During her time as the director of the Community Redevelopment Agency, director Lisa Bright basked in the good graces of the Boynton Beach commissioners, who serve as the CRA board. Even after Bright made an enemy of Mayor Jose Rodriguez, a majority of those commissioners wanted to believe that Bright…
Bernstein says this definitely wasn’t his idea.The North Broward Hospital District is eager to prove that its CEO and president, Frank Nask, did not come up with the idea to lease the district’s assets to a nonprofit organization all by himself. Because if it was his idea, then he would…
From WikipediaThis diagram shows how a backflow valve is supposed to take waste out of your home.A backflow valve / preventer occupies a valuable, straightforward function in the treatment of sewage. Namely, it ensures that water pressure sends waste out of a toilet toward a treatment facility. The absence of…
FlickrCharleton Heston may have joined the Great Gun Rack in the Sky, but the National Rifle Association has found a new hero: Anthony Cole of Boynton Beach. That’s because Cole used his legally owned gun to ward off an attack from a man who was robbing Cole’s home.According to a…
Since August, Chief Frank Adderley’s administration has fired three cops for misconduct.Jason Maldonado was a widely respected Fort Lauderdale detective, one who might have felt an extra layer of job security based on the fact that two years ago his former supervisor, Capt. Frank Adderley, became Chief Frank Adderley.But the…
Followers of the Allen West congressional campaign have heard plenty about his career in the U.S. Army. But in building his personal narrative, the Republican candidate tends to skip over the job he took immediately after that career ended: as a history teacher at Deerfield Beach High.It must have been…
What would it take for a Florida Marlins game to overshadow a Dolphins victory on a Sunday in September? An act of God? No, just a freak accident in which a shattered bat impales itself in the chest of a Chicago Cubs outfielder. Tyler Colvin is in stable condition and expected…
The pending changes at the North Broward Hospital District have been advertised as a way to make the hospitals more profitable and adaptable in the era after health-care reform. But a far more recent news event may have played a bigger role in the move: Florida’s Republican primary for governor…
At some point after Kerrian McKenzie was informed of her impending eviction, the North Lauderdale woman hatched a plan: McKenzie moved out. Then, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office investigators, she posted an advertisement on Craigslist in which she claimed to be offering the very same home for rent.McKenzie’s plan…
It’s true — and strange — that Gov. Charlie Crist was good friends with the man behind the most colossal fraud in Broward County history, Scott Rothstein. But Fort Lauderdale author E.J. Bellew (a nom de plume) imagines a scenario in which a character based on Crist is haunted by…
They say that in every crisis, there’s an opportunity. So it is with the Republican Party of Florida, scandalized by the sybaritic ways of its former chairman, Jim Greer, who’s now facing charges of money laundering and fraud, a case that prompted a forensic audit of the party’s books. And…
A teenager riding a bike this morning at the intersection of Glades Parkway and State Route 84 was struck by a Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy.According to the BSO release, the accident occurred at 7:31 when the teenager, who is said to have been riding his bike south on Glades Parkway…
Cleveland Murdock, the 38-year-old man who shot and killed a man who attacked him Wednesday in Pompano Beach, has to hope the Broward State Attorney’s Office isn’t feeling aggressive. Because prosecutors will now be reviewing evidence gathered from interviews with Murdock and witnesses to that fatal shooting to decide whether Murdock’s…
browardhealth.orgCommissioner Richard Paul-HusIf the North Broward Hospital District follows through on plans to lease its assets to a nonprofit organization, then it will “take the politics out” of managing that public hospital district, according to Commissioner Richard Paul-Hus, who responded to questions posted yesterday on the Juice.Paul-Hus may be right…
FlickrIn the ongoing national debate about whether guns create more problems than they solve, two separate incidents that occurred Wednesday in Broward County offer valuable lessons. Let’s start with the tragic death Wednesday afternoon of Patrick Lavoie Jr., a 33-year-old man who was apparently enraged by how closely the driver…
FlickrUnless you see this badge, you’re not dealing with the real DEA.There may be no honor among thieves, but still it’s shocking to hear that scammers would target a 55-year-old woman who’s already cursed with cancer.According to a release by the Boynton Beach Police Department, the woman received a phone…
deGroot: An ornery ol’ cuss.If 72-year-old former Sun-Sentinel scribe John deGroot truly has a “humongous allergy to bullshit,” as he claims on his eponymous blog, then he ought to have known not to attend yesterday’s public hearing about the North Broward Hospital District’s proposal to convert itself into a private…
The prices at Wal-Mart weren’t quite low enough for one local family who paid a visit to the North Lauderdale store Wednesday night and extracted the proverbial five-finger discount on store merchandise.According to a news release by the Broward Sheriff’s Office, a woman pushing a 6-month-old baby in a stroller…
Considering all the national story lines in the Ron Klein-Allen West showdown for Congress, it’s surprising that no one has revisited the most bizarre episodes of the pair’s 2008 clash. I’m referring to the moment in July 2008 when West, who was then an obscure candidate, phoned the FBI to…
A gun apparently wasn’t threat enough for a bank robber who struck Wednesday afternoon at the SunTrust location on South Dixie Highway in Lake Worth. The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office reports that the gunman also poured gasoline on the counter of the teller’s window.Presumably, the man’s point was to scare…
Former Heat center and future Hall-of-Famer Shaquille O’Neal is being sued for allegedly hacking into the accounts of a former employee and a former mistress, allegedly to frame one with child pornography and to simply harass the other. In general, the lawsuit alleges that O’Neal was trying to destroy evidence…
Broward General Medical Center: Scene of the crime?It’s time to start paying attention to what’s happening at the North Broward Hospital District (AKA Broward Health). Or rather, it was time back in January, when Gov. Charlie Crist removed two commissioners who were going to reform the district from its corrupt…
