Pahokee

Even Help Team Can't Save Ken Jenne

Enough to Make You Sick

The CDC is trying to determine what the residents of downtown Belle Glade already know -- that poverty, drugs, and prostitution are bad for your health

Definitely in My Back Yard

When the residents of Mangonia Park heard that a girls' detention center might be built in their town, they put out the welcome mat

Chute to Kill

In October a skydiver named Mike McDonald made a fatal leap. He was the third client of Skydive Palm Beach to die in a year.

Best Not-So-Cheap Thrill

Snow

Best Reminder that South Florida Is Still the South

The Rundown

River of Sludge

Sure, Hollywood's sewage plan is dirty. It pollutes the Everglades too.

Best Chicken-Fried Steak

Jellyroll's Coffee Shop and Gift Boutique

Best Day Trip

Lake Okeechobee

Letters for May 19-25, 2005

Lake Okeechobee

Letters for May 26-June 2, 2005

Lake Okeechobee

Locals You Can Cheer (or Jeer) at the Super Bowl

Yeah, all the Florida football teams are done for the year, and when you watch the big game this weekend you'll probably care more about the commercials than either team (unless you're a gambler, like me, and the commercials just delay the inevitable sobbing and cursing and swearing never to be ... More >>

SEC Coaches Engage in Old Fashioned Cat Fight Over Local Recruit

So first Nu'Keese Richardson said he would play for Urban Meyer at the University of Florida. Then on national signing day the speed-demon wide receiver from Pahokee decided he would rather play for University of Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin (a UF rival). Then at a press conference yester ... More >>

South Florida Sports Scene Tests Positive for Drugs, Sex, and Rocky Top

It was the weekend of positives, including a positive story about a plane crash. The most stimulating revelation came from a Sports Illustrated report that longtime Miami resident Alex Rodriguez tested positive for two different banned steroids during his 2003 MVP season with th ... More >>

Spank the Monkey

Children's TV pioneer Alan Shalleck had a secret that killed him

The Littlest Felons

Book 'em, Dano! "Superpredators" with pebbles and raw eggs get zero tolerance in Palm Beach County schools.

Tailpipe

Baja Bye-bye

Love & Loathing

A routine traffic stop led to Pahokee's own Rodney King incident. Too bad there was no videotape.

Tailpipe

Get Rich in the Developer Biz

Chief Walking Eagle

Robb Tiller went from rags to riches and right back after 15 years spinning deals around the Seminole

Knotty Head Bandits

In the bank robbing business, these guys are the best. They're also the most wanted.

The Book of Ruth

He plays small-town, big-time football. But is that enough?

Bitter Sugar

Forget the awful past, Palm Beach's sugar barons say. It's time to make nicey-nicey and go into real estate.

Death and Doubts

Ray Golden's hanging was a national curiosity. Maybe his legacy will be social justice.

Rabbit Run

In western Palm Beach County, the sugar harvest also brings a bumper crop of bunnies

The Unforgiven

Bryant Troville served out his sentence for his sexually violent acts. His prospects for freedom? Not good.

The Real Sugar Bowl

That would be Glades Central versus Pahokee, a fierce high-school rivalry that's become a bigtime game

South Florida Skunked on Best Towns List

Flickr User: steve_barryThe sugar stacks skyline in Belle Glade did not impress Money Mag list-makers.Someone please tell Money Magazine that South Florida has not been swallowed by the ocean (yet). How else could the editors not name a single town in this region to its list of the best towns to liv ... More >>

Tonight From Hard Rock: Pahokee / Belle Glade Boxers a Feel-Good Undercard to ESPN Slugfest

Flickr User: Craig Sharp​At 9 p.m. tonight, ESPN2 is kicking off an edition of Friday Night Fights with a feature about 20 kids from western Palm Beach County who participate in the Police Athletic League's boxing program. The youngsters, all from Pahokee and Belle Glade, taped the segment yesterd ... More >>

Billboard Top 5: The Football Stars Who Inspired Region's Creepiest Advertisement

National Collegiate Scouting AssociationLane Kiffin wants South Florida's 17-year-old boys.​South Florida football players are a weird obsession for University of Tennessee Coach Lane Kiffin. In the last recruiting campaign, he sparked controversy -- then the kind of back-pedaling you'd prize in a ... More >>

For Cub Reporter, No Love From the Home Crowd

Flickr: luvreforsale​It's a pity that not all commenters are as classy as those here at Juice. I'm reminded of this disparity after looking hopefully toward the comments field in this NBC6 Miami report about Damon Weaver, the 11-year-old African American boy from poverty-ravaged Pahokee who just m ... More >>

Town of Palm Beach is Sex Offender Ghetto

Sex offender Epstein: A long way from Pahokee​Look at a map of zones where sex offenders are allowed to live in Palm Beach and Broward counties, and the picture bears a creepy resemblance to old-style European ghettos. A Broward task force took up the problem in July and found that a new proposal ... More >>

