That was quick. Here we expected to wait two weeks for Broward Circuit Court Judge Dale Cohen to rule on the motion to dismiss felony corruption charges against former Deerfield Beach Mayor Al Capellini — and now comes word from a well-placed source that Cohen will deny that motion.Having learned…
Back in May, Juice did a two-part series on Deon Thomas, the former high school phenom and University of Illinois star who, after a lengthy career playing pro ball, had retired to Pembroke Pines, where he had been coaching a junior varsity team and running clinics on the weekend. (part…
As the Pembroke Pines City Commission prepares to vote tonight on more budget cuts for the cash-strapped suburb, city employees have reached a boiling point. “Our people have suffered enough,” says Jim Silvernale, spokesman for the local Federation of Public Employees.Already, at least 84 Pines workers have been laid off…
Citing a Marco Rubio campaign ad, St. Petersburg Times politics blog Buzz earlier today asked whether Charlie Crist had “pulled a McCain” — committing a tactical blunder that gives his opponent evidence that he’s out of touch and unfit to lead.Purely from the headline, Juice assumed that the paper was…
Hard up for dough? You might not want to be in too big a rush to send off your Rolex, your class ring, your MC Hammer-inspired gold pants, or that solid-gold golf club. Chances are that unlike Ed McMahon, you’re going to be disappointed with the $11 check you get…
At tonight’s joint session of Congress, Florida will have two senators in the audience in a position to make good on a policy — health-care reform — that is the subject of tonight’s speech and that was a major part of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, for which a majority of…
e and the Miami Heat will be without the services of an undersized, over-the-hill veteran troublemaker this season. And Heat fans more concerned with wins and good basketball are probably rejoicing right now, but South Florida bloggers and other fans of controversy and stories ripe for the advancing will shed…
That’s the trailer for Durham County, the darkest, most daring fall series by Ion, the West Palm Beach-based network formally known as Pax. As Pax, the network had aired nighttime programming from the Worship Network until it had a mainstream makeover in 2005, airing long-finished shows like Mama’s Family and…
As the subtle effects of Barack Hussein Obama’s speech to our children — our children, mind you — slowly settled upon their impressionable minds, I decided to deprogram my 7-year-old as soon as she got home from school yesterday. Broward County was ground zero for the presidential indoctrination, since Supt. Jim…
Thanks for that, Smithers. Now that we’re in the midst of the public hearings on whether to build two new nuclear power plants on Turkey Point, Florida Power & Light is asking you to think of nuclear power as an adorable, avuncular, and perfectly harmless cartoon character.Keep Smilin’ Joe Fission…
I don’t know about you, but if I were planning to produce a radio talk show with a disgraced former Republican congressman whose pedophilic Instant Messages to a 16-year-old page had made headline news a mere three years ago, I don’t think I’d call my new radio program “Inside the…
On the day that Obama has chosen for his health-care miracle, let’s look at what’s happening on this rain-spattered peninsula.Opening arguments today in the trial of the week: Toby and Kerstin Fenn, accused of first-degree murder in the death of Elly Lorey — Kerstin’s 89-year-old mother, who had Alzheimer’s and…
Every time a Boston movie comes out, it’s thick with accents, and always the Bostonians complain that the actors didn’t quite get it. So I admire the ambition of Thom Jones, an actor from West Palm Beach who became captivated by regional accents and since making it his specialty has…
It’s a good day for justice. Anthony Caravella, who was wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of Ada Cox-Jankowski when he was 15 years old, is being freed from the Broward County Jail right now, according to the Public Defender’s Office. He’s now 41 years old after losing 26 years…
The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office is reporting that Antonio Flores, a 24-year-old Lake Worth resident, was driving drunk and without a license when last Thursday he crashed a gold Saturn into a pole on Sixth Avenue South in Lake Worth. Today he was charged with DUI manslaughter in the deaths…
Last week’s New Times cover story features William Staubs, AKA “Cobra,” a Fort Lauderdale bail bondsman with a Forrest Gump-like knack for getting involved in high-profile cases. One of his best jobs was a stint shadowing O.J. Simpson after the football star was arrested for attempting to steal sports memorabilia…
Former Deerfield Observer Editor David Volz, who has been kicking around these parts committing community newspaper journalism for 20 years, has started his own online publication. Or is it a blog? Well, it’s in blog form, but Volz says he’s going to cover all the things that community newspapers do, from…
Maybe that wasn’t the housing bubble that burst in South Florida. The real supernova may have been Mark Philippoussis, the tennis star whose South Florida debauchery was an economic engine that finally ground to a halt in 2005, when he sold his Delray Beach mansion. The big Aussie who displayed…
Until lately, Dr. Harold Jonas didn’t have a demand problem. He had attracted so much national interest for the counseling and training services he offered through Sober.com, the real problem was supplying those services to struggling addicts and aspiring recovery specialists who for financial reasons couldn’t fly to Delray Beach…
Wild critters in Florida have many subtle ways of fighting the predations of man. And now that Florida has declared open season on invasive pythons, it’s a good bet that the snakes are going to have the last word, even if it’s spoken with forked tongue. Python meat is a…
As we come down the final stretch of tennis’ U.S. Open, the draws are conspicuously lacking in South Floridians. Only Serena Williams of Palm Beach Gardens has made it to the tournament’s quarterfinals.And things started so auspiciously for our local contingent. On the men’s side, Boca Raton’s adopted son Jesse…
