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Boynton Beach Dogfighting Suspects Plead Guilty to Reduced Charge

Last year, we brought you the story of three Boynton Beach men charged with operating a large-scale, Michael Vick-esque dogfighting ring. Paul Green, Ricky Norfus, and Samuel Denson were arrested in September 2007 and went to trial on felony charges, each facing up to 15 years in prison.But the first...
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James Randi Headlines Singularity Summit

One of the world's most famous skeptics was the keynote speaker at this weekend's Singularity Summit at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco.The annual event draws curious minds from around the globe to discuss a number of topics related to technological singularity, the theoretical moment in the future when a...
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Broward Health Has Cure for Recession (It’s Gonna Cost You)

In these times of health-care gouging, we can hardly blame middle-class families for skipping an annual checkup or for hoping that the pain, the nausea, the whooping cough will just go away on its own. Because who can afford to get sick?For Broward Health executives, physicians, and staff, this would...
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Vanilla Ice to Perform Live on Lopez Tonight Tonight

How much do you yearn for those sweet, innocent-ish years in the early '90s, when John Candy was in every comedy and a young Vanilla Ice was dancing and rapping across the set of Arsenio Hall's show? How about Super Mario Brothers 2? American Gladiators? New Coke? Crystal Pepsi? Sodas...
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Wasserman Schultz Town Hall an Ugly Night for Democracy

I can't imagine a single person who was present at last night's town hall meeting by Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz who would say the event was productive or worthwhile. The opponents of health-care reform and the Democratic Congress showed no interest in a dialogue; they just wanted to scream.The hatred...
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Corrupt Contractor KBR Under Fire in Palm Beach County; Anyone Surprised?

A front-page story in today's Palm Beach Post blasts the Houston-based engineering and construction firm Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) for not hiring enough local workers on its $200 million solid waste project in western Palm Beach County. One small detail is missing: KBR's sordid track record of hurting workers...
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Miami Dolphins A Cappella Group Seeks Vocalists: Our Nominations

The Miami Dolphins' official a cappella group, the Dolphins Voices, are once again looking for South Florida's finest vocalists. The eight-person group will host invitation-only tryouts July 10, at Sun Life Stadium, and will perform at Dolphins home games and other events throughout the season. Didn't know the Dolphins had...
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Watching Bafana Bafana in a South African Bar in South Florida

Yesterday, June 16, was Youth Day in South Africa, the national holiday commemorating the Soweto Riots--when the world discovered the brutality of apartheid. Yesterday was also the South African national soccer team's second game in this year's World Cup, against Uruguay. The Kalahari Bar, in Fort Lauderdale, claims on its...
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100 Favorite Dishes: Kimchi Stew From Yama

As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com...
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Wish You Were There: Lady Gaga New Year’s Eve Miami Beach Fontainebleau

Welcome to 2010. Newsflash Fontainebleau: Where mainstream, corporate, and alternative media cameras cannot shoot Lady Gaga, citizen cameras can, and this year they'll get better and more able to easily subvert your stupid rules.Here's video of Lady Gaga in a bikini (does her cock flop out the side? Is Lady...
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Educating Maria

On a recent afternoon inside the bustling day-care center Las Familias del Pueblo in downtown's Skid Row, Alice Callaghan heads toward a ringing phone. The middle-aged Episcopal minister, who was once a Catholic nun, still wears a kind of religious uniform that's both pragmatic and modest: a khaki skirt cut...