Earl Johns has been known to show up in overalls at the Coconut Creek government complex to distribute avocados and mangoes to city officials. They smile and accept the fruit from the 87-year-old, fourth-generation South Florida farmer. Behind their smiles, though, they’re kinda wishin’ Earl Johns would just disappear. It’s…

On May 8, Betty Bowen of Pompano Beach, an 81-year-old white woman, made an illegal left turn into oncoming traffic on northbound State Road 7 in Tamarac and creamed a black man riding a motorcycle. Witnesses told police that other cars stopping short for Bowen’s bad move prevented Reginald Ervin,…