I’m not a good enough Catholic to judge Rev. David Dueppen, and frankly, neither are you. For those men angry about the Pembroke Pines priest who had sex with a stripper: Maybe you’re just mad that you didn’t think of it first:The elusive exotic dancer cannot be seduced one dollar…
Tuesday’s South Florida headlines:The feds who filed corruption charges against Broward Vice Mayor Josephus Eggelletion are taking a closer look at GOLF, the nonprofit through which he allegedly took bribes. But for those who were hoping to learn “squat” about the organization’s finances, bad news: the accountant told your local…
I will leave you to speculate as to the reasons that Samuel Presendieu was meeting a woman he had met on Myspace and knew only as “Boss Lady” this past Friday night in Boynton Beach.The police report says Presendieu, 23, was sitting in the front seat of his Grand Marquis…
Palm Beach County is being terrorized by the bespectacled bank robber, and now Broward County is haunted by the beer-bellied bank robber, who’s hit the same Citibank location in the course of a month. From the Broward Sheriff’s Office release:Once again it seems like the beer belly bank robber has…
Coral Ridge Presbyterian in Fort Lauderdale houses one of the nation’s greatest pipe organs, but this week it no longer has an organist. Tipsters to the Juice say that Sam Metzger, the church’s senior organist, playing in the video above, left his post last week, along with the church’s Minister…
Yesterday in his nationally syndicated column, the Washington Post’s George Will joined the chorus of “true” conservatives to accuse Charlie Crist of being — gasp! — a moderate. Will condemned the national Republicans who gave Crist their endorsement the moment after Crist announced his candidacy for Senate. And he’s showing…
An afternoon full of rain made a sloppy field, but the University of Georgia Bulldogs had faith that their young kicker, Blair Walsh, a sophomore from Boca Raton, could knock the ball through the uprights from 37 yards away. He did so with no time left on the clock. Arizona…
Since he left the NBA in 2005, we can’t give Kenny Anderson the award for the league’s Most Improved Player. But if there were an off-the-court award for players who suddenly developed their character after a sordid past, it would go to the former Georgia Tech star who now lives…
It’s beginning to look like most Mondays are going to be downers, Dolphin fans. So let’s get it over with:The Dolphins lost 23-13 to the San Diego Chargers. Pennington went down with an apparent shoulder injury. If it’s serious, that 0-3 is going to feel like an even deeper hole…
That’s Rod Beck. “Shooter,” as he was known by fans and teammates. Looks like a guy rousted from a truck stop, doesn’t he? Note the Fu Manchu, the double chin, the mullet. Below that, a massive beer gut. This is a guy who during a stint in the minors with…
That’s the photo that instantly became the metaphor for the Broward County corruption scandal. The Gallagher family on their way from the courthouse, clasping one another, a cameraman in their midst. At first glance, that cameraman look likes he’s running with the family — that he’s a Gallagher.Or that he…
Eric Hammond was one of former Miramar Commissioner Fitzroy Salesman’s most generous campaign donors and most devoted allies. An engineer in Plantation, Hammond is of Caribbean descent, like Salseman, but before they met in the Caribbean American Democratic Club they met as a fellow activists. Having run for numerous city…
Celestine “Skip” Aniekwu and Luke Facarazzo Jr. are the most recent businessman to be charged in the federal sting against corrupt Broward County officials. They’re accused of asking FBI agents posing as crooked businessmen for help funneling $50,000 bribes to Miramar officials.It’s not yet known whether one of those officials…
That’s the trailer for I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, the movie for audiences who thought The Hangover was too subtle. It’s based on the best-selling book of the same name by Tucker Max. The film, which is limited release this weekend, is sure to linger for an uncomfortably…
In June, New Jersey detectives asked Karen Sosa to give them an interview. They hoped the secretary could offer a clue about how more than a half million dollars disappeared from a Bloomfield car dealership between 2007 and 2008. When she didn’t show, that was a clue. When she vanished…
A corruption-littered week in Broward County limps to a close. Will there be more criminal charges today?Two businessmen have been charged for allegedly asking undercover federal agents posing as crooked lobbyists to help them conceal the source of $50,000 used to bribe Miramar officials. [Sun-Sentinel]Art Kennedy, a Republican who has…
Christine Levinson of Coral Springs is the wife of Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent turned private investigator who in 2007 followed a case to Kish Island in the Persian Gulf and hasn’t been seen since. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s in New York, where today he gave a speech to the United…
Jazzy, ain’t it? That little ditty is by Lloyd Marcus, whose musical genius works like a dog whistle on the Tea Party crowd. Marcus will be joined by Joe the Plumber (no, that wasn’t a campaign-season nightmare — he really exists!) at Revolution/America’s Backyard in Fort Lauderdale on October 3…
Alan T. Brown of Hollywood is the subject of an article in the most recent issue of Newsweek. Paralyzed from the chest down since colliding with a rock at age 20, the now 42-year-old Brown has long hoped medical technology would discover a means for him to walk again –…
