The Miami Heat owe Miami taxpayers millions in cost overruns to capital improvement projects on the American Airlines Arena. So says Miami-Dade Inspector General Chris Mazzella, in an audit report tha...
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The longtime executive director of the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust is retiring after a decade of overseeing local services for the county's destitute. During his tenure, David Raymond has spearhead...
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Miami Beach's most controversial resident is ready for his close up. Thomas Kramer, the billionaire German developer who reshaped the South Beach skyline with glitzy condos, has made a reality show te...
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For decades, former 2 Live Crew frontman and current Miami New Times columnist Luther Campbell has been imparting his life wisdom on scores of young African American boys playing little league footbal...
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Last week, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement reported the lowest crime rate across the state since the agency began tracking statistics in 1971. With population growth factored in, the overall...
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This week's cover story chronicles the rise of King of Diamonds, the Miami strip club that has become a hang out for some of the most famous rappers and pro athletes in America.The story follows Disco...
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Earlier
today, Luther Campbell dropped a bomb on Drew Rosenhaus,
alleging the North Miami-based NFL super agent paid Tommy Streeter -- one of five Miami Hurricanes football players who left school ear...
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Jonathan Vilma, the superstar linebacker from Coral Gables who figured prominently in Nevin Shapiro's University of Miami scandal, has been suspended for an entire year by the NFL for his role in anot...
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Like a lot of Apple fanboys, county Commissioner Bruno
Barreiro recently spent big at the silicon superstore -- nabbing $6,583 worth of
electronics at the Lincoln Road and Dadeland Mall outlets. He al...
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Today is the day Miami Marlins President Dave Samson is running 52 miles in honor of the construction workers who built him and his ex-step-daddy Jeffrey Loria the half-billion dollar ball park paid p...
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For Barbara Jordan, blood is thicker
than water. How else can the Miami-Dade County commissioner justify
the $5,000 her reelection campaign paid to the company owned by her
sister Sandy Walker, a once...
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Yesterday,
jurors in White Plains, New York, heard from the mistress
of Ben Novack, the Miami Beach scion of Fontainebleau Hotel
builder Ben Novack Sr. Junior was brutally tortured and murdered in a
R...
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Driving on NE 163rd Street
in North Miami Beach, you can't help but notice that several shopping
centers contain sex shops that boldly proclaim their wares. And
for 22 years, city officials long ignor...
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In 1988, Maria Thornhill invented a
nifty gadget called Sheet Suspenders, elastic bands that tuck in bed
sheets without having to lift a mattress. By 2008, she'd sold more
than $3 million worth of the...
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Last
Monday, Banana Republican came across a glossy flyer on our
windshield that featured a photo of President Barack Obama next to
the now iconic image of Trayvon Martin wearing his hoodie. Printed
...
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The
makers of Marley's Mellow Mood, a beverage meant to relax
the human soul, might want to consider adding a more potent
chilling-out agent to the recipe. Because the drink is made in
partnership wit...
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The Carlisle Development Group sure knows how to show gratitude to Audrey
Edmonson. The Miami-based affordable housing developer ponied up
$15,000 in contributions to the Miami-Dade County commissione...
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Campaign finance reports for January,
February, and March are in for the local county races. So who's funneling cash to Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and his main
opponent, County Commission Chairma...
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Poor Ozzie Guillen. Baseball season just got started and already the Miami Marlins skipper has inserted his foot in his mouth.The controversial Venezuelan born manager had the audacity to praise Cuban...
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Tip
Drill is back on the scene. Almost two months after a horrific fall
while working the pole at King of Diamonds, Miami's most famous
stripper was partying Wednesday evening at South Beach's Dream
n...
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