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Is Trader Joe's Coming to Palm Beach Gardens?

Trader Joe's, the supermarket filled with foodstuffs both kitschy and healthful, may be one step closer to having a south Florida outpost, according to the Palm Beach Post. Sources say the market with a cult following is close to inking a deal with Menin Development, owners of PGA Plaza in Palm Beac ... More >>

Miami Herald Paywall Coming Later This Year

Details are sparse right now, but the Miami Herald's parent company, McClatchy Newspapers, says it plans "to roll out a metered plan" later this year.Paywalls will control access to web and mobile content and can be bundled with print delivery subscriptions. The company will start with paywalls at f ... More >>

Post Sells Shiny Sheet Building on Palm Beach

Flickr user: inju​The Palm Beach Daily News, better-known as the "Shiny Sheet," the glossy newspaper that has covered news and socialite gossip on the wealthy island of Palm Beach for more than a century, will soon get new digs.Employees at the paper learned yesterday that their $2 million buildin ... More >>

Morning Juice: Fido Finds Lobsters, With or Without Butter

​Current events, currently splayed across a web browser near you, right after you wake up:Jordan Howard Breslaw, in a race for a Broward County judge position, is collecting unemployment benefits. Evidently working as an attorney and a chiropractor isn't paying the bills. Sun-SentinelA wonderful c ... More >>

Morning Juice: Tamarac Wrestling With Corruption; Dania Man Accused of Pointing Gun at Deputy

​A glance around the headlines in South Florida for this Tuesday morning:Tamarac Mayor Beth Flansbaum-Talabisco refused to comment Monday morning when asked whether she had received anything of value from developer Bruce Chait, who has figured in other Broward corruption cases, including the one t ... More >>

Morning Juice: Tropical Storm to Merge With Oil Spill; Corruption Fighter Begins Work in Palm Beach County

​The local news for this Monday morning:Tropical Storm Alex is gaining strength and as it charges through the Gulf it looks bound to complicate the clean-up of the oil spill. [Palm Beach Post]Josie Lou Ratley attended a bike race fundraiser Sunday morning, her first public appearance since the Mar ... More >>

Morning Juice: Charges May Be Coming for Rothstein's Supporting Cast; Charges in Hollywood Boy's Shooting Death

​A rundown of what's news in South Florida:A day after Scott Rothstein was sentenced to 50 years in prison, the speculation begins about which of his associates will be charged next. Two prime candidates: his law partners Russ Adler and Stuart Rosenfeldt. [Sun-Sentinel]Loan modification programs m ... More >>

Morning Juice: Retired Football Stars Tackled by Legal Woes; Experts Divided on Oil Spill's Effect on Florida

​It's Thursday. Here's what's in your local news:In what could be a major step toward fighting corruption in Broward County, the sheriff's office will be collaborating with the FBI to bust crooked politicians. [Daily Pulp]Poor Sapp: Retired NFL All-Pro and ex-Miami Hurricanes star Warren Sapp is o ... More >>

Morning Juice: Dissention in the BSO Ranks; Boca Inventor Wins $3 Million Judgment

​Let's see what's happening in South Florida this Tuesday morning:After financial struggles led to the closing of Westgate Tabernacle's homeless shelter last week, Palm Beach County commissioners are wrestling with the question of how to care for the region's transients. [Palm Beach Post]Scott Rot ... More >>

Morning Juice: School Official Shows Political "Bullet" Wound; Ex-GOP Official Dishes on Rothstein

​It's Friday in Broward and Palm Beach. Let's check the news:Jeffrey Hernandez, chief academic officer in Palm Beach County public schools, says he "took a bullet" for Superintendent Art Johnson after parents rejected a new curriculum designed to improve standardized test performance. [Palm Beach ... More >>

Morning Juice: Femme Fatales a Danger to Lonely Men; Alzheimer's Fund Springs $1 Million Leak

​A look at the local headlines this Thursday morning:Police believe there's a ring of up to four women who've been seducing lonely Broward and Palm Beach County men, only to drug them and ransack their place. Men: Any woman who laughs at your jokes should be considered a suspect. [CBS4]Here's an a ... More >>

Morning Juice: West Palm Cop Earns Modest Legal Victory; Boyfriend a Suspect in Disappearance of Boynton Woman

​A look at what's news this morning in South Florida:Doctors tried to bring 15-year-old beating victim Josie Lou Ratley out of coma Monday but had to abandon the effort as the girl developed a fever. [Sun-Sentinel]Former West Palm Beach Police Officer William McCray won a bittersweet victory in hi ... More >>

