If you went 26 mph over the limit through a school zone and a cop pulled you over, do you think you could talk your way out of it? Well, Mayor Lois Frankel can. Jose Lambiet of Page2Live is reporting that the mayor wasn’t ticketed for speeding — and that…
Nearly every one of the 535 members of U.S. Congress got there through a grueling, humbling campaign, convincing one voter at a time to entrust him or her with the role of casting votes in the nation’s capital. But not George LeMieux. The only guy he had to convince was…
In an email to Juice, the Broward Sheriff’s Office has admitted committing an error in its report about a BSO school resource deputy’s response to the nearly fatal beating of Josie Lou Ratley last week at Deerfield Beach Middle School.In the hours after that attack, the sheriff reported that “there…
A glance at the headlines this Thursday morning:Federal prosecutors in the case against Fitzroy Salesman played a video during yesterday’s trial that showed the former Miramar commissioner accepting an envelope full of $1,000 cash, then pouring a beer and continuing his conversation with money managers seeking city business. Actually, they…
Sorry, Fox News, but ol’ Jeb ain’t quite ready to announce his support for Marco Rubio. He’ll need a bigger stage than Neil Cavuto’s show. It’ll happen at a time and a place when it can do maximum damage to the Crist senatorial campaign. And when it happens, let’s all…
Raymond Holmes and David Tillman, coaches at Hollywood Christian Academy, have been arrested for lewd and lascivious battery after they allegedly had sex with teenaged girls on the track team. According to the probable-cause affidavits, the two teenaged victims skipped school this past Friday, phoning Holmes and Tillman, who picked…
Here’s an outrageous piece of video, courtesy of Acts of Sedition.com. It’s from last night’s Deerfield Beach Commission meeting. You’ll see City Attorney Andy Maurodis talking to the commissioners about his failure to get any response from his requests for financial records from Arlington Park Family, a nonprofit that accepted…
A Midwest basketball legend who spent a brief retirement in South Florida, Deon Thomas didn’t take long to establish success as a coach. This month, in his first head-coaching job, Thomas led his junior college team deep into the post-season tournament.Thomas had settled in Pembroke Pines after a legendary career…
Here’s what’s happening in Palm Beach and Broward:The Broward Sheriff’s Office received a tentative agreement with Pompano Beach, but the commission approved a deal for just two and a half years, not five, and Sheriff Al Lamberti will have to demonstrate he can control salary increases and the cost of…
By the end of tonight’s meeting of the Deerfield Beach Commission, local lawyers will be licking their chops. That’s because the city appears to be on the brink of filing lawsuits against a number of nonprofit agencies that have been slow to give the city a better look at the…
There’s the pride of Broward County, George LeMieux, talking about the terrible suspense as he waited to hear whether his best friend, Charlie Crist, and Crist’s chief of staff (a position LeMieux held the year before) were going to appoint him to be a U.S. senator.It’s a heartwarming story and…
The graphic on the right comes from an email that Deerfield Beach’s forensic auditor sent Monday to the city attorney. It shows the income that Dan Poitier drew over three years of running the Westside Deerfield Beach Businessmen Association, a nonprofit organization that received federal funds through the city for…
John Thrasher and Jeff Atwater worked as an attorney and a banker, respectively, before they became state senators and declared themselves experts on how to educate your Florida child. You see, it’s quite simple: Good teachers inspire students who score high on standardized tests; bad teachers cause students to score…
A glance at the local news: Josie Lou Ratley’s mother talked to the media yesterday about her daughter’s condition following the brutal beating that occurred last week at a bus stop on the campus of Deerfield Beach Middle School. [WPLG-10]The Broward County auditor says that if the Broward Sheriff’s Office…
There’s still no official word on what evils the forensic auditor found in its recent analysis of Deerfield Beach finances, but Chaz Stevens isn’t the type to wait. Back on March 1, as that auditing firm was arriving in town, Stevens composed these lyrics, which he sent to city staffers:You…
As Tiger Woods tunes up for the Masters, Mrs. Tiger Woods has left the couple’s Orlando-area home for a trip to Palm Beach — specifically, to hop aboard Privacy, the yacht docked there.Before leaving shore, Elin Nordegen had better be careful there aren’t any stowaway mistresses. Shortly after reports of…
Fort Lauderdale police have just released a description of the SUV driver who struck and killed Carolyn Bianco and injured her friend, Victoria Kirby, earlier this month:He has been described as a white/light skinned male, 30s, dark hair, possibly worn slicked back, clean shaven, and slender built. Anyone who may…
The U.S. health-care system has a tradition for cruelty toward the uninsured, and in Broward and Palm Beach counties, public hospital districts were created to deal with them. In exchange for treating the uninsured those districts could pocket hundreds of millions in tax dollars.But after President Barack Obama signs the…
Local police just released the names of four young people involved in a shooting between two cars early Sunday morning in Lake Worth. Brooke Harris, a 19-year-old from Boynton Beach, was driving one car. She was shot once in the back. The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office reports that Harris is…
