Bruce Springsteen may have been born to run, but he must have mumbled the lyrics about the treadmill fetish. Over the weekend, the 60-year-old Wellington resident was named “the other man” in a New Jersey divorce, the female party whom Springsteen allegedly seduced at the gym by complimenting her, ahem,…
The Boynton Police have released news about the girl “abducted” in Boynton today: It was her dad. And he wasn’t kidnapping her, just being extra persuasive about getting her back in his car. The father had just dropped his 5-year-old son at the bus stop when his daughter too got…
Melissa Britt Lewis was a cautious woman. The 39-year-old, newly divorced attorney at Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler carried Mace in her purse, had two dogs and an alarm system at her Plantation home, and always kept her garage door locked to prevent burglaries.As the eldest child in her family, she grew…
Yvonne Oulton was last seen leaving the Isle Casino in Pompano Beach last Sunday. She was later found dead in the back of her silver Dodge Caravan. She had been missing since 4 p.m.CBS4 reported this morning that her husband, Robert Oulton, has been charged with premeditated murder in the…
Last month’s shooting outside Chances Nightclub in residential Lake Worth was startling, but it seems the incident — which left two young people in the hospital with life-threatening bullet wounds — is one more in a trend of nightclub shootings across South Florida.This week’s Cover Story in Miami New Times,…
Boynton Beach police are investigating a possible child abduction this morning. The girl, age 4 or 5, was wearing pink shorts and a white top with pink flowers. She was taken from a bus stop in the 1600 block of SW Eighth St. The suspect may be a white male…
Here’s the news this morning from Broward and Palm Beach:After four hours of deliberation a jury found former Miramar Commissioner Fitzroy Salesman guilty on four felony counts of bribery and extortion. He faces up to 60 years in prison but will likely be sentenced to five to seven. These felony…
The last time you saw Keith Ballard was in November, after he accidentally slashed the head of his own goalie. The incident even earned Ballard a spot on the 2009 Dirty Dozen list.Last night’s incident, at the BankAtlantic Center, wasn’t nearly as dangerous. But it was just as bizarre. In…
A video being circulated by Florida Democrats, apparently from a speech that congressional candidate Allen West gave last night to supporters in Jupiter. Making a congressman — West’s opponent Ron Klein — “scared to come out of his house”? OK, so West hasn’t explicitly asked his supporters to commit terrorist…
In what amounted to a no-brainer decision, a jury found Fitzroy Salesman guilty on four felony counts of bribery and extortion after four and a half hours of deliberation, the Sun-Sentinel reports. Salesman faces up to 60 years in prison, but sentencing guidelines fall between five and seven. From the Sentinel article: “As the verdict…
A Port St. Lucie truck driver arrested for perjury and driver’s license fraud may also be wanted in Brazil for swindling, unlawful seizure, receipt of stolen goods, and a fun little thing called murder, TCPalm reports.The Florida Highway Patrol arrested Geraldo Ricardo Miranda, 42, on Wednesday for twice providing a…
Twitter and FB may rule the Zeitgeist, but an old-fashioned communications medium may be on the mend: low-power FM radio. A bill cosponsored by U.S. Sens. John McCain and Maria Cantwell — the Local Community Radio Act — would repeal some of the more draconian FCC rules and open up…
Gotta love how Fox & Friends skips the pleasantries and fires away with the tough question to Rudy Giuliani about whether his endorsement of Marco Rubio is payback for Charlie Crist’s treachery in 2008.And yet, by the eager way he answered the question, it’s almost like Giuliani told Fox &…
Deerfield Beach City Attorney Andy Maurodis says that a charity run by the Poitier family, the Westside Deerfield Businessmen Association, has finally provided documents in response to the independent auditor’s request, meaning that he won’t need to file the lawsuit he’d prepared against the organization. But another charity may not…
Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper says she was aware that a real estate agent, Joe Kessel, had been contracted by the city manager as a consultant, but Cooper refused to answer a question about whether that consultant should have disclosed his contract before testifying in support of a massive condominium…
A Nova Southeastern University professor who spent his promising career trying to cure cancer was murdered during an apparent home invasion in his usually quiet Plantation suburb in the middle of the night. Dr. Joseph Morrissey, 46, was tied up and shot before his house was set on fire by an armed man, according to…
[This is a corrected version of an earlier entry.]A year ago, Fort Lauderdale bail bondsman William “Cobra” Staubs nearly ended his 30-year career by searching for missing 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings. Cobra was slapped with a felony charge of false imprisonment when he tried to arrest accused child molester Daniel Snodgrass…
A Boynton Beach man whose car broke down in the early-morning hours Tuesday was struck and killed by a motorist on Highway 27 in Weston. The driver then disappeared. It appears there are no witnesses.The victim’s name is Louis Abrams, age 68. According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office release, Abrams…
I can’t imagine a single person who was present at last night’s town hall meeting by Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz who would say the event was productive or worthwhile. The opponents of health-care reform and the Democratic Congress showed no interest in a dialogue; they just wanted to scream.The hatred…
The news in Broward and Palm Beach:A Nova Southeastern University science professor is believed to be dead following a home invasion early Tuesday morning. Police say a man and his wife were tied up by an intruder, who shot the man — believed to be homeowner Joseph Morrissey — and…
