Let’s see what’s happening in Palm Beach and Broward counties this Monday morning:A drug raid around midnight Saturday by Broward Sheriff’s Office led to a deadly shooting after the owner of a suspected drug house, Brenda Van Zwieten, 52, brandished a gun. Van Zwieten’s family says she wasn’t a drug…
That does it for the political career of Josephus Eggelletion. Sounds like a sad, pathetic scene at the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach. One tear-choked quote:”What I did was wrong. I’m not trying to hide from it. I’m not trying to run from it.”Just to correct the historical record,…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office is looking for a two-man band of thieves who purloined roughly $6,000 worth of cigarettes from Aunt Molly’s convenience store in North Lauderdale last week.Investigators say that the duo struck around noon on March 5. One thief distracted the clerk while the other went into an…
In December 2008, Gloria Battle prepared a grant request for a nonprofit agency seeking funds from the Community Development Block Grant. Three months later, her organization won that $12,000 grant, thanks in part to a vote from Battle, who had been appointed to the City Commission in the period between.The…
A 23-year-old man has been arrested by the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office in the early Thursday-morning stabbing of a security guard at El Toro Loco. The West Palm Beach-area tavern has been the site of numerous violent encounters over the past year.According to the police report, the suspect is William…
Here’s what’s happening in Broward and Palm Beach this Friday:Former Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion will be sentenced today after pleading guilty to charges stemming from an FBI bribery sting. [Miami Herald]Police have identified the man whose remains were found in a box near Jog Road and Beeline Highway in…
The National Hockey League, which met this week in Boca Raton, has decided to outlaw hits to the head. There’s been talk of doing this for years, but the video below is what finally made the league act. Painful to watch, isn’t it? That’s Panthers star David Booth was blindsided…
A pollster’s analysis of Florida’s Senate race suggests that if Charlie Crist declared as an independent candidate, he would be doing adversary Marco Rubio a big favor. Public Policy Polling found that while Rubio has flipped the race in the Republican primary, he may be a tad too conservative to…
It’s hard to get traction with a back-wax narrative when you’ve given your opponent as much material as Crist has given Rubio.Via Buzz…
For three months, the City of Deerfield Beach has tried to give Arlington Park Family the benefit of the doubt. The local charity was paid $30,000 for “outreach” in 2007. The city attorney, Andy Maurodis, wrote a letter in late December asking for information about how that money was used.When…
Let me try to put a positive spin on a super-depressing graph. From the blog Calculated Risk, the graph above shows the high and low unemployment rates from each state since 1976, along with a red line for the current jobless rate. Yes, we’re living in the most depressed Florida…
That’s the spot on East Las Olas Boulevard two women were crossing last night, around 7:30, when they were struck by a dark-colored SUV. According to the Fort Lauderdale police report, the driver fled the scene, heading east toward the beach.One of the victims, 65-year-old Carolyn Bianco, sustained a life-threatening…
Let’s take a quick look through the local news:The parents of Scott Wilson, the 23-year-old killed last month in a collision with polo mogul John Goodman, have launched an investigation of their own. Considering Goodman’s wealth and influence, that’s probably a good idea. [Palm Beach Post]The football coach at Atlantic…
German Mendez is a biologist who works at Mack’s Fishing Camp in West Broward. Yesterday this video of Mendez was posted on YouTube by documentary makers Paul Franz and Jesse Swanson. It’s not clear whether the timing is related to this week’s Charlie Crist scandal, but it really does drive…
Today on the Joyce Kaufman Show, your trusty Juice blogger was treated like a tackling dummy. I tuned in just in time to hear myself called a “lunatic” and be accused of lying.As best I can figure, I’m a lunatic for this post about congressional candidate Allen West. He resigned…
Last week, star point guard Brandon Knight’s Fort Lauderdale Pine Crest team lost in the state championship to Tallahassee Rickards. This week, he’s trying to decide what college basketball program will be his one-year layover en route to the NBA. Let’s help him decide!Kentucky: With John Wall leaving to be…
A group of about 50 Muslims from South Florida is embarking this morning on a trip to Tallahassee, where it will have secret meetings with state policymakers. It’s called “Muslim Day,” and the Lake Worth-based Florida Security Council says we freedom-loving Americans should be very afraid.Summoning my courage, I placed…
On a day when we’ll be reunited with our old friend, 80 degrees, let’s look at the local headlines:Tuesday was municipal Election Day, with most of the high-profile races in Palm Beach County. Jose Rodriguez won a hotly contested race for Boynton Beach mayor. In Jupiter’s mayoral race, incumbent Karen…
