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Crazy Homeless Guy With A Rock Gets the Drop on Miami PD

Letters from the Issue of September 8, 2005

Hoops hype, bickering nurses, and cops as doctors

Miami Doctors Keep Teen Girl Alive for 118 Days Without a Heart

University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center doctors announced today that 14-year-old D'Zhana Simmons survived nearly four months without a heart. The girl had a condition that caused her own heart to deteriorate. In July she underwent a heart transplant, but her body quickly rejected the or ... More >>

Hard Drive with ID Data Stolen from Jackson Memorial Hospital

via CarbonNYC's flickrWhen I'm not writing Riptide, I live a life of crime.* Sorry, I wasn't here a couple of days last week, but I had an art heist to pull off at the Louvre. Anyway, earlier this month, I was hanging out at Jackson Memorial Hospital, as I tend to do, and saw a hard drive and swiped ... More >>

Real Life 101

via CarbonNYC's flickrWhen I'm not writing Riptide, I live a life of crime.* Sorry, I wasn't here a couple of days last week, but I had an art heist to pull off at the Louvre. Anyway, earlier this month, I was hanging out at Jackson Memorial Hospital, as I tend to do, and saw a hard drive and swiped ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of August 18, 2005

Dolphins squeaking, nurses freaking, readers shrieking

Bat Reputation

Dolphins squeaking, nurses freaking, readers shrieking

A Natural Innocence

Artichoke's

Best Mile Of Miami

Fourteenth Street from North Bayshore to NW North River Drive

Letters

Fourteenth Street from North Bayshore to NW North River Drive

Jackson Memorial Sued for Shackling Mentally Ill Kids

Lawyers working for Jackson Memorial Hospital have their hands full. The mammoth, publicly-funded facility has been sued over 160 times in the past five years. But few complaints are as disturbing as the one filed yesterday. It came from Lisa Burton, former director of patient care in the mental h ... More >>

Bound and Shackled at Jackson Memorial

Former director says staff abused mentally ill.

Man Fatally Stabbed in Domestic Dispute

View Larger Map A man was stabbed to death during a domestic dispute that occurred early this morning in Northwest Miami-Dade. The subject is detained by Miami-Dade Police and charges are pending. Detectives are investigating the scene and the relation of the two Latin males, whose names have not ye ... More >>

Piece of Mind

Jackson's mental health unit fails Miami.

CNN Profiles Miami's "Kool-Aid Kids," Children Born with HIV

Every week at Jackson Memorial Hospital, teens and young adults who were either born with HIV or infected at a young age meet. They call themselves the Kool-Aid Kids. They've defied the odds and lived to a time when HIV is a manageable, albeit chronic, disease. CNN recently profiled them, and today ... More >>

Taxi Driver Shot in Northwest Miami-Dade

A taxi driver was shot early this morning as he was working near NW 91st Street and Seventh Avenue.Jacques Milien, 64, was shot multiple times after what appeared to be an armed robbery at 6:15 a.m., Miami-Dade Police spokeswoman Det. Rebeca Perez said. He is in stable condition at Jackson Memorial ... More >>

Woman Who Set Herself on Fire Isn't Exactly the Sanest Person

​Regarding the woman who set herself on fire yesterday at the Mall of the Americas, this isn't exactly surprising: The woman's husband said she had been to Jackson Memorial Hospital three times recently for psychiatric help and has a history of mental problems, according to Miami Herald news ... More >>

Murder Miami Style: Two Dead in Separate Shootings Across Town This Morning

View Larger MapIn a bizarre coincidence, two men died and another clings to life this morning after separate shootings 15 miles apart at virtually the same time. The deadly hour was 6:30 a.m. One shooting left 43-year-old Conrado Antigua Gallardo dead on the street at 1550 SW 131st Ct.. in Tamiami. ... More >>

News Roundup

The ringleader of the Liberty City Seven gets 13 years in jail. [Reuters]A 2-month-old baby received a liver transplant at Holtz Children's Hospital. [CBS4]A student at Miami Norland Senior High has been hospitalized after an attack with a hair pick. [Herald]SportsThe Heat beat the Hornets last nigh ... More >>

Help Mend a Heart: New Found Glory Singer's Mom Sick, Without Insurance and Needs Your Help

