The last time the Deerfield Beach Housing Authority’s board met, the topic of conversation was Acts of Sedition blogger Chaz Stevens — specifically, whether his blog posts alleging corruption in the housing agency’s contracting process amounted to libel.Yet there’s a good chance that at the next meeting of that board,…
Free Video HostingCynthia Morrison may seem a typical 50-year-old woman; she lives in West Palm Beach and for 21 years she’s worked in the automotive services industry. But Morrison has an alter ego with a taste for danger. The Great Cindini, as she calls herself, has lately enjoyed a fascination…
Make room in Broward for one more bowtie-wearing senior. Justice John Paul Stevens announced this morning his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court, just 11 days shy of his 90th birthday.As Juice reported in October, Stevens is a snowbird, migrating every November to his winter home on the Fort Lauderdale…
A glance at the headlines for this Friday morning:Randy Tunidor is the name of the 21-year-old man who is being held on a probation violation charge but is a “person of interest” in the Tuesday-morning murder of Nova Southeastern University Professor Joseph Morrissey. It appears the attack was not random;…
Who played matchmaker between the City of Hallandale Beach and a businessman with a porn-filled portfolio? Whomever it was, he did a whale of a job. Back in March, the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency gave a $125,000 loan to Digital Outernet Inc., a billboard company run by the same man…
We showed you the offending video a few days ago, and it landed right in the wheelhouse of MSNBC’s fire-breathing liberal Keith Olbermann. This moment of infamy should help West burnish his right-wing ideologue credentials, but the former Army lieutenant colonel will need to move toward the center if he’s…
John DeGroot’s eponymous blog has been threatened with legal action over his use of the district’s corporate seal. In a letter emailed Wednesday, an attorney for the North Broward Hospital District ordered DeGroot to stop using the nonprofit corporation’s logo and remove the image from his blog.In the context of…
Courtesy Chaz Stevens, that’s video from this week’s meeting of the Deerfield Beach City Commission in which Sylvia Poitier says that ethics oversight is “fluff.” Technically, it was fluff. It’s just not anymore, which is why Poitier may be in trouble over her ties to nonprofits that received tax dollars…
A look at what’s happening in local news this Thursday morning:Police believe they’ve solved the mystery of who killed Yvonne Oulton on Easter. Her husband, Robert Oulton, a prominent man in the local poker playing community, constructed an alibi that didn’t jibe with surveillance videos, and he has been arrested…
On the night that Yvonne Oulton was found dead in her minivan a few blocks from the Isle Casino in Pompano Beach, her husband, Robert, cooperated with investigators. But after reviewing video evidence, Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives learned that his story didn’t check out. And with that, Robert Oulton stopped…
A video being circulated by Florida Democrats, apparently from a speech that congressional candidate Allen West gave last night to supporters in Jupiter. Making a congressman — West’s opponent Ron Klein — “scared to come out of his house”? OK, so West hasn’t explicitly asked his supporters to commit terrorist…
Gotta love how Fox & Friends skips the pleasantries and fires away with the tough question to Rudy Giuliani about whether his endorsement of Marco Rubio is payback for Charlie Crist’s treachery in 2008.And yet, by the eager way he answered the question, it’s almost like Giuliani told Fox &…
Deerfield Beach City Attorney Andy Maurodis says that a charity run by the Poitier family, the Westside Deerfield Businessmen Association, has finally provided documents in response to the independent auditor’s request, meaning that he won’t need to file the lawsuit he’d prepared against the organization. But another charity may not…
Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper says she was aware that a real estate agent, Joe Kessel, had been contracted by the city manager as a consultant, but Cooper refused to answer a question about whether that consultant should have disclosed his contract before testifying in support of a massive condominium…
A Boynton Beach man whose car broke down in the early-morning hours Tuesday was struck and killed by a motorist on Highway 27 in Weston. The driver then disappeared. It appears there are no witnesses.The victim’s name is Louis Abrams, age 68. According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office release, Abrams…
I can’t imagine a single person who was present at last night’s town hall meeting by Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz who would say the event was productive or worthwhile. The opponents of health-care reform and the Democratic Congress showed no interest in a dialogue; they just wanted to scream.The hatred…
The news in Broward and Palm Beach:A Nova Southeastern University science professor is believed to be dead following a home invasion early Tuesday morning. Police say a man and his wife were tied up by an intruder, who shot the man — believed to be homeowner Joseph Morrissey — and…
At some point after 62-year-old Yvonne Oulton left The Isle casino in Pompano Beach she was murdered. Her body was discovered late Sunday by Broward Sheriff’s Office, responding to a call about a woman needing assistance at 1450 SW 3rd Street, a few blocks from the casino.Judging by the news…
