Last week, we brought you the story of Antontio Balta, the Peruvian horse groomer whose daughter died in the back seat of his car in Hallandale Beach six years ago as he gambled and waited for his girlfriend to get off work. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison,…
Let’s check out the local headlines:First degree murder charges for 16-year-old Berenice Juarez, accused of stabbing to death her mother’s boyfriend, Gilardo Ramos Paz, in the parking lot of a Winn Dixie in Delray Beach. Paz was reportedly married, with a wife and five children in Guatemala. Reporter Derek Hayward…
ESPN is reporting that the Miami Heat is one of the few teams who have stayed on the phone past today’s 3 p.m. NBA trade deadline. The team is working feverishly to try to land Utah Jazz forward Carlos Boozer in hopes his arrival will convince Dwyane Wade the team’s…
Sweatpants aren’t just comfortable exercise attire. They’re also a subtle way of telling the world you’ve just. Stopped. Trying. In the video above, it’s hard to tell whether Gov. Charlie Crist has reached that point in his senatorial campaign — or if he really is on the way to a…
Last week, Palm Beach County officials selected a development team to build a new hotel to prop up the county convention center in downtown West Palm Beach. It seemed an insane move, since thousands of empty condo units already crowd the South Florida skyline, including more than 350 unsold units…
Nail school students aspire to paint the fingernails of international celebrities. But at the Palm Beach Nail School, those students are liable to spot a celebrity in the next desk. Serena Williams, who lives with her family in Palm Beach Gardens, is devoting part of her tennis offseason to studying…
Just got off the phone with Joe “Meaty” Alu, and during the talk, I asked him a question about his boss, Kim Rothstein. He said, “I don’t know — I’m not with her.” I said, “I thought you were back to work.” He said, “I don’t spend my days with her. I don’t…
Karin Hoffman of Coral Springs (that’s her in the video below) says that no matter what you’ve read on this blog — or in the national media — she absolutely is a member of the tea party movement. And the meeting that Hoffman and her allies recently had with Republican…
As we reported yesterday, a new pain clinic has opened in Lake Worth, a big white elephant of an unmarked two-story building on North Dixie Highway. Following the lead of other South Florida cities, Lake Worth City Commissioners took steps at their Tuesday-night meeting to put a moratorium on pain…
Traffic safety hazards have never been quite as sexy as the Stripper Mobile, the subject of this week’s New Times feature. Natalie O’Neill gets to know the pole-dancers and their promoters, looking to make a scene amid a South Florida swamped with Super Bowl-sized sensory overload.That appears to be the…
After reading about former H.L. Watkins Middle School band teacher Heath Miller and his best friend, Franklin King — both charged with child molestation — the mother of a former band student felt compelled to speak out. The woman, who spoke anonymously because she fears retaliation, says her son was…
Tell us the best artist in Broward and Palm Beach counties in the comments section below. Voting ends May 26.Need some suggestions? Click here for an archive of articles about local artists.And click here for a master list of all Readers’ Poll items…
The rundown of local news on this Thursday morning:A 16-year-old girl is in jail for stabbing to death her mother’s boyfriend, Gilardo Ramos Paz, in the parking lot of a Winn Dixie in Delray Beach. The girl, Berenice Juarez, confessed to police, telling them she didn’t approve of the man’s…
The girls are ready, and there are plenty of them. Girls who will laugh at your jokes and say yes and take you by the hand into a private room. Skinny ones with big eyes that seem miles away, like they are already back home, scanning Cosmo or painting a…
South Florida criminal defense attorney Bradford Cohen has built a career by speaking well and speaking plenty. He has faced down Donald Trump as a contestant on The Apprentice, jabbered onscreen with the likes of Nancy Grace and Dr. Phil, and represented rappers, athletes, and sundry semisuperstars in court. You…
As the Scott Rothstein’s bogus scheme revved up in 2008, monster investor George Levin, flying high with Ponzi profits, began buying aircraft. Levin started a company called Galleria Aviation in September 2008 and bought at least two jets. One was a King Air 300 that Levin purchased for $1.35 million from the State of…
Hold your dead horses, South Florida. Joey Porter isn’t gone yet. Hours after announcing that the team is releasing the controversial (some might say over-rated) linebacker, the Dolphins just sent out this message: “The release of Joey Porter was determined to be an invalid termination. Therefore at this time, Porter…
Any time public money goes missing in Broward County, we’re conditioned to reach for our tomatoes and wait for a public official to do a perp walk. But Deerfield Beach interim city manager Burgess Hanson is trying to dampen that speculation in the weeks following an internal investigation into how…
Karin Hoffman of Coral Springs: Consider yourself warned. The real South Florida Tea Party is on to you. Her group is called DC Works for Us, but in media reports, Hoffman has been identified as a “tea party leader.” So this week, when Hoffman’s group landed a meeting with Republican…
Our depressed local economy really can’t afford for another big business to hit the skids, but that’s what it’s looking like for Office Depot, based in Boca Raton. We’ve been following the company’s misfortunes since last year. This isn’t merely a case of an office supplier having fewer offices to…
