That’s video of Lt. Howard Noland, the firefighter husband of Deerfield Beach Mayor Peggy Noland. It’s the bomb that Acts of Sedition blogger Chaz Stevens dropped at tonight’s commission meeting to a stunned audience.Noland, says Stevens, claimed to have been injured in 2001, after which he collected 860 hours of…
Former WPLG-10 anchor Charles Perez says he was demoted for being too gay. Here’s a promo of a television show he did before he came to work in South Florida. Too gay?Mighty gay, but in Perez’s defense, it’s not quite Wham! video gay. To be fair to the station, Perez…
A man who claims to be a former employee of waste water treatment firm Cliff Berry, Inc. (CBI), has gone public about what happened within the company in the months following its felony conviction for stealing fuel from Miami International Airport.In a letter to Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom, the…
In a real estate industry that’s grown fierce since the bubble burst, it’s time to band together and focus on a goal we can all profit from: Fooling Canadian homebuyers.That starts with fooling the Canadian media, and we’re looking good so far, if this recent report in The Gazette of…
Maybe they can call it the “Stephanie Alma Kraft Media Center.” The Broward County School Board, which is wallowing in debt, has approved plans to build a new $17 million TV studio for BECON, its propaganda cable channel. Readers of this blog have an idea how I feel about that…
Cecil Weekes was scheduled to take a polygraph examination today in connection with the mysterious death of his girlfriend’s baby. Instead, he’s in a Broward County Jail because he allegedly confessed yesterday to shaking the child on June 12, the night she was found not breathing. Eleven-month-old Angeliah Duncan died…
Apparently, Chicago’s black community is not keen on the name “Willis,” which last month was affixed to what had always been the Sears Tower, the city’s tallest building. And it’s not because it has suspicions about Willis Group Holdings, the London-based insurance broker that has been linked to the Ponzi…
Jerry Carr’s love of television has led him into some dangerous predicaments. The president of the public television station based in Boynton Beach, WXEL, Carr started his career in the 1960s in Rochester, New York, and yesterday that city’s Democrat and Chronicle told of how Carr became a local celebrity,…
It’s one thing to boost a truck from a church. It’s another thing altogether to then use the church’s truck to steal from landscapers. But the Palm Beach’s Sheriff’s Office is reporting that the two incidents over the past three days in Jupiter are related.The truck disappeared from Calvary Chapel…
Bump! is the name of a television series on Logo — MTV’s gay channel. It scopes out tourist destinations for gay travelers, and this past week, it tackled Fort Lauderdale.That link lets you watch the whole episode. The camera crew makes stops in the gay-themed resorts like the Royal Palms,…
South Florida football players are a weird obsession for University of Tennessee Coach Lane Kiffin. In the last recruiting campaign, he sparked controversy — then the kind of back-pedaling you’d prize in an All-America cornerback — after he accused Florida Coach Urban Meyer of breaking NCAA rules with a prospect…
A grueling summer for the Broward Sheriff”s Office just got worse. The agency arrested one of its own this morning on charges he sexually exploited illegal immigrants. Here’s the agency’s news release:A Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy who disgraced his badge by preying on illegal residents was arrested Monday morning on…
New Mount Olive’s the Rev. Mack King Carter will retire a rich man, but he will not be immortalized on a Fort Lauderdale street sign. This summer, admirers of Carter had filed requests for NW Ninth Avenue, from Sunrise to Broward Boulevard, to be renamed in the pastor’s honor.Fort Lauderdale…
On August 19, 48-year-old John Marek will be put to death by the State of Florida unless there is a major last-minute intervention by the governor or the courts. In 1983, Marek and a friend, Raymond Wigley, drove to Florida from Texas. On June 16 of that year, the two…
Back in 2007, the wizards at the Broward County School District decided to build classroom additions at several schools that clearly didn’t need them. The cost: $18,512,769. And, of course, the elected members of the board approved it without blinking an eye. There was no good reason to build the 66 new classrooms planned. None…
It wasn’t quite the finger-wagging sitcom scene I predicted in Friday’s post, but we were right in guessing that Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter is disappointed in Sheriff Al Lamberti’s choosing the flamboyant Dodge Challenger to round out his agency’s fleet of cars.Here’s the note Ritter sent Juice: While I am…
Bet you thought South Florida was a lot more likely to win accolades for “best strip malls” or “extra egregious decimation of natural wildlife” than for anything much greener than development dollars. But it turns out Florida is among the top states in the nation when it comes to a…
Amazingly, the Amazing Cindini is still in the jail-breaking business. The video above shows photos from her 2006 escape from Sing Sing. In 2000, this paper wrote an article about her dual identity: Cynthia Morrison, operator of a foreign car repair shop in West Palm during the week; the Amazing…
In 1983, a female body was found in a vacant field in Pompano Beach. But no family had reported the woman missing. It wasn’t till 2008 that the fingerprints were matched to those of a young woman who had multiple arrests in Broward County: Tina Moore. Or at least that…
You want health-care reform? You want us to get out from under the tyranny of the health-care and insurance industries? There’s a man at the top of his game, on a serious power trip. He also recounts a call from Jeremy Ring, (at right) quoting the state senator as…
That’s the trailer for Megan Wants a Millionaire, VH1’s most recent attempt to exploit the world’s most loathsome people. As you can see, the conceit for this show is to finally score a sugar daddy for Megan Hauserman, who’s famous for… being dumped? On TV? Yes, and there’s loads of…
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