Photo: PBSOMendez-Alvarez is accused of hit and run.John Jayne was riding his motorcycle west in the center lane of Lantana Road on August 14 when a 1994 Nissan Maxima swerved in front of him. The 42-year-old Jayne hit the car’s back bumper, then flipped off his motorcycle, which landed on…
It seems former Hallandale Beach City Manager Mike Good can’t even file for office without triggering at least a mini-scandal. A city activist claims that Good missed Wednesday’s noon deadline by a few minutes but that the Cooper City Clerk allowed Good to be an exception to the rule.Gladys Wilson,…
Talk about your unlikely political comebacks. The Juice has learned that Mike Good, who left his post as Hallandale Beach city manager under a cloud of scandal, plans to run for a commission seat in another city that has had its own share of scandal: Cooper City.This past May, commissioners…
Wouldn’t it be great if American politics were as simple as Charlie Crist thinks it is? See the video after the jump. Crist is not a Republican. He’s not a Democrat. He’s an American. He can even spell the word!The ad is cynicism disguised as idealism. Crist pretends to appeal…
Back in 2008, when Dale Tallon was still general manager of the Chicago Blackhawks, he might have been able to sell tickets to the team’s first practice of the year. But now he’s the GM for our Florida Panthers. A completely different hockey market and completely different story.Today the Blackhawks…
The September 11 Qu’ran burning at the Dove World Outreach Center places the American Civil Liberties Union in an awkward but familiar position: Its desire to protect the freedom of expression collides with the group’s desire to promote religious tolerance. That’s because the speech is one of religious intolerance.ACLU South…
Allen West has just two months before his general election faceoff against Congressman Ron Klein, but he wasn’t inclined to spend this precious holiday weekend campaigning in the Broward/Palm Beach congressional district. Rather, he made a road trip to Leavenworth, Kansas, to speak at a rally for ten soldiers who…
My Acts of Sedition blogger Chaz Stevens followed through last night on threats that he would announce his candidacy for the Deerfield Beach Commission, doing so with his usual flair for self-promotion. I’ve got the video after the jump, along with a video Commissioner Sylvia Poitier’s tirade against Stevens. You…
For roughly a year, Palm Beach County Commissioner Shelley Vana has been hearing complaints by neighbors of the El Toro Loco location at 2928 S. Military Trail in West Palm. But those complaints were not about sex slavery or murder. They were about the club’s rowdiness.”People were doing the kinds…
There are few pastors in America more extreme in their opposition to Islam than the Rev. O’Neal Dozier of the Worldwide Christian Center in Pompano Beach. In 2007, Dozier sued to prevent the construction of a mosque in the city, claiming that the Council on American-Islamic Relations had ties to…
Tireless blogger, tenacious gadfly, and prolific Juice commenter Chaz Stevens hopes to add a new line to his business card: Deerfield Beach Commissioner. The ubiquitous Stevens will announce his 2011 candidacy against incumbent Joe Miller at tonight’s meeting.”It’s real simple: I care about three things,” says Stevens. “Corruption — that’s…
Following the death Friday of charter fisherman Tom Henry, questions have been raised about whether the Jupiter Inlet presents a particularly hazardous location for boating in South Florida.But an official with the U.S. Coast Guard says there’s nothing special about Jupiter Inlet. “As far as being dangerous, all our inlets…
Manny Periu, the former Broward bondsman known for accidentally chauffeuring a bank robber, is back in jail after being arrested Tuesday night on charges he threatened a witness in a drug-trafficking case.That clash was foreshadowed, it seems, by the conflict that spilled into this Juice comments thread following an August…
The opening scene of the Bible describes a naked man and a naked woman who feel no shame about displaying the bodies that were created for them by God. So why should Americans, who reside in a nation of Judeo-Christian values, be so incensed by a happily married couple frolicking…
There are many fine restaurants in Delray Beach, but it seems one resident, Chris Hogan, prefers to see what the ocean surf is serving. This morning, it delivered an eight-foot sperm whale. An opportunistic Hogan chopped off the great mammal’s tale. The Palm Beach Post asked him why: “To eat…
You can tell a lot from a person’s face. But can you tell what kind of crime he or she is accused of committing? Let’s put those hunches to the test. In this post, including the jump page, there are ten mug shots from people arrested in Broward County over the…
Claudia Castillo of Plantation vowed to celebrate her 30th birthday by going on 30 dates in the month of August. She made it to 29.”I came up one short,” says Castillo. “I could have made it to 30, but I didn’t want to do it just for the sake of…
Deerfield Beach Fire Rescue Lt. Howard Noland — husband of Deerfield Beach Mayor Peggy Noland — has been suspended for a day without pay following an investigation into allegations that he was insubordinate when he placed his own lock on a locker at the fire station where he worked.The problem…
They revere him because he says what most Republican candidates think but don’t say. Yet the tea partiers and right wingers who support Allen West’s bid for Congress apparently feel the need to protect him from his boldest, most controversial statements and to recast the 2003 incident that led to…
The Florida Division of Alcohol Beverages and Tobacco is reeling after this article in today’s Palm Beach Post reported that agents overlooked evidence within their own files that showed an ex-felon was the secret operator of nightclubs that just so happened to be prone to violence and linked with sex…
Laderic Brown has only been an adult for 23 months, but he already has a dozen criminal cases in Palm Beach County courts — and that doesn’t include the charges of home invasion, kidnapping, ramming a police cruiser and leading cops on a high-speed freeway chase, which ended in his…
Jimmie Bo Horne, a promoter who booked acts for Deerfield Beach’s city festivals over the past decade, has been contacted by a forensic auditor seeking records of how city money was handled for that event.”Any information I provide to (the investigator, Michael Kessler) will be done for the integrity of…
