Florida’s legislators, in their great wisdom, today passed a bill requiring women to get an ultrasound exam before exercising their constitutional right to have an abortion.In addition to paying for the exam, most women will have to listen to a doctor’s description of the fetus.Clearly, our elected leaders don’t think…
If Charlie Crist is closeted gay — and New Times’ Bob Norman has compiled lots of circumstantial evidence to suggest that’s the case, despite Crist’s past denials — then his departure from the GOP removes perhaps the biggest political obstacle to coming out of the closet.In fact, a dramatic announcement…
A Lake Worth resident named Iver Siu has been named as the suspected driver in last week’s hit-and-run on State Road 84 that left a 13-year-old boy in critical condition.That boy, who has not been named, was crossing the westbound lanes of State Road 84 just before 4 p.m. on…
The friendship between Charlie Crist and his chief handler, Broward native George LeMieux appears to be one of the casualties of the 2010 Senate race. Today LeMieux, who was appointed to the U.S. Senate by Crist last August, announced that he would not support Crist’s independent bid for Senate and…
Just 24 hours after calling a special meeting to discuss the employment of the city manager, Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper helped cause the cancellation of that meeting by failing to attend.The special meeting was scheduled for 10:30 this morning, but Cooper wasn’t present. Nor was the man of the…
Yesterday’s deposition of former Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler general counsel David Boden was by all accounts a real weepfest. Boden, who worked with Scott Rothstein directly on the Ponzi scheme investments and made $500,000 a year at RRA, was “tearful,” according to the Sun-Sentinel, while the Daily Business Review noted that…
When Brandon Knight committed to the University of Kentucky earlier this month, he did not do so in the usual way that high school athletes do, by signing a letter of intent. Rather, the Pine Crest School point guard, regarded among the top few players in this year’s senior class,…
End of the week. End of the month. Let’s see what’s in the local news.Hollywood Police now say that the fatal shooting Wednesday of 13-year-old Daniel Torres by a 14-year-old friend is believed to be an accident. Torres stayed home from school that day because he was being bullied by…
Sorry, that’s the best we could do for a dramatic video lead-in on such short notice. Anyway, Charlie Crist’s about ready to step to the mic and make it official. Follow us after the jump for the MSNBC feed and commentary…
John Goodman, the multimillionaire owner of the International Polo Club Palm Beach, was so drunk the night of a fatal car crash this February that he “fell down for no apparent reason,” according to a lawsuit filed in Palm Beach County Circuit Court today.Goodman also fled the scene and made…
Truth is stranger than fiction and reality shows are always more interesting when the cameras go dark. That’s definitely the case with Big Brother, the execrable CBS show that forces an obnoxious group of people to be imprisoned within a camera-filled home. The winner of Big Brother 9 was Adam…
Before it’s all said and done more than 4 million gallons of oil will likely spill into the Gulf of Mexico thanks to the BP oil rig disaster that also presumably cost 11 workers their lives. It’s making its way to shore in Mississippi and Louisiana and could destroy one…
Hey there blogosphere, do me a favor. I need you to send seven bucks and a couple unshucked peanuts (my approximate daily wage) to the New Times newsroom, because if you fine supporters do so, I can have the day off. Mayhap I shall venture to K-Mart. Time will tell.Apparently,…
Mark your calendars, ladies and gents, as the day a Palm Beach lawyer didn’t charge you for a service — not a lump sum, not by the hour, not by your first- born. Christopher Hopkins, an attorney with Butzel Long on Worth Avenue, has developed a free iPhone app that…
Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives believe they’ve solved Yalitza Garcia’s murder. The 24-year-old Deerfield Beach woman disappeared July 2, 2009, from an apartment she used to share with her boyfriend, Jason Allen, 32, who now lives Plant City.According to friends and neighbors interviewed by detectives, Allen and Garcia had a “turbulent”…
Purvis Young spent most of his life free: riding his bike up and down Overtown streets, coming and going as he pleased, and staying up all night to paint. When the prolific mixed-media artist died last week, he was confined to a nursing home, under the care of guardians appointed…
It may look like paradise in the photos, but Anse-Rouge, a small village in northwest Haiti, has had to take in hundreds of refugees since the massive January 12 earthquake threw the country into turmoil. On May 14 members of Living Water Ministries, a Lake Worth-based charity that has devoted…
Hallandale Beach City Manager Mike Good might be in hot water with his most important political ally. The Juice has learned that Mayor Joy Cooper has called a special meeting for Friday morning with the expressed purpose of discussing the “city manager’s employment.”Cooper could not be reached by phone and…
It’s like some sort of child’s fable, or maybe a Virginia Woolf essay. It is both poetic, and a sad reminder of modern woes.After the coldest South Florida winter in more than 30 years, this spring will see a sharp reduction in the number of butterflies fluttering about.The Clay Glass…
That’s from March 28, folks. My favorite part comes around the 50-second mark when Crist says he’ll support the winner of the August 24 Republican primary, which is now very clearly going to be Marco Rubio, Crist’s opponent in the general election. Can this Senate campaign last forever please?…
The Broward County School Board is being ravaged by budget cuts and layoffs. A total of 461 noninstructional employees have already lost their jobs and teachers are supposed to be getting their pink slips today. The people who really need to be fired — if not thrown into the stockade –…
