In March 2008, the Forlini family launched their 42-foot catamaran from Fort Lauderdale. Mike Forlini; his wife, Sotiria Klironomos; and their two grade-school-aged children, Dantes and Matteo, cruised the Caribbean for the next year and a half, making stops at a host of islands. They didn’t return to their native…
Your Tuesday morning in Broward and Palm Beach:The Wildcat is alive! Chad Henne can throw! Ronnie and Ricky can run! The Fins beat the Jets in dramatic fashion. [NFL.com]The state’s investigation of improper communication between the Public Service Commission the utility it regulates, Florida Power & Light, hasn’t found squat…
The Philadelphia Flyers just arrived in town to play our Panthers — on Friday night. That means the team has four days and three nights to kill before they suit up in the BankAtlantic. That is, a couple dozen mostly twentysomething multi-millionaires who play a sport known for hard hits…
Horrific story coming out of Deerfield Beach. The Broward Sheriff’s Office is reporting that a 15-year-old boy named Michael Brewer was attacked at a pool within an apartment complex, then deliberately burned. Here’s the BSO news release: At 3:14 pm BSO deputies were dispatched to the Lime Tree apartments in…
The St. Petersburg Times and Miami Herald teamed up for an article in yesterday’s editions that voiced concerns among Democrats that their leading senatorial candidate, Congressman Kendrick Meek, isn’t “high-profile” enough to beat Charlie Crist. It’s a strange moment to raise that question — it appears to have been prompted…
From WPBF: Several gun shots were heard before noon at a residence in Boynton Beach and SWAT team went into the home but found no one there. Here’s a cryptic report:WPBF 25 News’ Jim Abath said in a live report at noon that a woman said she heard what she…
Fausto Tejero, a 40-year-old Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy has been charged in connection with the extortion case of Det. Manuel Silva. From the BSO release:On September 30th, a citizen told a BSO supervisor that a district detective was extorting money from a man living near Fort Lauderdale. The victim, Orlando…
Kimmie Meissner is originally from the Baltimore area, in case you wondered about the musical score from the video above, but she’s spent most of her year in Fort Lauderdale, having lived in an apartment here since February last year, when she came to train with a new coach. Unfortunately,…
If there’s any truth to the government’s allegations against David McQueen, holding on to his Fort Lauderdale condo would appear to be the least of his concerns. Federal authorities allege that McQueen, whose primary residence is near Grand Rapids, Michigan, defrauded investors by moving millions of dollars among multiple accounts…
Time to get your Monday on. But first, a look back on what made news this past weekend.Tamarac mayoral candidate Ed Portner gave a short interview to WPLG about why he went over to his daughter Stacy Ritter’s home with a gun last week: “I wanted to scare the crap…
Why would the tennis players who’s arguably the world’s greatest ever watch college players? Based on this article in the Sacramento Bee, Roger Federer was keeping tabs on Jesse Levine, the Boca Raton resident who two years ago was playing for the University of Florida. The article describes how an…
Today the Broward Sheriff’s Office announced it was going to receive an award reserved for the nation’s best jail. So I guess congratulations are in order for the many, many deputies at the jail who perform their job with honor and integrity; but I can’t help but wonder how BSO…
Yorbit Torrealba, the Rockies catcher who lives in Hollywood during the offseason, hit the two-run homer yesterday to cement his team’s against the defending World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies. But Torrealba had been feeling lucky long before he connected on that Cole Hamels pitch. From Sports Illustrated:”When I wake up…
Wesley Hutchings enjoys the kinds of privileges that come with being born to a family made rich by the American automotive industry. His father, James “Jack” Hutchings made hundreds of millions though the manufacture of air-conditioning units for cars. The Hutchings family’s 20,000-square-foot home spreads across two huge lots at…
As the director of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau, Nicki Grossman’s primary responsibility is to market Broward County to tourists, but doesn’t she have some obligation not to annoy the hometown crowd? Today’s South Florida Business Journal reports on an appearance she made yesterday: CVB President Nicki…
That’s the trailer for the new Chris Rock documentary, about the torment of African-American women endure for their hair. At about the two-minute mark, you’ll see Rock wearing a sweatshirt that says “Palm Beach.” No, he doesn’t live in Palm Beach. Rather, Rock lives in perhaps the only neighborhood in…
With an ethics scandal rocking the Democratic powers of Broward County — and just a few days after a Democratic mayoral candidate for one Broward city was arrested for pulling a gun on his daughter, the Democratic mayor of Broward County — the Republican Party may have been looking pretty…
Ugh. A high of 92 today in Fort Lauderdale. Let’s cool off with some news.Celebrated cluster crusader Erin Brockovich attracted a crowd of 2,000 for a meeting with activists concerned about the cancer cluster in The Acreage. [CBS4]With Broward’s Democratic Party reeling from recent scandals, Broward Republican leaders hit the…
There you have it: a gym strictly for the aspiring mixed martial arts star. The Fighter’s Edge on University Drive in Lauderhill trains its members to kick ass, Kimbo-style. Or at least before Kimbo got his own ass kicked.Seems a rather bold venture, though, in this economy. This month the…
