Frederick Sancilio had to sweat a little more than he might have expected, but last night the founder of a failed biotech in North Carolina managed to get the $350,000 loan he wanted from Palm Beach Gardens. The South Florida Business Journal reports that the city council voted 3-2 in…
It wasn’t exactly Watergate, but for Deerfield Beach, it had the makings of a defining moment in its scandal-plagued history: firefighters accused by residents of engaging in improper political activities during the final, frenzied week of the city’s municipal elections in March. With a new mayor and two new commissioners,…
Broward County Library staff is bracing for a round of layoffs next month, and in the meantime anxiety and suspicion is spreading through the ranks. Who among them deserves to be spared? And who deserves to go?One Broward County Library worker told Juice of a recent conversation she had with…
In the same week that the New York Times named FWM Laboratories of Hollywood among nutrition supplement firms that ran misleading internet ads, daytime talk show host Oprah Winfrey named the company as lead defendant in a suit she filed against some 500 websites. The New York Post reports that…
The Broward School District admits it’s overbuilt classrooms, but oops! It overbuilt in the wrong areas. So some are jam-packed while others are desolated. And yet as the Sun-Sentinel’s Kathy Bushouse reports, the state isn’t eager to help the district go on another building binge. Maybe if it’s on a…
They’re still working on destroying Obama’s health-care plan, but in the opening moments of this New York Times video, Sunrise seniors dealt a death blow to hip-hop. Chilling video here.The accompanying article is set in the massive Sunrise Lakes retirement community, and the writer remarks at how that area voted…
Frederick Sancilio’s streak of bad luck looks like it’s about to change. A founder of a Wilmington, North Carolina, company called aaiPharma, Sancilio watched from his seat on the board of directors as his company’s chief operating officer was busted for fraud in 2004. And even after Sancilio assumed his…
A bicyclist sustained life-threatening injuries this morning in an accident that occurred on West Davie Boulevard. A Fort Lauderdale Police news release says that a Toyota Scion involved in the accident was driven by Taisha Gonzalez from Coconut Creek.According to police, Gonzalez was driving north on SW 27th Avenue, turning…
Just in from Broward Sheriff’s Office: A masked man brandishing a handgun threw a store clerk over a counter during a robbery Monday night as the criminal demanded cash from the register. The clerk was not seriously injured, but detectives are anxious to catch the suspect before he hurts someone.Detectives…
More details are emerging about the agreement between the U.S. Justice Department and UBS, the Swiss bank accused of helping wealthy Americans evade taxes — a case that’s been bandied about in South Florida’s U.S. District Court and that has attracted the two nations’ top diplomats. USA Today reports that…
OK, so maybe it’s not the most riveting video of this month’s clashes between congressional Democrats and health-care reform opponents, but this is a perfect illustration of the media echo chamber we’ve entered. Below, a woman shooting a video after yesterday’s Ron Klein forum in Boynton Beach. And judging by the…
This comes from an unimpeachable source: New Jersey’s Star Ledger, which not only reports the existence of this luxury hotel but says that it’s festooned with a sculpture by famous artist Jon Krawcyzk, who’s just revealed his latest work, a towering hockey player. (Remember, this is Jersey.) From the article.The…
That’s the first name that popped into my head when I heard that Crist was serious about tapping his former chief of staff, George LeMieux, Broward County’s most connected political player, to serve the remainder of Mel Martinez’s term in the U.S. Senate.Harriet Miers, of course, was White House counsel…
Here’s a rundown of the hot topics in Broward and Palm Beach this Thursday morning:WPLG-10’s Rob Schmitt reports that Broward Sheriff’s deputies are close to charging a suspect in the murder of 17-year-old Melissa Karp seven years ago. Here’s the video. Karp’s father told Schmitt there’s a DNA match.A possible…
During his sophomore year in high school, Cody Beck finally got fed up with hearing homophobic cracks. If his classmates thought being gay was weird (Beck was openly bisexual), he had a confession that would blow their minds. He told them he is sexually attracted to dogs and horses. “I…
Here’s what we’ve got in the print edition, hot off the press:This week’s feature story, subtly rendered to your right, is about zoophiles — people who love and are sexually attracted to animals. Some among them claim a new frontier for sexual civil rights. Others are resigned to another century…
A few minutes past midnight today, August 19, and the crisis begins. The clock starts. An excerpt from the first bulletin by the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office:Dawn Roberts and her roommate decided to go fishing at Phil Foster Park. As soon as they arrived at the park, Dawn decided to…
That’s video from outside yesterday’s Tom Rooney town hall in Stuart. In the ongoing battle over what side of the health care debate is more civilized, this is the Zapruder film. A reform proponent, apparently, is dressed in camouflage and allegedly spits at one of the tea party types he…
Four Broward County residents were arrested at a hotel in Elkridge, Maryland, after police there found evidence suggesting they were part of an identity-theft ring.The arrests, which occurred August 10, were not without incident. The Columbia Flier reports that three of the suspects pulled up to the Best Western hotel…
Broward Health Commissioner Robert Bernstein has cast himself as a watchdog for waste at the county’s public health-care district. But in the months since he led the charge to terminate the hospital district’s two lead attorneys, questions remain about whether his motives were complicated by Republican special interests, such as…
