Congratulations are in order for Fort Lauderdale native Mike Morse. He’s playing in the big leagues! (I realize that the Washington Nationals lineup consists mostly of players who’d be in the minors for winning teams, but technically, it’s a major-league baseball franchise.) Those opportunities have occurred only sporadically for the…
If you had to pick the county in America with the best high school football players, it would probably be Los Angeles — but that’s not fair: With 10 million people, L.A. County’s the biggest county in the nation. Now if you picked the best tricounty area, per capita, for…
Today in Broward and Palm Beach news:In a sign that the political pressure’s getting to him, Gov. Charlie Crist is taking a hard line on a member of the Public Service Commission who dined with the FPL treasurer and is now being pressured to recuse herself from a vote on…
Durham County has a sneaky way of getting under your skin. Maybe it’s the familiar anytown where it’s set. Or the way the characters line up along a moral spectrum that gets so blurry that even the serial killer seems human. Or at least not the monster that serial killers…
Eduardo Josue Ortizromero, an 18-year-old suspected of raping two women, aged 18 and 25, has been arrested by Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies in Dania Beach. Judging by the news release, he made it easy for cops and prosecutors — riding the bike associated with one rape and then giving a…
If anyone can convince the squares who read Fortune magazine about the medicinal qualities of marijuana, it’s Irv Rosenfeld. After all, his dozen-joint-per-day habit hasn’t kept him from being a successful Fort Lauderdale stock broker.The massive article begins with Rosenfeld picking up the Fortune reporter in a cannabis-clouded SUV, then…
That’s video from the tantrum that Serena Williams threw on Saturday to lose match point in the U.S. Open semifinals against Kim Clijsters. It was so compelling that it upstaged the feel-good story of Clijsters winning the title yesterday after two years away from competitive tennis following the birth of…
Your Monday in South Florida news:Turnovers killed the Dolphins on opening day. For a team with one of the league’s toughest schedules, this game against the Falcons was the closest thing to a gimme. It’s going to be a long year. [NFL.com]The Broward County School District is a finalist in…
Sample-sized appetite-whetters for the discriminating news consumer: Joyce Tarnow, the woman who ran an abortion clinic and ranted at Pompano Beach Commission meetings, has been missing from local media these last few years, but Juice unleashed the hounds, who found her cooped up in a remodeled cottage in Dixie County and still…
That’s the long, long highlight video from Denard Robinson’s career at Deerfield Beach High School. Impressive, but no more so than Justin Feagin’s highlight reel of a year before. Feagin played at American Heritage, but he’s also from Deerfield Beach. Both played quarterback. And both players accepted scholarships to play…
The extramarital affair is a grown man’s game. Looks like beginner’s luck finally ran out for 19-year-old Christopher Peterson. In the South Florida Times, Elgin Jones reports that Peterson, who this past year was a student at Life Skills Center in Oakland Park, got into a fender bender on July…
You know how you make your porn name by using your childhood pet’s name and the name of the street where you grew up? Apparently, the formula for professional wrestlers is:(First name of favorite action movie actor) + (last name of favorite movie character)And that’s how Dolph Diggler became the…
Childhood ambitions gone terribly awry: That’s the theme of today’s Broward Sheriff’s Office news release, which begins:An automotive engineering student who dreamed of someday building race cars was arrested this week by Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives for operating a chop shop in Pompano Beach. On Sept. 7, a BSO deputy…
OK, so it’s not nearly as goofy as the WPLG video I mentioned in the Morning Juice, but this one has a better backstory. Cynthia Muir, a spokeswoman for the Public Services Commission, is already in hot water over sharing BlackBerry PINs with an FPL lobbyist — one of the…
Canada may have a better health-care system than the U.S., but when it comes time to punish a Ponzi schemer, our neighbors to the north look south with envy. Bertram Earl Jones, a Montreal financier, is that nation’s version of Bernie Madoff. He stands accused of committing a Ponzi scheme…
Last night, ABC’s 20/20 aired a segment featuring an interview with Elie Assaad, the undercover operative who was working for the FBI to infiltrate a Miami-area mosque where agents believed terrorist plots were being hatched. In the interview (video hasn’t been posted yet), Assaad tells of being suspicious of 9/11…
Today everybody will be talking about 9/11 — because we haven’t talked about it enough these past eight years. Screw that. Let’s talk about the local news.Congratulations to Sen. George LeMieux, a lesson to all you Broward schoolchildren that sometimes you only need one vote to win a major political…
This past weekend, the major newspapers in the Tribune company chain, including the Sun-Sentinel, ran this article, originally from the Los Angeles Times, about how Obama is “fast losing white voters’ support.”And judging by the mostly white tea party types who’ve been heckling Democrats at health care town halls and…
In a region of the country that’s home to Bang Brothers and other amateur pornographers, the only shocking part of this story is that it hasn’t happened yet in South Florida.But if a fake Big Brother could happen in Turkey, it could happen here. So watch out, ladies.Then again… Reading…
