National Railroad Safety Week was a busy one for Wilton Manors Police Officer David Akers. During April 18-24, the city’s traffic cop issued 12 citations, most of them to drivers stopping on train tracks, says this article. Most of those cited face a fine of more than $200. But former Wilton…
Three years ago, this paper presented a story about a Pembroke Pines company with a pie-in-the-sky plan.GlobeTel wanted to construct a bunch of blimps (pictured, left) that would float around and beam down a torrent of HiDef, five-bars, wham-bam-speedy phone and internet no matter how far you’d roamed outside your…
Two supermarket chains, two marketing slogans, two vastly different directions. That’s the ballad of Publix and Winn-Dixie. One’s a clean, well-lighted place to shop, faces always smiling because “shopping is a pleasure.” The other’s a dingy refuge where Dinty Moore and Thrifty Maid hide in the shadows, doin’ the nasty to an old Beatles…
Rise and shine; shake the sleep from your eyes. Or, alternately, wakey-wakey, eggs and bakey: There be news bulletins richocheting about.This story could have had such a different ending: Guy goes in to rob a Pompano Beach cell-phone store only to have the clerk start preaching about Jesus. He admits…
Voting in November presents easy decisions (Giant Douche versus Turd Sandwich… hmmm) as well as the type that aren’t easy to figure out upon, first, second, or 16th glance. You know the ones — back-assward amendment phrasings where, if you vote no, you’re really saying, “Yes, I want this to…
A verbal dispute escalated, and Deyounks allegedly produced a knife and sliced up his new girlfriend’s face and neck. He then took off for Jacksonville, police say…
That quote comes from Kevin Bredenbeck, chief test pilot with the Sikorsky facility west of Jupiter. But don’t go craning your neck, shielding your eyes from the sun, looking for the badass X2 screaming overhead. From Jupiter, Bredenbeck says, he takes the craft north toward Indiantown or west toward the…
A Las Olas doctor provided a woman with a little Botox treatment the other day. She was pushy and rude — you know the type. When it was time to pay up, she left a decoy purse at the office and skipped out, promising to hit an ATM and return. She…
Yesterday we ran part 1 of our interview with Jeremy Ford, the new chef de cuisine at 3030 Ocean — perhaps Fort Lauderdale’s finest restaurant. Ford told us how he got tortured by French chefs and how he landed his prestigious new gig at the ripe old age of 22…
Last year, the Juice brought you a feel-good story about Harriette “Hattie” Gubel celebrating her 95th birthday. The Fort Lauderdale lady is a big baseball fan, as it turns out, an even bigger fan of the Philadelphia Phillies, and an even bigger fan of Phillies Manager Charlie Manual.Although it would…
Have an extra $155 just sitting around? Who doesn’t in these fund-flush days? And if you happen to be sitting on a video camera too, you’ve got what it takes to enter the “48 Hour Film Project,” which gives local filmmakers the chance to make the area’s best short film,…
[jump] The captain of the Becker, Tom Guarino, sounded excited to get close to the Barefoot Bandit’s nefarious exploits.”The crew and I have been very intrigued by the Barefoot Bandit; to have the opporunity to have a small part in his high-profile case is awesome! We were just finishing 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 church with some enlightened leaders decided a fine method of fomenting world peace should start with a little Koran burning…
Jeremy Ford sits in a prime spot, geographically and careerwise. He’s chef de cuisine — that means he pretty much runs the show — at 3030 Ocean. The beachfront eatery inside the Marriott Harbor Beach hotel is perhaps the swankiest restaurant in Fort Lauderdale. Not bad for a 22-year-old. Ford…
[jump] Nah — the Florida Sheriff’s Association is holding a big convention down at the Marriot Harbor Beach today.Guests include Florida Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp, Attorney General Bill McCollum, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson, and Ronald K. Noble, secretary general of Interpol. Not the band, the…
Perhaps, in the spirit of altruism and giving, you’ve cut off some of your hair and donated to Locks of Love, the local organization that collects ponytails and the like and gives them to kids who’ve lost their hair.If you have, good for you — but have you ever donated…
Wipe those sleep nuggets from your eyes, kids: There’s news to be had.A murder in Belle Glade last night, with a man ending up dead in the middle of a downtown street. Family members told a local TV station the victim was 26 years old and “had been shot at…
And you thought David Duke hated anyone who wasn’t white. Well, a video released yesterday by South Florida-based radical-Muslim group American Muslim Association of North America puts the lie to that belief. Well, it did for a while, anyway: The clip was taken down last night.On the video, “Dr.” David Duke…
