Email Author Bob Norman

Awards

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ

  The Daily Pulp

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  The Daily Pulp

• 2009 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published November 27, 2008

  "The Lost Season"

• 2009 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published July 31, 2008

  "Stop Charlie"

• 2008 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published June 21, 2007

  "Gang Tackled"

• 2008 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published February 15, 2007

  "Dead End"

• 2008 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published June 21, 2007

  "Gang Tackled"

• 2008 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published March 8, 2007

  "Witness for the Defense"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 15, 2006

  "Mayor Al Has to Go, Bad"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 5, 2006

  "A Politician Weeps"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 17, 2006

  "Who Crowned Michael Brown?"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 1, 2005

  "Spreading the Plame"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 11, 2005

  "Knight Riddance"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 29, 2005

  "Westside's Stories"

• 2006 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published October 20, 2005

  "A Tragedy of Errors"

• 2006 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published March 24, 2005

  "Cash Cow"

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2000 Stories by Bob Norman

• Minority Madness

  published December 28, 2000

  While the world roosts outside the state capitol in Tallahassee, Democrats huddle on the third floor just trying to cope. Roughly 30... More >>

• Ribfellas

  published December 7, 2000

  Detectives watched Frank Galgano for years, but they didn't nail him until August 25. That was when Galgano, co-owner of the Bobby Rubino's... More >>

• One Man, One Vote

  published November 30, 2000

  Gerlyn Cadet is a driver in the ground war, and he has the feeling his side is going to win. It is Election Day, and the word in Broward County is... More >>

• It's Chad-tastic!

  published November 30, 2000

  It started as morbid curiosity, like rubbernecking a car crash. The Broward County Emergency Operations Center (EOC), where the manual recount for... More >>

• Politically Incorrect

  published October 26, 2000

  Jim Naugle began his political life in elementary school, when he campaigned for... More >>

• Citizen Fadgen

  published October 12, 2000

  He's a Plantation councilman, a right-wing Christian activist, an abortion protester, and a man who rails against the movie industry, which he... More >>

• A Most-Wanted Attorney

  published September 28, 2000

  As the afternoon sun wanes, F. Lee Bailey squints his light blue eyes and peers from his back yard onto the dazzling Intracoastal Waterway. Seeing... More >>

• A Real Chip Shot

  published September 7, 2000

  There's David Lottes, the golf king, surrounded by Hollywood officials and politicians, with a shovel in his hand for an official groundbreaking.... More >>

• A Bully Market

  published September 7, 2000

  Texas-based author Jim Schutze knew what he was looking for: a murder story involving affluent white people, the younger the better. The more sex... More >>

• Reach Out and Put the Touch on Someone

  published August 10, 2000

  Lori Parrish is a woman who likes to use the phone. So much so, in fact, that her cellular phone bills alone might bankrupt a person of lesser... More >>

• The Miseducation of Wesley Armstrong

  published August 3, 2000

  Felicia Armstrong knew her son Wesley was a troubled kid. He'd been that way for most of his ten years. At age three Wesley was kicked out of a... More >>

• Feud For Thought

  published July 20, 2000

  There's a feud brewing at the School Board of Broward County and, naturally, it... More >>

• A Lesson in Conflict of Interest

  published July 6, 2000

  The architectural firm of Pierce Goodwin Alexander & Linville (PGAL) has never seemed to have a difficult time getting public contracts. In... More >>

• The Kid Who Killed

  published June 29, 2000

  On H Street, Tiffany often sits on an old blue rusted Camaro and watches life pass by. Most days are the same here in Osborne, a predominantly... More >>

• Love Behind Bars

  published June 8, 2000

  It was just before 7 a.m. when Inmate #BS98-5144 started pushing the speaker button used to alert jail deputies. Beep. Beep. Beeeeeep! The... More >>

• Tragically HIP

  published May 25, 2000

  HIP Health Plan of Florida is a nonprofit health-maintenance organization that relies largely on... More >>

• Fifteen Minutes of Infamy

  published May 4, 2000

  Donato Dalrymple calls Elián Gonzalez his "spiritual son," and he plans to play an ongoing role in the boy's life even if Elián is... More >>

• Into Thin Air

  published April 27, 2000

  The morning before her first wedding anniversary, Donna Weaver drove to Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport. Her husband was finally... More >>

• The Fast Life and Near Death of Nica

  published April 20, 2000

  Wilbert "Nica" Cuadra sat in his Chevy Caprice with four of his boys. It was a typical Friday night; Nica was drunk on Mad Dog 20/20 and infused... More >>

• Life's a Beach, Then You Get Harassed

  published March 23, 2000

  He sits on Hollywood Beach all day, and on the really slow days, there's no one there to guard. So he just watches the green seawater roll up and... More >>

• There's Something About Jerry

  published March 16, 2000

  Back in the '50s, the peach-color building at the corner of Broward Boulevard and East Acre Drive could claim the distinction of being... More >>

• Brutality on Aisle 3

  published February 3, 2000

  Something wasn't right in the Winn-Dixie store in Dania Beach that day. Anger was building among store employees under the supermarket's white... More >>

• The Emerald Ire

  published January 27, 2000

  Rory McMahon grew up in the classic law-and-order family. His father hit for the cycle in crime-fighting in New York, serving in his long career... More >>

• No Exit

  published January 20, 2000

  Hyman Kantofsky knew he was going to die. At 84 years old, the Deerfield Beach retiree was already in the advanced stages of pancreatic... More >>