In advance of his retirement next month, the Rev. Mack King Carter of New Mount Olive Baptist Church has drafted an awesome wish list. The letter containing those items was made public in a court filing Friday. Carter asks for:the title of “Pastor Emeritus.” the church pay his health insurance…
By now, everybody knows about Alexis Thompson, the Coral Springs girl who at 14 is among the most promising female golfers in the game. To no one’s surprise, she dominated this past weekend’s Junior PGA Championship in Mainville, Ohio, winning by 12 strokes, just one off the tournament record.But T.J…
Quick, someone block the New York Times website on the computer of Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza. The head of the Miramar-based discount carrier will be devastated if he learns that there’s another airline that is more ruthless about achieving low fares (a Baldanza obsession) and more willing to offend…
With Florida experiencing record unemployment rates, it’s critical that the nonprofit agencies helping low-income people find jobs get along with one another. But the stress has begun to fray relations between at least two Broward County agencies with an important role in that mission.Positive Image is the nonprofit agency that…
At 9 p.m. tonight, ESPN2 is kicking off an edition of Friday Night Fights with a feature about 20 kids from western Palm Beach County who participate in the Police Athletic League’s boxing program. The youngsters, all from Pahokee and Belle Glade, taped the segment yesterday at the Seminole Hard…
That’s the sketch of an alleged flasher who struck in Lauderdale Lakes a few days ago. Broward Sheriff’s deputies want your help finding him. But is this really a flasher? Or an unlucky guy caught having a private moment in a public place? Here’s the BSO release:At around noon on…
I gave Chris Chiari his say this morning, so state Rep. Evan Jenne gets to use the bully Pulp-it this afternoon. I asked Jenne, a Democrat from Dania Beach, what he thought about the surprise challenge to his House seat from Chiari, and here’s what he said: “I think it’s odd, first of…
The hits keep coming for Miami real estate giant The Related Group. First, the lenders on its extravagant, 420-unit CityPlace South Tower condo in downtown West Palm Beach took control of the project in a “friendly foreclosure.” This is a polite way of saying that Related couldn’t pay its mortgage…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office is rolling out a fleet pair of 2009 Dodge Challengers,* but if this is the first you’ve heard about it, that’s probably because they arrive amid a fierce round of budget slashing in other county agencies. Not exactly a climate for bragging about muscle cars.It’s a…
Yet another part-time resident of Palm Beach County is facing allegations of financial fraud. Earl Jones, who ran an investment firm based in Montreal, but who since 1992 has had a condo in Boca Raton, is accused of a $50 million Ponzi scheme, mostly with Canadian investors.Jones had been missing…
Thomas Cash, who lives in Fort Lauderdale but who for years has been the chairman of Kroll, Inc., the risk consulting firm in Miami, resigned from that position last week amid allegations that he helped mislead investors who sustained losses in the alleged Ponzi scheme for which Allen Stanford has…
Near the city of Fort Worth, Texas, there’s a Lake Worth — a city that’s next to an actual lake, not a lagoon like Florida’s Lake Worth. And according to the Star-Telegram, this summer marks an anniversary of a ghoulish sighting that has earned a place in local legend. The…
North Broward Hospital District Commissioner Joseph Cobo, the subject of a pending criminal investigation for allegedly using his public position to help business in his private consulting firm, has asked the district’s legal department for permission to establish a legal defense fund.The answer, which Juice obtained through a public records…
In a move bound to shake up the local Democratic machine, two-time Florida House candidate Chris Chiari filed yesterday to run against state Rep. Evan Jenne, who strolled into office in 2006 with the help of his since-disgraced father, former Sheriff Ken Jenne. It’s the first time Chiari, who lost two bids to unseat Republican Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff…
The researcher who discovered the possible life-extending powers of resveratrol sold his company for $780 million, which probably means he doesn’t need to sell his endorsement to a company called FWM Laboratories that operates out of a shabby industrial neighborhood near I-95 between Stirling and Sheridan. Oh, and most legitimate…
Sen. Dave Aronberg of Greenacres has convinced the Florida Department of Transportation to abandon its practice of awarding automatic annual raises to private contractors, and now the Florida attorney general candidate is going after other state agencies.As Juice reported a few weeks ago, “escalation clauses” are a boom-era fad that…
Harley-Davidson dealership owner Bruce Rossmeyer, a familiar face in South Florida, died today in Wyoming — in a motorcycle accident while on his way to the Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota. From the Daytona News-Journal: A family friend said Rossmeyer was riding with several motorcyclists when they pulled out to pass a…
An Anderson, South Carolina, man was sentenced today to 40 years in prison after he entered a guilty plea to the April 2007 murder of Talia Ashley, a 16-year-old runaway from Hollywood.Anderson’s Independent Mail reports that Stanley Dehart, now 30, confessed to hitting Ashley with a rock, then burning a…
Today the Juice directs your attention to an oldie but goodie: Los Angeles area blogger/smartass extraordinaire/ former New Times correspondent Tim Hammill, AKA Tim Hammer, has launched a podcast (and entertaining blog full of chuckly boy humor). In episode two, Hammer describes an alleged encounter between the Miami Heat’s Jermaine…
That’s a video of a recent protest by the Broward County Police Benevolent Association, which is turning up the heat on Hallandale Beach City Manager Mike Good for stalling on contract talks with the city’s cops. But since that hasn’t worked, the PBA has moved to phase two, circulating…
Let’s not panic, Hanley Ramirez admirers. Your star shortstop is healthy, and he’s helped your team to three straight wins and to within two games of the Wild Card. Best of all, he’s not related to Manny Ramirez, who apparently has been frosting his Wheaties since at least 2003. I…
