This week the Palm Beach Post became the first major South Florida daily to shutter its Spanish-language publication, La Palma.The free, weekly Post spin-off will fold next month. The news didn’t come as much of a shock for journos who have followed La Palma closely. Born in 2004, as the…
A Pompano Beach man has been arrested in connection with the shooting and killing of a tree-trimmer in 2004. The suspect, Michael Ange-Silien, is 22 years old, meaning that he had only recently turned 17 when, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office Ange-Silien murdered his neighbor, 44-year-old Dennis Bolender.The news…
What do you give the person who has everything — except critical thinking skills? Why, you head over to the website of Fort Lauderdale-based Coral Ridge Ministries and snatch up a copy of its newly released DVD, Socialism: A Clear and Present Danger. Above, that’s an excerpt from the video,…
Fort Lauderdale police have named Michael Nunn, 44, as the man who was the basis for a SWAT team standoff that began late last night and ended early this morning. According to a department news release, Nunn had been in his room all day while his roommates were preparing to…
Since February questions have been raised about construction projects awarded by the Deerfield Beach Housing Authority. In particular, the agency seems to have a checkered history of following guidelines for keeping its procurement process corruption-free. Earlier this month, executive director Pamela Davis agreed to discuss two controversial contracts. This post…
Your Friday local news round-up:A Palm Beach County jury convicted D’Andre Bannister of second-degree murder in the 2002 beating death of his 2-year-old stepson. Bannister claimed that the child’s injuries were caused by falling from a tree. [Palm Beach Post]Sam and Sheree Bonsett of Plantation were told that their newborn…
UPDATED: Not long after I posted the rather cryptic report below, the State Attorney’s Office issued a press release noting that Tamarac City Commissioner Patricia Atkins-Grad had been charged with bribery, official misconduct, receiving unlawful compensation, and conspiring to commit unlawful compensation. As first reported here last month, the charges involve…
Even before last weekend’s Deerfield Beach Mango Festival failed, there were signs of a bait-and-switch.Organizers of the festival lured sponsors and vendors on the basis that the event would draw some 40,000 people. That number, plus photographs of vast crowds from past Mango Festivals, appeared in a promotional package inviting…
On the cold February morning when horse trainer Lisa Pembleton woke to find a tequila-breathed, disheveled man in her camper asking for help, she was in for plenty of surprises.Pembleton, 26, soon learned that the man, multimillionaire polo mogul John Goodman, had been in a serious car crash near the…
In the wake of the news that Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal is no longer The Main Man in Afghanistan, we strolled into Bob’s News, the venerable periodical shop on South Andrews Ave., past the creepy dude ogling the nubiles in this month’s Barely Legal, past the how-to hydroponics guides, past last…
Another day off the grid (in a way). You know, after Tony Bova shut down Bova Prime so covertly and unceremoniously, after allegedly failing to pay some employees, after filing for personal bankruptcy and going through foreclosure procedures on his house, after stiffing his landlord tens of thousands of dollars, after going…
U.S. soccer fans are probably still feeling the euphoric afterglow of Landon Donovan’s amazing, game-winning, team-advancing, legend-making goal yesterday against Algeria.Of course, the goal was set up by a crisp cross from the best soccer player South Florida has ever produced, 20-year-old Boca Raton product Jozy Altidore.And how did Jozy…
A lightning-quick look at what’s happening news-wise in South Florida:A Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy has been charged with fraud for allegedly filing a false accident report in hopes of getting insurance money. An unreliable babysitter and Def Leppard figure in the case. [Palm Beach Post via Miami Herald]Thousands of environmental…
You have to hand it to South Florida. This past year has been a doozy. From Ponzi schemers to Charlie Crist’s party-changing politics to oil spills the size of Texas headed for our shores, we all deserve a gripe or two. But we’ll survive another year in paradise, and that’s…
Richard Masone doesn’t look like a freedom fighter. He’s a mellow bodybuilder in a Yankees cap and tank top who spends his days selling Muscle Milk, Snapple, and energy bars at the snack bar of Aventura’s Olympia Gym. But he has received dozens of letters from supporters urging him to…
The Sean Healy ponzi scheme crossed so many state lines that postal inspectors had to get involved in the prosecution. He started out in New York, lived and spent in Weston, and funneled money from Pennsylvania. But Healy has finally been sent to a federal prison to serve his 188…
If there’s a single moment that triggered the demise of Deerfield Beach’s Mango Festival, it occurred one week before it was to begin, when a $12,500 check to Lonnie Ferguson Events bounced.This was only a symptom of the festival’s shaky finances and its poor planning. But it was the one…
A 2-year-old child fell into a pool and drowned late Tuesday afternoon in Hollywood after he was left unattended by his mother. According to the release by Hollywood Police, Mariana Parmisciano put her child, Valentino Llenderrozo, in a room in the back of her home on McArthur Parkway while she…
There it is, the moment, the golden goal. Boca Raton’s Jozy Altidore hit the cross. Clint Dempsey took the first shot on goal. Landon Donovan buried it in the back of the net, in the first minute of stoppage time, to keep the United States alive in the World Cup…
After allegedly causing a fatal, drunken car crash in February that killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson, polo mogul John Goodman disappeared from Wellington for awhile.For three months, the multimillionaire founder of the International Polo Club Palm Beach was staying in posh Miami hotels, free to enjoy the finer comforts of life…
