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 - 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"

• 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"

• 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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2007 Stories by Bob Norman

• Stacey & Friends

  published December 20, 2007

  It was the mouth that struck a chord. Everything else about her, the rouge on her cheeks, the long brown hair, the dark-tanned skin, was common... More >>

• Targeting Citizen Lozman

  published December 13, 2007

  After police dogged him for months, after the city tried to kick him out of his home, and after he was arrested for simply speaking at a... More >>

• Rambo and the Phantom

  published December 6, 2007

  There's going to be a very rough holiday season for at least two Broward County politicians this year. One of them, Miramar... More >>

• The Tao of Brother Naz

  published November 29, 2007

  The government portrays him as a cult leader and radical terrorist who dreamed of felling U.S. landmark buildings. But Narseal "Brother... More >>

• Have Terror, Will Travel

  published November 22, 2007

  One extorted $7,000 from a friend who raped his girlfriend and then, after accepting the money, beat her up and went to jail. The other... More >>

• Free Gambling

  published November 15, 2007

  A criminal investigation into an alleged slots theft ring at Gulfstream Park Racing & Casino has led to the ousting of several employees,... More >>

• Animal Farm

  published November 8, 2007

  It's not easy being David Rhodes. He hears that people have called him "Public Enemy No. 1." People hush up when he walks into work meetings.... More >>

• Cripple the Presses

  published November 8, 2007

  The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating an alleged slot-machine theft ring by employees at Gulfstream Park Racing &... More >>

• Sex in the CRA

  published November 1, 2007

  When the man in the City of Hollywood golf shirt walked into Harrison's Wine Bar late last year, the place already had some experience with... More >>

• Mold? Rats? Yikes! Tear the Place Down!

  published October 25, 2007

  Judge Ana Gardiner gave the Broward County Commission some dire-sounding news. "Commissioners, we have run out of courtrooms," warned... More >>

• Looking for Lucifer

  published October 18, 2007

  Broward Sheriff's Detective Jonathan Brown lets his suspect, a veteran City of Deerfield Beach employee, know that he has the... More >>

• Dogging a High-Flying Bird

  published October 11, 2007

  After a Gulfstream II jet carrying four tons of cocaine went down in Mexico, suspicion fell on Fort Lauderdale aviator Clyde O'Connor, who had... More >>

• Terrible Trio

  published October 4, 2007

  The Broward State Attorney's Office railroaded Hollywood Commissioner Keith Wasserstrom. Not because the recently convicted politician was... More >>

• Wheel of Misfortune

  published September 27, 2007

  Over Rosh Hashanah dinner, Charlie Crist and Steve Geller prayed over a table spread with wine, bread, apples, and honey. May the... More >>

• Judge and Jury

  published September 13, 2007

  Joel T. Lazarus is a powerful guy. He isn't just a Broward Circuit judge; he's also a jury. And on Monday, he single-handedly did more to... More >>

• Pure Fraud

  published September 6, 2007

  The house, set back off a private country road in Davie and ensconced in old palms and high-reaching tropical vegetation, has a Sunset... More >>

• Return to Sender

  published August 30, 2007

  First it was a mysterious journal; now it's a trail of telling e-mails. Both strongly indicate that Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter... More >>

• Storming the Castle

  published August 23, 2007

  In Florida, the old adage about a man's home being his castle isn't just talk. It's the law. It's almost Holy Writ. The state's... More >>

• Calling All Debtors

  published August 23, 2007

  Beware Pompano Lawyer Randall Leshin — and His Alter Ego, "Jan Taylor" You don't know attorney Randall Leshin, but... More >>

• Goldstein Still Screws

  published August 16, 2007

  If you happened upon a bunch of greasy men in gold chains and busty, barely clad women last weekend, those were probably the movers and shakers... More >>

• Family Ties

  published August 9, 2007

  It isn't so much a how-to on influencing the Broward County Commission as it is a who-to. As in, who do you have to pay to sway... More >>

• The Stacy 'n' Russ Show

  published August 2, 2007

  Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter couldn't make the June 26 commission meeting, but she took the time to call in her vote on one issue:... More >>

• Marital Law

  published July 26, 2007

  When Stacy Ritter was elected to the Broward County Commission in November, her lobbyist-husband, Russ Klenet, promised to cut ties to... More >>

• Broward´s No-Love Triangle

  published July 12, 2007

  Larry Seidlin, the recently resigned Broward judge and would-be TV star, was once the best of friends with attorney Lawrence ¨Chris¨... More >>

• In the Bag

  published June 28, 2007

  So Judge Larry Seidlin, of Anna Nicole Smith fame, has quit the Broward County Courthouse to go off to Hollywood to develop a TV show. South... More >>