Harness-racing fans in Canada adored track announcer Frank Salive, but he’s had a lifelong love of Pompano Park, where he’ll begin as announcer and publicist next month. From the London (Ontario) Free Press:”I remember going down there in 1976 when I was just 21 years old,” Salive said. “It was…
Barbra Stern, the daughter of Democrat strategist Judy Stern, today followed through on her long-rumored campaign for Florida House district in Fort Lauderdale vacated by Ellyn Bodganoff, who’s running for Florida Senate. Barbra Stern was originally a Democrat but she had a fling with the Republican Party that ended just…
Shortly before Westley the Bear succumbed to the gunshot wounds in southeast Georgia Saturday, he was heard to curse the name of the bear that apparently inspired his bold efforts at assimilation: Paddington.You can see a video of Paddington above. That bear, it is said, traveled from “the darkest Peru”…
Driving a cab is hard enough work without your fare knifing you after he arrives at his destination. So let’s all help Hollywood Police get the guy in the picture. Squint if you have to.Judging by the news release, it doesn’t seem that the stabber made off with any money,…
What’s with Boynton Beach suddenly becoming a hot spot for South Florida crime? Early yesterday, a couple of exhausted Canadian tourists trying to drive through the night to South Beach, pulled off on I-95 at Boynton Beach Boulevard, then parked at a closed gas station so they could switch drivers,…
Bob Smith, that is, the former U.S. Senator from new Hampshire. Publicly, Charlie Crist’s campaign could explain that Smith, who has been living in Sarasota, brings a wealth of experience to the job — six years in the House and 12 in the Senate. That’s more than anyone else being…
Fourteen-year-old Sachia Vickery and 13-year-old Victoria Duval, from Miramar and Delray Beach, respectively, spent this past weekend in the Czech Republic, giving that nation’s tennis fans a show they won’t soon forget. The ITF World Junior Tennis Championships is a match-up of national teams, based on single matches, but the…
If you’ve got world-class athletic talent and a full ride at a top school like the University of Michigan, you probably want to avoid friends from South Florida who answer to the name, “Tragic.”That’s the nickname of the drug dealer to whom former Deerfield Beach football star Justin Feagin allegedly…
The government of the United Arab Emirates was circling Herve Jaubert, growing increasingly certain that he was one among a cast of unscrupulous businessmen from the West whose collective greed brought an end to the economic boom in Dubai.But before Jaubert could be arrested, he abandoned his villa and fleet…
Now there’s a word you want to be careful with when explaining an investment in Broward County over one in Miami-Dade. But that’s the word that Virgin America CEO David Cush used to justify his airline’s decision to make Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport a destination rather than Miami International. USA…
Sylvester Stallone has only one brother, thank God, and that’s the incomparable Frank Stallone, seen above in the video for that song he did for the John Travolta leotard movie.But this morning, the Juice received a media release about energy-saving pool technologies endorsed by some of the region’s pool equipment…
Online, he’s known as Glue Factory Bob. Also, Dog Food Dale — either a sidekick or an alter ego. Or a twin, if the photographs he posted in his blog profile (left) are real, but they’re probably a joke. So, too, did his blog seem like a joke after it…
George Edmunds, the acting director of Deerfield Beach’s Parks and Recreation Department, has been ordered to attend a meeting with the city’s Human Resources Department to review the mistakes he made last week in disciplining a city worker for failing to greet Mayor Peggy Noland.That meeting comes at the behest…
Alexis Thompson, the 14-year-old golfer from Coral Springs advanced to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Women’s Amateur tournament this past weekend in St. Louis, and though that made her the youngest golfer in the field by two years, it wasn’t nearly a record.The record was set in 2007, when Thompson…
Former Florida Highway Patrolman Christopher Maul tells the St. Pete Times he was fired in June because he “didn’t write enough tickets.” FHP supervisors say that was one among other productivity issues. They deny that there’s a quota.Though there’s no mention of Maul’s filing suit against FHP, it sounds like…
Charles Perez, the WPLG anchor who has filed a discrimination suit against the South Florida ABC affiliate, wrote in a Sunday column in The Daily Beast that the station believed “my profile as a gay man, especially if I were to have kids and, God forbid, get married, would render…
That’s Rev. Tullian Tchivijian, the fresh-faced grandson of the Rev. Billy Graham explaining the principles of his book Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different. In the first several months of his pastorship at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, that’s been a hard sell to church traditionalists –…
Several weeks after his child sex abuse case was featured on America’s Most Wanted, Roshard Whitehead of West Palm Beach was found in Lexington, Kentucky. And not a moment too soon, according to a report by WPBF, which says federal marshals found him living with four children.In mid-January police wondered…
A series of internal memos recently made public by the Deerfield Beach City Clerk’s office show that Mayor Peggy Noland denied being offended by the lack of a greeting from a city parks worker last week. But those denials are at odds with the memo by Deerfield Beach’s parks director,…
Jeffrey Aronson and his partner in Cash4Gold are mighty proud of themselves. They wrote a letter to Congress and the White House boasting of how their Pompano Beach-based company has turned a recession into a windfall. Now they’re offering to turn the same trick for the feds. An offer the…
John Kopras, formerly of Pembroke Pines, entered a guilty plea in Fort Lauderdale’s federal court Thursday to charges that he raided the Social Security accounts of a cousin who was mentally disabled.According to the federal prosecutor’s news release, Kopras set up trust accounts at Wachovia Bank that were supposed to…
It’s advertised as a way to deal with a city’s homeless problem in the most humane way possible — give ’em one-way tickets out of town. But that’s only if the progressives in cities like New York aren’t reading headlines like we’ve got down here, about Florida leading the nation…
