Court documents reveal that Howard Saltz, editor of the Sun-Sentinel, bailed on more than $3 million in debts just months after arriving in South Florida last year. There is also evidence of numerous foreclosures, repossessions, and short sales on properties Saltz invested in over the course of about ten years,…
Update, 1 p.m.: Added just-released information about the victims and suspects.A man is in critical condition after being shot in his Boynton Beach motel room, police report, and the two suspects wanted in the robbery escaped before police could arrive.Police say 45-year-old Neil Rogers is the owner of Florida Sewer…
We told you a few weeks ago about South Florida activist Robert Platshorn, who is raising money to put out hundreds of informercials informing senior citizens about how weed is, like, so good for you. He says the senior demographic is key to the legalization movement, and his Kickstarter is…
Dania Beach 68-year-old Randy Jerome Pozdol was found guilty of drugging his girlfriend’s two young children and filming himself having sex with them. He was in court yesterday for sentencing and presented a series of defenses that, believe it or not, actually made him seem even worse. The Miami Herald…
UPDATE 2, 7/25: Also see our latest post, Sally Ride’s Sister, on the Wikipedia Debate Over Homosexuality: “Sally Hated Labels of Every Kind.”UPDATE, 8 p.m.: The post has been updated to include comment from Bear Ride, Sally Ride’s sister. See also: Sally Ride Dead at 61.Sally Ride, the first U.S. woman…
Former astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died of cancer today at the age of 61, according to her organization’s website, which has since crashed.Born in Los Angeles, Ride earned multiple degrees in physics and English from Stanford in the late ’70s, which is also when she…
See also: Jennifer Carroll Lesbian Fling Case: Five of the Weirdest Unanswered Questions.Carletha Cole has not been shy about her accusations against Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll regarding Carroll’s alleged lesbian rendezvous with aide Bibi Ramos — but now prosecutors are saying she’s gotta shut up.”Attorneys for the defendant have spoken…
See also: Chris and Jeff George’s Pill Mill Operation: Your Pulp Reader.Two doctors who prescribed pills at the South Florida pain clinics of Chris and Jeff George have been charged with dealing the drugs that played a role in the deaths of nine patients. They were originally indicted (with 30…
Say what you will about the State of Florida’s news organizations; our weathermen are absolutely topnotch (except when they’re sexting kids). They have every computerized graphic in the book, amazing hairdos, and a penchant for predicting calamitous end-of-days scenarios based on nothing more than a blip of green. They also…
You may have already seen the signs, towed behind planes in Palm Beach County: “Beware thug prosecutors,” “Dump McAuliffe for prosecutor, vote for Elmer Fudd,” “Smile if You Think Mikey McAuliffe Is a Putz.” The Palm Beach Post got to the story of those planes — and the millionaire funding…
If there’s one thing Disney movies have taught us, it’s that domesticated pets have an uncanny knack for surviving in the wild.The most recent real-world example happened when a car accident along I-75 sent an 11-year old house cat named Sam scurrying into the unforgiving brush of Big Cypress National…
Though former Fort Lauderdale legislator Mandy Dawson said in April that “no different than any other person walking the streets of America” with tax problems, she’s certainly different from people walking the streets now: She’ll be locked up.Dawson was sentenced to six months in prison today after pleading guilty in April…
Today, New Times Broward-Palm Beach rolled out a new user profile platform dubbed My Voice Nation. Your voice — and the opinions you voice in our comments section — will now be amplified through a fancy new commenting program called Lifefyre (“live fire”). Read all about it below…
If you somehow haven’t heard, 12 people were killed last night at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, just outside of Denver. Forty other people are estimated to have been wounded, and nobody knows why. Much will be written about the victims, though probably less…
Welcome to this week’s post of the Broward-Palm Beach edition of Mug-Shot Friday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mug shots from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, and femmes fatale. Check out Miami New Times’ Riptide blog for the Miami-Dade edition…
Read our past interview with Israel, and about how he’s retweeting it a whole bunch, and about his money.The editorial board at the Miami Herald has chimed in for Scott Israel, one of the two Democratic contenders in what may be the most important and underreported primary election in Broward…
See also “Six Ways to Avoid Red Light Cameras” and “Red Light Cameras May Increase Fatalities”A single-red light camera in Davie could save the city $177,000 the first year and more than $800,000 over five years. In Coral Springs, the numbers are more dramatic: $220,000 in savings after a year…
See also: George Zimmerman: It Was “God’s Plan” for Me to Kill Trayvon Martin.George Zimmerman was going to do a second interview. He was going to have a sit-down with Barbara Walters, according to the New York Post, but she, after flying to Florida to meet with him, left him behind…
Another chapter has been written in Rep. Connie Mack’s devolution from a lackluster congressman into a sneering, whining toadstool of a Senate candidate, and it’s a stupid one. It started, more or less, back in April, when Mack’s father, former Sen. Connie Mack III, wrote a letter to the Tampa…
Do you recognize this woman? Have you worked with her? Has one of her large, bulgy eyeballs brushed against you at a bus stop? The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office is looking for her, because they say a car was burglarized and she committed check fraud using the person’s identity…
See also: Barbara Walters Ditches George Zimmerman Interview; “Appalled” By Demand.Hey, guys! Did you know George Zimmerman was on Fox News last night? Yeah, it was in like, a living room or something, and Sean Hannity, who couldn’t be bothered to put a tie on because it’s only national television,…
Read our interviews with Israel and Granteed.You may not have heard of Louis Granteed — he’s better-known to local beat cops than to the general public — but it would be a mistake to discount him in the Democratic primary for Broward sheriff on August 14. Turns out, he’s raised…