Morning Juice: Grandmother Killed by Deputies in Pompano Beach; St. Patty's Day Parade Brings Big Shots to Broward

​Let's see what's happening in Palm Beach and Broward counties this Monday morning:A drug raid around midnight Saturday by Broward Sheriff's Office led to a deadly shooting after the owner of a suspected drug house, Brenda Van Zwieten, 52, brandished a gun. Van Zwieten's family says she wasn't a d ... More >>

Morning Juice: Primal Scream Therapy in The Acreage; Angst in Broward Schools

​Today's will be a lightning round edition, as we're playing catch-up after my home internet connection went kaput.Palm Beach Post: Acreage residents anxious for tests to identify the source of the cancer cluster let state officials hear it last night at a public meeting.Sun-Sentinel: Like a horro ... More >>

Palm Beach Post Ad Highlights Plight of its Own Axed Employees

​In its bizarre, ongoing effort to depress people into buying the daily newspaper, the Palm Beach Post has been running a series of ads about the economy.One ad highlighted job anxiety, unintentionally drawing attention to the more than 300 jobs lost at the Post in the past couple of years.The lat ... More >>

Morning Juice: Another Broward Commissioner Investigated; Kim Rothstein Gives Interview

​Let's see what's in the papers and on the TV news this Wednesday morning:Prosecutors are finally getting 'round to issuing subpoenas in the long-overdue investigation of Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin, who voted for some $11 million in grants for parks in Southwest Ranches -- g ... More >>

Morning Juice: Senseless Deaths in Both Counties; Colts Star Carries Haitian Flag

​A look at what happened over the weekend in South Florida;Neal Jacobson, the Wellington man who on Saturday admitted to murdering his wife and two sons, was still hospitalized Sunday, either from the complications of swallowing a bunch of pills or from the car crash that occurred after the murder ... More >>

Four More Lynn University Students Reported "OK." Still No World on One Student, Two Faculty

Since that CBS News report, the Palm Beach Post is reporting that four of the Lynn University students have contacted family to report that they're safe. But that still leaves two faculty members and one student -- Dr. Patrick Hartwick, Dr. Richard Bruno and Chistine Gianacaci.

Morning Juice: All Eyes on Haiti

​Thursday brings another chilly morning but warm weather is on the way. Let's look at the local headlines:A Boynton Beach man was at the Port Au Prince airport when the earthquake hit and says it felt like an airplane strike. [Palm Beach Post] Members of a united nations United Nations stabilizati ... More >>

Morning Juice: Citrus Farmers Dreading the Big Chill; Retreat From Controversial Testing Program in Palm Beach Schools

​As Florida drifts closer to the Arctic Circle, let's see what's happening in other local news:The man who was shot and killed by a Pembroke Pines police officer Monday afternoon was Clifford Sheldon McLean, a 24-year-old North Miami man suspected in the torching death of his mother earlier that d ... More >>

Morning Juice: Day of Infamy for Merhige; for PBC School Chief, Another Angry Mob

​Your balanced breakfast of South Florida scoops:Turbulence for the transgendered city manager of Lake Worth, Susan Stanton, after she published on the city's website 40 unsigned emails by residents railing against the political associations of the city's census coordinator, who then resigned, not ... More >>

Morning Juice: Police Chief Joined Rothstein on Jet; Judge Tells Attorney to Le' Go Epstein's Egg-O

​A glance at the headlines this Tuesday morning in Broward and Palm Beach:Two more children have been diagnosed with brain tumors in the Acreage, adding to the suspicion the groundwater is contaminated. [Palm Beach Post]The Miami Herald took a closer look at how Hollywood Beach's Community Redevel ... More >>

Morning Juice: Federal Prosecutors Now Camping in Broward; Ethics Reform in Palm Beach County

​Let's look at the news on this Wednesday morningA terrifying number of references to "unidentified co-conspirators" in the information filed yesterday by the U.S. Attorney's office against Scott Rothstein. There's little question that he and his friends in the political, banking and legal communi ... More >>

Morning Juice: Rothstein to Be Charged at Last; Fresh Scandal at Broward School District

​Tuesday is shaping up to be a big news day in Broward County.Scott Rothstein is finally going to be charged for his roughly $1 billion Ponzi scheme. But no, we still don't know the juiciest details. [Miami Herald]The trial for Teah Wimberly, the 16-year-old girl who killed a teenaged friend at Di ... More >>

