Now there’s a word you want to be careful with when explaining an investment in Broward County over one in Miami-Dade. But that’s the word that Virgin America CEO David Cush used to justify his airline’s decision to make Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport a destination rather than Miami International. USA…
Sylvester Stallone has only one brother, thank God, and that’s the incomparable Frank Stallone, seen above in the video for that song he did for the John Travolta leotard movie.But this morning, the Juice received a media release about energy-saving pool technologies endorsed by some of the region’s pool equipment…
Online, he’s known as Glue Factory Bob. Also, Dog Food Dale — either a sidekick or an alter ego. Or a twin, if the photographs he posted in his blog profile (left) are real, but they’re probably a joke. So, too, did his blog seem like a joke after it…
George Edmunds, the acting director of Deerfield Beach’s Parks and Recreation Department, has been ordered to attend a meeting with the city’s Human Resources Department to review the mistakes he made last week in disciplining a city worker for failing to greet Mayor Peggy Noland.That meeting comes at the behest…
[jump] “Florida’s interior design law has nothing to do with protecting the public and everything to do with protecting state-licensed interior designers from fair competition,” declared Neily, adding that the injunction “is an important step towards getting rid of Florida’s unfair, illegitimate and anti-competitive licensing law root and branch.” In…
Alexis Thompson, the 14-year-old golfer from Coral Springs advanced to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Women’s Amateur tournament this past weekend in St. Louis, and though that made her the youngest golfer in the field by two years, it wasn’t nearly a record.The record was set in 2007, when Thompson…
Former Florida Highway Patrolman Christopher Maul tells the St. Pete Times he was fired in June because he “didn’t write enough tickets.” FHP supervisors say that was one among other productivity issues. They deny that there’s a quota.Though there’s no mention of Maul’s filing suit against FHP, it sounds like…
Embrace it, Dalia. That’s my advice to Dalia Dippolito. Via her attorney, she’s complaining about being tricked by the TV show COPS into signing a release after her arrest for allegedly hiring an undercover deputy to kill her husband. (The Palm Beach Post got the story, but it’s on the Sun-Sentinel site). So,…
Charles Perez, the WPLG anchor who has filed a discrimination suit against the South Florida ABC affiliate, wrote in a Sunday column in The Daily Beast that the station believed “my profile as a gay man, especially if I were to have kids and, God forbid, get married, would render…
That’s Rev. Tullian Tchivijian, the fresh-faced grandson of the Rev. Billy Graham explaining the principles of his book Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different. In the first several months of his pastorship at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, that’s been a hard sell to church traditionalists –…
Several weeks after his child sex abuse case was featured on America’s Most Wanted, Roshard Whitehead of West Palm Beach was found in Lexington, Kentucky. And not a moment too soon, according to a report by WPBF, which says federal marshals found him living with four children.In mid-January police wondered…
A series of internal memos recently made public by the Deerfield Beach City Clerk’s office show that Mayor Peggy Noland denied being offended by the lack of a greeting from a city parks worker last week. But those denials are at odds with the memo by Deerfield Beach’s parks director,…
Jeffrey Aronson and his partner in Cash4Gold are mighty proud of themselves. They wrote a letter to Congress and the White House boasting of how their Pompano Beach-based company has turned a recession into a windfall. Now they’re offering to turn the same trick for the feds. An offer the…
John Kopras, formerly of Pembroke Pines, entered a guilty plea in Fort Lauderdale’s federal court Thursday to charges that he raided the Social Security accounts of a cousin who was mentally disabled.According to the federal prosecutor’s news release, Kopras set up trust accounts at Wachovia Bank that were supposed to…
It’s advertised as a way to deal with a city’s homeless problem in the most humane way possible — give ’em one-way tickets out of town. But that’s only if the progressives in cities like New York aren’t reading headlines like we’ve got down here, about Florida leading the nation…
In a heartwarming display of goodwill, Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies tomorrow plan to distribute 45 free bikes to kids in Belle Glade. It’s a lovely gesture, sure to be appreciated by children in a city plagued by crime and poverty. Only, the timing is a bit unfortunate.The bike giveaway…
Tikkitress Johnson, the 39-year-old manager of a Taco Bell on Oakland Park Boulevard did not die this morning from an accidental fall. Rather, Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives believe she was murdered. From the BSO release: Just before 9 am, Oakland Park Fire Rescue was dispatched to a reported fall injury…
Saint Sanveur Michel is the name of the cab driver who was stabbed yesterday in Hollywood. The aggressor in the incident, which occurred near North 69th Avenue and Charleston Street before 11 a.m., is still at large. Hollywood Police describe him as a Hispanic male in his twenties who was…
Miami-based real estate giant The Related Group has struggled to weather the housing bust, watching its massive Icon Brickell condo project on Biscayne Bay sit largely empty, while its CityPlace South Tower in West Palm Beach goes into “friendly foreclosure.” But that hasn’t stopped Related’s thirst to keep building. According…
A plucky group of summer camp kids, their counselors, and homeowners have rallied against a warehouse development in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, by Margolis Enterprises, a developer based in Boca Raton. The Burlington County Times reports that our locals are getting a lesson in child activism:”My daughter told me I should come…
Jason Wetherington, the young Republican staffer who boasted to numerous witnesses of having an affair with Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and was recently featured in the movie Outrage, has been booked on felony charges related to a theft from the daughter of Pastor Larry Thompson, who leads the large and influential First…
Ever since Jesse Levine’s improbable run into Wimbledon’s third round, Canadians have been trying to claim the promising 21-year-old as their standard-bearer in tennis. But Levine and his family moved to Boca Raton when he was 13. That gave the Ottawa native a chance to enjoy the patronage of the…
