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Scott Israel (Campaigning?) Calls for Investigation of Decade-Old BSO Hogtieing Death

The motto of the Broward Sheriff's Office could be "if it's uncomfortable, don't talk about it." The death of an inmate by suicide, with plenty of warning signs, in a Broward jail? Silence. The federal investigation into Lt. David Benjamin, who ferried Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein to his getaw ... More >>

Police Union President Expels Retired Detective Who Dug Up (Incorrect) Dirt on Fort Lauderdale Police Officers

​Updated below with comments from the investigator, Al Smith, who says "I think I'm being kicked out [of the union] because of my involvement in these cases."Last week, we posted about public defenders and a circuit court judge complaining that Fort Lauderdale Police officers showed a disturbing h ... More >>

Brandon Marshall Handcuffed After "Apparent Misunderstanding" With Cabbies

​Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall had to have another awkward conversation with deputies from the Broward Sheriff's Office a couple of weeks ago.This time, Marshall was involved in what one deputy called an "apparent misunderstanding" that led to his being handcuffed and detained in t ... More >>

Broward Public Defender Files Department of Justice Complaint Over 'Roiding BSO Deputies

hypermuscles.comSteroids? I don't know what you're talking about.​Broward County Public Defender Howard Finkelstein thinks that deputies from the Broward Sheriff's Office are juiced up like Barry Bonds wannabes and that they've been hiding it for several years.Finkelstein's complaint, sent to the ... More >>

The Unfortunate Lesbians of Blanche Ely High School

​Last week, the principal of Blanche Ely High School, Mr. Karlton Johnson, hauled an interracial lesbian couple into his office and threatened to suspend them for holding hands in the hallway. He'd warned them about this hand-holding business before, he said -- he was just upholding the school's r ... More >>

Where's the Leadership, Sheriff?

Judy Stern showing her deep concern for the ocean. ​The photo above is one that the Broward Democratic Party didn't want you to see.Or at least the part of it showing lobbyist Judy Stern with a sign denouncing offshore drilling. The photo was taken at the "Hands Across the Sands" protest last June ... More >>

The Wek Shall Inherit Fort Lauderdale Beach?

The Wek is buying up Fort Lauderdale Beach. Who is The Wek? Wekerle​It's Canadian trader Michael Wekerle, who owns a winter home in Fort Lauderdale. He's a veritable legend on Canadian trading floors, a true financial animal. You can read all about him here. Then you have Swedish he ... More >>

FDLE Investigating Sheriff Over Super Bowl? Good.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is now investigating Sheriff Al Lamberti's Super Bowl adventure with his then-15-year-old son, Nick. Though I think there are far more important matters to investigate, this is a good thing. Lamberti kicks back on his radio show with S ... More >>

Report: BSO Falsified Super Bowl Papers for Sheriff's Son With NFL in Dark

U.S. Department of Justice Sheriff Al Lamberti at last year's Super Bowl security press conference. From left to right: FBI Special Agent in Charge John Gillies, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, ATF Special Agent in Charge Hugo Barrera, Miami Dade Police Department ... More >>

Sheriff Lamberti Needs To Bring Justice To Favorites, Upper Brass

So the Broward Sheriff's Office arrested three minority jail guards on charges they helped bring contraband into the jail. The mugs of the correction officers were published at the top of the Local section of the Sun-Sentinel with the words: "Inquiry focuses on contraband and sex at a county jail." ... More >>

Promoter Talks About What Went Wrong at Mango Festival

The always excellent Elgin Jones of the South Florida Times landed a video interview of Norris Wiggins, the promoter the ill-fated 2010 Mango Festival, which failed to deliver musical acts or to sell enough tickets to satisfy sponsors and vendors.As you can see, Wiggins ducked the question about wh ... More >>

Teachers Union on Holy Water Incident: "What's Alleged Did Not Occur"

Flickr: Der_Kaiser​The Broward Teachers Union expects that two teachers at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach will be "fully exonerated" after school officials finish investigating a religious argument that occurred in a classroom March 11 in which an atheist claimed that two Christian teach ... More >>

Author of Thieves in the Temple Investigated for Bribery

​Andre Eggelletion, brother of corrupted Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion, is a target of the investigation by the Broward State Attorney's Office, according to an article published in South Florida Times.That revelation appears to have triggered the recent cancellation of Andre Eg ... More >>

Car Crash Brings Suspicion of Teacher - Student Affair

Flickr: mollykiely​The extramarital affair is a grown man's game. Looks like beginner's luck finally ran out for 19-year-old Christopher Peterson. In the South Florida Times, Elgin Jones reports that Peterson, who this past year was a student at Life Skills Center in Oakland Park, got into a fende ... More >>

Well, Since You Told the Media on Us, Then OK You're Not Suspended. But Still.

Deerfield-Beach.comPeggy Noland​You may have seen the Pulp post about the suspension of a Deerfield Beach Parks Department worker who did not seem sufficiently dazzled by the sight of Mayor Peggy Noland. Apparently, Noland and her obsequious Parks director, George Edmunds, didn't count on that emp ... More >>

Miami Herald Columnist Maligned For Wrong Reason

Jackie Bueno Sousa is the new lying propagandist -- oh shit, I mean "conservative voice" -- for the Miami Herald and right off the bat some yahoo is claiming she basically committed plagiarism in herer first column . A little-known blog is calling for Sousa to leave journalism after ... More >>

Fear of the Queer: Blacks in Florida vote to oppress gays

Rambo and the Phantom

Investigating a gun-slinging city commissioner and the mayor who hides in the bathroom

Wish I Was in Dixie

Dania Beach still struggles to find racial harmony

Black Electeds, JAABlog Commenters, and SPJ Haters

Hutchins A Hit With Pod People

IRS Slammed Judge Larry With Tax Bill

Loss Hits Home

Toxins Infest Fort Lauderdale

Beatty In Charge

Sid Rosenberg, Miami's Imus Connection

Miami Herald Editor Heading to Broward Times

Rose On The Carpet

Say It Ain't So, Joe

S.I.: Serious Idiots

More Moore

Cops and Community: Dysfunction Junction

What's This Guy Still Doing In Politics?

Mandy's A Real Pill

Weekend News

Why Jeb Dumped Dozier

Bush Appointee: We're at War With 'Evil' Islam

Ch-Ch-Changes

Gantt Rants Against Leonard Pitts

Carlton Moore's Little Secret

Letters for March 31-April 6, 2005

Who's Your Daddy?

Commissioner Eggelletion ducks questions about his amorous past

Vote Interrupted

Were the absentee ballots lost or stolen? Either way, it's a crime.

Message Control

Hollywood deceives the public. NBHD tries to stamp out the truth.

A Long Yard

It could happen here. Replace the guv with a movie star.

Corruption and Nothingness

Are they crimes or simply matters for philosophical discourse? Our state attorney wrestles with the question.

Girlhood, Interrupted

When Elrinda Jones disappeared, the cops didn't seem to care

Best Working Man's Agitator

Elgin Jones

Print and Politics

The Broward Times delivers unconventional, often shrill journalism to an unsuspecting town

Rank and Revile

Municipal employees with Local 532 are cutting off the higher-ups for lack of support