Florida Atlantic researchers are racing against melting polar ice caps and dwindling natural resources in hope of developing energy technology that exploits the vast powers of the ocean tides.Sue Skemp, executive director at Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Ocean Energy Technology, tells CNN: “If you can take an engine and…
Jeffrey Willis, 41, is the name of the inmate who was found dead last week at the Broward Sheriff’s Office main jail. On the right, his booking photo.Here’s the BSO release:The Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office will determine the cause and manner of death. Detectives have confirmed that the death…
Fashion designers find inspiration in the strangest places. For Keith Segal, it was a Fort Lauderdale sales clerk who had the nerve to ask $150 for a T-shirt without guaranteeing him a beautiful woman in the trade. From Segal’s hometown Chicago Sun-Times:About a year and a half ago. Segal attended…
When a celebrity gets a toe tag, Dr. Joshua Perper clears his throat for the inevitable talk-show appearance. The Broward medical examiner was catapulted to fame during the Anna Nicole Smith investigation, and now that prescription drug overdoses are slaying celebrities, Perper’s become a go-to guy.A frequent guest on Nancy…
At least since Bonnie and Clyde, criminals have been fashion trendsetters. Now an unidentified thief appears to be seeking similar icon status, days after wearing a “POLICE” T-shirt to an armed robbery in Pompano Beach.The BSO news release tells of a 35-year-old woman named Frances Baker who was at her…
National media coverage of the Joe Zada investment scandal has so far focused on his relationships with the Wellington-based equestrian community as well as with the former hockey star, Sergei Fedorov, who claims that Zada cheated him out of his $43 million investment. But it’s apparent that a number of…
A verdict is expected this week in the civil suit against Martin Memorial Medical Center in Stuart for flying an illegal immigrant patient out of the country in 2003 after he had accumulated some $1.5 million in medical bills that were unlikely to be paid. Luis Jimenez, who is Guatemalan,…
Ted Gibson, the celebrity stylist who just joined the cast of What Not to Wear, a TLC show, is opening his third salon in September at the W Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, the city that Gibson declares to be “the new Miami.”He’d better hope Lauderdale’s the new Palm Beach if…
The Joe Zada story had been inching along until a lawsuit filed last week by retired NHL star Sergei Fedorov gave it some celebrity juice. The former All-Star forward for the Detroit Red Wings accused Zada of screwing him out of a $43 million investment. When he met Fedorov, Zada…
Getting hairy at the Living Room in downtown Fort Lauderdale…
The next U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida will be either David Buckner, Willy Ferrer, or Daryl Trawick. They were selected by the Judicial Nomination Commission after interviews this month of 16. All three finalists are members of Miami’s legal community — Buckner in private practice, Ferrer in…
Of course West Palm’s CBS affiliate is going to give the story about the hazards of skinny jeans to Emily Pantaloons!…
No name, no age, no cause of death. All that Broward Sheriff’s Office is reporting for the moment is that their deputies found an inmate dead in his cell at the main jail in Fort Lauderdale, around 7 p.m. The inmate had been in the cell alone. Here’s the release…
An internal investigation of Deerfield Beach Fire-Rescue’s involvement in the city’s March municipal election found that six employees committed ethical violations. But those violations — storing political material in the fire station and wearing their work pants on the campaign trail — weren’t serious enough to cost the employees their…
Even when you’re in the newspaper business, it’s jarring to see someone you know on the front page of the New York Times website. (It’s been updated since then, but you can see the screen grab from earlier today.) As a cub reporter ten years ago, I covered politics for…
Fort Lauderdale-based BankAtlantic is, like most big banks, getting crushed by home loans that aren’t paying — the dreaded “toxic assets.” But unlike the biggest banks in the nation, BankAtlantic is not celebrating a second-quarter profit. Rather, it’s trying to cheer the loss of slightly less than it lost in…
When Michael Sullivan arrives in Hollywood for good next year, someone should give him a position with the city’s Office of Tourism. Because no one is more qualified to see the beauty and bountiful future of an otherwise shabby town than is the former mayor of Lawrence, Massachusetts — the…
The marginally palatable prospect of a Subway sandwich is largely to blame for the escape of two thieves from the Seminole Travel Center in Weston, pictured above. The success of the robbery itself? Well, that you can blame on the unlocked safe in the owner’s office.A Broward Sheriff’s Office release…
For the H. Wayne Huizenga class, it makes perfect sense. You’ve already got a private jet for business, so why not get a “rectum water jet” for your most private business? The “bottom drier” comes standard, as the salesman must have mentioned, along with the heated seats and the symphony…
This past week, everybody’s been talking about this Time.com poll in which the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart wins most-trusted-newscaster status. Maybe it means that television news networks have become “disaffected” with network television news? Or that Americans are fed up with stuffy anchors who are too deferential to newsmakers.To their…
It looks like journalism. But if Spirit Airlines didn’t pay for this segment on Fox Business Network, it should have. CEO Ben Baldanza gets five minutes of cable time to field questions that all have the same answer: because we have low fares.They ran out of time before the anchor…
It’s hard to understand how Maikon Bonani, star kicker for the University of South Florida, could have possibly forgotten to lock the door of the gondola on the Skyride at Busch Gardens in Tampa. After all, that was his job. It’s doubly perplexing that after realizing his error, in a…
