40 Days for Life is a national coalition of people who protest, regularly, outside the country’s abortion clinics for 40 days at a time. The “40 days” represent a host of various 40-day biblical events, like the 40 days Jesus spent in the desert, or Moses’ 40 days on Mount Sinai…
Malachi Love-Robinson, 18, was arrested Tuesday in West Palm Beach for allegedly opening his own medical practice, marketing himself as a doctor, and taking more than $3,500 from an elderly woman. The latest in a string of bad decisions, the teenager appeared on Good Morning America this morning, in a…
Usually, there’s not much excitement, scandal or intrigue at your local Chamber of Commerce. Usually, these organizations hold buttoned-up networking meetings where businesspeople shake hands, pass out cards, and harmlessly hobnob. But this is Broward, people! A group called the Broward County Chamber of Commerce is drawing attention because numerous social…
The videos open with a montage straight out of the television show CSI: Cops chase down suspects, try on SWAT gear, shoot at targets and throw suspects in jail, all set to a thumping drum beat. But rather than open with awful puns from David Caruso, each episode then starts…
A man from New York mailed $32,000 cash to a Fort Lauderdale tattoo shop last August for what his lawyer now characterizes as “legitimate business purposes.” But according to police, those purposes may have involved illegal narcotics, and it doesn’t look like he’ll be getting that money back anytime soon…
Sometime during this codeine-addled horse-race of an election cycle, I lost the ability to distinguish between Donald Trump and John F. Kennedy. Last week, after a particularly stressful day, I came home around 7 p.m., threw CNN onto the television, and promptly fell asleep on the couch, only to wake…
A law currently moving through the Florida state legislature could result in a drastic reduction of greyhound racing in the state. Greyhound advocates think that would be wonderful! But leaders in the greyhound racing industry say it would cost thousands of people their jobs. “There are 4,000 people in the…
Broward County Public Schools has, since 2014, received a torrent of criticism for the way it handles students with disabilities. In May of that year, a district-commissioned report found that special-needs students often endure gruelingly long bus rides, sit in classes that are far too large, and are managed by…
Last week, Broward’s first case of the zika virus was reported, and Governor Rick Scott declared a public health emergency in the county. Zika is ripping its way through poor communities in Brazil, and is tied to birth defects — For about a week, that was believed to have been…
Randy Hilliard’s career with the Broward Sheriff’s Office ended on March 28, 2014, after he was asked to retire. He had been working in the department’s crime lab, where drugs seized from defendants are weighed and tested. As the drug unit’s “technical analyst,” he was second in the lab’s chain…
UniverSoul Circus, one of the largest touring circus companies in the country, began a 23-show run in Miramar Regional Park yesterday. UniverSoul’s act includes classic circus mainstays, like acrobats, motorcyclists who ride around in that crazy spherical ball-thing, and — much to the dismay of animal lovers around the world,…
Sometime in the last few years — he wouldn’t say why, and wouldn’t say when — Sandman Da Black Ghost, a rapper from West Palm Beach, says he spent some time in a “drug treatment facility.” There, he says, he was stunned what he saw. Many of the people around…
Before the Fort Lauderdale City Commission voted on a controversial plan to re-zone and develop the Bahia Mar resort area, at least 70 people spoke before the city’s governing body, turinng the meeting — scheduled to last a little more than two hours — into an eight-hour gauntlet, which ended…
Last Wednesday, a tribute to a beloved hospital CEO who died began with one man throwing a pie at another. Nabil El Sanadi, the former CEO of the Broward Health Medical Center, one of the 10 largest public hospital systems in the nation, died by suicide on January 23. El…
Kelli McDonald, a former Broward Sheriff’s Office crime-lab analyst, was involved in testing at least 5,800 drug cases during her nine-year career with the agency. But after discrepancies were found in drug cases she had worked on beginning in 2012, she became the subject of multiple internal affairs investigations. After…
James Tracy believes he has been wronged. Tracy, formerly a tenured Florida Atlantic University media professor, was fired earlier this month, technically, for refusing to fill out some clerical forms at the school. If this seems like a dubious reason to fire someone, Tracy had, at the same time, been…
In what is almost certainly not news to people of color in Florida, the state’s chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has found that black motorists are cited for seatbelt violations twice as often as whites, despite the fact that seatbelt usage is roughy the same among members of…
Tanya Tweeton, an activist with the SouthEast Florida Sierra Marine and Water Quality Team, was seated in the hall outside yesterday’s Broward County Commission meeting, chatting nervously with three friends. The County Commission was set to vote on an ordinance to ban fracking, the process by which water, sand and…
Last year, a New York Times investigation that showed that a large portion of luxury, multimillion-dollar homebuyers in that city were foreign nationals with dubious backgrounds who were dumping money into American real estate to evade the prying eyes of their home governments. The U.S. government announced two weeks ago…
According to federal court documents, two people are alleging that infamous eye doctor Salomon Melgen left them blind in one eye. Melgen, a Palm Beach County eye surgeon, was arrested in April for bilking Medicare out of more than $100 million. His alleged scheme was simple: convince elderly patients to…
Jim Hall is an epidemiologist at Nova Southeastern University, and Broward County’s most prominent expert on synthetic drugs. He says flakka, the drug that law enforcement experts say has ravaged Broward County in the last year, is changing. Typically, flakka was made from a chemical called a-PVP, which was mostly…
Eight years after it began, the dust is finally settling on the Scott Rothstein Ponzi scheme that rocked Fort Lauderdale. In December, TD Bank executive Frank Spinosa, the final defendant, was sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud. One key player, Ovadia Levy,…
