It’s one thing to break one of the Ten Commandments — in this case, Thou Shalt Not Steal. It’s another thing to break that commandment by stealing from a church — in this case, the St. John the Baptist Church on Bayview Drive in Fort Lauderdale.But this burglar turned a…
Harry’s Banana Farm has been dispensing billboard wisdom for years, commenting on everything from Toyota’s safety scandals to corruption among Palm Beach County commissioners. The Lake Worth bar is famous for its pithy commentary — that, and the Penthouse designation as one of the sleaziest bars in America. But this…
Hallandale Beach City Manager Mike Good has already been shown the door, but the purge of the ethically dubious may have just begun. Now the leading reformer, Commissioner Keith London, is going after Good’s enabler, City Attorney David Jove. And he’s got ammo.Based on records that London provided to Juice,…
New video of Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein introducing John McCain and Charlie Crist at a pair of fundraisers, the latter on May 20, 2008, at his side. It was dug up by McCain’s opponent in the Senate primary race, J.D. Hayworth. You can read Hayworth’s press release after the jump…
Al Gore can have the electric cars. Allen West prefers a gas-guzzling, tricked-out hot rod with a deafening engine and a paint job that advertises a Higher Purpose — in this case, the cause of POW-MIA soldiers.”God bless America!” cries out an observer, overwhelmed by this patriotic scene in the…
A lot of people looked at the first investigation publicized of the newly formed Broward Sheriff’s Office corruption unit and said, “Whaaat?” BSO is investigating Broward County Commissioner Suzanne Gunzburger in a case that goes back 20 years and centers on a business owned by her now-deceased husband. The company sold bus benches to the county…
Thursday’s local news roundup:Three officers with the Plantation Police Department have been arrested, along with a Lauderhill cop and an FBI agent, based on an undercover investigation that they conspired in a mortgage fraud scheme. Also arrested was Steven Stoll, who with his wife, Rebecca, is a major Republican fundraiser…
Once upon a time, the Mango Festival was a signature event for the city of Deerfield Beach. At its pinnacle in 2005, performers like R&B legend Keith Sweat graced the stage, and a whopping 60,000 attendees strolled through the gates. But times have changed. At the 2010 Mango Festival, which…
In Cap Haitien, Haiti, everyone rises with the roosters, and by 8 a.m. the unpaved streets outside Hospital Justinien are jammed. Taxicabs and pickup trucks, some painted with religious slogans and turned into makeshift buses called tap-taps, jostle for space on the narrow thoroughfares, dodging potholes and negotiating chaotic corners…
It began as a cold that Julia Amparo-Alvarado couldn’t seem to shake. One January night in 2003 when her boss called, asking her to come in for a night shift of janitorial work at the Brooklyn Con Ed building, Julia protested, complaining of a fever. But with an eight-year-old son…
After months of public debate, legislation, a lawsuit, and the outgoing governor’s stamp of approval, the Florida ban on bong sales takes effect tomorrow. So you’d guess every head shop in the state would be having huge blowout sales today, right?Not so much. It seems the smoke hasn’t completely cleared…
All of us in Broward County who know what a bad joke Judge Larry Seidlin really is have had to watch him hawking his unconscionable book about the Anna Nicole Smith case and his new proposed “Psychic Judge” TV show all week on national news shows. They let the huckster…
Six years ago, if you wanted to play poker in a casino in Florida, you were playing small-stakes limit poker. Each bet was $2 to $4, and unless you only had a few bucks left, you never said the words “all in.” Then the state adopted no-limit Texas Hold ‘Em,…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office is getting mighty ambitious with its corruption investigation. The Sun-Sentinel is reporting that County Commissioner Sue Gunzburger is a target of agency investigators who are looking at deals that her husband’s company made with Broward ten years ago. That husband, Gerry Gunzburger, has been dead for…
Although the rumors swirling about LeBron James joining a dream team Heat lineup may be absurdly wishful thinking, it never hurts to do some practical planning. The King, who grew up in Akron, Ohio, will not leave his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers on a whim. To many Clevelanders, he’s considered as…
Twelve more hours till the stroke of midnight signals a feeding frenzy of NBA execs. They all want LeBron James. And if not him, then Dwyane Wade. And if not him, then Chris Bosh. And on and on. As if it’s not already complicated enough, another megastar, Carmelo Anthony, may…
Since last week, Deerfield Beach city officials have been trying to debunk a storyline being advanced by embattled Commissioner Sylvia Poiter, who insists that the city is to blame for the failure of the June 19-20 Mango Festival, not her nor her fellow festival organizers.But every time the city has…
There are as many as four million animals put down in shelters every year in this country, according to estimates by the Humane Society of the United States. The problem is particularly bad in South Florida, where the recession has left many families unable to take care of the family…
Sen. George LeMieux will call off his hunger strike, or sit-in, or whatever he was planning to do next if Barack Obama didn’t send more skimmers to the Gulf of Mexico. Nobody knows whether LeMieux’s highly misleading rants about the need for skimmers had anything to do with the Obama…
The news in Palm Beach and Broward counties this Wednesday morning:Hollywood has a new Community Redevelopment Agency director (again). The brave soul is Charlotte Burnett, former director of corporate affairs and legal counsel for the West Palm Beach Housing Authority. She’s upbeat, but then let’s see if that lasts through…
The subject of this week’s cover story in New Times is Dr. Patricia Wolff, who’s trying to cure malnutrition in Haiti with use of a vitamin-enriched peanut butter. Her efforts are nothing new to South Florida’s own Aaron Jackson, who built an international charitable organization off his wages as a…
