Things are getting dramatic with a capital “middle school” between the Kendrick Meek and Jeff Greene campaigns for the Democrat Senate nomination. This weekend, the he-said, he-said jumped from catty campaign emails to my cell phone, when I got word from Greene’s campaign that the lawsuit against Greene for defrauding…
Try tho’ he might, Bill McCollum can’t shake the scandal over the $120,000 his Attorney General’s Office paid to George Alan Rekers, the antigay activist who was outed by New Times writers Penn Bullock and Brandon K. Thorp last week.McCollum tried to pin it on the Florida Department of Children…
The 21-year-old woman walked alone on a darkened strip of Old Dixie Highway in Jupiter around 12:30 a.m. on April 9, 2009. Engrossed in a cell-phone conversation, she didn’t immediately notice the man quietly stalking her, a cigarette in his mouth.She did her best to put up a fight. “She…
The death Saturday of a homeless man, Bradly Schmidt, was not accidental, as investigators first believed. Rather, the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office has reversed its original ruling, based on what it has learned from detectives, and is now calling the case a homicide:From the Fort Lauderdale police news release:Investigators…
Retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens was a former Navy man — the lone former serviceman on the high court — and so some observers expected President Barack Obama to nominate a justice with a military background. Or at least, that appears to be the expectation of one Allen…
This weekend there was another passionate protest in front of Puppy Palace on Hollywood Boulevard. Animal rights activists held signs insisting the store patronizes puppy mills and sells sick puppies and by doing so encourages the death of more shelter dogs. Counterprotesters decried PETA, mocked vegetarianism, advocated for the right…
Embattled Broward Circuit Judge Ana Gardiner awarded Richard Cole, the attorney who recently hired her, some $600,000 in legal fees last summer, according to court documents. Cole, managing partner of the law firm Cole Scott & Kissane, said the award played no part in his hiring of the judge, who was facing charges from…
Let’s see what’s happening in South Florida this Tuesday morning:After financial struggles led to the closing of Westgate Tabernacle’s homeless shelter last week, Palm Beach County commissioners are wrestling with the question of how to care for the region’s transients. [Palm Beach Post]Scott Rothstein’s luxury car collection is on display…
Women won’t walk alone through the intersection of Chase Street and Trinity Place in West Palm Beach anymore. There have been assaults, merciless attacks… by birds. According to a WPBF report, nearly a dozen residents have been assaulted by a winged rebel intent on pecking, squawking, following, and other ruthless…
Here’s some good old-fashioned police work from a Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy in Oakland Park. The BSO press release: While on routine patrol on Monday, May 3, Sergeant Pat Murray observed a blue Dodge Pickup driving slowly past three girls, each walking separately between the 1600 and 1800 block of…
In remarks made during an appearance this weekend on MSNBC, congressional candidate Allen West had sharp criticism for the chairman of his party, Michael Steele, over Steele’s response to a question about the Republicans’ appeal to black voters.After hearing a quote from Steele about the party having not given black…
Spirit pilots’ union is claiming that the Miramar-based airline is run by no-good cheapskates, meaning that now everybody aboard a Spirit Air plane can agree on that sentiment. The passengers complain about getting gouged for their luggage. The flight attendants complain about the airline using their uniforms as advertising space.And…
Working on a minibombshell that cuts to the heart of Broward Town — also an interesting Rothstein political scoop. Reporting it now, so in lieu of actual news, I thought I’d share the latest gaffe from South Florida’s own Rick Sanchez. This time, he reads an embarrassing bit from the TelePrompTer, reading “ad…
Lake Worth Commissioner Suzanne Mulvehill has a headfull of programs she’d like to see in Lake Worth to make it the greenest little city in South Florida. On the agenda: composting, public orchards, rain barrels, and front-yard vegetable gardens. Mulvehill says her own back yard composting projects inspired her to…
Here’s a glance at the headlines in South Florida this Monday morning:Investigators still don’t know what caused a major fire Friday at a Lauderhill apartment complex. Whatever it was, footage of the aftermath makes it clear that there’s no salvaging the building, nor the belongings of residents who lived on…
Earlier this year, the American Greyhound Track Owners Association, which is headquartered at the Palm Beach Kennel Club, took on a new member with a questionable, controversial past. At the AGTOA’s spring conference, held in Las Vegas, then-President Karen Keelan called MIR/Caliente the group’s “newest and most supportive member.”MIR/Caliente is…
Yesterday concluded the tryouts for the 2010 Miami Dolphins cheerleaders. After eight hours of competition — mostly in the middle of the Aventura Mall — 42 women were chosen from the field of 77. More than 10,000 online votes, 5,000 text messages, nine judges, and 8,000 mall viewers participated in…
The 12-year-old Haitian boy who was brought to the U.S. to treat the malignant tumor on his neck was in good spirits this morning. Through a translator, Esthelhomme Peterson said that he was in a lot of pain during the trip here but that he was feeling much better. He…
What a thief. Fort Lauderdale attorney Bill Scherer, who is suing numerous alleged Scott Rothstein co-conspirators in civil court, said today that after examining bankruptcy documents, his firm has determined that Rothstein stole a grand total of $168 million out of what was a $1.4 billion Ponzi scheme. Also today…
A Miami-based nonprofit corporation called Housing and Assistive Technology appears to have played a role in what a forensic auditor called a pattern of “suspected fraud” in the Deerfield Beach’s spending of low-income housing funds from the federal government.Judging by its tax filings, the nonprofit is a one-woman operation: specifically,…
