Let me explain. Surveys show that Charlie Crist is one of the nation’s most popular governors. Polls show that he has a huge, possibly insurmountable lead in the race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. Yet straw polls show that Republican activists prefer underdog Marco Rubio. And some of…
Leonard Cohen has to do everything the hard way. The singer and songwriter collapsed on stage Friday in Valencia, Spain. He still performed in Barcelona last night, on his 75th birthday. He also had plans for a bold twofer in Israel — scheduling shows in Tel Aviv and the West…
A stroll through South Florida news on this Tuesday morning:The mentally challenged man who was convicted of murder and served 22 years in prison before being freed by DNA evidence was paid $2 million by the Broward Sheriff’s Office for its deputies’ role in badgering him into a confession and…
All we know about the stabbing that happened early Saturday morning in Lake Worth was that it involved rival rappers — and that the victims were so hardcore that they didn’t even want to press charges against their attackers. In the search for a hip-hop artist in Palm Beach County…
UPDATE / CORRECTION The post below was based in part on conversations with the Fort Lauderdale City Clerk’s office, which now says that members of the advisory board were obligated to file financial disclosure forms because that board did not have financial responsibilities. As such, LeMieux was not required to…
A writer at American Chronicle, Virgil Hervey, offers a personal story about the health-care status quo that Glenn Beck’s disciples are working arduously to protect. It begins with Hervey’s receiving a call about his parents, who lived in Hollywood and were in a car accident in Italy. Hervey’s father died…
Watch CBS Videos OnlineJust look at that! Indisputable video evidence of recent economic activity in your Broward County. Katie Couric’s CBS News was so gobsmacked, she had to send a correspondent to see it in person.The Broward Bank of Commerce in downtown Fort Lauderdale has 99 shareholders and — we…
Among the many signs of desperation by employers who are struggling to survive this recession is that rate of sublease offerings: a company looking to trim costs lays off employees and then offers a deal on unused office space that it’s renting. For start-up and small businesses, those rates prove…
Maybe his wife’s just pissed because Charlie Crist did not appoint her to the U.S. Senate, like he did his good buddy George LeMieux. Whatever the case, it’s becoming clear that the honeymoon period is over for Florida’s First Couple, who appear to be drifting apart as they approach their…
The headlines on this Monday in Broward and Palm Beach:A flight from Gainesville to Fort Lauderdale vanished in the Everglades just south of the Palm Beach County border. One passenger has already been confirmed dead. The other three are presumed dead. [WPLG]The plea deal for Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein…
Juice readers learned this week that there’s plenty of room for sex offenders in Palm Beach. Of course, that’s not the fashionable kind of charity favored by the island crowd. Rather, they give a haughty golf clap to efforts like that of their neighbors, the Fanjul family, whose Florida Crystals…
This month, when Bernie Madoff’s three homes went on the market, it was anyone’s guess as to whether their link to the convicted swindler would be regarded as a curse or whether it would add to the home’s mystique. Folks with $10 million to spend on a home can afford…
For those of you who thought you knew James Present, you didn’t. You knew Ronald Hippolyte, the mastermind of an identity theft ring who was to serve a 4-and-a-half-year a prison sentence in New Jersey. He bolted in 2005 and has been living in Delray Beach as James Present since…
A 49-year-old man named Scott Michael Barry, whose last known residence was in Broward County, was identified yesterday as the man found dead this weekend in a Pasco County lake. From the St. Petersburg Times: Neighbors along Wagon Wheel Lane found the body floating face down in the lake Saturday…
Jack Carpenter is the protagonist of Night Monster, a novel released Monday by Florida writer James Swain. An excerpt posted on Swain’s website begins with Carpenter’s fielding a call about a college student, Naomi Dunn, being assaulted at a condo. I tested the door’s handle. It was locked, and I…
Paul Innamorato is the name of the man whose body was found along I-95 on September 10, but the Fort Lauderdale Police Department is still trying to learn the circumstances that brought about the 54-year-old’s death. From today’s release: Innamorato was staying at the Marriott Harbor Beach Hotel located at…
Wayne F. Gorsek owns 31 percent of vitacost.com, and that might make Nasdaq investors a little queasy. After all, the SEC won a judgment against Gorsek and two associates in 2002, after accusing them of fraudulently promoting microcap companies in exchange for cash and stock. So in advance of an…
Rodney Squires is the suspect in a shooting that occurred around 12:30 this morning at a home for teens in Fort Lauderdale. The police department’s release: Preliminary investigation has revealed that the victim was in the parking lot at 1036 Northeast 3rd Avenue listening to music with three juvenile females…
Friday’s headlines in South Florida:Casey Anthony’s attorneys say they want to bring her case to Broward or Palm Beach to get a fair trial. [Palm Beach Post] After the jump, Jack Nicholson gives a response on behalf of the locals.A Hollywood man was awarded $14 million in a malpractice suit…
