South Florida is so rarely the site of good news about the housing market, it seems worth celebrating with Kirit Shah, a forensic chemist recently retired from NYPD who scored a great deal on a house in Royal Palm Beach that was built three years ago but has never had…
That’s the trailer for Police Women of Broward County (Why not Al’s Angels?), which makes its debut next Friday on TLC. Because if you’re going to launch a reality series on cops, place your chips on the county that birthed the 20-year-old reality series.The cable network has video intros of…
Charlie Crist will appear at a fundraiser tonight at the Tower Club in downtown Fort Lauderdale. For those who want to roll VIP, the price is five grand.Not sure if that’s a discount from the club’s monthly rate (membership director didn’t return a call immediately), but I suppose this is…
It’s the city where the three best American men at Wimbledon perfected their games, as well as the fourth-ranked woman in the women’s circuit. It’s home to the tennis academy of one of the best female players in history. It has a sparkling city court, one of the nation’s best…
I’m not as sure as letter-to-the-editor writer Richard Frisbie is that the case of Florida v. Brayman makes a fair comparison to the one between Cambridge police and Prof. Henry Louis Gates. But it’s worth mentioning if only to celebrate the verbosity of late Broward Circuit Court Judge John J…
Not even a month after a team of Sun-Sentinel reporters told South Floridians that the region was better prepared for a hurricane than it was four years ago when Wilma hit, the New York Times is reporting that in Broward County, emergency agencies have significantly less money than before Wilma,…
Oh, this is getting ugly. We told you about Corey Hipscher last week. The 37-year-old somehow managed to get a job at Quiet Waters Park in Deerfield Beach despite being a registered sex offender. A 10-year-old girl says he groped her. And her story sounded familiar to at least two…
GEO Group and Stanford Group: two very rich businesses with offices in Boca Raton, which have both recently caught flak for acting unethically in their respective industries. Totally unrelated, except for one cruel twist of fate: Allen Stanford, awaiting trial on charges of committing a $7 billion fraud, currently finds…
So the sweet old lady can call bullshit on the Canadian con men who have been targeting Tamarac seniors, according to Broward Sheriff’s Office:Scam artists working out of Canada are contacting seniors and pretending to be their “Grandchildren”. These scammers state that they are stranded, in jail or have been…
That’s a video from the Paralympic Games of wheelchair tennis, which has its own league within the United States Tennis Association. Last weekend in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Jan Proctor of Delray Beach won her first tournament after four years on the circuit. She’s 56 years old and beat a 38-year-old…
Come on, Joe Cotchett! You had 270 minutes with the financial Osama Bin Laden and you can’t even give us a hint about what you learned about his lieutenants? Following the San Francisco attorney’s jailhouse heart-to-heartstone with Madoff, Cotchett talked to ABC News, and maybe they’re holding back the good…
That’s a few points from a match this past weekend between two international youth volleyball squads, with the USA White Youth team in the foreground and a team from the Dominican Republic in the far court. Volleyball players, most of whom were girls, absolutely swarmed SE 17th Street last weekend…
Bad news for Madoff associates — some of whom reside in Broward and Palm Beach counties — who were hoping Bernie would take his secrets to the grave. Hot from the AP wire:A lawyer for victims of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme says the financier told him during a 4 1/2-hour…
I cringe to think how many baby photos this couple’s gonna generate.You may have recognized shots from Fort Lauderdale Beach in that series. And also Miami. Hey, why not haul the poor woman across the state to Sanibel Island while we’re at it? Or did she ruin the next day’s…
Justin Feagin inherited the athletic brilliance of his uncle Steven Feagin, but the star quarterback at American Heritage High School in Delray Beach was also saddled with the challenge of trying to focus on schoolwork and football practice while back home in Deerfield Beach his uncle awaited trial on rape…
So says our incoming celebrity stylist, Ted Gibson, who I told you about yesterday. Today we find him pimping Fort Lauderdale to W Magazine in an effort promote his salon at the W Hotel. Here’s an excerpt from the Q&A:And then you’re also opening a salon in Fort Lauderdale? So…
The Herald deserves congratulations for a fascinating story about a Broward County girl removed from a home of drug-addicted parents who is now seeking a legal relationship after those parents’ deaths, based on the possibility of inheriting money from the estate.But it does not explain the bizarre fact that the…
The Office of the Vice President just announced how it would divvy up a billion dollars in grant money for the hiring of cops. Broward and Palm Beach cities listed below:Boynton Beach: Eight officers for $1,948,352Delray Beach: Six officers for $1,360,164Fort Lauderdale: Twelve officers for $3,243,444Hallandale Beach: Five officers for…
Joe Gibbons better watch out. Not only is he no longer chairman of the Florida Legislature’s black caucus. But the new chairman is Gary Siplin, the state senator from Orlando famous for trying to put a crucified Christ on the Florida license plate. And Siplin doesn’t share Gibbons’ highfalutin notions…
View more news videos at: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/video.One is a beautiful, single, 21-year-old who poses seminude and is prone to tone-deaf, divisive political commentary. The other is a beautiful, married 34-year-old with three children and whose political cause is increasing child literacy. Which of these two would make a better ambassador for…
Seems a certain Master of the Universe is no longer Master of His Domain. Marc Leder, one of the founders of Boca Raton-based Sun Capital Partners, is trying to put the pieces together after his wife Lisa left with the couple’s three children and is now demanding half of Sun…
No, I don’t have evidence (yet) that this blog made a love connection between USF’s star-crossed kicker and the dangerously distracting coed from Fort Lauderdale. But I have found real-world proof that theme park drama leads to storybook romance.Just listen to Edna Bloom and her husband, Mel, whose bond was…
