The local news for Friday morning:Five years of probation is the sentence for Ed Portner, former Tamarac commissioner, for pulling a gun on his daughter, Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter, at her Parkland home last October. That whole episode seems to me like it was some bizarre dream that comes…
A few weeks ago, Juice set the stage for the Rush Limbaugh Palm Beach nuptials by daring the groom to find a wedding official who was more famous (or notorious) than the one who said the vows at his last wedding, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.Apparently, Rush settled for notorious…
This blogger gets dozens — nay, hundreds — of news releases per day, and 99 percent of them are rubbish. You must be wondering what makes that 1 percent stand out. If I had to give a single answer, it’s double-entendre.Today’s winner is Seminole Hard Rock Casino marketing director Rob…
“God Can Judge Me,” says the tattoo on Jovon Gibson’s neck, but it looks like a Broward County judge will get the first crack. The 22-year-old from Miami has been arrested for the murder of Richard Burke, 48, of Wellington, last April.The Broward Sheriff’s Office release contains few details of…
Not quite depressed enough about your failure to resolve the Gulf spill and the educators being sacked at Broward County schools? Then let’s learn about Oskar Garcia.The 6-year-old kindergartner at the Sagemont School in Weston loves birds in a way that most of us should but can’t. Oskar’s been devastated…
Sprechen sie deutsch? If so, you know that Schlitterbahn is German for “slippery road,” and Fort Lauderdale commissioners had better tread carefully in their dealings with the Texas-based developer that wants to put a massive water park on the land occupied by Lockhart Stadium, near the city’s airports.Schlitterbahn’s most recent…
Here’s what’s happening in South Florida this Thursday morning:On the jailhouse phone, 15-year-old Wayne Treacy talks to his parents about living in Key West after serving time for nearly beating to death Josie Lou Ratley at a Deerfield Beach school bus stop in March. [Sun-Sentinel]Hollywood eye doctor Alan Mendelsohn is…
The date on this video is June 16. So what’s Marco Rubio doing giving speeches for Republican women in San Diego during the heat of the Senate race? Don’t tell me that this young whippersnapper would win the U.S. Senate only to leave his term early to run for president…
The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office doesn’t have the same flair for giving its criminal suspects colorful nicknames as the Broward Sheriff’s Office, but maybe we can help. In this surveillance photo, you can see two women wanted for using a stolen credit card to make purchases at Target and Best…
In what’s becoming an annual tradition, the Deerfield Beach Mango Festival is exaggerating the role that the Broward Sheriff’s Office has at the June event.Last year, event organizers claimed that BSO deputies ensured that cash collected at the gates wasn’t skimmed. BSO contradicted that claim, saying that its deputies only…
The South Florida housing market is a wreck. The school districts are laying off teachers by the thousand. Every government agency has had to slash services. There’s record unemployment. And yet Florida’s saving grace is, as always, the tourist industry.But can it survive the millions and millions of gallons of…
The news this Wednesday morning in Broward and Palm Beach:Palm Beach County doesn’t trust BP to protect its sensitive marine life. The county is looking to hire a private contractor to install booms that can soak up oil along 14 miles of waterway. BP will be expected to pick up…
The blame game started about a second after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon opened a geyser of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, and it’s too late to stop the game now. So we may as well try to at least separate fact from fiction, starting with the POTUS.With…
I guess it’s too much to expect aspiring actors to make their money the honest way, by performing Hamlet on the sidewalk, where passersby could put a tip in a jar. Rather, they’re plying their trade in a North Lauderdale Mobil station, where on Memorial Day a three-man troupe created…
Times are tough for American men’s tennis, which desperately needs a colorful character like John McEnroe or Andre Agassi to revive national interest in the sport. It’s not enough for him to be talented; this player has to be a fiery competitor who will either hit an amazing shot or…
It’s not often that Republicans pounce on a Barack Obama idea to claim it as their own, but this oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has a way of creating strange bed partners. After reports surfaced Sunday that Barack Obama was preparing to demand that BP open an escrow account…
Your daily spin through the local headlines:Even with Broward County School Board member Beverly Gallagher on her way to prison, there are indications that the investigation has only just begun, as the district’s legal office is being asked by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to provide records of potential…
A young political operative named Beth Kigel rocketed into Palm Beach County Republican leadership in 2006 after she put all her chips on the long-shot candidacy of Charlie Crist for Florida governor. Four years later, her champion has gone rogue, and now the vice chair of the county’s GOP is…
