It’s hard to make a celebrity marriage work. Golfing great Greg Norman and tennis great Chris Evert made it only 15 months before they separated last week. And this weekend, Norman’s ex, Laura Andrassy, who last year scored a $120 million settlement in the divorce, gave a wide-ranging interview to…
To my fellow wage slaves, making regular payments to a Social Security program that will never pay us back: Let’s take comfort in the knowledge that our contributions are helping to finance the twinkle-toed retirement of ladies like octogenarian Lee Wachsetter. From Sunday’s edition of the Toronto Sun:A few years…
Here’s a look through the headlines on this Tuesday morning.A nurse at Broward General Medical Center used IV bags contaminated with other patients’ fluids, exposing some 1,800 patients to risk of disease. [NBCMiami]The H1N1 vaccine shots are coming next week, though there’s still no date as to exactly when doctors…
Late Friday, one day after staffers at Deerfield Beach City Hall met to discuss bids by local restaurateurs for the space at the end of the city’s pier, JB’s on the Beach has withdrawn from the competition.Of course, in August, JB’s won that bid only to have it thrown out…
Hollywood Police just updated the media about its findings in shooting incident that occurred in the late afternoon Sunday in Boulevard Heights. It’s a murder-suicide. The shooter’s name is Zacaria Fernandez, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after he shot Yvonne Magdalena Rios, the sister of his estranged wife,…
That’s some recently posted footage from the 25-year-old heavy metal band’s appearance this weekend at Revolution. I’m not fluent in “GWAR,” but I’ll give this a try: An Obama figure who gets his head torn off and spits geysers of blood through his neck means that a heavy metal band…
I know. It’s early, but check out this report from the Broward Sheriff’s Office in Dania Beach:A female called 911 and advised that someone knocked on the door at 150 NW 13 Ave. Dania Beach. A man dressed in business suit, with a tie and a briefcase asked the man…
That’s Coral Springs ninth-grader Alexis Thompson, starring Friday at the Navistar LPGA Classic in Alabama. Besides that interview with ESPN, Thompson took a call from one of the legends of women’s golf, Nancy Lopez.Thompson came down to Earth on Saturday, falling eight strokes behind the lead, but she still came…
It’s Monday. Here’s the news from the weekend in Broward and Palm Beach. Big win for the Dolphins, who desperately needed a boost of confidence after an 0-3 start and Pennington’s season-ending injury. Vontae Davis returned an interception for a touchdown, setting the tone for the defense’s best effort of…
You would think that the first native of Broward County ever elected appointed to the U.S. Senate would toss a few bones to the home team. But Sen. George LeMieux’s newly announced staff is conspicuously lacking in locals.Ironically, this might be the only good thing about appointing a U.S. Senator,…
Looks like the Panthers like playing in front of big crowds. In Helsinki, they won their opening game of the season against the Chicago Blackhawks, a team that’s a fashionable pick to win the Stanley Cup.David Booth overcame the Juice jinx, scoring the tying goal with less than three minutes…
The finals of the Miss Florida Teen USA pageant happens Sunday at Bailey Hall at the Broward College campus in Davie. But the “Miss Cruel Teen USA” event is set for the same location on Saturday, in hopes giving this glamor queens a black eye.It’s a brainstorm of the Animal…
It sure sounds like a nice gesture: Attorney Sam Goren’s Fort Lauderdale firm gives pro bono legal work to the Broward League of Cities, the nonprofit organization through which the county’s 31 municipal governments collaborate and work toward state and federal policies that serve their collective good. It’s a gathering…
The Housing Authority of New Orleans entrusted its financial books to a South Floridian: Elias Castellanos, who had an accounting firm in Coral Gables and a McMansion in Davie. He also had a fleet of luxury cars — the kind that makes a body wonder whether he’s an honest accountant.He’s…
The best basketball player to ever walk planet Earth is moving to Jupiter. A $7.6 million mansion? Fine. He deserves it, along with the lifetime of leisure that awaits him in the decades to come. I certainly have no regrets from buying the Bulls tickets and jerseys and countless pairs…
This Friday morning, the news cycle begins by telling us more about a few South Florida families than they ever wanted us to know:More than a year after she fired a shot into his pillow and two more shots as Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Frank Adderley fled out the back…
I’m not going to get on a soapbox and complain about unimaginative, exploitative reality television shows. But I do feel entitled to complain when they’re not even good at being unimaginative and exploitative. If they were, they would have recognized the star power of Stefanie Woods right after the 17-year-old…
That’s Stacie Ritter: The Cindy Sheehan of the health-care crisis, she’s known some tough times. But this plucky mom is ready to take her fight for health care to the front door of the Cigna CEO’s mansion. Meanwhile, Stacy Ritter has a mansion of her own, courtesy her marriage to…
If you think about it, the investment scam is the ultimate virtual reality game: It gives its customers the extremely life-like sensation of getting rich, albeit at considerable cost. So why not offer virtual reality itself as an investment scam? Too late. Someone’s already thought of it.The SEC is suing…
