The more we learn about Ronald Murphy’s case, the sadder it is. We first told you about him last week. Then we met the man this weekend. And yesterday a source with knowledge of the case told us that Murphy’s stuck living on a bench in Delray Beach, in part,…
Here’s your look at what’s in today’s news:Dwayne Blake of Belle Glade is in jail after allegedly shooting an undercover operative who was taping conversations with Blake for a narcotics investigation. [Palm Beach Post]H1N1 vaccinations have started in Broward and Palm Beach, with people aged 2 to 49 first in…
The man who was found dead yesterday at a boat ramp near Weston has been identified as Edward Brown, 40, from Homestead. His death has been ruled a homicide.Brown’s friends and family became worried after he failed to show up for a Sunday barbecue. An officer with Broward County’s Fish…
Two weeks after a suit-wearing man pulled a gun out of briefcase and shot Tobias Barfield of Dania Beach, “Dapper Dan” is in police custody. The Broward Sheriff’s Office is reporting that the suspect, John Roger Jenkins, turned himself in this morning. Here’s the release.Investigators have not yet identified a…
The man who shot and wounded a Fort Lauderdale police officer this weekend before being killed has been identified as Bastiany Georges, a 29-year-old who had an extensive criminal history. The incident occurred following police attempts to make a traffic stop on Andrews Avenue. The Fort Lauderdale Police news release:The…
Crazy, charming Marco Rubio — but you’re serious about the Jets vaccine, right? Do NOT toy with us, boy wonder. Anyway, video of his appearance one week ago at the Broward GOP Women’s Club, whom he charmed as surely as the Palm Beach Republicans who would give him an overwhelming…
In June 2007, an 83-year-old man went to the Northwest Medical Center in Margate to have his inflamed gallbladder removed. The surgeon took out the man’s kidney instead. Dr. Bernard Zaragoza told the Florida Medical Board that he was “completely mortified” by his error, and that’s about the reaction you’d…
On a chilly Monday morning, here’s what’s in the news in South Florida:A family that lives in the Acreage, where experts have been seeking to explain a cancer cluster, report that three pets died of the same kind of cancer, hemangiosarcoma. [Palm Beach Post]Homicide detectives are investigating a body found…
In light of the explosive findings Bob Norman’s been posting over at Daily Pulp, it’s time we identify a trend in Broward corruption: power-mad married couples, ruling the region like a king and queen, carving up our public money like it’s their Thanksgiving turkey. For all the damage these duos…
If you slapped your spouse around lately, then earned an arrest warrant but wondered where the police were, check your front porch. Broward Sheriff’s Office just announced the arrest of 30 offenders in a sweep that concluded this morning and which coincided with the seventh anniversary of the National Family…
Former West Palm Beach Police Department Chief Bill Riggs is part of a 10-person law enforcement dream team appointed by a federal court judge to make sweeping changes to the Detroit Police Department, following a nasty batch of scandals. The last court-appointed monitor, Sheryl Robinson Wood, resigned after the same…
Oh no! We’ve been dissed by a Forbes list! The magazine popular among rich old people is saying that South Florida is lousy place to be a rich old person. It ranked the Miami – Fort Lauderdale area 29th as a region to retire, blaming the “battered real estate and…
Richard “Rick” Lemack was this close (642 votes) to becoming the Democratic nominee for Broward Sheriff. In August 2008, the ex-assistant police chief and assistant city manager of Hollywood, Lemack lost to Scott Israel, who then lost to Al Lamberti. We told you last month that Lemack was a finalist…
After a short ad, that’s the trailer for “The Oxycontin Express,” the first episode of this season’s Vanguard. That’s correspondent Mariana van Zeller boldly reporting from within Broward County, pain pill capital of the world. Aren’t we just beaming with pride?The show airs on Current TV, the diy network launched…
Whatever you may think of Ronald Earl Murphy, who in 1996 beat a woman and forced her to have sex, the guy deserves a place to live. The question is where. I posted yesterday about how Murphy, a registered sex offender, has claimed a permanent residence as a transient in…
Let’s look at what’s in the news this morning:Big, big trouble for Broward County School Board member Stephanie Kraft. New Times’ Bob Norman has confirmed that Kraft’s husband, Mitch, took payments from Prestige Homes to negotiate a deal with the district for the mitigation fees associated with that company’s development…
In this week’s installment of Panning for Gold, we’ll return to Fort Walton Beach to check in on Susan “Mimi” Brown, a 55-year-old woman who was an exotic dancer, at least as recently as the Reagan administration. The Northwest Florida Daily News reports that Okaloosa County Sheriffs deputies responded to…
And that’s bad for Ben Graber, the former Broward mayor and county commissioner who tried to make hay with Robert Wexler’s cocaine joke on The Colbert Report and who has a nasty batch of ads that he ran during a bitter primary campaign in 2008. Ads like the one below…
“The Kid” will coach the kids at Palm Beach Atlantic University, which makes a good excuse to post this totally 1980s Newsday promo from Gary Carter’s days with the Amazin’ Mets.After the jump, the other video Carter made in 1986, warning kids about the dangers of drugs at a time…
