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And not a moment too soon. Would someone please unlock Nancy Grace’s cage and wheel her gurney in front of the television cameras?Maybe now the grandparents can retire those ridiculous “Where’s Caylee?” shirts. All this time, maybe the answer was right in their backyard.Hey, Florida! How’s about a five-year moratorium…

Well, my timing was exquisite but I focused on the wrong politician. Steve Gonot, according to the Deerfield Advocate blog, has resigned his office this morning, apparently as part of a plea deal with the State Attorney’s Office. NEW: He has been booked into jail (mugshot at right). Gonot was investigated by the…

So rumors are out there about the State Attorney’s Office investigation of Deerfield Beach Mayor Al Capellini. Word is that an FDLE probe of his political nemesis and challenger for the mayor’s chair, Commissioner Steve Gonot, has also been forwarded to the State Attorney’s Office for a decision. The truth…

Try not to seem too drunk when you hand out your resume. Job Fair Seeks Rare Dedicated, Sand-Free WorkersHundreds of desperate job-seekers got in line this morning outside The Diplomat in Hollywood for a job fair put on by Good Morning America. The show’s website describes the event this way:Don’t…

It’s a sad day for journalism. Former Miami Herald researcher and “Infomaniac” Liz Donovan has died of lung cancer at age 63. Read the Miami Herald obit on Donovan here, which includes some interesting stuff about her work at the Washington Post as a researcher for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during Watergate. After retiring…

True story. Tailpipe came out of his house a few months ago and found Sal, a glum, knobby-faced man from down the block, lying right in the middle of the street. On his way from the local package store to his one-room digs, Sal’s legs had just given out. “I’m…

Frances Woofenden, 84 years young this week, has a better physique than many a 20-year-old. She owes her toned frame, she says, to water-skiing. She still does it almost every day at Lake Okeeheelee in West Palm Beach. You may have seen Woofenden and her fabulous legs on a V8…

You’re at home catching some z’s after a rushed, super-busy morning, and the doorbell rings. There stands a crew from Channel 7 News, with a pushy field producer telling you that, hey, you’ve been singled out as a “rotten neighbor.” Say what? Yeah, says Danny Cohen, it’s right there in…

He’s at the gym before the owner, and he must wait by the door, watching morning traffic along a rust-colored stretch of highway 441 in Hollywood. The gym doesn’t have a sign up, just a windowed storefront in a wearisome yellow commercial strip across the street from a struggling car…

Chad Rocks Chad Pennington might be a mediocre quarterback in terms of arm strength and mobility, but in knowledge of the game, the ability to read defenses, and leadership skills, he is on the same level as the Mannings and Brady (“Meh-rino,” Tailpipe, November 27). He has incredible heart, and…

The development is an abomination, a blight on South Florida, a bitter insult to Mother Nature herself. And like all bad projects, it is being greased through City Hall with the basest lubricant there is: cold cash. The monstrosity in question is the aptly named Everglades Corporate Park, about ten…

As I reported Monday, the giant developer Related Group and the Fanjul sugar family, owner of Florida Crystals, have been in talks to try to purchase the Miami Herald. From the Herald today: … Miami real estate developer Jorge Perez confirmed Monday that he and Florida sugar magnate Alfonso Fanjul…