Everybody’s still talking about Crist gaffe-ing (lying?) over the Obama appearance, but this quotable moment is, I think, much more precious. Let’s pull out a portion of that Sarasota Herald-Tribune article, which asked for Crist’s opinion of a Senate Democrat health-care reform package that would allow states to opt out…
You may have noticed there’s been a pause since we unveiled the fourth most formidable mustache in Broward and Palm Beach counties. That’s because we were really hoping to get a comment from the man behind Mustache No. 3: Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti. And it’s become clear that those hopes…
At about the 2:40 mark of this Sun-Sentinel video, you’ll hear Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler complain about the lack of positive media coverage of the Broward County School Board. Then former Attorney General Bob Butterworth plays editor, questioning why the dailies didn’t give more coverage to some lame awards…
So 30-year-old Junior Cesar had several friends with whom he played basketball but none of them recognized the person who walked up to Cesar, then shot him dead? Really? Here’s the latest from the Boynton Beach Police Department: The victim has been identified as Junior Cesar, 30, of Boynton Beach…
Is it the one that Rubio’s campaign released yesterday, seen below? Or is it the more controversial one that Rubio has denounced as “offensive” and “grotesque.” (He forgot, “hilarious.”) I’ve posted that video after the jump…
Does “consumer option” sound more inviting than “public option”? How about “competitive option”? In case it does, Fox News is warning its partisan audience that whatever West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Nancy Pelosi call it, it’s still a “public option” — which still translates to the dreaded “big…
Southern California and South Florida are the two regions in the U.S. where the housing crisis has been felt most severely. So this story from Southern California should be a cautionary tale for us. However inclined we may be to torture the loan agents who said they could save our…
Let’s scan the headlines for this Thursday morning:If you challenged Miramar resident Joe Otano to name one exceptional quality of living next door to Ellie Boudreau, here’s what he’d say: “What really makes it stand out is the throwing of feces over into my property — human feces.” [WPLG]The attorney…
Meet Daniel Bachove. As that Philadelphia Daily News story attests, the 31-year-old Fort Lauderdale resident and Philadelphia native won a lottery for tickets to watch the Phillies play the Yankees in the World Series. And he’s bringing his great-great aunt, 95-year-old Harriette Gubel.What have you done for your great-great aunt…
Olga Bichachi, a reporter for WPLG-TV (Channel 10) at least as recently as February 2008, has gone rogue! That’s her as part of a picket that took place last week outside her old studio in Hallandale Beach. She sounds pretty convincing — right up to the point where she starts…
America loves a fierce competitor. And we have a particular soft spot for athletes who prove to be impervious to the ravages of old age. That’s why swimmer Dara Torres, who lives in Parkland, emerged as one of the biggest stars of the 2008 Summer Olympics. At 41, she’s the…
Last week, we told you about Dr. Bernard Zaragoza, the Harvard-educated surgeon who in 2007 operated on an 83-year-old man who had an inflamed gallbladder. Zaragoza was supposed to remove the gallbladder but took out the man’s kidney instead.However innocent the mistake was, the original penalty seemed a bit light…
A day after the Broward Sheriff’s Office went public with video evidence against four young men for harassing a homeless man, deputies have rounded up all four. Bradley Wunderlich, 21, was found to already be in custody, at BSO north jail, while the fourth suspect, 19-year-old Nicholas Bakum, turned himself…
Say this about young Broward County Republicans: They know a meal ticket when they see one. By my count, the three men who have the most crucial roles in getting Charlie Crist elected to the U.S. Senate are all from Broward.We know about George LeMieux, the former county GOP chair…
Where do you start with the Tyrone Carter story? Probably in Pompano Beach, where he was one of five children in a three-bedroom home, raised by his grandmother because his parents had drug problems. A child of his own by his junior year in high school, then another by another…
What’s going on in South Florida? Well, this:As Juice insomniacs already know, our local obsession, the so-called Withdrawal Bandit, has finally been caught! Police believe it’s Glenn Hooper, a 53-year-old Hollywood man who went to the well one too many times. Lantana police also busted Hooper’s wife / getaway driver…
Developer Ron Bergeron is arguably the most powerful man in West Broward. Politicians, lobbyists, journalists: Mere crumbs in a single mighty mustache. Among Bergeron’s many manly acts this year. This summer he dangled a big reward for the capture of whomever was slaughtering horses in South Florida. In May he…
I spoke a few moments ago with Manalapan Police Chief Clay Walker, who told me that the two stabbings that occurred at last night’s speech by Hitler-loving historian David Irving occurred between two men who were attending the secretive event.Walker told me that two men, 31-year-old Christopher Nachtman and 43-year-old…
Ronald Rivera is the name of the suspect wanted for the murder Sunday of 31-year-old Elvin R. Sanchez in Deerfield Beach.From the BSO release:Sanchez’s body was found Sunday, October 25 shortly before 9 o’clock when a man walked outside his residence in the 4100 block of NW 3 Avenue and…
There you have four juvenile delinquents near the Blue Sky Motel in Pompano Beach, in a scene that could have appeared in The Clockwork Orange. They’re harassing some poor homeless guy. The Broward Sheriff’s Office turned up this video during its investigation into the vicious beatings in Oakland Park in…
