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…
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…
I freely admit to being a pencil-necked geek whose brain is addled by too much of the Diane Rehm show. Still, I’m rarely shocked. Yet as I was flipping through radio stations this morning, I was taken aback by the on-air pummeling that 93.1’s Bubba the Love Sponge was giving…
St. Stephen Catholic School in Miramar will close at the end of the school year and the space will be taken over by a public charter school this fall, according to Sister Mary David Magee, the school’s principal. On St. Stephen’s Facebook page (Sorry, no link. You’ll have to…
According to Broward Sheriff’s Office homicide detective Luis Rivera, authorities have arrested a suspect in the murder of Wilton Manors resident Larry Ellison. 27-year-old Gabriel Nock, of Delaware, was a drifter who escaped from a work release program in Delaware, Rivera said. Nock has confessed to strangling Ellison with his…
This weekend, I popped into the Arts Academy of Hollywood to pick up a schedule, only to be told by staff that due to declining enrollment, they were closing that very afternoon. The school normally has about 800 students in classes at any given time, but that number had dropped…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 –…
Stuart-based attorney Willie Gary (pictured above with his wife) is not shy. On his website, he boasts of his three “posh waterfront offices” and his 32-passenger custom-designed Boeing 737, “appropriately named ‘Wings of Justice II.'” When he posed for a Miami Herald photo, Gary flashed a giant diamond ring. And…
Local attorney Norm Kent serves on the Board of Directors of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. So it wouldn’t take a giant stretch of the imagination to picture him puffing on what my grandma used to call “the wacky weed.” Saturday, however, Kent made it…
This week, even his most ardent haters had to be stunned at Rush Limbaugh’s remarkable political sway. The conservative radio host, who broadcasts from a “bunker” in Palm Beach, got an “Obama bump” when the prez dissed him publicly, casually remarking that Republicans ought to stop listening to his show…
We have never seen Earl Rynerson shoot a moose from a helicopter or put lipstick on a pig, but the local businessman reminds us of deposed veep candidate Sarah Palin if only because he simply won’t leave the limelight. He may have lost the election for Fort Lauderdale mayor in…
In news stories about the four (now three) football players missing at sea, Coast Guard Capt. Tim Close has been quoted as saying that the boat they left shore in — a 21-foot, single-engine, center-console boat made by Everglades Boats — is “billed as ‘unsinkable.’ ” True, the website for…
According to the powerful Fanjul family, the State Department has launched an investigation into Bruno Scaioli, an Italian-Argentinian art dealer who is suspected of trafficking artwork the Fanjuls say is rightfully theirs. Not long after Fidel Castro took over Cuba in 1959, the wealthy Fanjuls fled to Palm Beach, taking…
Florida Atlantic University has finally settled a long-running dispute with three men who used to work in the Owl Nest. Stanley Dunn, former chair of FAU’s Ocean Engineering department, helped the program evolve from a rinky-dink operation to a considerable force. In 1999, he helped the school land a NATO…
Dreams — we’ve all got ’em. Some of us want to be rich and famous; others of us just want Jon Bon Jovi to divorce his wife and come on over. Local writer / open-mic event host Renda Writer has made no secret of his fantasy: getting on the Ellen…
Gail Posner, a Miami resident, is said to have inherited $100 million from her late father’s estate. She was a generous supporter of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. But she may be best-known as mom to a famous chihuahua, Conchita. The posh pup likes to model her $20,000 wardrobe (including a…
Uh-oh…. What’s that loud grumbling sound? New Times is hearing from people who bought tickets to the once-mighty Langerado Music Festival, which was scheduled for March 6 through 8, but abruptly canceled this year. Some music fans say they are not getting refunds they were promised. Would-be concertgoers hoped to…