University of Tennessee Probe Leads Investigators to South Florida

Flickr: imnatronCheerleaders are OK; but is the University of Tennessee using its feamle student body for football recruiting?​Tennessee Volunteers head football coach Lane Kiffin loves South Florida football players --  we told you how he bought a billboard in their honor, which you can see ... More >>

UPDATE: Pahokee's Nu'Keese Richardson Part of Tennessee Investigation

Nu'Keese Richardson, during his short stint in Tennessee​UPDATE: A University of Tennessee sports web site is reporting that Richardson says he is not participating in the NCAA investigation of the school's recruiting practices. He's quoted saying: "I'm not involved in that." These are Richardson' ... More >>

South Florida Football Stars Committed to Lane Kiffin; He Just Didn't Commit to Them

Flickr: National Collegiate Scouting AssociationKiffin​With University of Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin accepting the same job at USC, it looks like the only memory that some local football players will have of the coach is a pending NCAA investigation. Though former Volunteer and Pahokee nativ ... More >>

Morning Juice: Foreman Family Hits Jackpot in Davie; Palm Beach Sheriff Tracking Rapist

​The local news this morning:In a deal that looks like a politically motivated rip-off, the town of Davie fast-tracked a $12.5 million purchase of the Foreman family's vacated Palma Nova mobile home park. It took a fat chunk out of the city's rainy day fund. [Sun-Sentinel]Broward Judge Susan Lebow ... More >>

A Popular Band Teacher Killed a Man, Then Was Accused of Raping His Own Students

​The local news this morning:In a deal that looks like a politically motivated rip-off, the town of Davie fast-tracked a $12.5 million purchase of the Foreman family's vacated Palma Nova mobile home park. It took a fat chunk out of the city's rainy day fund. [Sun-Sentinel]Broward Judge Susan Lebow ... More >>

UPDATED: Homicide Caps String of Violent Crimes in Belle Glade

Flickr user: kevitivityIs the recent violence part of a trend?​An alleged burglary and homicide in Belle Glade yesterday afternoon was the third in a string of violent crimes in the impoverished city in the past ten days.According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, a man in a black hoodie ... More >>

Creator of New A&E Cops Show "The Glades" Shares Thoughts on South Florida

Photo by Gene PageMatt Passmore stars as a homicide cop in "The Glades."​Headquartered in a warehouse in Pembroke Park, film crews have been working for months on a new TV series set in a fictional South Florida town on the edge of the Everglades."The Glades," a cops drama, began filming in April, ... More >>

The Glades Generates Good Reviews -- So Far

  "No, I'm not Dexter!"​If you thought The Glades was a new sitcom about a dysfunctional yet aromatic family of air fresheners, you're wrong. That show, The Stick-Ups, doesn't debut until fall. The Glades, which premiered last night on the A&E network, is actually a detective ... More >>

Owner of Pembroke Pines Juvie Lockup Has Checkered History

Flickr user: Mark CogginsThe company has a checkered history in Florida.​A recent lawsuit alleging sexual assault and physical abuse of inmates at the Thompson Academy juvenile detention center in Pembroke Pines is the latest in a string of abuse accusations lodged against the facility's owner.For ... More >>

Rick Scott Wants to Cut Juvie Prisons. Should Thompson Be First to Go?

Photo by Meredith Geddings, courtesy Florida HouseJenne wants a deeper investigation of Thompson.​In December, Gov. Rick Scott's transition team proposed a massive overhaul of Florida's juvenile justice system, which would eliminate some prisons and put children convicted of misdemeanor offenses i ... More >>

Kids Claim Abuse and Violence at Juvenile Lockup Thompson Academy

Photo by Meredith Geddings, courtesy Florida HouseJenne wants a deeper investigation of Thompson.​In December, Gov. Rick Scott's transition team proposed a massive overhaul of Florida's juvenile justice system, which would eliminate some prisons and put children convicted of misdemeanor offenses i ... More >>

Palm Beach County Worker Accused of Cookin' the Books to Obtain Mortgage Through County

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeSylvia Sharps​For writing "$0.00" instead of "$16,482.75" under the "second job" column of her mortgage application, Palm Beach County employee Sylvia Loretta Sharps could face up to 35 years in prison, according to the State Attorney's Office.Sharps -- who most r ... More >>

Sex Offender Charged in Year-Old Murder; Cops Point to DNA, Recorded Call, Poo Smell

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeSex offender James Harmon​Sex offender James Harmon was charged with first-degree murder in the death of a Pahokee woman nearly a year ago.Among the evidence is a recorded phone call, some DNA, and a witness recalling that the dude "smelt like shit."According ... More >>