Jewel thieves tend to over-think the heist, often with disastrous results -- as you might remember from Before the Devil Knows Your Dead. A thief who hit Galleria Mall yesterday did not make this mistake. He simply walked into Zales and... let's let the Fort Lauderdale Police Department take it...
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Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein today officially banned his public defenders from contributing money to judges whom they practice before. It's a continuation from the controversy regarding prosecutor (and Sunrise commissioner) Sheila Alu's fundraising for Judge Elijah Williams, and I think it's good policy. Here's the email he sent to all PD employees:...
A Broward Teachers Union poll taken of the county's school teachers illustrates just how much the people closest to the Broward County School Board feels that it is an abject failure. To put it lightly, teachers don't trust this board, and they don't think elected board members know what the hell...
Moises Chambi needs only two tools to survive on the world's largest salt flat: a wooden-handled pickax and a shovel beaten into a worn fold. The 23-year-old with sun-darkened skin, prominent cheekbones, and a quick, sarcastic smile grunts softly as he repeatedly slams his ax into the parched earth of...
A little while back, I wrote about a $7 million project to renovate the football stadium and other athletic areas at Blanche Ely High School. The incredible thing about the award of the project to Balfour Beatty Construction was that the selection committee chose the firm despite the fact that it came...
It's a good day for justice. Anthony Caravella, who was wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of Ada Cox-Jankowski when he was 15 years old, is being freed from the Broward County Jail right now, according to the Public Defender's Office. He's now 41 years old after losing 26 years...
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• It's hard catching a real bonefish, but catching a Bonefish Grill will get even easier when the Tampa-based chain opens its 43rd Florida restaurant later this month, this one in Plantation. If you've been to one, you know the drill -- scarf some fried "Bam Bam Shrimp"; your fish,...
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Beer of the Week: Brooklyn Lager
Jacob Jeffries Band ...Waiting for the Piano Movers...Eleven:11 Entertainment Jacob Jeffries is absurdly young -- barely out of his teens -- to be so abundantly talented. And despite his age, he's clawed his way to the top strata of South Florida's pop elite, thanks to last year's aptly titled debut...
The Perfect Pizza is an elusive animal. Mostly because everyone has his or her own idea of what makes a great pie. But I'd like to think of the pizza at Sicilian Oven as the Great Uniter; no matter what the preference -- Napolitan or New York style, wood- or...
Oh Woe is ACORN. The U.S. Senate has just voted today, 83-7, to cut housing funds to an organization which has long been the darling of the far Left -- and which is now so utterly disgraced it has nowhere to go but down. The vote would make ACORN ineligible...
[jump] A salesperson at Maroone Chevrolet in Fort Lauderdale told me that location stopped taking in clunkers on Friday. Maroone is owned by AutoNation. The program (and indeed the president) has many detractors (something about not wanting to give away taxpayer money), and some dealers aren't totally confident they'll get...
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Scott Rothstein: The Crist Angle
With Broward politicians and contractors in hot water over bribery allegations today, it's not surprising that Governor Crist has called for a statewide corruption Grand Jury. According to the Sun-Sentinel: Citing an apparent "culture of corruption" taking root in South Florida, Gov. Charlie Crist on Wednesday called for a statewide...
Over the years, the old Texas Hold 'Em BBQ location on Sunrise Boulevard felt sadder with each visit. It was always empty, especially near the end of its tenure there earlier this year. The benches in front of the brown- and cream-colored building looked lost and lonely; the only activity...
Cheap pinot noir is a moron. Cheap, good pinot noir is an oxymoron. Pinot noir, you see, is the Sarah Palin of grapes -- flighty, erratic, unpredictable, hard to handle -- though unlike the nitwit from Wasilla, the result can be anything but simple and stupid. It's that ornery nature...
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Let the Mild Rumpus Start!
When Antonio Balta saw his 9-month-old daughter, Veronika, her eyes were rolled back in her head. Her body was limp. When he lifted her up, a thick, milky substance seeped from the baby's mouth.Balta had been inside Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, waiting for his girlfriend to get off work...
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Ursula O'Donnell was arrested in 2002 for helping to kill more than 2,000 greyhounds. Last month we learned she was still working as a trainer in the state of Florida, where her alleged crimes took place. The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation investigated O'Donnell, a member of the...
flickr.com No pressure, Tim, it's only your brain. Though the University of Florida and Coach Urban Meyer have been nothing but careful with their words, I don't think there was ever really a doubt that Tim Tebow would play in tonight's big game against LSU. This, just two weeks removed from...
The enthusiasm was infectious on a recent Friday night at Carousel Can Can in CityPlace. Surveying the half-empty dining room of mostly couples and well-coifed gals out on the town, you could almost hear the collective yawn. About the only person who showed any sort of interest in the can-can...
Manhattan accountant Frank DiPascali confessed this week to his role in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, and he just might be the snitch that federal prosecutors have been waiting for. In particular, two Madoff associates in South Florida, Michael Bienes and Frank Avellino appear to have cause for anxiety.DiPascali's intimate...