Today marks the three-year anniversary of the day that Robert “Bob” Levinson of Coral Springs disappeared from Kish Island, off the coast of Iran. A former FBI agent, Levinson was a private investigator following a tip about a cigarette smuggling case.Despite negotiations by American diplomats and impassioned pleas by Levinson’s…
Judging by the avalanche of campaign contributions and the enthusiastic backing of the national GOP, Allen West is no longer a prohibitive underdog in the campaign for the 22nd Congressional District that spans coastal Broward and Palm Beach.This means that as the race gets closer to the finish line, West…
Signs of desperation in Charlie Crist’s camp. That’s an appearance yesterday on Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News show. Around the two-minute mark, you can hear Crist muse about whether Rubio’s famously expensive haircut, charged to a Republican Party credit card, was in fact a “back wax.” Full transcript of the…
Strong words from Marco Rubio during a phone interview with Glenn Beck. Looks like he’s grabbing the football tossed to him by the New York Times, which published this article about the colossal rip-off engineered by Charlie Crist’s administration for the purchase of U.S. Sugar land.Crist’s almost making it too…
Charles McCall’s South Florida retirement plans will take a ten-year hiatus now that former pharmaceutical executive has been convicted of securities fraud by a San Francisco court and sentenced to federal prison.A former chairman of McKesson, the nation’s largest distributor of prescription drugs, which is based in San Francisco, the…
Here’s what’s happening in the local news this morning:Broward County schools’ art, music, and physical education classes are all on the chopping block as the district looks to balance another budget despite less money from the state. [Sun-Sentinel]The Palm Beach County Commission on Ethics is zeroing in on its “ethics…
Florida Atlantic University police have hauled in a freshman fraternity member who they say is responsible for stealing roughly 900 copies of the University Press, then dumping them as a way to suppress the paper’s critical coverage of hazing.Nicholas Cady-Jantzen is that freshman’s name. He belongs to Pi Kappa Alpha…
Former associate general counsel of Broward Health Joe Truhe will not be charged criminally for practicing law without a license. A closeout memo from the Broward State Attorney’s Office dated February 24 made it official. Now the more pressing question: Why was Truhe fired in the first place?The memo cites…
Gloria Battle, an ally of Deerfield Beach Vice Mayor Sylvia Poitier, may have committed a crime by voting to authorize more than $12,000 in funding to the Haitian American Consortium, a nonprofit corporation for which she is the secretary.Based on a post by city activist Chaz Stevens on his blog,…
But we already knew that. We just didn’t know how thoroughly Gov. Charlie Crist and his trusty sidekick, George LeMieux, had exploited environmentalists and cheated Florida taxpayers. Thanks to this assiduously researched article in the New York Times, we’ve got the big picture — and it’s ugly.It’s clear that this…
Headlines this Monday morning in Broward and Palm Beach:New details of the luxury life that Chris and Jeff George financed through what federal investigators say were illegal pain clinics. Neither of those twins has been charged, but surely it’s not legal to be such complete wankers, is it? [Palm Beach…
In case you missed it, here’s a rundown of the action on Juice this past week: We answered a riddle posed by AG candidate Dave Aronberg, who claimed that there were more pain clinics than McDonald’s restaurants in Broward County.A leading opponent of the homeless shelter at Westgate Tabernacle in…
As the Broward judicial races heat up, candidates are looking to seize upon every possible advantage. So it seemed a suspicious bit serendipity last week when Lisa Porter, the Broward Circuit Court judge running for reelection, appeared in a photograph with Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein on the legal community’s…
Muhammed Malik really knows how to spoil the fun of an anti-terrorism rally. The executive director of South Florida’s Council on American-Islamic Relations is actually glad that Joe Kaufman’s Americans Against Hate will be demonstrating outside the Broward County Convention Center tomorrow during CAIR’s fundraiser.”I don’t know whether to thank…
In the early morning of this past Tuesday, a white Ford Crown Victoria pulled up in front of a home on NE Third Terrace in Oakland Park. Whoever was in that car started firing shots into the home as a woman, her adult son, and a roommate ducked for cover…
Now there’s an interview with a strange arc. The CliffsNotes version:Fox News: Marco Rubio, you’re all about fiscal discipline, but what’s this about you charging personal expenses to the Republican Party’s credit card?Rubio: That’s absolutely not true, pretty much. Let’s talk about something else.Fox News: OK, will you please be…
Here’s video posted yesterday of maggot-encrusted meat that, according to the activist who made the tape, is the last meal Shashawana the white tiger had at the Vanishing Species wildlife sanctuary in Hollywood — a lapse of some five days.According to the video’s description, the Vanishing Species owners were recently…
Let’s see what’s happening in Palm Beach and Broward this morning:For the second day in a row, Broward Circuit Court Judge Ana Gardiner, who this week was formally accused of judicial misconduct, didn’t show up at the courthouse. The Florida Bar Association has reopened an investigation of the attorney, Howard…
The enigmatic Heath Miller is the subject of this week’s New Times feature story. Lisa Rab tells of the popular band teacher at H.L. Watkins Middle School in Palm Beach Gardens who has a happy trigger finger and a habit of getting uncomfortably close to his students and fellow teachers.Before…
