Denise O’Neill’s 1995 murder case will be the subject of Friday night’s episode of Forensic Files, a program on the cable network TruTV. Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives figure to have a starring role.The show highlights cases in which investigators have to build a case on the forensic evidence they find…
Marco Rubio is correct in saying that Barack Obama’s policy toward Israel is a departure from that of past U.S. presidents. But in his Friday speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition, Rubio neglected to describe the Golden Age of Israeli-Palestinian relations produced by American diplomats’ deference toward Israel.Of course, that…
Here’s what’s happening in South Florida this Monday morning:With its pilots on strike, Miramar-based discount airline Spirit has canceled flights through Tuesday, forcing local air travelers to scramble for another way to get to their destinations. [CBS4]In a much more uplifting story about air travel, the 22-year-old Haitian woman who…
That’s Kayla Manson in her appearance yesterday on NBC’s Today Show. At the very end of the video, host Meredith Viera asks the 13-year-old Manson what text messages she saw by Wayne Treacy, the 15-year-old accused of trying to murder Manson’s best friend Josie Lou Ratley.Manson says, “The [text] where…
Continuing his ESPN campaign as a poster boy for U.S. Soccer, Boca Raton native Jozy Altidore recorded this entertaining video with the cable sports network, in which he’s invited to kick a soccer ball at a couple OF British gentlemen trying to enjoy a spot of tea.That sprained ankle looks…
Maybe managing the massive, notoriously incestuous North Broward Hospital District wasn’t enough of a challenge for Alan Levine. He left that post in December 2007 to become secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. In a little more than two years, he’s had to deal with a major…
It looks like the holy water sprinkling was the least of the legal problems of two Blanche Ely High School teachers. Leslie Rainier and Djuna Robinson are accused of ordering Haitian students to stand by the trash can to signify the inferiority of Haitian people.The complaint, which was made to…
The local news for this Friday morning:Federal prosecutors announced the arrest of 16 South Floridians in a nationwide illegal drug trafficking investigation called Project Deliverance that was based in West Palm Beach. [Palm Beach Post]Another guilty plea coming in the Scott Rothstein case, this one from Debra Villegas, chief operating…
That video’s from an all-star game in January. These days, Demar Dorsey doesn’t have nearly as much to smile about. The Boyd Anderson star, who originally gave a verbal commitment to the Florida Gators, then switched to the Michigan Wolverines, now finds himself without a destination after the school released…
Hallandale Beach has a tradition of paying a city manager who doesn’t show up for work; so now that commissioners have fired Mike Good, it’s fitting that they should give him one more giant paycheck on his way out the door.Yesterday, the commission moved to give Good a severance package…
There’s nothing particularly dynamic about the U.S. Senate campaign being run by Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene — except when you compare it to the one by Miami Congressman Kendrick Meek. Greene doesn’t really have a message, unless you count his constant bellyaching about “career politicians.” This is a guy…
A rundown of what’s news in South Florida:A day after Scott Rothstein was sentenced to 50 years in prison, the speculation begins about which of his associates will be charged next. Two prime candidates: his law partners Russ Adler and Stuart Rosenfeldt. [Sun-Sentinel]Loan modification programs must not be working –…
With all the money Broward Health spends on lawyers, you’d think it would be able to cut down on its legal blunders. The district, it seems, has a tendency to pay its lawyers excessively — and to continue paying long after those lawyers have left.The latest example is Joe Truhe,…
Hyman Taylor, the star center for the 2005 Cardinal Gibbons High School basketball team, was murdered Tuesday evening outside an Ikea store in Emeryville, California, on the outskirts of Oakland. Taylor attended the University of San Francisco on a basketball scholarship.According to this report in the San Francisco Chronicle, police…
Jozy Altidore, the Boca Raton-born forward for the United States World Cup team, survived his first full practice since an ankle sprain and now will be available Saturday when the Americans open tournament play with a match against England.He’s one of two key players with health concerns — the other…
A bill that would require women in Florida to pay for an ultrasound before getting an abortion will tell us much about whether Charlie Crist the Republican has had major philosophical shifts since he became Charlie Crist the independent.If he vetoes it, Marco Rubio will brand Crist a hypocrite and…
Just another Wednesday morning for most of us; but then, most of us aren’t Scott Rothstein:Broward County’s most colorful criminal will finally be sentenced to prison in connection with his $1.4 billion Ponzi scheme. Updates and analysis here and on Bob Norman’s blog. [Daily Pulp]After 16 months of haggling, the…
Boston Globe Tailors Print Edition for Three Remaining SubscribersGood idea, Onion. But the Sun-Sentinel has already tried this strategy. It was called “The Help Team.”…
