Last month, the Department of Transportation announced that it will fork over an $18 million TIGER grant for the first phase of Fort Lauderdale’s proposed Wave Streetcar. The plan, which city officials have been molding since 2004, features a ten-station, 2.7-mile trolley-like system intended to shuttle folks around downtown.Reps. Debbie…
A 44-year-old Davie man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to selling more than 660,000 pain pills from seven South Florida clinics — including one that shared parking with Broward General Hospital. Vincent Colangelo was also ordered to give up six properties worth more than…
See also: Rick Scott’s stranger-than-fiction smackdown of Obamacare and his defense of that decison.In 2009, at least 2.45 million people in Florida were enrolled in Medicaid, according to data from government agencies. Another estimate pegs the number at more than 3 million. That’s over a tenth of all people in…
Gov. Rick Scott was a guest on CNBC’s Squawk Box program this morning, answering questions about everything from Mitt Romney to Florida’s unemployment rate. The most interesting discussion, however, occurred when he was asked by the hosts about his announcement that Florida was not going to comply with the health-care…
A 17-year-old boy from Largo died yesterday after shooting himself in the head during a game of Russian roulette. That’s pretty much the whole dumb story.He was the first player to spin the chamber on his back porch Friday night, according to the Tampa Bay Times, when he held a…
See also “DEP Getting Weaker Under Rick Scott” and “EPA Wants to Know if Herschel Vinyard Lied on His Resume”The number-two man at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection is the son of lobbyists who represent clients with huge environmental stakes in Florida.Jeff Littlejohn, deputy secretary for regulatory programs at…
Mikel D. Jones, a former aide to Democratic South Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings, has been suspended from practicing law pending further judgment from the Florida Supreme Court.Jones (and his wife) were convicted in November of conspiracy, money-laundering, and multiple counts of both wire fraud and mail fraud after federal officials…
Update, 12;15 p.m.: Health care too! Forget time changes; the Associated Press now reports Gov. Rick Scott has announced Florida will not comply with any part of Obamacare. This is true. Here is the article. I know, right?Original post, 5:44 a.m.:In yet another example of gross government overreach and excessive…
Miramar Police Capt. Juan De Los Rios turned himself into authorities today after being charged with lewd or lascivious conduct on a child younger than 16.The 28-year-veteran of the force is accused of confronting a teen couple that was sitting in the back of a car back in January and…
See also: Sid Rosenberg Arrested for DUI, and His Addictions, in His Own WordsEmbattled South Florida radio host Sid Rosenberg made a guest appearance at one of his old haunts earlier today: He called into New York radio station 660 WFAN as part of their 25th anniversary celebrations — he…
We told you yesterday about Angela Byrd and Tanecia Josephs, accused of stealing almost half a million dollars from a Fort Lauderdale 99-year-old they were supposed to be taking care of. Police have now announced the arrest of a third woman, 34-year-old Tashau Edwards, on charges she stole more than $45,000…
See also Connie Mack Continues Stupid Health Care Posturing. We’ve seen plenty of posturing already from Republican U.S. Rep. Connie Mack — now a candidate for Senate — about the Affordable Care Act — even last week, he was slamming his opponent, Bill Nelson, for supporting it.This came into particular…
It’s an election year, and something good happened to the incumbent president. You know what that means: The opposition party is about to do a lot of yelling.We’re dealing, of course, with the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to knock down Obamacare’s individual mandate — you know, the one that we’re…
Well, we finally figured out what caused all that I-95 traffic drama Wednesday evening: Police say Deerfield Beach 30-year-old Glenn Thervil was killed by a shotgun-wielding acquaintance after arguing with the man about cigarettes.Thervil got mad at the friend, 25-year-old Roderick Ferguson, as the two hung out with friends at…
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…
Broward Vice Mayor Kristin Jacobs, who last year tried banning the sale of bongs, is the newest member of the Intergovernmental Coastal Oceans Task Force, a group of lawmakers and eco-experts appointed to protect us from the forthcoming watery woe of climate change.The group is said to represent the “philosophy…
Republican Joe Kaufman loves the Second Amendment, and if he wants to look in the mirror and play with his gun, daggummit, that’s his right. He exercised that right last November — and shot himself in the finger, according to Gossip Extra.”Don’t go thinking I tried to commit suicide,” he…
Well, turns out “Miami Zombie” Rudy Eugene wasn’t high on bath salts when he chomped on Ronald Poppo’s face.”The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner found only marijuana in the body of the man who was fatally shot while chewing a homeless man’s face over Memorial Day weekend,” wrote NBC Miami.Wait, wait –…
In the race to break the news of the U.S. Supreme Court health-care ruling, several media outlets wrongly rushed out headlines declaring it had been struck down. But none botched the news with as much gusto as CNN.Full-sized screenshot of the mistake after the jump…
A lot has been said about the Supreme Court challenge to “Obamacare,” the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. One thing, though, that’s gotten lost in the shuffle is that the case is called Health and Human Services v. Florida — it was filed by Florida’s then-attorney general Bill McCollum,…
Read more about Aguiar’s support for a sex-soliciting Rabbi and troubled marriage.Guma Aguiar’s mom and wife will meet in court today to argue over who will get control of his $100 million estate after he disappeared at sea last Tuesday, but headstrong women might not have been all he was…
Florida has landed in fifth place in the annual beachwater quality rankings from the Natural Resources Defense Council. While some counties had as many as 13 percent of their water samples exceed federal bacteria standards, Broward County’s number was down at 2 percent; Palm Beach and Miami-Dade were both at…
