So the sweet old lady can call bullshit on the Canadian con men who have been targeting Tamarac seniors, according to Broward Sheriff’s Office:Scam artists working out of Canada are contacting seniors and pretending to be their “Grandchildren”. These scammers state that they are stranded, in jail or have been…
That’s a video from the Paralympic Games of wheelchair tennis, which has its own league within the United States Tennis Association. Last weekend in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Jan Proctor of Delray Beach won her first tournament after four years on the circuit. She’s 56 years old and beat a 38-year-old…
You may know that if you have a problem with your Sun-Sentinel and call the “newspaper” about it, you will talk to a guy or girl with a strange accent sitting thousands of miles away in Manila, Philippines. Well, that’s not going to happen anymore. According to a Sentinel memo that…
Millions of dollars for police officers, schools, roads, bridges — no one’s going to argue with most of these federally funded stimulus projects. In tough times, people want cops, teachers, and construction crews to stay on the job and pump money back into our battered economy. But the Boca Raton…
Come on, Joe Cotchett! You had 270 minutes with the financial Osama Bin Laden and you can’t even give us a hint about what you learned about his lieutenants? Following the San Francisco attorney’s jailhouse heart-to-heartstone with Madoff, Cotchett talked to ABC News, and maybe they’re holding back the good…
That’s a few points from a match this past weekend between two international youth volleyball squads, with the USA White Youth team in the foreground and a team from the Dominican Republic in the far court. Volleyball players, most of whom were girls, absolutely swarmed SE 17th Street last weekend…
The Hollywood cop who fabricated a police report and talked on a cruiser’s video about his willingness to “Walt Disney” the facts and make up stories to protect fellow cops played a key — and controversial — role in a racially charged police brutality case. And a defense attorney at the time accused Dewey Pressley, a 21-year veteran of…
Bad news for Madoff associates — some of whom reside in Broward and Palm Beach counties — who were hoping Bernie would take his secrets to the grave. Hot from the AP wire:A lawyer for victims of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme says the financier told him during a 4 1/2-hour…
I cringe to think how many baby photos this couple’s gonna generate.You may have recognized shots from Fort Lauderdale Beach in that series. And also Miami. Hey, why not haul the poor woman across the state to Sanibel Island while we’re at it? Or did she ruin the next day’s…
Anyone who paid attention to Fort Lauderdale’s most recent mayoral elections may remember Earl Rynerson, a local businessman (he owns a tile company) who ran unsuccessfully for the seat now occupied by Jack Seiler. Despite losing the election, Rynerson hasn’t stopped sticking his nose in the goings-on at City Hall…
Justin Feagin inherited the athletic brilliance of his uncle Steven Feagin, but the star quarterback at American Heritage High School in Delray Beach was also saddled with the challenge of trying to focus on schoolwork and football practice while back home in Deerfield Beach his uncle awaited trial on rape…
So says our incoming celebrity stylist, Ted Gibson, who I told you about yesterday. Today we find him pimping Fort Lauderdale to W Magazine in an effort promote his salon at the W Hotel. Here’s an excerpt from the Q&A:And then you’re also opening a salon in Fort Lauderdale? So…
The Herald deserves congratulations for a fascinating story about a Broward County girl removed from a home of drug-addicted parents who is now seeking a legal relationship after those parents’ deaths, based on the possibility of inheriting money from the estate.But it does not explain the bizarre fact that the…
The Office of the Vice President just announced how it would divvy up a billion dollars in grant money for the hiring of cops. Broward and Palm Beach cities listed below:Boynton Beach: Eight officers for $1,948,352Delray Beach: Six officers for $1,360,164Fort Lauderdale: Twelve officers for $3,243,444Hallandale Beach: Five officers for…
Joe Gibbons better watch out. Not only is he no longer chairman of the Florida Legislature’s black caucus. But the new chairman is Gary Siplin, the state senator from Orlando famous for trying to put a crucified Christ on the Florida license plate. And Siplin doesn’t share Gibbons’ highfalutin notions…
View more news videos at: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/video.One is a beautiful, single, 21-year-old who poses seminude and is prone to tone-deaf, divisive political commentary. The other is a beautiful, married 34-year-old with three children and whose political cause is increasing child literacy. Which of these two would make a better ambassador for…
Seems a certain Master of the Universe is no longer Master of His Domain. Marc Leder, one of the founders of Boca Raton-based Sun Capital Partners, is trying to put the pieces together after his wife Lisa left with the couple’s three children and is now demanding half of Sun…
No, I don’t have evidence (yet) that this blog made a love connection between USF’s star-crossed kicker and the dangerously distracting coed from Fort Lauderdale. But I have found real-world proof that theme park drama leads to storybook romance.Just listen to Edna Bloom and her husband, Mel, whose bond was…
Florida Atlantic researchers are racing against melting polar ice caps and dwindling natural resources in hope of developing energy technology that exploits the vast powers of the ocean tides.Sue Skemp, executive director at Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Ocean Energy Technology, tells CNN: “If you can take an engine and…
Nearly as interesting as the harassment complaint filed against Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg by Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon is the newspaper’s odd response to it. The Herald’s only response to date was a brief written by Senior Editor/Administration Dave Wilson that appeared in Saturday’s newspaper on page B-3. The story wasn’t posted on the internet at the time. Here’s…
Recently I did a post about BSO Lt. Col. Ricky Frey making nearly $320,000 off of a popular state retirement scam for government officials that basically allows triple dipping and opulent take-home pay at the expense of taxpayers. All government officials have to do is pretend to retire, start collecting what amounts…
Jeffrey Willis, 41, is the name of the inmate who was found dead last week at the Broward Sheriff’s Office main jail. On the right, his booking photo.Here’s the BSO release:The Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office will determine the cause and manner of death. Detectives have confirmed that the death…
