This was the week that Broward County played host to a Super Bowl shindig. While the New Times print edition gave our visitors a crash course in South Florida vice, the Juice attended media day and came back with an exotic array of photographic evidence that pop culture is a…
According to Deerfield Beach City Attorney Andy Maurodis, the Westside Deerfield Businessmen Association has provided the city with records that purport to show how the association spent the federal dollars distributed to it through a home rehabilitation program.Earlier today, we reported that WDBA funds are the subject of an internal…
At age 86, Seymour Zayon is one of South Florida’s active seniors, but it might be time for him to retire from driving automobiles. Around 1:45 this afternoon, Zayon and his wife were looking to park at the Dunkin’ Donuts on Military Trail Road in Boynton Beach.But in what sounds…
Is there anyone in Indianapolis who actually believes that the mayor and 20 of his advisers are flying down to South Florida to research the “logistics” of hosting a Super Bowl, as he claims in the video above? Reality check: If you manage to escape a landlocked, snow-strangled city like…
We were hopeful that Hollywood’s new development czar was a political outsider, but we weren’t sure until now. Tanja Gerhartz has no friends or family in South Florida. She had never been to Hollywood until she came down from New Smyrna Beach for an interview. And she has never heard…
In what was thought to be a recruiting coup, the Michigan Wolverines landed a highly sought-after local football star: Boyd Anderson High defensive back Demar Dorsey who on Wednesday signed a letter of intent to play football at the Big Ten university. That’s his hip-hop scored highlight reel above.But the…
In a move that could spell trouble for longtime Broward politician Sylvia Poitier, Deerfield Beach is conducting an internal investigation to determine how a nonprofit run by the vice mayor’s relatives spent federal housing dollars. As the city’s registered Community Housing Development Organization, the Westside Deerfield Business Association is entrusted…
Let’s see what’s happening in South Florida as we kick off Super Bowl weekend:Football Hall of Famer and Fort Lauderdale native Michael Irvin has been accused of raping a woman in 2007 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel. The woman filed a lawsuit against him yesterday, and the Broward State…
The first criminal trial in the Stanford Financial Group fraud is under way, and it ain’t pretty for the local branch. In opening remarks of a trial that began Monday in Miami, prosecutors told the jury that Thomas Raffanello and Bruce Perraud ordered a massive shredding of Stanford documents one…
Irving Goldstein is in jail today, accused of being impaired when he struck Keith and Penny Grumer on Tuesday night at the corner of Weston Hills Boulevard and Weston Hills Drive. The Broward Sheriff’s Office is reporting that Goldstein abandoned his car after the accident. Deputies later found him wandering…
A prominent hotel industry blog has declared the Indianapolis Colts the Super Bowl champions in their pre-game hotel match-up against the New Orleans Saints. Credit goes to Fort Lauderdale’s Harbor Beach Marriott Resort, which in a side-by-side comparison was found to have rooms and amenities superior to the Intercontinental Miami.But…
There are high school students who are older than the Florida Panthers franchise, but it seems team owners couldn’t wait any longer to start working on a hall of fame. That’s a virtual tour above. It’s hard to tell exactly what’s in the trophy cases — was that a Pavel…
The city of Hollywood has named a former Orlando official to lead its Community Redevelopment Agency. Tanja Gerhartz previously worked as the economic development director in Orlando. More recently, she had her own private consulting firm. If that means she’s new to the South Florida political scene — and to…
The local news this morning:In a deal that looks like a politically motivated rip-off, the town of Davie fast-tracked a $12.5 million purchase of the Foreman family’s vacated Palma Nova mobile home park. It took a fat chunk out of the city’s rainy day fund. [Sun-Sentinel]Broward Judge Susan Lebow dismissed…
Eric Emmanuel, a 35-year-old man from Pembroke Pines, is being charged in what’s said to be the biggest marijuana bust in Pennsylvania history. He and Stanley Baptiste, of Winter Garden, were arrested this weekend on a stretch of freeway east of the state capital, Harrisburg. Police found 6,500 pounds of…
For gays serving in the U.S. military the fear of exposure exists at every level of the chain of command. Just ask Dr. Alan Steinman. In the early Nineties, Steinman served the four final years of a 25-year career as a rear admiral in the U.S. Coast Guard as its…
Chad Hullfish told Boynton Beach Police detectives that he molested his 8-year-old niece and that he may have also had illegal contact with his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter, according to a probable cause affidavit released today. In that document, Hullfish blames the incidents on the strain of having to change his…
This is embarrassing. On a day when U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates came to Capitol Hill to dramatically announce his department’s plan to ditch the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, Florida Sen. George LeMieux used his time at the mic to push an unrelated and absurd political agenda. Let’s roll…
After the earthquake struck Haiti, there wasn’t time to decide exactly what role South Florida hospitals would play in treating victims. Nor was there time to figure out how those facilities would be paid in instances where the victims were Haitian citizens. But three weeks after the devastating quake, there’s…
As the weather slowly warms for the big game, let’s see what the local headlines have to say:Sun Life Stadium had a mighty scare last night when a stage collapsed during a Super Bowl rehearsal, injuring four people. Not exactly the publicity that the folks at Sun Life had in…
