The Crist-Rubio discussion comes in around the 1:45 mark. There really are similarities between the decision facing Charlie Crist and the one that Sen. Joe Lieberman faced in 2006 after he lost the Democrat primary. Of course, Lieberman opted to run as a third-party candidate, winning the general election thanks…
Let’s see what’s going on in South Florida this Monday morning:A Hollywood woman, Cheryl Arthur, has been charged in the strangling and suffocation death of her 3-year-old daughter. A passerby found the 39-year-old woman walking along the shoulder of I-95 in Hollywood and gave her a ride to a police…
Sen. George LeMieux, the architect of Charlie Crist gubernatorial campaign, who owes his current job to the governor, is said to be considering giving an endorsement to Marco Rubio in the event that Crist declares as an independent candidate, according to a report in Hotline, the National Journal blog.Sources close…
The beating of Josie Ratley was a terrible tragedy, but this kind of coverage is sickening for another reason. You’ve got a TV news show trying to scare viewers about technology and some child psychologist who’s willing to play along just so he can sell a few books…
Last night at a candidates’ forum of the Pine Island Ridge Democratic Club in Davie, Broward County Circuit Judge John “Jay” Hurley claimed to have received the endorsements of the county’s public defender and the chairman of the county’s Democratic Party, according to a reliable source.A person who attended the…
Hallandale Beach Commissioner Keith London appears to be the only city official bothered by the ethics of doing land deals with Joe Kessel, a realtor who’s also under contract as a consultant to the city. The other officials, it seems, are bothered by how much London cares about this.Yet those…
Jessica Lobig tried to juggle parenting with a prescription drug habit, and that combination has landed her in jail. The probable-cause affidavit says that just before midnight Thursday, Boynton Beach Police found the 24-year-old mother passed out in her 2007 Honda pickup truck, sweating profusely, with tin foil on her…
Here’s what’s happening in Broward and Palm Beach:Broward Circuit Court Judge Ana Gardiner has decided to resign her post rather than face allegations of misconduct that were first reported by Bob Norman in New Times two years ago. Gardiner was to be tried by the Judicial Qualifying Commission for allegedly…
Around 3:55 this afternoon, we got another hit-and-run case in Fort Lauderdale. Sounds like this case will be easier to break than the others, thanks to a motorist who chased down the suspect. From the Fort Lauderdale police news release:Investigators have learned that a 2001 Dodge van was traveling westbound…
The Rev. Anthony Davis appears to be a pillar of society. His charity, Brotherly Love Social Services, mentors at-risk youth in Deerfield Beach. Davis was quoted today in the Sun-Sentinel, decrying how the image of the city’s schools has been distorted by two violent incidents, the burning of Michael Brewer…
Joe Kessel, a real estate agent who since July 2008 has been under contract as a consultant for Hallandale Beach, collected $15,700 in commission that same year after the city purchased a lot at 814 SW Eighth Ave., according to documents provided to Juice.The purchase for what would become Sunset…
Charlie Crist hasn’t officially declared he’ll run as an independent candidate for U.S. Senate. But in the video above, from Saturday, it’s clear that he’s laying the groundwork for exactly that. Crist’s veto of Senate Bill 6 — the teacher merit pay bill — makes a perfect springboard for an…
Marc Williams has a tragic habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. On April 26, 1992, a 17-year-old Williams joined a couple of teenaged friends in a very sloppy criminal plot to rob a taxi driver. (They claimed a television news segment was their inspiration.) But…
A look at the local headlines this Thursday morning:Police believe there’s a ring of up to four women who’ve been seducing lonely Broward and Palm Beach County men only to drug them and ransack their place. Men: Any woman who laughs at your jokes should be considered a suspect. [CBS4]Here’s…
A day after a forensic auditor told the Deerfield Beach Commission he’d found evidence of favoritism and fraud by officials in the city’s Community Development Division, the city has asked the Broward Sheriff’s Office to take custody of computers that belonged to two officials named in the audit report.According to…
Remember this guy? It’s Chris Crocker, who used most of his 15 minutes of fame pleading to the internet to “Leave Britney alone!” He’ll be the celebrity guest at the Living Room in downtown Fort Lauderdale on Friday night. Not since Aaron Carter appeared at Slice Pizzeria has the city…
William Schramm, the 65-year-old man who was struck by a Fort Lauderdale police cruiser on Las Olas Boulevard on Saturday, has died from his injuries.According to the Fort Lauderdale police news release, at 12:04 a.m., Schramm’s bicycle was eastbound on East Las Olas Bouelvard, making a left turn onto Isle…
A forensic auditor told the Deerfield Beach Commission last night that he found fault with nearly every transaction he analyzed between the city and the recipients of public housing dollars. But for the purposes of this post, I’ll highlight the one case that has a little bit of everything: the…
God help us, Chaz Stevens has been appointed to the board of the Deerfield Beach Housing Authority. Not even a very loud “No!” from Commissioner Marty Popelsky (at 1:20 in the video above) could stop Stevens’ rise to power.Of course, the activist blogger (he prefers “genius”) played a crucial role…
