That’s video from outside yesterday’s Tom Rooney town hall in Stuart. In the ongoing battle over what side of the health care debate is more civilized, this is the Zapruder film. A reform proponent, apparently, is dressed in camouflage and allegedly spits at one of the tea party types he…
Four Broward County residents were arrested at a hotel in Elkridge, Maryland, after police there found evidence suggesting they were part of an identity-theft ring.The arrests, which occurred August 10, were not without incident. The Columbia Flier reports that three of the suspects pulled up to the Best Western hotel…
A coalition of civic groups in Hollywood is coming to the defense of the beleaguered Broward County School Board auditors, who essentially are being pilloried by board members for doing a good job trying to protect taxpayers’ dollars. You may know that some board members, led by Stephanie Kraft and backed up by…
Broward Health Commissioner Robert Bernstein has cast himself as a watchdog for waste at the county’s public health-care district. But in the months since he led the charge to terminate the hospital district’s two lead attorneys, questions remain about whether his motives were complicated by Republican special interests, such as…
Douglas Marshall, director of business development for Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast, has no shortage of distressing accounts of patients he has helped. After the ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday at the newly opened clinic in Pembroke Pines, he recounted a story about a 15-year-old girl who came…
Alex Taylor, publisher of the Palm Beach Post, announced his departure today just as the newsroom braces for more layoffs. Taylor has been on the job for just over eight months. He replaced Doug Franklin, the publisher who oversaw the axing of about 300 people from the paper last year…
You won’t find any articles in South Florida — or even the U.S. — about Global Petroleum Strategies, which is based in Boca Raton. Nor will you find any complaints against it with the Florida Better Business Bureau. But over the past year, there has been a slow domino effect…
Alex Taylor is leaving the Palm Beach Post after just about eight months on the job. The following is a timeline of coverage on the publisher’s short stay in South Florida. — December 8, 2008: It’s announced that Doug Franklin is vacating his short but awful bloody stint as publisher…
Lake Worth Blogger Lynn Anderson finds an uncanny resemblance between Squeaky Fromme, who was released from prison last week after serving 39 years of a life sentence for attempting to assassinate President Gerald Ford, and our own activist city commissioner, Lake Worth’s Cara Jennings, currently serving her own four-year sentence…
A 27-year-old man from Hollywood died from gunshot wounds this weekend after he was shot during a struggle with another man in Lake City. But detectives are only recently pieced together the sequence of events that led to his death, according to the Gainesville Sun.Police believe that the Hollywood man,…
FWM Laboratories, a dietary supplement company in Hollywood has a big advertising budget, but it’ll have to get a little bigger to fight the latest round of bad publicity. The company, which is headquartered in an industrial park just west of I-95 between Stirling and Sheridan, plays the villain in…
Here what’s happening this morning in South Florida:CBS4 has video that includes a photo of the two victims of a shooting in Miramar — Faith Bisasor and her son Damion Bishop — as well as an interview with a family friend who says Bisasor never opened the door to strangers…
[jump] A few days after the stolen remains story ran, the Sun-Sentinel published a short story about a gas station robbery in Boca Raton. The robber didn’t get the safe open, and didn’t hurt anyone, but did get away with the cash in the register. If you’re looking for this…
Thirteen years after watching her nephew get convicted of murdering his step grandfather, Gloria Jean Williams from West Palm Beach has stepped forward to testify that the real killer is her own mother, Mae Daisy Latty.Alphonso Latty, 59, was murdered at his home in Orlando in October 1994. An article…
Faith Bisasor, 49, and her 15-year-old son Davion Bishop are two of the three people who were found dead yesterday at 9581 Encino Street in Miramar, both apparently victims of gunshot wounds.The Miramar Police Department released their names a few minutes ago. The name of the third victim has still…
When living as a fugitive of justice, especially one who has escaped from prison, it’s advisable to stay away from convenience store cameras. But Palm Beach Sheriff’s deputies say Scott Bosley, last seen in June 2008 fleeing the Loxahatchee Road Prison, couldn’t resist the invitation of liquor stores with rooftop…
Two years ago, the athletic director of Everglades High in Miramar was desperate to hang on to the school’s promising young coach, Mike Palmieri. A 2007 article in the Sun-Sentinel (sorry, I can’t find a link to a web version) details how Everglades lost Palmieri — who it paid about…
Wednesday marks the seven-year anniversary of the murder of Melissa Karp, a 17-year-old runaway whose body was found in the Everglades by a fisherman on August 19, 2002. Broward Sheriff’s investigators are still trying to find the person who shot her to death, and tomorrow they’re going to hold at…
Above is a photograph taken in 2003 of the giant Miami Herald staff at the time. It looks like a small city. And it’s probably been cut in half during the past couple of years. The photo was taken in honor of the newspaper’s 100th anniversary, an occasion that was marked…
A BSO deputy who was shot in the head in 2007 by a convicted felon on parole has notified the state of his intent to file suit against the Department of Corrections: The felon who shot 29-year-old officer Maury Hernandez during a routine traffic stop owned a handgun that his…
Nothing feels better than donating to a good cause, especially when such altruism rewards you with free stuff. That’s why you should become a friend of John D. MacArthur Beach State Park. Over the years, New Times has shown a lot of love to this Juno Beach gem. We’ve rated…
