Florida Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria told the media yesterday that he’s optimistic that Miami will pass a plan this week to move the team into a proposed stadium in Little Havana. Leaving Dolphins Stadium, which is on the Broward County line, will assure that baseball fans in Broward and Palm…
All right, for the first time since I was about six, I’m going to stay away from the NCAA tournament this year. This is a whole new version of March Madness for me. Because I’m mad. And I’m boycotting the tournament — and urge all you Gator fans to do the…
A South Florida charter school company says that Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade has failed to live up to his end of the deal to promote education to at-risk youth, and this afternoon it formally ended its association with him. The company, called Mavericks in Education and based in Fort…
This whole arrest-on-felony-drug-charges thing came along just when Howard K. Stern’s legal life had finally calmed. The attorney ex-boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith filed a lawsuit in Fort Lauderdale’s U.S. District Court in April 2007 against mega-millionaire attorney, John O’Quinn, accusing the lawyer of libel for statements O’Quinn made in…
Susan Stanton was the city manager of Largo, Florida for 14 years until she announced she was becoming Steve Slanton. She was subsequently terminated. Stanton’s case made huge headlines two years ago. Now Stanton is a finalist for the city manager job in Lake Worth. According to a story in…
Okay, I say a couple nice things about departed Sun-Sentinel reporter John Holland and the knives start flying. The Holland haters bring up an eight-year-old correction which one commenter calls “the longest and most embarrassing front-page retraction in the Sun-Sentinel’s history.” I remember that correction and I remember all the…
Broward County Medical Examiner Dr. Joshua Perper is heading back on the national pundits’ circuit now that California prosecutors have filed felony drug charges against Howard K. Stern and two doctors in connection with the February 2007 death of Anna Nicole Smith from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. That…
Sen. John Kerry knows a thing or two about boating safety. He actually drove one around during some stupid war in Southeast Asia. Now he’s trying to bring more safety to the cruise liners, which apparently are floating anarchies. Ship staff don’t have to report the crimes that occur outside…
U.S. Senate candidate Congressman Kendrick Meek of Miami will be coming to Pompano Beach tomorrow morning to snag another labor endorsement.The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, AFL-CIO, with offices on South Andrews Boulevard, will officially back Meek’s bid for the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat to be…
Last fall, staph infections were going around the NFL like a bimbo on a broken Ferris wheel. Even Time magazine felt compelled to point out that “a microscopic foe can be much more imposing than a 300-pound lineman”; why, even the indomitable Peyton Manning, the flawless Tom Brady, and six…
All right I’ve been gone from here for a little while doing my day job (journalism) and I’m none too pleased. I had the damn Shak Dhanji fugitive scoop two days ago and got so caught up in another story I was working on and the Miami Herald layoffs that…
For years now, the Surfrider Foundation, the Snook Foundation, and the City of Lake Worth have been fighting the Town of Palm Beach over its dream of renourishing a section of beach known as Reach 8. In 2005, the town asked for a permit to fill in the eroding beach…
Turns out that the foreign company the state picked to build and then operate I-595 has no obligation to hire local workers for the $1.8 billion rehab project. This comes as some surprise to local officials like the Metropolitan Planning Organization, which apparently doesn’t understand what’s meant by the phrase…
Below, the first of the two-page incident report for Jeffrey Kerlikowske, the stepson of Obama nominee for drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske. In October 2002 Jeffrey Kerlikowske was booked on battery charges after his live-in girlfriend accused him of slamming her head against kitchen cabinets and throwing her 6-pound Yorkie against…
Gil Kerlikowske, chief of the Seattle Police Department, was introduced to the media yesterday as the Obama administration’s nominee to lead the Office of Drug Control Policy. Meanwhile, his stepson Jeffrey sits in a Broward County jail cell.Jeffrey Kerlikowske, 39, of Coconut Creek, has a history of selling marijuana and…
This morning, MSNBC interviewed one of the many, many victims of Bernard Madoff, who entered his guilty plea to 11 felony charges this morning so he can go to prison to die. The victim, Peter Moskowitz, asks a good question: Is Madoff being a good general, jumping on the proverbial…
From March 18 to 20, the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino will kick off a unique marketing ploy that is both a customer lure and a photo op. No, there’s no Disney character dressed in a furry costume, no photogenic celebrity host, not even a wax statue of Chief…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office is hoping that the public will help solve a murder. Last night, friends of 68-year-old Larry Ellison wondered why he didn’t show up for a planned dinner. They stopped by his townhouse on NE 19th Street in Wilton Manors only to make a terrifying discovery –…
Inked With Anger Editor’s note: Articles we posted recently on TheJuiceBlog.com on proposed laws that would make it harder to open a tattoo parlor brought out a lot of pissed-off ink fans. A sample of the 100 or so comments: John says: Why, now, would a state try to effectively…
Beverly Sicherer se quedó boca abajo en el piso frío del pasillo fuera del apartamento de Aventura de su padre. Casi loca, golpeó el mármol con sus puños, luego sus antebrazos. Lo hizo una y otra vez hasta que millones de pequeños vasos sanguíneos se rompieron. Pero Beverly no sintió…
How much does freedom of speech cost when applied to the now-infamous Liberty City terror trial? For one private investigator who worked long and hard on the case, Rory McMahon, the bill came to $9,000. For making the mistake of speaking his mind, the veteran P.I. was also banned from…
Beverly Sicherer lay facedown on the cold floor of the hallway outside her father’s Aventura apartment. Enraged, she beat the floor with her fist and then her forearm. She did it again and again until thousands of tiny blood vessels burst. But Beverly didn’t feel the pain. Just seconds before,…
