For four months, the Boynton Beach Police Department has been investigating the Platinum Showgirls strip club on North Federal Highway, and tonight they swooped in. According to a just-issued department release, some 50 police officers have swarmed the club in what spokeswoman Stephanie Slater is calling “an extremely active scene.”…
I’m dashing off for Halloween weekend, but as long we’re giving props to gritty journalists who’ve gone blog-happy, here’s some fantastic, in-depth reporting, courtesy John DeGroot, about the case of Gabriel Myers, the 7-year-old foster child in Margate who hung himself with a rubber hose in April.This story’s not going…
In the last few weeks, we’ve brought you the story of Ronald Murphy, the convicted rapist forced to sleep on a bench outside his parole officer’s building in Delray Beach. (You can read some background here, here, and here.)Well this week Murphy moved from his bench to a new address…
It may be a little early to anoint Tony Sparano the savior of the franchise, but at the very least he’s made the Dolphins fun to watch again. And he definitely un-did the damage to a previously proud tradition of upper-lip hair inflicted by one Dave Wanndstedt.Juice hereby awards Sparano…
In the video above, which was posted to Youtube today, you can hear Lake Worth City Commission candidate Scott Maxwell on his own radio show. The audio leaves little doubt that on immigration, he lines up to the right of Lou Dobbs. By the sound of it, he’s getting mighty…
I haven’t written about the Craig Cohen case yet, but it’s time to get started. He was the man brutally beaten by numerous assailants on April 6 in Wilton Manors after leaving the Peter Pan Diner. The beating left the 47-year-old Cohen in a coma; he died on October 7 from his injuries. Though it…
Manalapan Police Chief Clay Walker says his investigators are wrapping up their case against the two men involved in the knife fight Monday night at the Ritz Carlton, where Nazi historian David Irving was giving a speech. He expects to deliver investigative findings to the Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office…
After 30 years in the South Florida news business, Dan Christensen isn’t about to let one small layoff stop him from mining the bottomless pit of Broward County corruption.The veteran Daily Business Review and Miami Herald reporter has launched a new nonprofit investigative news site, Broward Bulldog, that aims to…
Steven Michael Rubinstein is the Boca Raton accountant who was caught by the IRS concealing some $6 million in assets with the help of his friends at UBS. So he sang like the proverbial canary about those friends in exchange for which he just received a very lenient sentence: one…
We spoke by phone with Scott Maxwell just minutes after the PBC Environmental Coalition ended its news conference in Lake Worth this afternoon, where speakers alleged that Maxwell, who is running for City Commission District 1, had ties to racist and white supremacist groups, specifically the Federation for Immigration Reform…
Kudos to the witnesses who stepped forward in the murder case of Junior Cesar. The Boynton Beach Police Department acted on witness tips to arrest Suprinet Augustin, 22. He allegedly confronted Cesar during a basketball game at Pence Park, pistol-whipped him, then shot Cesar three times. Another 22-year-old, Jakenson St…
I didn’t see this in the local dailies, but the St. Petersburg Times is reporting that Muvico’s CEO, Michael Whalen, and two of his closest associates have left the chain to form a new one, called Paragon Entertainment.Muvico’s been struggling mightily. Back in March, it announced a “financial restructuring” that…
The owner of the Gryphon nightclub, located at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, says a Manhattan nightclub called Griffin has swiped his name.I’m no legal expert, but it looks like the only similarities between the two clubs’ names are their pronunciation and meaning: a mythical creature with an…
Since Fort Lauderdale Mayor John “Jack” Seiler has been crowned as a prince of integrity and ethics by the Broward County School Board, I decided to see who has filled up his campaign coffers with cash. And what I found should, put simply, disqualify him from the commission. Apparently, Superintendent James Notter didn’t conduct…
An extra-spooky, Halloween Eve edition of the MJ:Junior Cesar, the 30-year-old man who was shot dead Wednesday night at a basketball court in Boynton Beach’s Pence Park, is the older brother of Jesse Cesar, who was 22 when he was murdered just before he could testify against a gang member…
Everybody’s still talking about Crist gaffe-ing (lying?) over the Obama appearance, but this quotable moment is, I think, much more precious. Let’s pull out a portion of that Sarasota Herald-Tribune article, which asked for Crist’s opinion of a Senate Democrat health-care reform package that would allow states to opt out…
You may have noticed there’s been a pause since we unveiled the fourth most formidable mustache in Broward and Palm Beach counties. That’s because we were really hoping to get a comment from the man behind Mustache No. 3: Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti. And it’s become clear that those hopes…
The knife fight that broke out during Holocaust-denier David Irving’s speech at the Ritz-Carlton on Manalapan this week appears to be the latest twist in an ongoing spat between two white supremacist factions, according to a watchdog that monitors hate groups nationwide.”This is just the latest manifestation of a war…
Here I was trying to take a moderate, calm stance on the Broward County School Board’s new Puppy Dog Commission when I look up to see that one of the members, former Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth, took what looks very much like a veiled swipe at me during yesterday morning’s dog and po– er,…
Deputy Superintendent Michael Garretson, who oversees the Broward County School Board’s construction department, personally interceded in an attempt to add $184,000 worth of work to a school cafeteria project being done by a company that employed his nephew, according to School Board records. Garretson last year instructed the School Board project manager overseeing…
Trevor Keezor broke his company’s rules. He was warned several times. Then he was fired. That should probably be the end of the story. But Mr. Keezor sees himself as a martyr, a spokesperson for Christians everywhere who aren’t allowed to write their own dress code policies and demand they…
