Tikkitress Johnson, the 39-year-old manager of a Taco Bell on Oakland Park Boulevard did not die this morning from an accidental fall. Rather, Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives believe she was murdered. From the BSO release: Just before 9 am, Oakland Park Fire Rescue was dispatched to a reported fall injury…
Saint Sanveur Michel is the name of the cab driver who was stabbed yesterday in Hollywood. The aggressor in the incident, which occurred near North 69th Avenue and Charleston Street before 11 a.m., is still at large. Hollywood Police describe him as a Hispanic male in his twenties who was…
A plucky group of summer camp kids, their counselors, and homeowners have rallied against a warehouse development in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, by Margolis Enterprises, a developer based in Boca Raton. The Burlington County Times reports that our locals are getting a lesson in child activism:”My daughter told me I should come…
Ever since Jesse Levine’s improbable run into Wimbledon’s third round, Canadians have been trying to claim the promising 21-year-old as their standard-bearer in tennis. But Levine and his family moved to Boca Raton when he was 13. That gave the Ottawa native a chance to enjoy the patronage of the…
It’s a Monday in the summer, which means we have to learn about the crappy movie that was America’s favorite this weekend. And today that task is more grim than usual. The big winner is G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.Despite the warnings of film reviewers around the nation, we…
After people are convicted of felonies, they have to wear orange jumpsuits. After Cliff Berry, Inc., was convicted of a felony, it also made a wardrobe change — into shirts bearing the brand new logo of Everglades Waste Removal Services.Or at least that’s the outfit en vogue at the company’s…
As the district staff of Congressman Ron Klein learned this week, South Florida legislators are at risk of having their town hall meetings mobbed by people who think Glenn Beck is sane. This group’s current source of hysteria is the Democrats’ health care reform plan. Or, as they might put…
In the last 24 hours, Palm Beach Post reporters Andrew Marra and Michael LaForgia have had some terrific scoops on the Dalia Dippolito murder-for-hire story: that a recent deed transfer revealed Dippolito had a financial motive to hire a hitman to kill her husband, and that it was Dippolito’s paramour…
It’s been a brutal week (year?) for Deerfield Beach Mayor Peggy Noland, but the weeks to come may bring a new rounds of bad publicity. According to a well-placed source at city hall, a city commissioner is likely to bring a motion at the August 18 meeting censuring Noland for…
Apparently, the Scots are not all thrilled that their motherland gave birth to the woman who gave birth to The Man, Donald Trump, who treated his $1 billion plan to build a golf resort in the Scot town of Aberdeenshire as a sentimental investment. That failed to win him favors…
For those who weren’t at the original Woodstock, or who were there but don’t remember being there (on account of drugs) Cinema Paradiso is putting together a 40th anniversary party that will celebrate the best of that event. (At the very least, it will be much, much more fun than…
Fab Melo, the seven-foot tall Brazilian exchange student who will make his American basketball debut this year at Sagemont High School in Weston, has made hoops fans in upstate New York awfully happy. He just committed to play his college ball at Syracuse.Known simply as “Melo,” he’s already drawing comparisons…
Yes, we’ll call it Kleinstock: The groaning / chanting droves of patriots who monopolized yesterday’s town hall meeting that Congressman Ron Klein’s staff has each month with constituents.Of course, you can’t trust the liberal media to report accurately on that meeting. So until Fox News launches a bureau with an…
Deerfield Beach city employees who fail to greet Mayor Peggy Noland in the manner seen above will be deemed “disrespectful.” To wit, any other greeting is “unacceptable” and causes “irrevocable damage to the welfare of the department” and their fellow workers. As such, those workers will face disciplinary action, just…
As was widely expected (and dreaded, in conservative quarters) the U.S. Senate gave its approval to Barack Obama’s appointment for U.S. Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor. Florida’s Sen. Mel Martinez was one of just nine Republicans to cast a vote in favor of the appointment. That’s because he fell head-over-heels in…
For the second time this week, Broward Sheriff’s deputies have booked one of their own. Gladys Dauphin, a detention deputy at BSO’s main jail in downtown Fort Lauderdale, is accused of striking an inmate in the head with her handheld radio. She’s also accused of filing a false report of…
Good luck finding the full, unedited video of Tuesday’s barnburner of a Deerfield Beach commission meeting. The one currently posted on the city’s website is only a fraction — the uncontroversial fraction — of what transpired that night. So says the blogger who claims to be a victim of those…
There are a great many lessons to be learned from the sad story of Dalia Dippolito, the Boynton Beach woman who’s accused of paying a hitman (who was actually an undercover agent) to kill her husband.The first is that you shouldn’t marry someone only to try killing them six months…
I know we’re supposed to hate all things connected with the New York Jets, but it’ll be hard not to pull for Kareem Brown. He’s a native South Floridian who suited up for the U. and then — through no fault of his own — was drafted by the odious…
The funny thing is, Sylvia Poitier knows that she gave her nemesis, Chaz Stevens, exactly what he wanted. But Deerfield Beach’s vice mayor still couldn’t resist. Because Stevens gets to tee off on her at his blog, Acts of Sedition, and her weapon is the commissioner remarks, the freestyle portion…
A settlement between federal prosecutors and UBS, accused of helping America’s wealthy cheat Uncle Sam out of his taxes, appears likely to be struck tomorrow in Miami’s federal court. The deal — brokered through intense negotiations by diplomats — is not likely to produce the names of the approximately 52,000…
