Charlie Crist juggled his schedule so he could fly down to Miami-Dade, where a press conference will be staged to comfort the Haitian people. But however little Crist has to lose in his Senate race against Marco Rubio, still he had better be careful about dashing toward ground zero, Giuliani-style,…
With University of Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin accepting the same job at USC, it looks like the only memory that some local football players will have of the coach is a pending NCAA investigation. Though former Volunteer and Pahokee native Nu’keese Richardson says he isn’t part of the investigation,…
As you can see, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is quite comfortable on the cable news circuit; so comfortable that the otherwise circumspect West Broward Congresswoman is willing to describe in vivid terms exactly what deviant metaphorical acts the insurance companies are inflicting upon us virginal American consumers. But then, the smug…
Thursday brings another chilly morning but warm weather is on the way. Let’s look at the local headlines:A Boynton Beach man was at the Port Au Prince airport when the earthquake hit and says it felt like an airplane strike. [Palm Beach Post] Members of a united nations United Nations…
Hamilton Forman, the man who was to Broward County what Montgomery Burns is to Springfield, died last night at age 90. The old man had a facility for making friends with powerful figures — especially when it was a simple matter of writing a check to a campaign. That style…
Like the buttered toast that always falls face first on the kitchen floor, city code inspectors tend to be tough on the conscientious property owner, only to be lax when it comes to the most negligent property owners. Or at least that’s the experience that poor Robert Rosenberg has had…
Benton Lineau is the name of the man who was driving a gold Lincoln Navigator last night, when he was shot in the chest, say Boynton Beach Police. The 23-year-old, who crashed into a home on the 2000 block of Northeast 3rd Street, died later at Delray Trauma Center.Police were…
Let’s patch together the clues of last night’s blaze at a quadplex in Boca Raton: You’ve got only one occupied unit. A cop is a resident of that unit, which is upstairs. And there’s a piece of graffiti in the vacant unit where the fire started that says, “Cop Killa…
We all love dolphins. But few of us love them as much, or as literally, as Malcolm Brenner, who lives in Southwest Florida. Of all the zoophiles I interviewed for this controversial New Times feature story in August, Brenner’s story is the one that most shocked readers. Brenner described how…
Pet Supermarket, the national pet supply store based in Sunrise, is reporting that a device for teaching cats to use human toilets is among its biggest sellers. The Litter Kwitter uses color-coded “training disks” to condition a cat to perform its dirty deeds in a most discreet fashion, by crouching…
The news in Broward and Palm Beach this Tuesday morning:A double shooting late last night in Boynton Beach where one man is dead and another is in critical condition. It appears the shooting occurred on the road and that the dead man — who hasn’t been identified — was driving…
It’s liable to get lost in the avalanche of pregame media coverage, but on January 30, Fort Lauderdale’s Lockhart Stadium will host the first-ever Junior World Championship, pitting 45 of America’s best football players against 45 of the best who play the sport outside the U.S.For the age 19-and-under foreign…
Jean-Carlo Baptist told police that he was tired and trying to sleep after working a night job, when his 11-week-old daughter wouldn’t stop crying. His wife was working at Walgreens at the time. Baptist had told paramedics that his daughter had fallen out of bed, but after questioning by Boynton…
A week after he disclosed his intention to fire the North Broward Hospital District CEO Frank Nask, Commissioner Robert Bernstein is now demanding to know how a Nask associate is being paid roughly twice what that position paid just four years ago.That associate is Deborah Breen, the district’s vice president…
It’s hard to fathom, but some dishy new campaign tell-all book casts Florida Gov. Charlie Crist as a treacherous, ruthlessly self-interested politician looking to sell his endorsement in the 2008 presidential campaign to whatever Republican promised to pay him the most political capital in return.Yup, that sounds like our Charlie.The…
Fort Lauderdale’s retired basketball great, Scottie Pippen, is all over the net these days. Last week we told you how the former Chicago Bulls stars was ambushed by extremely aggressive midgets. This week, Pippin has a supporting role in a segment from Fox’s The Cleveland Show that’s sure to be…
Amid Florida’s longest, coldest winter, let’s warm up with local news in Broward and Palm Beach on this frigid Monday.Two Fort Lauderdale cops who worked the Scott Rothstein off-duty detail have been suspended with pay. Sgt. Steve Greenlaw and Officer DeAnna Garcia-Lemieux. It’s not yet clear what policy they’re suspected…
What better place to promote a new Justice Department task force against financial fraud than South Florida? Specifically, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder gave his speech this afternoon at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches, which staged a luncheon in his honor at the Kravis Center. In the speech,…
Among the many problems at the North Broward Hospital District (a pending criminal corruption investigation, a pending internal investigation for fraud, to name a couple), the district’s board currently has an attendance problem. The kind that only Gov. Charlie Crist can fix.The governor appoints the seven members of the board…
