When it comes to South Florida athletes of Haitian descent, Jozy Altidore gets all the accolades. Strange, because by his own admission, he plays soccer. Jason Pierre-Paul, a Deerfield Beach High School graduate now playing defensive end for the University of South Florida, is grabbing some headlines of his own,…
That’s one scary set of clues, but that’s the bulletin from the Boynton Beach Police Department: A bloody mattress was found in a dumpster behind a Boynton Beach business this morning. A child’s blanket was found on top of the mattress. We are asking the media to help us get…
According to a sports website, ESPN.com, there is a hockey team in South Florida. Presumably, the “Panthers” are so named because they’re a rarely seen threatened species. In fact, according to ESPN, the Panthers’ biggest star — winger David Booth — is practically invisible when he drives around Broward County…
About a year ago, Heather Kertesz of Boca Raton was the plaintiff in a suit against the operators of a website, collegewildparties.com (link NSFW), which she claimed published images of her on the night of her 21st birthday without consent. A Palm Beach Post article about the case is here.Now…
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Let’s see what’s newsy in Broward and Palm Beach this Thursday morning:Hollywood ophthalmologist Alan Mendelsohn, a major fundraiser for Charlie Crist, turned himself in after being charged by the FBI with fraud. The allegations against Mendelsohn first appeared on Daily Pulp this past March. [WPLG]Remember Hollywood Commissioner Keith Wasserstrom? He…
The cover of this week’s print edition is suitable for framing. The Fall Arts Guide, masterfully curated by Erica K. Landau, will help you craft a schedule that will accommodate all the season’s most smashing artistic happenings.When it comes to painting political scenes, there’s no artist more accomplished than Bob…
This afternoon I reached Rhonda Calhoun, the North Broward Hospital District commissioner who at last week’s meeting vented her “frustration” toward fellow board members who aren’t as concerned about ethics as she is.But that wasn’t the first time that Calhoun felt like the lone wolf. She told me that roughly…
Ocean currents only seem to behave randomly; researchers have detected a method to their movements. They’re coordinated in fashion similar to the way a muscle moves around a “skeleton.” By recognizing that system, researchers may be able to predict it, in the same way as meteorologists predict the weather. And…
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell arrives in Boca Raton this weekend, the site of the original inspiration of the book that became the movie. What are the critics saying about the magnum opus of Tucker Max, our local frat boy made good?Let’s start with our own Village Voice…
In a plot that might have been cooked up by Cheech and Chong, a Hialeah man and his uncle have been arrested for taking a road trip from Texas to South Florida in a semi truck packed with 230 pounds of hash. The drive ended just short of its goal,…
Since May, this blog has turned up allegations of ethical misconduct by five of the seven commissioners who rule the North Broward Hospital District. That leaves just two — Dan Gordon and Rhonda Calhoun. And at last Wednesday’s meeting, when nary a member of the South Florida media was there…
Programming Note: This shall be the inaugural edition of Panning for Gold: a Juice special report on the culture of the Florida Panhandle, where all the laws of this great state are made.In the Panhandle, folks learn by doing, which is why R. Scott Whitehead may be the state’s most…
A tour of what’s in the local news this morning:In Pembroke Pines, an 18-year-old awaiting trial on theft charges in being questioned in the shooting of his father and stepmother. [Miami Herald]Parents in Palm Beach County vented at school district official Jeffrey Hernandez over curriculum changes that require more regimented…
This evening, Divers from the Boynton Beach Police Department pulled a passenger from a submerged vehicle at a lake near Miner Road, near Congress Avenue. The man, who has not been identified was transported to JFK, but according to the police statement, he has since died. It appears he was…
Quick! Someone find Milagros Serrano! This article says she voted in upstate New York — even though she’s lived in Hollywood the last two years.The signature attributed to Serrano on the ballot looks nothing like her signature from a voter registration card filed several years ago at the Board of…
Not all white-coated doctor-y looking guys agree with the one in the video above as to the merits of the HairMax Lasercomb hair loss technology based in Boca Raton. In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal:”I think it is an expensive tool for very little difference,” says Amy McMichael, an associate professor…
They started in Texas and Louisiana, but now authorities say that the two men behind string of WalMart robberies have made it all the way to the East Coast, striking last night at the store in Boynton Beach.The duo has an affinity for the garden center and the automobile center,…
If you’ve driven south recently on I-95 in North Broward, then chances are that God has shown you a sign. Not the subtle kind, either — see left. There’s another one near I-95 and I-595. What’s God got up his sleeve?…
Jozy Altidore, the teenager from Boca Raton who was one of the heroes of America’s improbable run in the FIFA Confederations Cup this past summer, will not meet many of his countrymen this season. That’s because he’s playing in Europe’s elite first division, where the best American players tend to…
