A Lighthouse Point man named Greg Horn is offering $5,000 for what he and “a panel of passionate experts” deem to be the best three-minute, conservation-minded video. For specifics about the national contest, visit this website. Horn, a one-time CEO of vitamin vendor GNC, suggests that contestants tackle subjects like “why…
Remember the thrill of finding a gem while thumbing through stacks of vinyl? Or the clack of CD cases as you flipped impatiently in search of that one album that kept eluding you? If not, then you can’t possibly be a day older than 18, and you can’t possibly know…
Ali Elhajj, a 35-year-old software engineer who lives in Weston, grew up Muslim in Lebanon. Eight years ago, he converted to Christianity. He found peace in his new religion, but he was also alarmed by how American Christians spoke of circumstances in Palestine. “I find that the American church does not understand what is going on…
Hallandale may ban smokin’ bodies on its beach.The Hallandale Beach City Commission is considering an ordinance that would make smoking illegal on the city’s public beaches. “There are obviously anti-littering laws, but it’s easy to just stick a cigarette in the sand,” says Commissioner Keith London, who proposed a feasibility study…
A middle-aged Fort Lauderdale brunette named “Janet” laid out her finances on television Saturday for CNBC financial advice maven Suze Orman. And it was kinda sad, in a rich people tumbling into the middle class way. Janet and her significantly older husband had entrusted Madoff with $5 million. On the bright…
The Hallandale Beach City Commission is contemplating an ordinance that would make smoking illegal on the city’s public beaches. “There are obviously anti-littering laws, but it’s easy to just stick a cigarette in the sand,” says Commissioner Keith London, who proposed a feasibility study for a no-smoking-on-the-beach ordinance after learning that…
Charter boat captain Mark “the Shark” Quartiano is (in)famous for catching and killing sharks off our South Florida shores. He loves to post bloody pictures of his kill, like the hammerhead on the right. And, if anyone famous ever gets on his boat, Striker-1, he’s bound to get the word…
I, for one, feel duped. This morning I received the itinerary for the J.P. Taravella High School Marching Band’s trip to Washington DC, where they are to perform in president-elect Barack Obama’s inuguration parade. Band director Neil Jenkins had told me that the youngsters would be doing some sightseeing, but three whole…
Personally, I blame former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan for much of our current economic stress. His decision to keep interest rates ridiculously low all those years ticked me off then and now. With all that cheap credit, it’s no wonder Wall Street worshiped him. Maybe you’re ticked…
After eight weeks in trial, a Broward jury absolved several doctors, nurses, and Memorial Hospital West of any wrongdoing in treating Lisa Strong, who lost her forearms and lower legs in a battle to overcome complications from kidney stones. Strong, a 44-year-old mother of two, sought $75 million in damages. Lisa Strong showed…
When a man calls your phone and asks you to join his clan, you may be tempted to hang up. But don’t! That caller spells “clan” with a “c” not a “k.” And if your surname is Guthrie, that caller is probably my dad. You see, the annual Southeast Florida…
On a day people in other parts of the world were paying ransom to pirates, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department was cold bustin’ em. Just ask 20-year-old Latesha Raines, of Miami, and 37-year-old Alora Berrian, of Lauderhill, who were arrested yesterday by FLPD at at a house allegedly stocked with more…
Not to look a gift horse in the mouth or anything, but wouldn’t it have been great if Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade had inked a $75,000 check for the J.P. Taravella High School Marching Trojans? “Absolutely,” says Debbie Rabinowitz, the band president and mother of a trombone-playing sophomore named Brian. Still, she…
No detail is too small to escape the unblinking eye of Broward County Commissioner Diana — Amy Guthrie…
You don’t have to be J-Lo to kick it in Fort Liquordale. Hell, ladies don’t even need to put on make-up, heels, or a mini-dress to rub shoulders with our boozy set…and fellas can get away with flip-flops, jeans, and a ratty T-Shirt. Bookings through one of the nation’s largest…
I attended public schools in Coral Springs, and as long as I can remember, public schools in Broward County have been bursting at the seams. Portable classrooms have dotted fields meant for recess. Student over-enrollment was an epidemic that the county just couldn’t cure. I remember then-mayor of Coral Springs, Jeanne Mills,…
Iconic Fort Lauderdale gift shop operator Jerry Miles (posing pugilistic above) has lost the battle to stay at 721 E. Broward Blvd. We wrote about Miles’ fight to prove the validity of his business lease in this April story. After a trial starring an elderly woman on the verge of a stroke, a doped man in a…
If only every town in Florida had a casino. Then our little tykes in need might have some Christmas dough to spend and sports teams to join.The lucky little ones in Hallandale Beach have Gulfstream Park, the horse racetrack and casino. Although they’re not yet old enough to play poker or…
Looks like the Fort Lauderdale police have a case of suicide-by-cop on their hands. At around 2 a.m. this morning, officers responded to call about an attempted suicide in the northwest section of Fort Lauderdale. They arrived to find 18-year-old Jordan Christian wielding a knife. According to public information officer Frank Sousa, Christian charged the…
An uprooted trailer home is hauled away from Palma Nova.Janet Riley, a Legal Aid lawyer, recently filed a class action suit against the Palma Nova trailer park, its owner (Miles Austin Forman), and the Town of Davie on behalf of the park’s residents. Riley is asking that a judge halt…
When 19-year-old Abraham Biggs Jr. logged onto Bodybuilding.com November 19th, he typed: “ask a guy who is gonna OD(again) tonight anything.” He had threatened to take his life before on the web, under the screen name CandyJunkie. The first online attempt took place several months prior. Doreen Biggs, Abraham’s mother and a…
Well, it sure is nice to clear this case from the file room! Ottis Toole killed Adam Walsh, says Hollywood Police Chief Chad Wagner, citing approximately zero nuggets of new information.This is either some great detective work… or it’s a police chief eager to close an infamous, mangled, 27-year-old child abduction…
