In what must be a pure coincidence, famous Floridians with a battered public image have sprung into action at reports of Haiti’s crisis. Tiger Woods, it seems, it just a little slower to react than Charlie Crist. On his Twitter feed, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons says that the philandering golfer…
We just got word that all of the Haitian orphanages run by the South Florida-based non-profit Planting Peace are upright and the children are, as Planting Peace founder Aaron Jackson put it, “OK.” In addition, the two University of Florida students who were in Haiti shooting a documentary about Jackson…
Since that CBS News report, the Palm Beach Post is reporting that four of the Lynn University students have contacted family to report that they’re safe. But that still leaves two faculty members and one student — Dr. Patrick Hartwick, Dr. Richard Bruno and Chistine Gianacaci…
U.S. aid workers are pretty busy today, what with Haiti experiencing apocalyptic conditions and all. But the coordinators of that incredibly complex and chaotic rescue effort surely have enough time to chat with our Broward-born Sen. George LeMieux, who wants to learn about their effort. Otherwise, he won’t be able…
The catastrophe in Haiti dominates the headlines in South Florida and around the world:The Port Au Prince airport is now taking chartered flights and aid has arrived — just nearly enough to meet the dire need for water and fuel. [New York Times]Lynn University in Boca Raton learned late last…
U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force Commander Lenny DePaul told New Times yesterday that the apprehension of Jose Alfaro at his mother’s condominium in New York last August was no piece of cake. “He put up a pretty good fight, he resisted us pretty good,” DePaul said of Alfaro. “We’d had…
Backstage at Voodoo Lounge in Fort Lauderdale, a manager with a clipboard yells “Five minutes!” and the drag performers begin to scurry. They are readying themselves — applying eye shadow, taping body parts — for a packed Sunday-night audience. The walls are candy red, and the smell of smoke hangs…
You might think there aren’t any positive stories coming out of the Scott Rothstein debacle, but then you’d be wrong. Over the holidays, Barry Bekkedam, who fed $100 million into Rothstein’s Ponzi scheme through his money management fund, was engaged to local real estate agent and insurance broker Diane Barnett,…
Leave it to that old and ornery quote machine Alcee Hastings to bust up the scrum of politicians descending on Haiti. In a statement that the Central Broward Congressman just released, he opened with the usual buzzwords like “sorrow” and “tragic,” but then he gracefully stepped out of the way…
Young Andrew Perez is a bit like the canary in the coal mine. The Plantation native was hired three years ago, as an 18-year-old intern at Rothstein Rosenfeldt & Adler, working there for the past three summers. He swears he once remarked to another associate at the firm that he…
This morning, Miami Herald reporter Steve Rothaus criticized New Times’ cover story “Escape from South Beach.” The blogger, who focuses on gay issues, cites one statistic, writing: “It’s bit over the top.” The article — if you haven’t seen it — takes a look at three things. 1) The fact…
The four Hollywood Police officers who had a role in a fabricating a police report to conceal an officer’s role in a traffic collision have lost their appeal and have been terminated from the department.The incident stems from a collision that occurred on the night of February 17, when officer…
Sometimes, truth in advertising is not a good thing. When New Times published its “Newspapers Are Dead!” cover story last fall, we never dreamed the Palm Beach Post would take us so seriously. But with the loss of more 130 jobs in its newsroom, Sunday circulation that’s dropped by 40,000…
Jon Pace, a boardmember of local charity Living Water Ministries of the Palm Beaches told us by phone this morning that Executive Director Pastor Etienne Jacklin’s house in the Bon-Repos area north of Port au Prince was destroyed, and his wife’s arm badly injured by a falling block, when the…
Charlie Crist juggled his schedule so he could fly down to Miami-Dade, where a press conference will be staged to comfort the Haitian people. But however little Crist has to lose in his Senate race against Marco Rubio, still he had better be careful about dashing toward ground zero, Giuliani-style,…
With University of Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin accepting the same job at USC, it looks like the only memory that some local football players will have of the coach is a pending NCAA investigation. Though former Volunteer and Pahokee native Nu’keese Richardson says he isn’t part of the investigation,…
It’s been cold lately. Recently, I was in New York to visit family and it was, obviously, much colder there than it is here. Be that as it may, we South Floridans are not used to the cold and the recent temperatures are breaking all kinds of records. Several people…
Scott Rothstein is going to be back in court today, this time for a hearing in which he’s expected to waive any conflicts of interests with his attorney, Marc Nurik. This seems like another by-rote formality and, as I have a ton of other reporting to do, I doubt I’ll make it out…
As you can see, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is quite comfortable on the cable news circuit; so comfortable that the otherwise circumspect West Broward Congresswoman is willing to describe in vivid terms exactly what deviant metaphorical acts the insurance companies are inflicting upon us virginal American consumers. But then, the smug…
Thursday brings another chilly morning but warm weather is on the way. Let’s look at the local headlines:A Boynton Beach man was at the Port Au Prince airport when the earthquake hit and says it felt like an airplane strike. [Palm Beach Post] Members of a united nations United Nations…
