Broward Judge Peter B. Skolnik has had his campaign website taken down based on allegations by the web designer that Skolnik’s people have refused to pay for their bills and made threats against the design firm.On the right, that’s the image that’s currently dominating the front page of JudgeSkolnik2010.com. And…
Donations by the community to a homeless shelter in Pompano Beach are supposed to be sold to raise money for services to South Florida’s homeless population. Instead, says a former resident of Broward Outreach Center, the most valuable items are being purloined by the center’s staff.In one instance, says the…
When you make a donation to the campaign of Broward County Mayor Ken Keechl, you know that money will be well-spent. And I’m not just talking about the $3,100 per month that goes from the campaign account straight into the pocket of Keechl, who uses it to pay above-market rent…
Get a load of this. Congressional candidate Allen West has released a four-minute video documentary that makes his brutal interrogation of an Iraqi detainee look like a self-less, courageous act that cost a good soldier his career.For the propaganda-free account of the same incident, check out this Juice post from…
When the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington made out its list of political “crooks” last month, it was full of Florida candidates — Marco Rubio, Charlie Crist, and Congressman Kendrick Meek, who’s in the midst of a fierce primary battle with Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene,…
A Deerfield Beach woman filed a complaint against a building official who she says tried to use his position as a way to coerce her into an intimate relationship. Last month, that building official, Waguih Messiha, 62, was fired.According to public records, Nancy Loft, 43, went to the Deerfield Beach…
In the weeks before the Republican primary, it must be tempting to pander to the wingnuts who actually believe that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. Too tempting, it seems, for gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott, who fielded a question this week from one such wingnut during an appearance at the…
We’ve entered the home stretch in the race for U.S. Senate, and Marco Rubio is neck-and-neck with Charlie Crist. Which of these jockeys can whip his horse into a higher gear in the three months before the election? The momentum is clearly on Crist’s side, as evidenced by this week’s profile…
A glance at the local headlines for this Friday morning:Tropical Storm Bonnie is going to scratch away at the Broward – Miami-Dade area all day, with winds at 40 mph. For Palm Beach County, a tropical storm watch is in effect. [WSVN-7]The criminal gang Top 6 has become a top…
Congressional candidate Allen West wanted the South Florida Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to apologize for what he said was his politically motivated ouster from the “Finest Couples” gala. This afternoon, he got that apology, but it stopped short of admitting the dark political motives that West alleged.Rather, the foundation continues to…
Juice is still waiting to hear back from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation about its reasons for asking congressional candidate Allen West and his wife, Angela, to step down from the “Finest Couples” gala. But in public remarks today, the foundation spokesperson cited the fact that West is in the midst…
Nelson Mandela, Edmond Dantes, Andy Dufresne… Conrad Black? No, the media mogul who raided his company doesn’t leave prison with the same heroic sheen as those other ex-inmates; but you can expect Black to enjoy a post-release life similar to the Count of Monte Cristo. First stop for the chastened…
We must have entered the home stretch of the Broward County campaign, because there’s a fresh batch of high-larious hit mailers being circulated around the 954. That’s one of ’em on the right, courtesy the reelection campaign for Broward County Commissioner Sue Gunzburger. They feature Steve Geller as the greedy host…
Broward and Palm Beach news for this Thursday morning:Tropical Storm Bonnie is blooming over the Bahamas this morning. Storm advisories are expected around 11. [Palm Beach Post]The wife of attorney Stuart Rosenfeldt gave a deposition Wednesday in which she said her husband didn’t launder money for Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein,…
It seems natural to assume that college journalists think of newsprint the way NBA basketball players think of short-shorts: as a ridiculous relic from a hopelessly unhip past generation. But the longtime adviser to the Florida Atlantic University newspaper, Michael Koretzky, says that in his experience, young writers care little…
It worked for a legendary crook named Jack Abramoff, not to mention fictional crooks played by James Cagney and fictional tomb raiders like Indiana Jones. So now South Florida bank robbers are rocking this iconic headwear. Two weeks ago, a fedora-wearing thief knocked over a bank in Boynton Beach. And…
With its hairpin turns and thousand-foot drops, Bolivia’s “Road of Death” is mighty terrifying. But local thrill seekers don’t have go south of the equator to get their fix. They can just take a drive out to Southwest Broward — specifically, the intersection of Pines Boulevard and Flamingo Road…
Given the profound distrust between South Florida residents and South Florida cops, it should come as no surprise that a national television network like ABC News would draw from this region to illustrate a conflict between police and camera-wielding civilians. ‘Round here, we love to see cops on tape!But cops…
A standoff Tuesday afternoon with a suicidal man ended with his being gunned down by Palm Beach Sheriff’s deputies. PBSO has just released the man’s name: Robert Mathew Geiserman, 69.The initial call occurred around 3 p.m., and several hours of negotiation did nothing to change the mind of the man…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office has released the name of the man who drowned Tuesday night in choppy waters off Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. George Yuantei Tsai, 36, is the man’s name.Deputies and volunteer firefighters were called to the beach near the 4100 block of El Mar Drive Tuesday night around 6:30 after two…
