Hollywood City Manager Cameron Benson didn’t want last night’s commission meeting to be his political funeral, so he made the decision to quit during a meeting recess.Benson was taking a lot of heat from Mayor Peter Bober for a few things yesterday — a $10.3 million budget deficit (an estimated…
If you’re at the point where you need to punch your 74-year-old mother and crack her pelvis because she won’t give you money to buy drugs, you might be a drug addict.That’s what the friends of 43-year-old Michael Darin Gordon told the cops they saw him do to his mother…
If you’ve had your credit card stolen in the past nine-or-so years, it’s possible that it’s the guy cops across South Florida are looking for — because he’s apparently been doing it and evading police for nearly a decade.Coral Springs police released a new surveillance photo of the man using…
A new trial will be scheduled next week after a jury couldn’t decide whether 34-year-old Guy Cherubin and 32-year-old Harold Cherubin kidnapped a Fort Lauderdale woman and raped her in 2006.The men are accused of forcing the woman into their car outside of the Voodoo Fort Lauderdale nightclub, taking her…
New Times Best of Broward-Palm Beach edition is here, folks.If you noticed that Miami Dolphins quarterback Chad Henne took the cake for biggest sports bust, you might wonder if we’re second-guessing our selection of Henne over LeChoke LeBron James.We’re not…
While we were busy adding up all of those jobs Gov. Rick Scott brought from Canada to Florida during his “trade mission” last week — zero — big layoffs were taking place across the state.Now, aside from slaughtering government jobs from the state budget, private businesses are making firings too…
The South Florida Tea Party, which has been trying to weasel its way out of paying for a Donald Trump rally in Boca Raton a couple of months ago, is trying to take a new angle on why it hasn’t paid the bills — it doesn’t need to fork over…
It looks like the folks in Pompano Beach are being ersatzgivers over their house giveaway.The city bought an $83,000 house that had gone into foreclosure in the Leisureville retirement community that it planned to hold a drawing for to give away to an income- and age-qualified Pompano Beach resident.That was…
Howard Kusnick, a former lawyer at Scott Rothstein’s now-defunct law firm, pleaded guilty yesterday to a single count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.Kusnick, a 58-year-old Tamarac resident, is accused of defrauding two clients of the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm by pretending to file litigation in their favor and…
Danna Bogdanoff, the 19-year-old daughter of Fort Lauderdale-based State Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff, was arrested on four felony charges in Miami-Date County late last week.The police report hasn’t yet been released, but according to our sister paper to the south, Miami New Times, Bogdanoff faces felony charges of third-degree grand theft,…
Ponzi scheme mastermind Scott Rothstein is coming to Fort Lauderdale, but not for a victory tour in ripping off more than $1 billion in his fraudulent investment plot.Instead, the creditors who are owed money by Rothstein’s now-defunct law firm are going to question him as a witness for getting their…
Jason Proskurin apparently doesn’t like people disrespecting his breakfast cereal — that’s why he told the cops he slapped his girlfriend early this morning, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.Proskurin, 26, woke up at his Boynton Beach apartment around 3 a.m. today to get ready for…
Apparently it’s getting tough for the state to continue prosecuting someone for criminal transmission of HIV when its suspect isn’t HIV-positive.Daniel Hay Lewis — accused by police of attempting to bite a cop in the process of trying to steal $12,000 worth of garden products from a Home Depot on…
In case you didn’t notice — between coverage of the Casey Anthony trial, Anthony Weiner, and Anderson Cooper probably wearing a skin-tight shirt — CNN held a debate between hopeful Republican presidential candidates last night.You can guess what happened when Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul,…
Do you know the best place to film a zombie movie? What about the best swingers club or the best spot to hit the reefer?You should now, because this year’s Best of Broward Palm Beach is live, folks.We’ve got power couples, girls gone bad, quixotic business moves, and insomnia cures…
Touting yourself as a lunatic has just become a political campaign strategy.Adam Hasner — the former Florida House majority leader who represented parts of southern Palm Beach County and northern Broward County — thinks acting like a right-wing extremist will get him elected to the U.S. Senate.Former U.S. Sen. George…
Less than two weeks removed from a New Times cover story exposing the deaths at one of South Florida’s most popular plastic surgery centers, the cops are looking into a suspicious death that occurred Saturday after a woman stopped breathing during a cosmetic surgery procedure at another plastic surgery joint.Maria…
There’s nothing really bad to say about Rep. Allen West going diving off the coast of Deerfield Beach with a bunch of military veterans — except for the fact that he violated U.S. federal law in the process and provided a pictorial of himself doing so.During his diving session Sunday,…
Here’s the new number of jobs Gov. Rick Scott actually brought to Florida during his “trade mission” to Canada last week: zero.That’s right, not a single one.Over two statements from Canada last week, the governor announced that 210 new jobs were coming to Florida from our neighbors to the north…
Officer Meatballs, Fort Lauderdale P.D. — it has a certain ring to it.It could be a reality if former Kim Rothstein bodyguard, Scott Rothstein client, and ‘roided-up former cop Joe “Meatballs” Alu gets his way.A Fort Lauderdale police spokesman confirmed to the Sun-Sentinel that Meatballs has applied as a cop…
The cops are looking for a man who they say climbed through the bedroom window of a North Lauderdale home and raped an 84-year-old woman last night.The woman told police she was watching television at her house around 10 p.m. yesterday when the man knocked on her front door.She told…
Apparently Rep. Allen West can’t keep around an intern that’s friendly with the gays.Roll Call is reporting that West’s unnamed male intern — who retweeted a Twitter post from the gay-themed New York band Scissor Sisters that was originally discovered by New Times — has been canned.West was reportedly with…
