Before he became the assistant athletic director of Nova Southeastern, Larry Starr spent 30 years working as a trainer in clubhouses for the Cincinnati Reds and Florida Marlins. In a Chicago Sun-Times article published Sunday, he paints a ghoulish picture of the behind-scenes baseball culture that preceded the recent scandals…
For a teen-aged immigrant from Brazil, I’m sure it’s mighty tough to acclimate to America, let alone a city with Weston’s wide boulevards and tranquil pace. So maybe it’s best that transfer rules prevented young Fabrecio de Melo from suiting up this past year for the Sagemont School basketball team…
Deerfield Beach’s vice mayor, formerly known as Sylvia Poitier, is now going with her maiden name, Ferguson. The move, which she mentioned in her remarks at last week’s meeting, as seen above, comes amid her claiming to have been “defamed” by Acts of Sedition blogger Chaz Stevens, who yesterday filed…
When you fill out a deposit slip these days, it’s hard to know whether you’ll get the money back or if you’re throwing it into a bottomless pit. So it should come as an enormous relief that a bank-rating firm, Bauer Financial, has given passing grades to banks and credit…
One of the best parts of being Florida governor is access to a jet with which to indulge your most sudden, insatiable geographical impulses.For example, New Times’ eagerly anticipated Best Of Broward/Palm Beach issue hit this website on June 11. (Memorize that date — we’ll get back to it.) The…
In a post Friday, we described the “Houdini-esque predicament” of Charles Saltzman, a former treasurer of the Deerfield Beach cat shelter, Feline Friends. Three years after leaving that position, he’d seemingly been caught red-handed, raiding a Feline Friends-controlled bank account of more than $11,000.The funds had been willed to Feline…
Iran’s Foreign Ministry is trying to lure the U.S. into a bigger role in that nation’s tempestuous election aftermath by accusing Americans of egging on protests that sparked violence this weekend. [Spokesman Hassan] Qashqavi drew comparisons to American election results. “No one encouraged the American people to stage a riot”…
On Saturday, the media couldn’t get into Tehran, but they sure as hell were welcome at the Hooters 2009 International Swimsuit Pageant, staged this year at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Fort Lauderdale.A rather spectacular departure from the venue’s typically high-brow fare, the night started with…
Every TV news station in South Florida follows the same script: attractive people reading a teleprompter full of news that’s spectacular on video, inconsequential to the viewer and forgotten in a flash. Fine. It’s theater. I get that. But theater thrives on character, too. And this is what’s lacking in…
The New Mount Olive Baptist Church has chosen to honor its long-time pastor, Dr. Mack King Carter, by naming a Fort Lauderdale street after him. A noble gesture, considering the $3,500 fee, and an especially bold leap of faith when one considers the church’s having already invested hundreds of thousands…
Bank documents suggest the former treasurer of a Deerfield Beach cat shelter forged a signature, seized control of its fundraising company, and then drained its bank account, depriving the cash-strapped shelter of $11,290 that made up its emergency fund.But despite a paper trail that leads back to the treasurer, Charles…
R. Allen Stanford, the billionaire head of Houston-based Stanford Financial Group, which kept offices in Boca Raton and Miami, among other markets, was indicted today on charges of fraud and obstruction of justice. Our sister blog Riptide has a report…
Marc Goldstone and Joe Truhe, formerly the two lead attorneys for the North Broward Hospital District, are being investigated for possible criminal charges of practicing law without a license, according to a source with knowledge of the case.The attorneys were fired in mid-May amid allegations by the public health care…
Joe Truhe, the former associate general counsel for the North Broward Hospital District, filed suit today, alleging that in firing him last month, the public health care system violated the Whisteblower’s Act. The suit also names Commissioner Robert Bernstein and the interim general counsel, Sam Goren, accusing the pair of…
A source with knowledge of these things tells Juice that Deerfield Beach City Hall has decided on a new policy regarding video presentations at its commission meetings: Since pornography sometimes appears in video form, and since the city’s government does not trust one particular citizen’s video submissions, it will henceforth…
A fire at the building that houses the law office of Hollywood Mayor Peter Bober is being investigated by police for possible arson.According to a Hollywood Fire Department spokesman, Mark Steele, a fire struck in the upper floors of the building at 1930 Tyler St. in Hollywood just before 6…
Sen. Jim DeMint from South Carolina is one of the most conservative members of Congress, but it’s still something of a coup that he endorsed the most conservative contender in Florida’s Senate race, Marco Rubio.That’s because in doing so, DeMint is defying the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which endorsed Charlie…
Judging by Marc Goldstone’s email inbox, the week of May 11 began like any other. That was a Monday, and the general counsel for the North Broward Hospital District exchanged emails with CEO Frank Nask about attending a health care convention the first week of June. But by Tuesday May…
Now that MC Hammer has his own reality show, you just knew the Vanilla Ice cameo was soon to follow. The Wellington white boy man makes his appearance on this Sunday’s third episode for a “huge concert” in the only state white enough to fill a stadium for the show:…
Last night the Deerfield Beach City Commission conducted a seminar on how not to deal with a buzzing gadfly. Chaz Stevens was deprived his chance to address the commission (by video), he inspired his nemesis Vice Mayor Sylvia Poitier to climb down from the dais to address the commission as…
As Hallandale Beach inches closer to cutting a big check to build its own wastewater treatment plant, Commissioner Keith London asks that his objections be duly noted in the historical record. For starters, London objects to a $150,000 study that tells the commission what it already knows: that the plant…
