Renalto Obos was shot dead in November 2004 while sitting in a car on NW Third Avenue with his girlfriend. It was a robbery gone awry. The killer wore a mask, and due to the random nature of the crime, Broward Sheriff’s Office couldn’t find a suspect until last month,…
Above: video evidence that Gov. Charlie Crist is acquainted with his wife, Carole. The two can be seen together at a party in New Port Richey. It’s not clear whether they came together or if they bumped into each other by sheer coincidence. The legitimacy of this marriage has been…
Sunday’s loss to the Magic felt like a setback to the Heat’s efforts to keep Dwyane Wade. Despite his return, the team was still overmatched in Orlando, which glided past a Heat squad that managed just 16 points in each of the final two quarters. Having missed several games with…
Those of us who live here year-round tend to bitch about tourists — their stupid questions, their slow driving, their unwillingness to open their wallets until they get to the pill mill. But bless those tourists for their way of expressing wonder for the very stuff we take for granted…
The most common reaction to the cover of the August 18, 2009, edition of New Times, was, in a word, “Ewwww.” The image, which you can see on the right, accompanied my feature article about people who identify as “zoophiles” — having love and sexual desire for animals.It made a…
A glance at the news in South Florida this Monday morning:In Deerfield Beach, a 10-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his 11-year-old brother while playing with their father’s gun, which had been left in the console of his truck. [Sun-Sentinel]Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts paid a visit Sunday to the…
We had a colorful start to the week here on Juice, thanks to Lisa Rab’s slideshow capturing all the pageantry of the Lake Worth Street Painting Festival. Here’s a look at what else we covered this past week on your Broward/Palm Beach news blog:Congressional candidate Allen West compared the religion…
A 13-year-old girl from Lantana who ran away from home says that she was picked up, then raped by a man who was staying with boxing promoter Don King. According to a police report cited by the Palm Beach Daily News, the man was in a Chevy Suburban. He took…
Kendry Morales defected from Cuba to America so he could become a baseball star and get rich. The 26-year-old achieved the first part of that formula, hitting over .300 with 34 homers and 108 runs batted in for the Los Angeles Angels. But he’s not quite as rich as he…
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz this morning announced that she had given her endorsement in the Florida Attorney General’s race to State Sen. Dan Gelber. But Gelber’s news-cycle victory was short-lived. Because just a few hours later, his opponent, State Sen. Dave Aronberg, announced that Congressman Ron Klein was endorsing Aronberg’s…
It doesn’t sound like investigators are close to solving the arson case of the van used by a Boca Raton charity for spaying and neutering animals. But only two weeks after the fire, Animal Aid is likely to make more in donations than it lost when the van went up…
Charlie Crist sparked controversy by hugging President Obama; Marco Rubio had a whirlwind romance with Florida Republicans only to be blindsided by a credit card spending scandal. But neither of those campaigns for U.S. Senate has been dealt as devastating a blow as Kendrick Meek’s. The leading Democrat candidate’s crime:…
Max Mermelstein is said to be the greatest informant in U.S. law enforcement history, but the man who brought down the Medillin cocaine cartel had vanished into the FBI Witness Protection Program for a quarter-century when filmmaker Brett Tabor went on a quest to find Mermelstein and tell his story…
A roundup of today’s local news:Toxic drywall has been discovered at the Preserve, a 180-unit development in downtown Boynton Beach that used a couple of million dollars from the city’s CRA fund. [Palm Beach Post]Broward Judge Dale Cohen faces the threat of sanctions after his refusal last year to recuse…
Looks like the University Press has hit a nerve with this week’s article about hazing at Florida Atlantic University fraternities. Editor Devin Desjarlais, who also works part-time for Juice, reports that since the paper came out Tuesday, more than 900 issues of the paper have been stolen from the bins…
We know it’s rough out there, but for people of a certain body type (see below), exotic dancing is simply not a viable career.Truly indecent exposure. Maybe we’re supposed to pay him to put his clothes on?…
“Alex Sink — not one of us,” says the ad by the Republican Governors’ Association. “One of them.” One of them people who wastes money, it appears.But the ad recently put out by the Democratic Party suggests that the other gubernatorial candidate, Bill McCollum, is also financially reckless…
He still hasn’t officially endorsed Marco Rubio, but former Gov. Jeb Bush is sending plenty of signals that that’s his pick for Florida’s next U.S. senator. The most recent piece of evidence came in an interview with a conservative website, Newsmax, in which Bush called Charlie Crist’s support of the…
The local news in Palm Beach and Broward:Police are looking for the driver of a late-model Cadillac Escalade involved in a hit and run yesterday in Hollywood. It collided with a minivan, ejecting a 2-year-old girl and injuring her mother and two siblings. [CBS4]The Broward State Attorney’s Offices decided against…
