Tom Schwartz, former general counsel of the Miami Free Zone, is now an actor in L.A. with the stage name Tom Derek. Catch him on Cold Case this Sunday. The episode -- ''Triple Threat'' -- airs at 9 p.m. on CBS. Story is about the 1989 murder of ''a young Russian opera singer who defected with her family to the U.S. before the Berlin Wall came down,'' according to a Warner Bros. Television synopsis. Schwartz plays a cranky cop in a flashback scene.
Recent posting on Craigslist: ''$9,000,000 Celebrity Estate Home -- Bank Sale (Palm Island -- Miami Beach).'' It's the waterfront residence of Scott Storch, a 34-year-old record producer who is having money troubles.
North Miami Mayor Kevin Burns sponsored a City Council resolution asking the Miami-Dade courts to create a mortgage foreclosure diversion program to help folks stay in their homes.
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Maria Espinosa Dennis says she was battered at the courthouse -- by fellow Circuit Judge David Miller. She says Miller was bent out of shape because the fax machine at her office, which his staff sometimes used, was broken.
Former Australian Football League star Wayne Carey is due in Miami-Dade criminal court at 9 a.m. Tuesday -- to plead no contest to two felony counts of battery on a police officer. The charges stem from his October '07 arrest at the Mandarin Oriental on Brickell Key, where he got into a brawl with Miami cops.
New York Yankee Alex ''A-Rod'' Rodriguez and wife Cynthia, in the final stages of divorce, just listed their waterfront villa in Coral Gables -- for $14.876 million. The 8,310-square-foot residence, at 181 E. Sunrise Ave. in Sunrise Harbour, sits on more than an acre on the bay. There are six bedrooms, seven full baths, pool, plus a three-car garage.
Some of the most memorable Talk of Our Town entries, edited for length: CH. 7 ANCHOR SAYS OBSCENITY WAS `MISUNDERSTANDING' Sept. 25, 1992
This is my last Talk of Our Town column. Yup. I, Joan Fleischman, 55, have accepted a voluntary buyout. I joined this newspaper in '78 after three years with the Miami Beach Sun Reporter. I was 25. My first Miami Herald job: monitoring the police scanners from 5:30 p.m. until 2 a.m., Sundays and Mondays off.
D onald Warshaw, the ex-Miami police chief and city manager who served federal prison time for ripping off a nonprofit, is working at another nonprofit -- The Early Childhood Initiative Foundation.
Supermodel Elsa Benitez, ex-wife of former Miami Heat center Rony Seikaly, is the ''Jane Doe'' plaintiff in an invasion of privacy lawsuit in Miami federal court. She says a paparazzo shot close-ups of her -- naked -- outside her home on gated Sunset Island II in Miami Beach.
Rewriting history: Arva Moore Parks. The South Florida native is updating her book Miami: The Magic City, first published in 1980 and revised in 1991.
Rosie O'Donnell has a new next-door neighbor on Star Island -- Dr. Cem Kinay, physician, developer and owner of a 560-acre island in the Turks and Caicos chain.
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