The popular Palm Beach Gardens band teacher who was arrested three years ago for sexually assaulting four girls at H.L. Watkins Middle School is about to complete his first month in a Miami-Dade County prison.Heath Miller, 37, pleaded guilty in March to one count of sexual battery of a minor…
The penny pinchers at Spirit Airlines have come up with a new way to ruin your flying experience. Starting in early November, the Miramar-based discount carrier will charge up to $100 for a carry-on bag. The fee only applies if, like us, you procrastinate packing, sprint through the airport, and…
Frank Biden, younger brother of the man who is second in line for the White House, has a flair for the dramatic. Last year, he called the Mavericks High charter school in Palm Springs a “hope factory” and said its management company, Mavericks in Education Florida, was “on a mission…
As the U.S. Supreme Court debates the Arizona law destined to make life miserable for brown-skinned people, advocates on both sides of the immigration-reform issue are freaking out. Senate Bill 1070 requires Arizona cops to detain immigrants they suspect are in the country illegally and check their status. Not carrying…
He rode into the Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office promising to fight corruption, but in Riviera Beach, Michael McAuliffe failed spectacularly.Three years ago, McAuliffe charged three Riviera cops with felonies ranging from official misconduct to tipping off a murder suspect about an impending arrest. This was the ambitious prosecutor’s chance…
This week, Army Pfc. Michael Metcalf, a 22-year-old soldier from Boynton Beach, was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. I read the headline in the the Palm Beach Post yesterday morning and, in the evening, met a friend at Cinemark Boynton Beach to watch The Hunger Games.Now, I…
Two young women throw punches and tear at each others’ hair while a crowd of onlookers shouts around them. Teenagers hold cell phones to record the fight as the women tumble to the ground. In the center of the video frame is a man wearing a T-shirt bearing the logo…
Bill Koch, the Palm Beach billionaire who criticized his brothers’ support of libertarian causes and has long escaped notice on the national political stage, is emerging as a major supporter of Mitt Romney.Huron Carbon, a subsidiary of Koch’s West Palm Beach-based Oxbow Corp., donated $1 million to Romney’s Restore Our…
Update 5:45 p.m: The jury acquitted Det. Lee Ann Schneider this afternoon.A Riviera Beach detective could spend hundreds of years in prison for helping her boss pad his overtime, while he has escaped testifying at the trial that is largely about him.Detective Lee Ann Schneider is on trial this week…
Making the state’s poorest residents piss in a cup before qualifying to receive welfare benefits was going to save Florida up to $77 million, Rick Scott said when he was campaigning for governor. The goal of the drug tests was “to make sure we don’t waste taxpayers’ money,” Gov. Voldemort…
Editor’s note: Is It Wrong is a therapeutic column examining feelings we have about music that just aren’t quite right. To ease any discomfort, County Grind will explore these emotions and thoughts, breaking down from whence our feelings of guilt, disgust, and shame arise. And, as they say, even a…
The Davie Republican with ties to the 1-800-411-PAIN Referral Service is no longer vying to represent western Broward in the state House.Merick Lewin submitted paperwork to withdraw from the District 97 race on March 28, less than three weeks after the state Legislature passed a bill that could threaten profits…
Normally, the Pulp would never consider a politician’s hairstyle news, but U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Weston) is a special case. For some reason, the internet hates her hair. Her tightly spiraled, dyed-blond curls have been called “angry perm” and “nappy,” and Rush Limbaugh once accused her of using mayonnaise…
Involving Muslims in the American political process is a frightening prospect to guys like Joe Kaufman. Judging from a rant he wrote in February, Kaufman, head of the anti-Islam group Americans Against Hate, doesn’t want Muslims to vote, work for the federal government, or get fair legal representation. Kaufman’s view…
Yes, it’s still Passover. The Jewish holiday lasts eight days, which means this is day five, a hellish kind of Hump Day. If you’re like me, the matzo bloating has set in, and things are looking desperate.I was raised in a very Reform household — as in, my family orders…
Remember WordPress.com? Back in 2003, it was a brilliant invention designed to put any pajama blogger on the cutting edge. That edge is clearly where Frank Biden belongs.Biden, brother of the Amtrak-riding vice president, has entered into the wild world of WordPress to tout his for-profit chain of charter schools,…
A former special-education teacher at Mavericks High in Palm Springs has filed a whistle-blower lawsuit alleging that the charter school is inflating enrollment records and fabricating grades.Angenora Mechato’s suit is the third whistle-blower case to be filed against Mavericks in Education Florida, a for-profit, West Palm Beach-based company that manages…
South Florida’s favorite anti-Islam nut bag masquerading as a Republican congressional candidate has his knickers in a twist over a recent meeting between Broward sheriff’s officials and Muslim leaders.Joe Kaufman, head of the hate-mongering group Americans Against Hate, is upset because the sheriff’s office had the gall to host a…
Recently, I had the privilege of attending a meeting between local Muslim leaders and law enforcement officials.This heartwarming gathering, designed to improve relations between cops and South Florida’s Muslim community, was hosted by the Broward Sheriff’s Office. Therefore, everyone who attended got a free bag of BSO swag. Never give…
The CEO of the high-volume plastic surgery center in Lauderhill where a patient died last month is an ex-felon. Jeffry Davis was convicted of financial crimes related to his former company, which made replicas of vintage cars.Long before he became head of Strax Rejuvenation and Aesthetics Institute, Davis was president…
The surgeon who performed a fat transfer procedure that proved fatal for a 50-year-old Hollywood woman last week has repeatedly had his medical license suspended.Records show that Dr. John Nees’ disciplinary troubles date back to 2002, when he was working in the Pacific Northwest. The Washington Board of Medicine ruled…
A 50-year-old grandmother seeking a liposuction and fat transfer operation this month became the fifth patient to die during or after surgery at Strax Rejuvenation and Aesthetics Institute in Lauderhill. According to Strax officials, the surgical complication that killed her was the same one that killed a 35-year-old Strax patient…
