Around 2:45 in the video above, you’ll see Republican congressional candidate Edward Lynch make a rather explosive allegation: that the U.S. imposed sanctions against Israel and that the effect of those is tougher than those against Iran.That moment from Sunday’s debate on This Week in South Florida With Michael Putney…
What does a real estate agent like Joe Kessel know about managing city government? Whatever it is, it’s worth at least $36,000 per year based on a consulting agreement that Hallandale Beach City Manager Mike Good forged with Kessel in July 2008.Kessel, a former specialist in health-care information technology, now…
Here’s what’s happening in South Florida news this Monday morning:Scott Rothstein is said to have hired Mafia associates on the pretext of needing their help shredding documents that could damage the investigation into his Ponzi scheme, but while they took the money, the mobsters never destroyed the documents, which were…
An investigation into possible misuse of taxpayer dollars in Deerfield Beach has led straight to the local church till. The pastors of three North Broward congregations have been questioned by auditor Michael Kessler as to how they used thousands of dollars entrusted to them by the city.Their answers have not…
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz must think that local tea party activists don’t have Tivo. (Actually, since a lot of ’em are retirees, maybe they don’t?) She just announced a town hall meeting for Monday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Fort Lauderdale City Hall. That means tea partiers would have…
After celebrating her 50th birthday last night, Apryl Flanigan took her dogs for a walk in the backyard of her Dania Beach home. But she never came back. Her family found her floating in the canal near her home. CPR failed to revive her.The Broward Sheriff’s Office release indicates the…
Like drug dealers to the ghetto, the Ponzi schemers flocked to Palm Beach. The latest to be accused in a criminal court is Donald Anthony Young, who happened to live next door to Ponzi king Bernard Madoff.The indictment for fraud against Young has been expected since January 2009, when the…
The Broward State Attorney’s Office made a generous accommodation of disgraced former County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion, allowing his prison sentence in the state case to run concurrently with the one in the federal case. But those kinds of favors don’t come cheap. I wonder what Eggelletion gave to prosecutors.Remember, the…
An old editor I used to know gave me a line to use every time someone complained to me that journalists write only about bad news: “Would you rather read an article about a plane that landed safely or about the one that crashed?”For Fox News producers, the mere prospect…
A quick look at what’s making news around here:A Palm Beach County jury gave a not-guilty verdict to Allison Dinsmore, the 27-year-old teacher from Boynton Beach tried on felony animal-cruelty charges after leaving her two cats home alone, where they starved to death. [Palm Beach Post]The bodies found in the…
Just look at that happy, handsome couple! A May-December romance that surely had little to do with David Keezer’s vast wealth. Indeed, Palm Beach County records show that the Keezers’ crib in the Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club in Boca Raton is owned by his young wife, Lori, who…
The program director of Deerfield Beach’s Community Development Block Grant allegedly has family ties to the Poitiers, who run a charity at the center of an investigation for misuse of taxpayer dollars.Wednesday morning that program director, Stephanie McMillian, received an email from the investigator, Michael Kessler. It began thus:Stephanie, I…
Muslim “honor killings” are among the most deplorable religion-based crimes and in this week’s New Times feature story, Paul Rubin tells of an Iraqi father who brutally murdered his 20-year-old daughter after she left the family home.In the dining section of this week’s issue, critic John Linn enjoys the sliver…
That’s the intersection in Oakland Park, looking north, where 14-year-old Cara Dyan Catlin was killed in January in a collision with a Broward Sheriff’s deputy who was speeding in response to another deputy’s call for backup at a traffic stop.In the screen shot, you can see the left turn lane…
Local headlines for this Thursday morning:Divers along Alligator Alley discovered a submerged minivan that contained human remains, apparently those of Nelta Jacques, a 27-year-old Tampa woman who disappeared along with her two daughters during a 1999 visit to her father in Fort Lauderdale. [Sun-Sentinel]Jim Greer, former head of the Florida…
In what appears to be another crushing setback for downtown Hollywood, a lender this week filed to foreclose on WSG, the developer of ArtsPark Village, a 23-story condo tower that was to be built on the southeast corner of Young Circle.It’s the second time that Hollywood officials gave a developer…
It almost looks like CGI, but it’s real. And sort of mesmerizing. More videos by Scuba Tom, here…
The car involved in a nearly fatal hit and run Tuesday in Hollywood has been identified as an Oldsmobile Achieva by Hollywood police, who released the photo on the left in hopes of locating the driver.According to the department’s news release, the driver of the Achieva ran a stop sign…
This poll by Daily Kos came out a few weeks ago, but there’s a statistic buried near the bottom that deserves more attention: Roughly one-third of registered Republicans likely to vote in Florida’s August primary believe that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States — and another…
