The Sun-Sentinel’s staff reorganization involved more than the announced departure of Deputy Managing Editor Pat Thompson. Also lost in the reshuffling was Design Director Paul Wallen, who helped oversee the much ballyooed redesign of the newspaper and was also involved in the reorganization process until it cost him his job. The 40-year-old Wallen, widely…
State Senator Nan Rich has made waves with her crusade to make it illegal in Florida to have sex with animals. Not just around her Sunrise district, either. The controversy has earned Rich a future berth on Comedy Central’s Daily Show.Anxious, perhaps, about being accused of exploiting a saucy subject…
Palm Beach Post reporter Stacey Singer has an idea to help the growing number of laid-off South Florida journalists:”With our profession disintegrating, I believe we need to band together in a constructive way, and create a non-profit organization whose mission is to help journalists transcend this transition into the unknown.”But…
On October 19, 2005, Donald George Lewis was found stumbling into traffic in Riviera Beach, seemingly under the influence of narcotics. Court papers say he was “breathing heavily and grunting incoherently” and ran into traffic rather than obey officers’ orders to sit down. He was described as “an agitated and…
Sun-Sentinel Deputy Managing Editor Pat Thompson, who oversaw the features department, has left the newspaper. Earl Maucker announced Thompson’s departure in a staff-wide email today that also included news of a “restructuring” of the newsroom to create a “quicker and deeper alignment of print and digital journalism.” It just looks like is a…
Details remain vague, but The Juice has just learned that authorities believe they have found the body of Natalee Holloway, the 18-year-old from Clinton, Miss., who vanished in the Caribbean island in May 2005.A Miami-based flight attendant for American Airlines tells The Juice that a cadaver dog was aboard a…
We’ve made some cracks over the last few weeks about how even pending felony cases didn’t stop South Florida pols from campaigning. Former Miramar Commissioner Fitzroy Salesman had gun charges, while Deerfield Beach Mayor Al Capellini was suspended after he was indicted on felony corruption charges. Neither won his race,…
It has long been known that Americans are No. 1 in the world for such things as figuring out new uses for bacon, reinventing potato skins as a fat-filled appetizer, and supplying the rest of the world with neck-down fat people footage for news stories about obesity. But now a…
Here’s a story about some ghosts from the past coming back to haunt Hollywood plastic surgeon Richard B. Edison. A Massachusetts man named Tim Clark has sued the doctor claiming that he sexually assaulted him over a period of two years in the 1970s — when Edison was in medical school and the plaintiff…
Today the Florida Bar released a list of 35 attorneys disciplined for violating rules of professional conduct. Of the 35, ten are from Broward and Palm Beach Counties.1. William Abramson, of West Palm Beach. Abramson’s case goes back to 2005, when he was defending a female client in criminal case…
To the guy driving the Ferrari with the Ferrari hat, I do understand your dilemma: You have this pussy magnet of a car — but how to inform “the poon” of this after you park? Still, that’s no excuse for driving around in such redundant garb. Do you put on…
A labor judge ruled this week that Nova Southeastern University went to unlawful extremes to quash an effort by the school’s custodial contractors to unionize. Among the findings by Administrative Law Judge John H. West: that supervisors intimidated employees of a custodial services firm after they circulated union literature without…
During Deerfield Beach’s recent mayoral campaign, Don Cleveland lugged a big piece of baggage: a foreclosure action in which he lost his Sunny Isles home.A troublesome issue, if only because Cleveland was fairly new in town (moved there in 2001) and had never run for office in Deerfield Beach. The…
With Americans stressing about the economy, politicians at every level are either skimping on the usual luxuries that come with elected office, or pillorying their rivals for failing to do so. But mostly, they’re trying to do both.The Obama administration, which staged a bargain basement inauguration, has come dangerously close…
Yesterday afternoon, as Bostonians eased out of whiskey-induced hibernation (doctors call it “alcohol poisoning”) in a blanket of their own green vomit, they got a piece of good news: Police decided to drop the charges in exchange for an apology and a promise never to treat a lamp post like that again…
If you believe that the Lord Baby Jesus is in heaven looking out for all the unborn zygotes out there, then you’ll support South Florida state Rep. Anitere Flores. She’s got a bill in Tallahassee that would require women seeking abortion to get an ultrasound. To emphasize how important it…
On a Friday night in February — Friday the 13th, to be exact — a dozen jacked-up wrestlers gather inside the weight room at a bare-bones community center in Davie. The space doubles as a backstage dressing room. Fluorescent lights flicker down on the men. With raw, bulging muscles, they…
Plastic surgeon Richard B. Edison is a dubious doctor who has been hit with a lot of life-altering allegations over the years. Five patients at the medical facility he directs in Hollywood have died after routine cosmetic surgeries during the past 11 years, three of them under Edison’s own knife…
Shortly after Miami Herald Publisher David Landsberg announced the move of Manny Garcia to El Nuevo Herald, Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal announced that current Features Editor Mindy Marques will replace Garcia as the newspaper’s new Senior Editor. Actually Marques, a former Miami Bureau Chief for People Magazine, isn’t replacing Garcia. Gyllenhaal wrote that she will instead “cover”…
Miami Herald Publisher David Landsberg sent out a memo this evening announcing that Spanish-language El Nuevo Herald editor Humberto Castelló is resigning after seven years at the helm. Even bigger news is Castelló’s replacement. Taking the reins as executive editor at the El Nuevo Herald will be current Miami Herald Metro…
Today in Washington, D.C., members of Congress are taking turns pummeling AIG Fat Cat Edward M. Liddy. His woefully mismanaged company needed billions of tax dollars to save it from failure, and yet AIG still handed out millions in bonuses to its management. It is fashionable — and appropriate –…
Not officially, she doesn’t. But reporter Scott Wyman just noticed that the Broward mayor’s picture appears on the Klenet & Associates website just as much as Klenet’s. The two are married, of course. So it wouldn’t be a scandal if, say, Klenet posted a single picture of himself with Ritter…
