Obama Reacts to Ted Kennedy’s Death

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,…

Ex-Broward Health Attorney Suspects Excessive Billing by Current Attorney

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…

Suspect in 2004 Pompano Murder Found

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…

In Muslim Drag, Wellington Man Makes Escape From Dubai

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…

Has Dog; Needs Nickname

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…

Schiavo Alert: The Rifqa Bary Case

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…

Morning Juice: Marijuana, Equestrian Racing Events May Cloud Judgment

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…

BSO Looking for “Beer-Bellied Duffer”

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…

Will Carrie Prejean Visit Broward or Palm Beach? God Only Knows.

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…

Dementieva Wins Match of Palm Beach Tennis Stars

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…

Crash at Palm Beach Track

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…

Morning Juice: On Back to School Day, a Lesson From the Supercool Beas

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…

Juiced: A Week in One Gulp

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…

A Conversation About Zoophilia

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…