Let’s see what’s happening this week in South Florida:Doctors are sounding an optimistic tone about the condition of Josie Lou Riley, the 15-year-old girl who was beaten nearly to death last week by a classmate at Deerfield Beach Middle School. [Miami Herald]Fitzroy Salesman goes to trial for what everybody hopes…
Just got off the phone with Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who stepped off the House floor to describe the scene at the center of the political universe.”If you look at our side of the chamber, there’s a frenzy of activity, members hugging and smiling,” said Wasserman Schultz, a Democrat. “And…
During his 2010 congressional campaign, Allen West has talked tough not just about terrorism but about the Muslim world. In a speech that gained national attention last month, he charged that Islam wasn’t a religion so much as an ideology, like Nazism, which needed to be contained at all costs.But…
Deputies with the Broward Sheriff’s Office are looking for a 20-year-old man and alleged gang member named Steven Scott Strauss, who they believe joined Anthony Defalle in robbing the Dania Beach home of Defalle’s neighbor, who had recently died.Defalle, who’s also 20, is a neighbor of Raymond Barkey, a 59-year-old…
Here’s Marco Rubio in an appearance on Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News show, the same place where Charlie Crist accused Rubio of using a party charge card to pay for a back wax. Around the one-minute mark, Van Susteren presses the issue, and you can judge for yourself whether Rubio…
In these times of health-care gouging, we can hardly blame middle-class families for skipping an annual checkup or for hoping that the pain, the nausea, the whooping cough will just go away on its own. Because who can afford to get sick?For Broward Health executives, physicians, and staff, this would…
To be clear: Just because Boca Raton-based Seisma Oil Research and its associated companies were hit with a cease-trade order in Saskatchewan doesn’t mean that it’s a scam. It just means that the company’s executives may not have registered with the Canadian province’s financial commission, which is a prerequisite to…
Your daily spin through the headlines of South Florida:An engineering firm says that the bid process for redesigning the south runway at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International was mired by politics, with county commissioners treating the contract like an auction, with the winner being the most generous in making campaign contributions. Imagine…
In this week’s New Times feature story, Gail Shepherd unravels the mystery behind the murder of Steve Febonio, a Boynton Beach man who learned too late about the treacherous characters in South Florida’s black market for growing marijuana.Music editor Reed Fischer had a chat with Derek Grant, drummer for Alkaline…
Erika Morales snatched the identity of every person who came close to her, based on the probable-cause affidavit released today by West Palm Beach police. Her victims include her daughter’s father and the woman at the daycare center who watched that child.A police investigator interviewed one identity theft victim named…
Carolyn Bianco, the 65-year-old woman who was struck last week by an SUV while crossing Las Olas Boulevard, has died. That means vehicular homicide charges against whoever was driving that SUV, last seen heading east on Las Olas.The Fort Lauderdale police news release says that the other woman who was…
It’s not enough that the United States gives spectacular sums of money to Israel. Nor is it enough that the U.S. takes Israel’s side in virtually every political issue that crops up between that nation and the Muslim world. No, according to Congressman Ron Klein, the U.S. also must also…
As I was posting this article yesterday about the search for murder suspect Tony Petigny, I noticed that in his mug shot, Petigny had a swollen right eye — just like the Broward Sheriff’s Office release said.After another New Times staffer noticed the same thing, I asked BSO whether it…
Let’s see what’s happening in South Florida.A 14-year-old girl at Deerfield Beach Middle School was beaten nearly to death by a boy after classes ended Wednesday. A 15-year-old boy, Wayne Treacy, has been arrested and will be charged with attempted murder. It’s the same school where Michael Brewer was a…
A family with the name Gallagher ought to be celebrating on a day like today. But not the family of former Broward County School Board member Beverly Gallagher. This afternoon, she entered a guilty plea to a charge of accepting a bribe from an undercover agent and expects to receive…
Sometimes, after popping some Vicodin, a fellow may feel the impulse to test the reflexes of his emergency responders. Or at least that appears to be the impulse that seized Frank Celestino today. According to a Boynton Beach police affidavit, the 55-year-old Celestino dialed 911 three times, each time screaming…
The firm conducting an audit of Deerfield Beach’s dealings with nonprofit agencies has taken a keen interest in the Westside Deerfield Businessmen Association, a charity whose executive director chairs the city’s planning and zoning board and whose president is the daughter of Vice Mayor Sylvia Poitier.On Tuesday, City Attorney Andy…
Juice reported earlier today that missing person Melanie Parada was found but that she had been charged with child neglect. Fort Lauderdale police just released the probable-cause affidavit in that case, and it claims that Parada disappeared so she could buy crack cocaine.According to the statement Parada gave to police,…
I don’t know whether Guavin Kanhai was angry that a bartender rejected his romantic advances or whether he was mad that she wouldn’t refill his drink. But surely it was one or the other that caused the 47-year-old Kanhai to dial 911 three times to report that a “fake” bartender…
