Tell us the best museum 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 museums.And click here for a master list of all Readers’ Poll items…
In January 2008, when Broward Health CEO Frank Nask promoted his friend Deborah Breen to his former position as the district’s chief financial officer, he gave Breen a raise that was 250 percent higher than the one that a previous interim CFO received just four years before.A source in the…
Let’s see what’s in the papers and on the TV news this Wednesday morning:Prosecutors are finally getting ’round to issuing subpoenas in the long-overdue investigation of Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin, who voted for some $11 million in grants for parks in Southwest Ranches — grants that were written by…
UPDATE: Broward Health just emailed new information containing its explanation for the strange entries I cite below. In short, they say they’re the product of a computer glitch. I’ve copied that explanation on the bottom of this post.Since 2001, Broward Health has spent nearly a million dollars on ultrasound equipment…
Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter said today that she received a golf cart from developer Bruce Chait, the developer who has been charged in a state bribery case involving Rittter’s former colleague, Joe Eggelletion. Ritter supported Chait’s controversial housing project in Tamarac and voted as a commissioner to approve it on August…
Aren’t investors supposed to be ruthless believers in the shallowness and depravity of the human race? That seems to be the bet that FriendFinder Networks was making when the Boca Raton-based website promoter decided to stage an initial public offering. The pitch: This could feed the human sex drive in…
Ah, you fair-weather LeBron James fans. I saw you drooling over the King last night as he mesmerized the crowd at American Airlines Arena with his warrior layups and toe-to-toe combat with Dwyane Wade.You held those signs — “Come to Miami, LeBron. Work on your tan!” — and you wore…
On the World Wide Web, even tea party activists can be hot. But they still ain’t buyin’ what Charlie Crist is sellin’. The video above was made last week and was to be furnished to “millions” of potential voters. I was the third to watch it. Maybe traffic will pick…
The State Attorney’s Office has served subpoenas in the ongoing criminal investigation of Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin, the state attorney’s office has confirmed. Prosecutors have subpoenaed records involving the dealings of Wasserman-Rubin and her husband, Richard Rubin, in the Town of Southwest Ranches. Sources have said numerous subpoenas have been issued in the state attorney’s investigation…
Sounds like the Wolaks needs a visit from a pet therapist. The Deerfield Beach family is featured in an article in today’s Wall Street Journal about people whose love for their pets damages their human relationships. In the Wolaks’ case, that pet is Buck, a 1-year-old German shepherd who was…
This was a straightforward criminal plot: The bad guys wanted drugs. A pain clinic wall blocked their access to said drugs. So they destroyed that wall. (1) Smash; (2) Grab. Almost elegant in its simplicity. And the score was huge: some 56,000 pills of hydrocodone, oxycodone, and other prescription-strength painkillers…
Last week, we broke you the news that a woman arrested on felony animal cruelty charges was still working as a greyhound trainer in Florida. In 2002, Ursula O’Donnell sent greyhounds in her care from Palm Beach, Naples, and Orlando to an Alabama man who shot and buried them, according…
The news in Broward and Palm Beach this Tuesday:Police in Rye Brook, New York, say that an anonymous letter they received in July contains details of the Ben Novack murder case that, during the subsequent investigation, have proven accurate. Among the claims: that the death of Novack’s mother in Fort…
jFor better or worse, people do judge books by their covers. And if a cover has the name James Patterson on it, there is a much better chance someone will deem that book worthy of purchase. That’s one of the primary themes of this week’s New York Times Magazine cover…
At least three dogs were involved in the Febonio murder saga. “You can’t make this shit up,” Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Detective Sean Oliver must have muttered to himself at least once during the course of his two-year investigation into the murder of Stephen Febonio.Discovery documents made available to the…
A question for the taxpayers in South Broward: How many of your tax dollars would you care to invest in a museum exhibit that will help your child get a firmer grasp of boogers, belches, and farts?”Not much,” replies every parent. “My kid’s already an expert on all three.” Well,…
If you think the Broward Sheriff’s Office treats all traffic investigations equally, you might want to consider an accident that occurred on the railroad tracks off Griffin Road near the airport on December 19. About 6 a.m., a 2007 Ford Explorer carrying at least two joyriding youths went off the road and…
The list of candidates for the Broward Health board is full of attorneys, contractors, politicians and health-care business owners. They are vying for at least one open seat — the one formerly belonging to Maureen Jaeger, who left this fall to join George Lemieux’s U.S. Senate staff. Commissioner Rebecca Stoll’s…
Melissa Minsk Donoho isn’t much interested in political gossip. She’s too busy with her criminal defense law practice in Fort Lauderdale and with raising three kids. But when Donoho filed for candidacy for Broward County Court Judge, Group 12, she entered one of the region’s most gossip-friendly races. That’s because…
George Ludwigsen will soon be sentenced for breaking into safety deposit boxes in Mississippi with a saw — and that’s not nearly the most exciting criminal caper the 40-year-old Hallandale Beach resident has to his credit. Earlier in the decade, Ludwigsen and his more famous younger brother, Chris Paciello, partied…
