Here’s a phenomenon that seems to run contrary to popular concepts of how markets work: As the economy falters, the jobless droves have pawned their gold; and yet that seeming flood in the market has done nothing to reduce the value of gold. On the contrary, gold has increased from…
Last week the National Council of La Raza, the Hispanic civil rights organization, announced a stunning trend in immigration: In just one year, applications for U.S. citizenship dropped 62 percent.That figure may be a tad misleading — there were a surge of applications in 2007 to beat increases in application…
Spirit, the airline based in Miramar that has a frat boy’s sense of humor and a loves to brag about its low fares has committed some low-down tricks, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation, which today announced a $375,000 fine. That’s a record!But is it enough to knock the…
Those are four photos of the man who the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Sheriff’s Office believes is behind a string of bank robberies. They’ve got a description match on at least eight of them, starting in May with most recent one last Friday, when he must have forgotten to wear his…
En garde! In downtown Hollywood, swordplay is no longer just for transients. In two weeks, the Hollywood Sabres Fencing Club will open its doors at 2000 Harrison St., near Young Circle, to go along with the glass-blowing, jewelry-making, and sculpting that happens in the ArtsPark. But those latter three all…
Exactly one month ago, in the fifth inning of a minor-league baseball game in Birmingham, Alabama, former Broward Community College star Christian Marrero stepped into the batters box and looked to the mound, where lefty Darin Downs was getting the signals from his catcher. Downs played at Santaluces High School…
The headlines for this Thursday:Is the Florida Department of Education cooking the books to make it appear that there’s a decline in violence at South Florida schools? [CBS4 special investigation]Is the Florida Division of Alcohol, Bureau and Tobacco trying to cover up allegations of prostitution at Cheetah, a strip club…
Bill Ayers and other members of the Weather Underground may have thought that after the Obama presidential campaign they had debunked the notion that they were true terrorists. But in this week’s feature Peter Jamison rebunks that theory, offering previously undisclosed details of the investigation into whether the organization orchestrated…
I’m not necessarily saying the two things are related. But with Florida Power & Light, you never know. The utility has ingratiated itself with its state regulators at the Public Service Commission, prompting a corruption investigation at a time when it is also asking for a rate hike and permission…
A Boca Raton man has entered a guilty plea in a Kansas court to charges that he was part of a conspiracy to defraud investors across North America. The case against John Persaud started the moment that one of his firm’s junk faxes arrived in the Wichita, Kansas, office of…
Looks like America’s most handsome mustache has been having a bit of trouble kicking a habit for the pain pills, and now Burt Reynolds is coming to West Palm Beach for treatment.How come South Florida only gets a visit from a celebrity after he or she has hit the skids?…
Move over, Dahlia Dippolito. The Broward Sheriff’s Office has its own undercover hitman and he allegedly convinced a couple to hire him for the murder of a key witness. Erik Kelly and a girlfriend, Tiffany Jamaluddin, are both facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder.Kelly was already in BSO custody…
Oscar Wolford couldn’t find work, so according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, he tried his hand at fraud. The 32-year-old Pompano Beach man was arrested at a Deerfield Beach hotel Monday after deputies got a tip that Wolford used false I.D.s to open bank accounts with bad checks, then withdrawing…
Much was made of the cold shoulder turned by Palm Beach high society against the Jaffe family and others linked to Bernard Madoff, whose locker at the Palm Beach Country Club was unceremoniously stripped after the scandal broke. Yet other villains of high finance, whose recklessness may have had an…
I don’t want to jinx it, so I’ll just say that we haven’t had to worry about currihanes lately. But there’s still six more weeks left in the danger zone. Let’s whistle past the graveyard; besides, we have plenty of other worries:As H1N1 gains momentum, the feds are close to…
Broward County’s legal system is an ultra-cynical reality show set in a leaky, creaky courthouse, where an honorable attorney’s ideals get murdered with weekly regularity — as surely as Kenny gets whacked on South Park. That culture is a disease. Attorney Sean Conway’s blog diatribe against Judge Cheryl Aleman? That’s…
In a reversal of its original decision, the Broward Sheriff’s Office is now asking county prosecutors to bring a misdemeanor case against the 17-year-old caught snapping cell phone photos of girls going to the loo at Cypress Bay High School in Weston.From the BSO news release:The victim, a 15-year-old student,…
Who doesn’t love jaguars? The big cat. The slick car. The NFL team you always forget is in Florida. But in these vicious economic times, you must choose between your love of jaguars and your desire to save money on Florida Crystals sugar.Above, a freeze frame of the sugar giant’s…
In what may be the most tone-deaf, irresponsible men fashion trend since Marky Mark’s sagging pantaloons, Brooks Brothers is now encouraging us to dress like Ponzi schemers and multi-millionaire welfare queens.Of course, that’s not quite the phrasing with which the company announced its spring line — instead, the article in…
On behalf of the men of my generation, I submit the video above along with my petition to remember Patrick Swayze not for his twinkle-toed turn in Dirty Dancing but for his ass-kicking, mullet-flaunting performance in Roadhouse.Judging by the headlines that say “Dirty Dancing Star Swayze dead at 57,” the…
