became the…
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“Living Martyr” Smokes Pot for God
You may have seen Daniel Rosenblit’s van cruising by the beach in Fort Lauderdale, or parked next to him as he preaches on the streets of Broward county. The large cargo van has the paradoxical phrase “Living Martyr” on the side. Recently Broward Sheriff’s deputies charged the Living Martyr, a…
Cops Pop Pompano Chop Shop
Childhood ambitions gone terribly awry: That’s the theme of today’s Broward Sheriff’s Office news release, which begins:An automotive engineering student who dreamed of someday building race cars was arrested this week by Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives for operating a chop shop in Pompano Beach. On Sept. 7, a BSO deputy…
The Emptiest Schools In Broward
Well, the school year is underway in earnest fashion. Not including charter schools, which have about 13,000 empty seats, there are about 20,000 empty seats in our regular public schools, according to the recently issued 10-day count numbers. So I decided to check out the most under-enrolled schools in Broward County…
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NY Times Discovers Tao Ghost Towers in Sunrise
Did we mess up the bagels that badly? Did a reporter get mauled by an 85-year-old practicing parallel parking on I-95 last season? Why won’t the New York Times let South Florida suffer in peace?First, there was the video of a wrinkled Sunrise Lakes diva rapping about her health care…
Flak for State Utility Regulator Gets Grabby With Reporter
OK, so it’s not nearly as goofy as the WPLG video I mentioned in the Morning Juice, but this one has a better backstory. Cynthia Muir, a spokeswoman for the Public Services Commission, is already in hot water over sharing BlackBerry PINs with an FPL lobbyist — one of the…
O Brother, How Dare Thou: Alleged Ponzi Scheme Sparks Sibling Rivalry
Canada may have a better health-care system than the U.S., but when it comes time to punish a Ponzi schemer, our neighbors to the north look south with envy. Bertram Earl Jones, a Montreal financier, is that nation’s version of Bernie Madoff. He stands accused of committing a Ponzi scheme…
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Picture Tour of Terrorist Stops in Broward
Last night, ABC’s 20/20 aired a segment featuring an interview with Elie Assaad, the undercover operative who was working for the FBI to infiltrate a Miami-area mosque where agents believed terrorist plots were being hatched. In the interview (video hasn’t been posted yet), Assaad tells of being suspicious of 9/11…