Ex- Post Staffers Discuss Life After the Fish Wrapper

This week's New Times cover story details the human cost of the massive layoffs that have hit South Florida's three major daily papers in the past couple of years. According to estimates by New Times media critic Bob Norman, roughly 1,000 jobs have been lost at the Palm Beach Post, Sun-Sentinel, a ... More >>

Morning Juice: Candid Camera at Cheetah; Glamorous Performer Loses Dignity in West Palm Nursing Home

​On this chilly, spooky Friday the 13th, let's see what's in the news:Scott Rothstein alleged fraud may have been in the neighborhood of $1 billion. Special Agent in Charge John Gillies says there are "tentacles" and wants our help identifying them. So keep your eyes out for that. [WPLG]Eww. Halla ... More >>

Morning Juice: Cones to Combat School Board Lobbyists; Recidivism for Cat Lady of Lake Worth

​A glance at what's in the news this Wednesday.A source told the Herald that Rothstein cheated his friend Ed Morse by faking a victorious lawsuit, then inventing a pretext through which Morse had to wire twice the amount of the judgment in order to get the funds out of a bank account in the Cayman ... More >>

Palm Beach Post Holds Liquidation Sale

Flickr user: samcrockettWant to buy your old desk back?​No, the paper's not closing. But after losing hundreds of employees to layoffs and buyouts and shuttering its presses so the Sun-Sentinel could print the paper, the Palm Beach Post has a lot of extra office equipment laying around.Desks, chai ... More >>

Morning Juice: Hollywood Finds a Beach Bum; Pythons 100,000 - Humans 39

​Let's see what's in the news this morning.All these political scandals lately and none involving Hollywood? Well, the City Commission wasn't going to stand for that! Yesterday commissioners fired Gil Martinez, director of their beach community redevelopment agency, after accumulating evidence he ... More >>

Morning Juice: Vigilante Justice in Coconut Creek; Saints Light Up the Fins

​Nothing like a server crash to start your week! Here's an abbreviated edition of MJ:Madoff associate Jeffry Picower dead after being found at the bottom of the pool in his Palm Beach home. Gatsby-esque, isn't it? [Palm Beach Post] A Davie man is in jail for beating the hell out of a man who ... More >>

Morning Juice: Adventures in Bad Parenting

Time to get your Monday on. But first, a look back on what made news this past weekend.​Tamarac mayoral candidate Ed Portner gave a short interview to WPLG about why he went over to his daughter Stacy Ritter's home with a gun last week: "I wanted to scare the crap out of her." Mission accomplished ... More >>

Morning Juice: Reservations on Seminole Deal; Kissing Bandit Seeks Love and Money

​Your Tuesday in South Florida news:Police questioned Bruce Strachan, the suspect in a triple homicide in Lake Worth, through the night, and we can expect an update this morning on that case. [WPBF]In a period of agonizing service cuts, a consultant says West Palm Beach can cut 52 jobs in its Fire ... More >>

Morning Juice: Marijuana, Equestrian Racing Events May Cloud Judgment

What isn't South Florida smoking on this Tuesday morning?​A deep-pocketed Israeli businessmen is vowing revenge against the Broward Sheriff's deputies who he said beat him up and hurled anti-Semitic slurs during a traffic stop for marijuana DUI in June. The Sun-Sentinel's Jon Burstein has quotes f ... More >>

Of Mice and Mad Men

Flickr: schmex_kealaiki"Gents, a toast (hiccup!) to our mouse brethren picked for the brain trauma study."​A tour of today's Dailies:The dangers of opening a joint checking account with Paul Francois, the local Lothario who allegedly stole more than his wives' hearts. The Miami Herald's David Smil ... More >>

The Post's Cute and Slobbery Mascot

​He's got Wilford Brimley's jowls, a roly-poly stomach, worried eyes, and a slight snarl that could be mistaken for an under-bite. Meet the Palm Beach Post's latest mascot, a bulldog that appeared in a full-page ad in Tuesday's paper above the headline: "The Palm Beach Post, Your Community Watchdo ... More >>

ESPN Gets Inside Wellington Polo Horse Deaths

"It was like a plane crash, but with horses instead of people." That's the first quote in the fantastic E:60 segment on the polo horse deaths in Wellington last month. It started with two mares sick at the barn. Soon there were dead horses all over the place.  The Palm Beach Post has been nail ... More >>

Post To Staff: No Newspapers For You!

Well, this coming Monday marks an historic day in South Florida journalism: It will be the first day that the Sun-Sentinel will be printing and distributing one of its rivals, the Palm Beach Post. And one of the first undesirable effects of the change will be felt by Post staffers the ... More >>

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