Let’s check out the local headlines:First degree murder charges for 16-year-old Berenice Juarez, accused of stabbing to death her mother’s boyfriend, Gilardo Ramos Paz, in the parking lot of a Winn Dixie in Delray Beach. Paz was reportedly married, with a wife and five children in Guatemala. Reporter Derek Hayward…
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…
Sweatpants aren’t just comfortable exercise attire. They’re also a subtle way of telling the world you’ve just. Stopped. Trying. In the video above, it’s hard to tell whether Gov. Charlie Crist has reached that point in his senatorial campaign — or if he really is on the way to a…
Nail school students aspire to paint the fingernails of international celebrities. But at the Palm Beach Nail School, those students are liable to spot a celebrity in the next desk. Serena Williams, who lives with her family in Palm Beach Gardens, is devoting part of her tennis offseason to studying…
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…
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…
The rundown of local news on this Thursday morning:A 16-year-old girl is in jail for stabbing to death her mother’s boyfriend, Gilardo Ramos Paz, in the parking lot of a Winn Dixie in Delray Beach. The girl, Berenice Juarez, confessed to police, telling them she didn’t approve of the man’s…
Any time public money goes missing in Broward County, we’re conditioned to reach for our tomatoes and wait for a public official to do a perp walk. But Deerfield Beach interim city manager Burgess Hanson is trying to dampen that speculation in the weeks following an internal investigation into how…
Karin Hoffman of Coral Springs: Consider yourself warned. The real South Florida Tea Party is on to you. Her group is called DC Works for Us, but in media reports, Hoffman has been identified as a “tea party leader.” So this week, when Hoffman’s group landed a meeting with Republican…
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…
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…
Technically, Burgess Hanson is merely the “interim” city manager of Deerfield Beach. But only five weeks after he was given that title, he has managed to perform a feat that has eluded every other city manager in recent memory: Every commissioner thinks he’s doing a great job.Which is surreal. At…
Here’s what’s making news in South Florida this morning:Broward County Administrator Bertha Henry gave a stern warning to the commissioners that they’ll need to raise taxes this year or else face a round of budget cuts that would risk, well, anarchy? [Sun-Sentinel]At the Seagull School in Fort Lauderdale, burglars pried…
A few minutes ago, the Deerfield Beach City Commission voted to hire Kessler International, a forensic auditing firm that will try to find out how the city spent its federal housing dollars.The request came from City Manager Burgess Hanson, who has been reviewing that spending since he took over the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
