Back in June 2000, a man named David Joseph ran into a hotel lobby in Oakland Park, screaming that his cousin had been shot. He just didn’t stick around to be questioned by investigators. His cousin, Vernon Williams, died from gunshot wounds. The Holiday Inn room in which Williams died…
Wheelabrator, the division of trash-hauling giant Waste Management that owns Broward County’s two mammoth incinerators, is desperate to persuade cities to renew a contract for dumping waste at their facilities. But that’s a tough sell, especially if you read articles like the one I wrote in September 2008, in which…
The slugging match between Palm Beach County and Westgate Tabernacle in West Palm is nearly a decade old, but the two sides keep trading punches, including a flurry this past week. Will taking Westgate Tabernacle’s Dumpster be the knockout blow?For a primer on the two combatants, check out the video…
Shortly after the doors closed last night at the Best Buy on North Federal Highway, a U-Haul truck driver decided to open them back up. Fort Lauderdale cops are looking for three men who rammed a truck into the store’s south door, then ransacked the store of laptops and iPods.From…
National economies present some of the most complex problems in the world. At this very moment, some of the globe’s most eminent minds are debating how to pull mankind out of its recent economic torpor. And yet somehow, those Nobel Prize-winning economists can’t see what’s perfectly obvious to Florida Sen…
Your daily spin through the headlines in South Florida:Nearly two years after New Times’ Bob Norman printed allegations of misconduct against Broward Circuit Judge Ana Gardiner, the Judicial Qualifying Commission has filed formal charges against her on the basis that she discussed a pending death row case outside the courtroom…
A pain clinic on Dixie Highway in Lake Worth was one of three raided today by Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office deputies. At least one local blogger thinks that the operator is the very same person who just last week was boasting that his was a “legal business.”In a February 25…
Sachia Vickery is the Miramar girl whose mother worked two jobs in order to pay for a world-class tennis education. That investment is starting to pay off, judging by Vickery’s unofficial debut on the national tennis scene Monday night in an exhibition match at Madison Square Garden.That was the site…
The Fox boys, Donald and Earnest, must have heard the legends of the land where painkiller prescriptions grow on trees. The Central Ohio pair allegedly paid a visit to one of our local pill mills, in Hollywood. From the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette:Doctors at a pain clinic signed off on those prescriptions…
Monday night was full of surprises for Jasper Morland Jr. It appears the 29-year-old Deerfield man had romance on his mind when he booked a room at the Super 8 in Pompano Beach. A fine place for an intimate evening with a woman he met in an online chatroom.But before…
It seems like a fairly straightforward case. On October 26, during a speech by Nazi historian David Irving at the Ritz-Carlton in Manalapan, a man named Christopher Nachtman invited another member of the audience, John Kopko, outside the banquet hall to settle a disagreement. Nachtman pulled a knife and stabbed…
Hark! Be that the ghost of Sen. Henry Clay, former champion of the Whig Party? The Great Compromiser was a fierce opponent of Andrew Jackson and is credited with creating the Whigs, a party that vanished around 1856, shortly after Clay’s death; but it’s being revived in Florida because, why…
Let’s see what’s in today’s local media:Two teachers will be fired today by the Palm Beach County School District for having sex with former band teacher Heath Miller on school grounds. One of those two women says that Miller raped her, but the district finds that claim unconvincing, since the…
Eight days before he was murdered by his mother’s ex-boyfriend, Atlanta-area football star Rajaan Bennett wrote an essay tracing the brutal challenges he had weathered by the age of 18. An excerpt of that essay from a story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:In the year of 2000, I moved from the…
I sympathize with people like Linda Casey, who was traumatized by her discovery of her daughter’s dead body in the driveway of her North Carolina home, then mortified when the local news played her 911 call in a telecast. But that is still the lesser of two evils.If such 911…
The Broward State Attorney’s Office just released a closeout memo that explains its reasons for not filing a criminal case against attorney Marc Goldstone. The former general counsel of Broward Health, Goldstone was hired in late 2008, then fired by the public hospital district in mid-May 2009 after commissioners claim…
At the end of this weekend’s interview of former Chicago Bulls Star Scottie Pippen, he’s asked about whether he’s prepared his Hall of Fame induction speech. “I think I’ll call my guy Michael Jordan up,” he began — a moment when all basketball fans should have held their breath or…
The news in Broward and Palm Beach:Despite Miramar City Manager Robert Payton’s name surfacing in the FBI sting case against former commissioner Fitzroy Salesman, the current commission spoke Monday of its confidence in him. Payton hasn’t been charged with a crime and will testify for the prosecution when the bribery…
When Terry Verner was director of code enforcement for Palm Beach County, he led the charge to shut down the homeless services at Westgate Tabernacle on Suwanna Drive in West Palm Beach. Now a man claiming to be Verner’s former brother-in-law has come forward with allegations that Verner is a…
