Former Fort Lauderdale resident Henry Lee Jones was convicted this week of a double murder in Memphis. Now the question remains whether Jones will be sent back to Florida to face murder charges in Broward County.Police have said they’re considering whether Jones might be responsible for the unsolved murder of…
Former dancer with stars turned JuiceBlendz investor turned still a football player, Jason Taylor will be coming back to South Florida soon. Get your popcorn smoothies ready. And he really wanted to be back here, as evidenced by the $7 million paycut he took to return to the Dolphins. He’ll…
After spending eight hours in a jail cell recovering from a night of ill-conceived drinking, getting ripped off by the cabbie that drives you home would seem to add insult to injury. But that’s what a 30-year-old woman from Boca Raton says she faced during a recent encounter with West…
Somehow, an alleged madam to the stars has turned up in Boca, and the national media has largely ignored it. Michelle Braun is accused of running an online prostitution site that sold the services of porn stars and fashion models. Sounds like a story for Nancy Grace, right?Well, if you…
Alan Mendelson, a former close Charlie Crist aide and fundraiser, has resigned his post as treasurer of the Florida Medical Association PAC, a powerful political fund that has raised about $10 million in the past 12 years. While the Hollywood ophthalmologist — who is probably the top political fundraiser in Florida…
Dear national voter,You’ve probably heard a bit about our governor down here in Florida, you know, the one who was lucky enough not to be picked to go down with the John McCain ship. But you’re about to hear a lot more about Charlie Crist, because our boy is running…
Earlier this year, we asked you to tell us your favorite things about Broward and Palm Beach counties in our Best Of 2009 Readers’ Poll. Below is a random sampling of the projected winners so far. Some categories have yet to be voted on, like Best Politician (we’re still optimistic…
At the Aquatic Complex on Fort Lauderdale Beach Saturday, 14-year-old British diving star Tom Daley performed a “back 3 and 1/2 somersaults tucked” that was, in the estimation of the judges, flawless: Perfect tens from all seven. The dive helped propel Daley to victory in the 10-meter platform portion of…
After allegedly mingling public responsibilities with private consulting work, Broward Health Commissioner Joseph Cobo faces an uncertain future. A week after those charges came to light, Board Chairman Mike Fernandez is seeking to protect the public health system from the fallout. In an interview this morning with Juice, Fernandez stressed…
It sure sounds like a troubling bit of news: Former Broward Sheriff candidate Wiley Thompson has landed a sweet job with victorious Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti — the same candidate Thompson had crossed party lines to endorse after he lost in the August primary. And the Miami Herald notes that…
[REMINDER: PBS Frontline show on Bernie Madoff and his lieutenants, Frank Avellino and Michael Bienes, is on tonight at 9 10 p.m., including an interview with Bienes, the Fort Lauderdale “philanthropist” and backer of the Broward County Library, Holy Cross Hospital, St. Thomas Aquinas, and other local institutions.] The Tribune’s Lee…
Now we got ourselves a bona fide political jamboree. Charlie Crist will seek Florida’s U.S. Senate seat on behalf of the Dixiecrat, I mean the Whig, I mean the (could this be right?) Republican Party, even though other Republicans say they’ve already picked a guy named Marco Rubio. The boyish…
Yesterday I posted the first part of my interview with porn star Sasha Grey. Grey, the 2008 AVN Female Performer of the Year, plays an upscale New York prostitute in Steven Soderbergh’s new movie The Girlfriend Experience. The film is set amid the Wall Street meltdown just before the election…
Around this time one year ago, Dr. Reynald Pouliot was trying to convince his landlord not to increase the rent. That landlord was the regional health care system, Broward Health. And the lease was for a timeshare office building adjacent to Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale. The increase…
Two sources have mentioned layoffs at CBS-4. One said 20 people have lost their jobs, including the director of communications. No time to report…
Washington, D.C., morning talker Doug McKelway is outraged at Outrage. In the following video spot, McKelway, of Newschannel 8, lashes out at Mike Rodgers, a gay activist and blogger who has been exposing antigay politicians who are secretly gay. Rodgers is in the documentary film Outrage, which is about the hypocrisy of secretly…
For the Levinson family of Coral Springs, it’s an auspicious sign: Today’s release by the Iranian government of Roxana Saberi, the journalist imprisoned there on charges of spying, suggests that the Iranian regime can be reasoned with.We wrote last month about how the June presidential election in Iran might have…
Mother’s Day weekend is a prime time for tales of parental heroism; it’s just a shame that two of the more affecting stories should put Broward County in the spoiler’s role. It’s the common ground in two otherwise unrelated stories of parents willing to do anything to improve the lives…
Maybe Rush Limbaugh doesn’t spend enough time in his Palm Beach home. Because clearly, there’s no path back to political relevance for the Republican Party that does not include winning back Florida. And yet the two figures who have the most credibility on that front, governors Jeb Bush and Charlie…
About the time the economy began to completely unravel last fall, I wrote a story about the life of a few local prostitutes. The story was prophetically titled “The Real Girlfriend Experience.” I say prophetic because director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Erin Brokovich, the Ocean’s 11 series) has a new movie…
I haven’t been a very good Pulp caretaker lately due to a long piece that is kicking my ass hard. This thing had me feeling like Tom Hulce at the end of Amadeus, only I was surrounded by a thousand times more papers and F. Murray Abraham wasn’t there to…
Saturday morning, just before 11 a.m., a curious traffic jam appeared on eastbound Linton Boulevard in Delray. The light at Old Dixie Highway was stuck on red, and the gates that guard the railroad tracks were frozen in the down position, as if warning of a train that never appeared…
