Jun 09 2010
Rothstein Gets 50-Year Sentence for $1.2 Billion Ponzi Scheme
John Pacenti – Daily Business Review
June 09, 2010
Scott Rothstein, a one-time run-of-the-mill labor and employment attorney turned larger-than-life power broker, was sentenced today to 50 years in federal prison for engineering one of Florida’s biggest investment scams.
May 21 2010
Tiffany Kaiser – DailyTech – May 19, 2010 4:44 PM
With over 5,000 barrels of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico every day after the oil well leak on April 20, eight senators are contemplating pressing criminal and civil charges against BP. In the mean time, BP is scrambling to find solutions to what could be considered one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history.
Read More… Democratic Senators Call for Criminal, Civil Charges Over Gulf Oil Spill.
Dec 02 2009
Tiger’s business is his and no one else’s
By Gene Wojciechowski – ESPN.com
Oh, my gosh, Tiger Woods did/didn’t have a dispute with his wife, did/didn’t get chased out of the family mansion by his golf-club-wielding/loving spouse, did/didn’t get freaked out by the confrontation/nonconfrontation and did/didn’t suffer minor injuries after his Cadillac lost a two-round bout with a fire hydrant and tree!
Jun 17 2009
Worker dies from injuries in Lighthouse Point crane collapse
LIGHTHOUSE POINT – A construction worker hurt when a crane fell on him Tuesday has died from his injuries, police said.
Albert “Tiger” Phillips, who helped improve seawalls and docks as an employee for Ray Qualmann Marine, was taken to North Broward Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead Tuesday evening, Detective Joseph Tavares said.
Jun 12 2009
Two lawsuits accuse pair of Broward puppy stores of selling sick dogs
32 puppies rescued from Pembroke Pines store
By Susannah Bryan | South Florida Sun Sentinel
6:03 PM EDT, June 11, 2009
A sign on the door said “No more puppies available,” but dozens of abandoned dogs could be heard barking inside the darkened Pembroke Pines pet shop Thursday morning.
By mid-afternoon, rescuers from the national and local Humane Societies arrived at the Wizard of Claws store and found 33 puppies, one of them dead in its cage.
The puppy shop at 9113 Taft St. is one of two stores in Broward County battling lawsuits alleging they sold puppies that died or got sick within days or weeks of purchase. The lawsuit against Wizard of Claws, filed in 2007, is pending.
Apr 07 2009
Jerome Burdi | South Florida Sun Sentinel
TALLAHASSEE – Former Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Jorge Labarga will be sworn in as Florida’s 84th Supreme Court justice this afternoon in Tallahassee.
Mar 05 2009
Grand jury indicts suspects in Dunkin’ Donuts slaying
By Tonya Alanez and Rafael A. Olmeda | South Florida Sun Sentinel
FORT LAUDERDALE – A Broward County Click here for restaurant inspection reports grand jury on Wednesday indicted three men for a Tamarac doughnut shop killing and a Lauderhill shooting death.
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