Howard Finkelstein

Nothing like some good outrage for the holiday season. The cases involving notorious South Florida deadly drivers John Goodman and Ryan LeVin have provided plenty. When I heard that Goodman had been allowed to return to his Wellington mansion to......

So, if a judge makes you take your wife out to Red Lobster after a fight that resulted in your arrest for battery, what do you order? All the shrimp you can beat? Cracked crab legs? Blackened walleye? Sorry, don't......

UPDATE: The stars of ???Police Women of Broward County??? and ???Unleashed: K-9 Broward County??? are supposed to appear at the Publix at 5211 Sheridan Street in Hollywood from 10:30 a.m.. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, the Sheriff???s Office said. Lamberti...

By recent South Florida political standards, the trial scheduled to start today involving two suspended Coral Springs city commissioners is relatively small pickings: Vincent Boccard and Tom Powers each face a misdemeanor charge of violating the state's...

The takeaway from Diana Wasserman-Rubin's misdemeanor plea deal: Crime pays, especially for politicians who abuse the public trust. Broward State Attorney Mike Satz and his corruption prosecutors took pity on a woman ravaged by illness, rolling over...

It's not just Wellington polo magnate John Goodman who'll be home for the holidays. Ryan LeVin, another notorious South Florida deadly driver, has been allowed to travel to his wealthy family's suburban Chicago estate to be with his ailing father. LeVin,...

Keep in mind that Florida has had more death-row inmates exonerated than any state in the country — a total of 24 since 1979. That's 24 innocent people who weren't executed, a stunning number that suggests a need for change in the ultimate power...

The takeaway from Diana Wasserman-Rubin's misdemeanor plea deal: Crime pays, especially for politicians who abuse the public trust. Once again, Broward State Attorney Mike Satz comes up looking soft on political corruption. And just who is Miami-Dade...

The police officer lay face down on the massage table, on duty, unarmed and naked. For 30 minutes Shu Yuan Sun worked the muscles of the officer's back, his shoulders and legs, and then told him, "Turn over." And that, said Hallandale Beach Police Sgt....

When jurors decided last week that two retired police officers should pay $7 million for framing a mentally challenged Broward teen for a murder that sent him to prison for close to 26 years, it set off a strong response. Dozens of Sun Sentinel readers...

When Anthony Caravella went to take a lie-detector test with Broward Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Tony Fantigrassi in 1983, the mentally challenged 15-year-old was considered a witness to a homicide. Four hours later, he was a suspect. The teen had...