A few moments ago, President Barack Obama released this statement about the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy: Michelle and I were heartbroken to learn this morning of the death of our dear friend, Senator Ted Kennedy. For five decades, virtually every major piece of legislation to advance the civil rights,…
On this Wednesday, a national story dominates the local headlines:Sen. Ted Kennedy died late last night at age 77.The Broward School District made a huge cut to its construction budget, reports Akilah Johnson in the Sun-Sentinel, reducing it from about $3 billion to $1.3 billion. Readers of Pulp learned this…
Joe Truhe, former associate general counsel of the North Broward Hospital District, is asking that board’s chairman to investigate whether its acting general counsel, Sam Goren, is wasting district resources by billing for unnecessary legal work.Goren’s Fort Lauderdale firm of Goren, Cherof, Doody & Ezrol has been running the district’s…
Jorge “Angel” Villamizar-Ayala, wanted in the November 2004 slaying of Bianca Sierra in Pompano Beach, was arrested Friday in Brownsville, Texas, after a television viewer phoned police with the tip. Here’s the news release from Broward Sheriff’s Office:Bianca Sierra’s young son and daughter were the ones who found her body…
Sometimes you have to abandon questions of guilt and innocence and just admire the sheer audacity of a criminal suspect. Herve Jaubert is one of those cases.We told you about Jaubert, a resident of Wellington, a few weeks ago, but the former French spy wanted by the United Arab Emirates…
Shirley Cunningham Jr., an attorney based in Kentucky but who kept a penthouse apartment in the Waverly condominium in downtown Fort Lauderdale, will spend the next 20 years in a federal prison after being convicted of defrauding clients in a class-action suit against makers of the diet drug fen-phen.Along with…
The week after the gayest dog ever was stolen in Wilton Manors by a man with the gayest tattoo ever, the case is a national sensation — following the original Sun-Sentinel article, there’s this Huffington Post article and then this one in the New York Post. Yet the case remains…
Take a look at that video, evangelicals and anti-Muslim crusaders. Are you really, really sure you want to risk your credibility on the Fathima Rifqa Bary case? Y’all remember how the Terri Schiavo thing backfired, right? Actually, this one is the media mutation of the Schiavo story and Elian Gonzalez…
What isn’t South Florida smoking on this Tuesday morning?A deep-pocketed Israeli businessmen is vowing revenge against the Broward Sheriff’s deputies who he said beat him up and hurled anti-Semitic slurs during a traffic stop for marijuana DUI in June. The Sun-Sentinel’s Jon Burstein has quotes from an angry Guma Aguiar.The…
Anonymously mailed envelopes are usually full of a whistleblower’s goodies. But today’s discovery was a bit of a let-down: This envelope with no return address contained the minutes of the April 7, 2008 special meeting by the North Broward Hospital District board.That was the day that the commissioners had summoned…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office has a rather weird streak for ridiculing its criminal suspects in advance of apprehending them. Like in this release from a few minutes ago:A casually dressed man who looked like he should have been watching golf from his recliner instead robbed a Citibank Saturday afternoon, and…
The former Miss California appeared at a Republican conference in Orlando Saturday and so I checked the Florida Republican Party website in hopes of learning when Carrie “Preechin'” Prejean might be scheduled to make a stop in our part of the peninsula. Of course, I couldn’t find it, and the…
Despite its august name, the Harvard Learning Centers in Boca Raton was not exactly the Ivy League. Nor was the criminal conspiracy for which its president, Donald Patten was convicted Friday. It seems Patten issued stock from that company, then used the proceeds to pay back “debts” to people very…
Those are highlights from Saturday’s match between two women who aren’t natives of Palm Beach County but who both now live there part time. Elena Dementieva, who has a home in Boca Raton, beat Serena Williams, of Palm Beach Gardens, in straight sets, advancing to the finals, where yesterday Dementieva…
That’s a crash from yesterday’s Championship Cup motorcycle race at the Palm Beach International Speedway in Jupiter, but I don’t think it’s the same one that caused two people to be hospitalized. The names of those two injured have not been released. The ride in the video above was racing…
It’s Monday, and this week you can concentrate on your own “tropical depression.”Especially if you’re a South Florida student, where according to the Miami Herald’s Patricia Mazzei, you can look forward to a “no frills” school year, due to budget cuts at school districts. Not in Broward, though, where according…
No hurricanes hit Florida but we had a blizzard of activity here at Juice. Local health care forums have been battle royals. We showed you video of the magic loogie that flew outside a town hall in Stuart. At Delray Beach, we listened patiently to the arguments of health care…
The feature story I wrote this week about zoophiles has attracted some controversy, here and in our sister paper, the Miami New Times. That’s not surprising — it’s a touchy subject. I didn’t have time to respond to all the comments and emails, but I did want to share a…
Sam Goren, the attorney hired in May by the North Broward Hospital District to fill the general counsel’s role, is racking up legal bills at a rate more than double the combined salaries of the two attorneys whose firings created that opening.Billings provided to Juice in response to a Florida…
