NBA Deadline Passes; Heat Still Hoping for Boozer

ESPN is reporting that the Miami Heat is one of the few teams who have stayed on the phone past today’s 3 p.m. NBA trade deadline. The team is working feverishly to try to land Utah Jazz forward Carlos Boozer in hopes his arrival will convince Dwyane Wade the team’s…

Alleged Tea Party Interloper Fires Back at Critics

Karin Hoffman of Coral Springs (that’s her in the video below) says that no matter what you’ve read on this blog — or in the national media — she absolutely is a member of the tea party movement. And the meeting that Hoffman and her allies recently had with Republican…

We Got Issues: New Times in Print

Traffic safety hazards have never been quite as sexy as the Stripper Mobile, the subject of this week’s New Times feature. Natalie O’Neill gets to know the pole-dancers and their promoters, looking to make a scene amid a South Florida swamped with Super Bowl-sized sensory overload.That appears to be the…

Office Depot on Deathwatch

Our depressed local economy really can’t afford for another big business to hit the skids, but that’s what it’s looking like for Office Depot, based in Boca Raton. We’ve been following the company’s misfortunes since last year. This isn’t merely a case of an office supplier having fewer offices to…

Psychic Slackers Channel Cross-Dressing Murder Victim Simmie Williams

I have no idea what possessed a couple of amateur psychics (pardon the redundancy) in Richmond, Virginia, to make a supernatural connection with Simmie Williams, the cross-dressing teen who was murdered in Fort Lauderdale in 2008. But maybe that’s because I’m not psychic. Judge for yourself:You see, that’s Simmie’s ghost…

Investigation Dropped Against Former Hospital District Attorney

Broward State Attorney’s Office has elected not to file criminal charges against Marc Goldstone, the former general counsel of Broward Health who was fired in May of last year after the hospital district’s commissioners claimed he’d deceived them about how he would be admitted to the Florida Bar Association.The move…

After Parking Dispute, Man Beaten With His Own Bat

Last Wednesday, in the midst of an argument over where he’d parked his Jeep, Virlyn Watson grabbed a bat, then threw it at the man he was arguing with. That man dodged the bat, then picked it up and beat Watson with it.The incident, which occurred around 1:45 in the…

Keith Hernandez Will Help Allen West Move (to Congress)

He was a star first baseman for the World Series champion Mets and a central character in one of the best Seinfeld episodes ever. But who knew that Keith Hernandez was also a paying subscriber to the right-wing rhetoric of our local congressional candidate, Col. Allen West?In the last fundraiser…

Profiling Bicyclists a New Police Strategy?

Based on a scan of recent Broward County mug shots, it appears local police are using the lack of a bicycle light as the basis for stopping and then searching a person they suspect of carrying drugs.Check out the mug shot slideshow on the Sun-Sentinel’s website. If you search it…

Anti-Hate Group to Picket Islamic Group Fundraiser

You’d think an anti-hate group would show some love for people of a different race and religion. But this is the Orwellian irony of Americans Against Hate, which just announced that it will stage a demonstration outside the Broward County Convention Center, where the Council on American-Islamic Relations is having…