Warren Newell has made yet another awful, awful mistake.First, the former Palm Beach County commissioner pocketed half a million dollars in secret land deals. That’s a no-no. In 2007, he pleaded guilty, earning himself five years behind bars at the Federal Prison Camp in Pensacola.But he’s outdone himself this time…
The state of Florida has produced some of the world’s finest athletes; and so it’s hard to believe that in the history of the National Hockey League there have only been three Florida natives — and none of them from South Florida.Andrew Yogan from Boca Raton is going to try…
A gay man who says he was “beaten unconscious” by Fort Lauderdale police has a history of mental illness, unstable behavior, and violence. Two former friends of Ronald Clouse, who contacted us after he filed an Internal Affairs complaint against Fort Lauderdale police officer T.M. O’Neil, say that they had…
She met her husband while working as a professional escort. But even after they married, Dalia Dippolito never completely gave up her past life.According to phone records included in the the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office murder-for-hire case against Dalia, she was still texting male clients as recently as…
Farmers equate saying goodbye to atrazine to depleting Floridian agriculture. But a growing number of scientists believe atrazine, an herbicide widely used to remove weeds and promote the growth of cash-crop sugar cane, may cause cancer and birth defects in animals and humans. While the EPA met recently to review…
Even a board specifically appointed to promote harmony and mediate opposing viewpoints has a rough time getting residents — or themselves, for that matter — to see eye-to-eye in Lake Worth. Harsh words were exchanged Monday night when the Lake Worth Community Relations Board heard from activists about local hate…
The news round-up for South Florida this Thursday morning:A son of Fred Keller, the deceased Palm Beach real estate tycoon and all-around SOB, is hoping to get some small portion of his abusive father’s estate after he says it was drained by greedy attorneys. [Palm Beach Post]In an effort to…
A camcorder lens zooms in on a patch of tall, dry grass and palm trees in a bushy field and finds a pair of discarded nylon bags used for animal feed. Flies swarm the camera. A rooster crows in the distance. “Shit, there’s maggots!” a voice says off-camera. A hand…
Professing love via racy text messages, and telling him “cant wait to fuck ur hard cock,” professional escort Dalia Dippolito convinced an ex-lover to help her try to bankrupt her new husband. According to lengthy text message transcripts obtained by the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office, Dalia cajoled Mike…
Broward Health Commissioner Mike Fernandez is breathing a bit easier these days. He won’t face criminal charges or disciplinary action in connection with a conflict of interest between his public role and his private-sector work.A few weeks ago, the Florida Commission on Ethics ruled that Fernandez did not commit an…
Just about every office has a pot guy. You know, it’s the person who is happy to hook up anyone he can with a little weed, not to make money but mostly just to fulfill what he believes is a service to humanity. Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm had at least one of them. According to emails that…
That’s the opening two minutes of an ambitious documentary premiering tonight on public television station, WPBT-2. It’s called Imagining a New Florida, a more elegant title than Paradise Gone to Hell, which may be more appropriate.Of course, if the expert who says that Floridians are selfish transplants with no stake…
It’s hard to believe that there’s a crack whore crazy enough to have sex in a graveyard; and it’s even harder to believe that a john would follow her there. That’s a B-movie murder scene waiting to happen.So we’re skeptical about this WPBF report about purportedly human sex activity in…
OK, so the housing bubble that exploded in Florida, then the world, may not entirely be Charlie Crist’s fault. But that 12.3 percent unemployment figure in the state is just too enticing for Marco Rubio’s campaign to resist, especially now that it’s looking to keep Republican centrists from bolting to…
Joy Cooper is quickly gaining a reputation as one of the most erratic political figures in South Florida, and now the Hallandale Beach mayor has picked a fight with Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom.Rodstrom was one of the commissioners who two weeks ago voted against a controversial $500 million proposal…
A glass of what’s-goin’-on in South Florida news:Ana Gardiner, the former Broward judge who resigned rather than face possible penalties for judicial misconduct, awarded $600,000 in legal fees last summer to an attorney, Richard Cole, who has recently hired Gardiner at his firm. Cole denies a quid pro quo, but…
I’m going to throw some emails at you this morning. It begins with an email from an activist and ends with Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom jumping up in Hallandale Mayor Joy Cooper’s grill. Obviously it’s a convoluted tale, so let me start at the beginning (all the emails involved will be included in full…
Beth Kofsky doesn’t seem the type to offer free labor. At least not based on what we know about her from the forensic audit in Deerfield Beach.As Juice reported last week, Kofsky’s Housing and Assistive Technology is paid an hourly wage, but she always collected the maximum allowed under her…
Warning to School Boards and principals across the country: yes, we are in the middle of a recssion, but you miiiight not want to cut that funding for the drama department. Otherwise, you will have to contend with Fort Lauderdale High School junior Tatiana Rose-Becker and her ilk. Beware: They…
Following a helicopter-assisted search by Broward Sheriff’s Office, a 30-year-old man, Marvin Johnson, has been arrested in connection with the May 7 murder of a Pompano Beach grandfather.The body of Samuel McWhorter, 79, was discovered on that day by his granddaughter. Around noon today, BSO received a tip that Johnson…