​If you've lived in South Florida for any length of time, chances are, there are fewer than six degrees of separation between you and the tight-knit Pundik family. Of the three creative Pundik kids, Jordan is the singer for New Found Glory (and is currently on tour with his friends in Dashboard Co ... More >>

News Roundup: Scoop That Poop, or Face the Police

The same water filtration system that may or may not be linked to cases of Legionnaire's disease at the EPIC, has been found in three other condo buildings in Miami. [CBS4]Jackson Health System is teetering on the edge of a financial emergency. [Herald]Somebody is a math superstar: "Well if we avera ... More >>

News Roundup: Police Searching for Bank Robber Who Looks Like Your Grandpa

The University of Miami has received $500,000 from the Clinton/Bush Haiti Fund to keep operating a 240-bed hospital on the island. [CBS4]Up to 2,000 workers at Jackson Health System could lose their jobs. [NBCMiami]Wackenhut might pay $7.5 million to the county to settle a lawsui ... More >>

Rodgrick Girtman Confesses to Killing Corneshia Miller In Front of Their Children

​Nineteen-year-old Rodgrick Girtman has been arrested in the murder of Corneshia Miller, also 19, after confessing to police.Girtman shot Miller in front of their two children, a toddler and an infant. She was found with gunshot wound on Thursday afternoon in her home around Northwest 68th Street ... More >>

Jackson Memorial Hospital Gets Gay-Friendly Visitation Policy, Joins the 21st Century

For years, Jackson Memorial Hospital has made US News & World Report's "Best Hospitals" list. But its reputation among gay people has been one of the worst in the country.  The reason is partly due to a court case filed by a lesbian named Janice Langbehn. In Fe ... More >>

Son Shoots at Home Invaders Who Shot Dad in Mouth

Two armed robbers entered the home of several migrant workers on SW 141st Avenue at 282nd Street last night. They demanded cash and valuables, but one man decided to fight back. They subdued him and held him at gunpoint, eventually shooting him the mouth.The man's son went inside, retrieved a gun, a ... More >>

Four Shot During Flag Football Rampage

Gunfire broke out last night during a women's flag football game at West Perrine Park, at SW 168th Street and 104th Avenue. Three assailants opened fire on the crowd. Four men were shot, and a woman broke her arm while trying to escape. Three of the men were hit in the leg, ... More >>

Four-Year-Old Boy Survives After Falling from 17th Floor

photo by Marc Averette via Wikicommons/CC2.0The boy fell seven stories to the poll deck of the DoubleTree. ​A 4-year-old boy took a tumble of a lifetime off a 17th floor balcony in downtown Miami this morning and miraculously managed to survive. The child was playing on the balcony of his home at ... More >>

Man Dies While Trying to Save Two Drowning Children off Virginia Key

Two children were swimming yesterday afternoon around 3 p.m. off Virginia Key near the Miami Seaquarium when they began to struggle. Two men heroically jumped in to save them. However, one man died trying to the save kids.The man, identified as Douglas Frank Butler, was visiting from Gainesville and ... More >>

Overtown's van Gogh

Two children were swimming yesterday afternoon around 3 p.m. off Virginia Key near the Miami Seaquarium when they began to struggle. Two men heroically jumped in to save them. However, one man died trying to the save kids.The man, identified as Douglas Frank Butler, was visiting from Gainesville and ... More >>

Salsa Fiesta Starts Delivery Throughout Downtown Miami

The fiesta can now come to your office​Salsa Fiesta has launched delivery service spanning a three-mile radius surrounding the restaurant. Specifically: North, up to 54th and Biscayne, south to 15th and Brickell, west to I-95, and, exclusively, to Jackson Memorial Hospital.  Delivery is good ... More >>

Motorcycles Collide with Big Rig, Helicopter Comes to the Rescue on Krome Avenue

via CBS4​An accident straight out of a Michael Bay movie has temporarily shut down a portion of Krome Avenue in both directions. At least three motorcycles collided with a tractor trailer. Luckily, a nearby helicopter landed near the scene, and a man jumped out of the chopper to administer CPR to ... More >>

Man Shot in Chest During Nail Salon Robbery

​Nail salon employee is not a job usually associated with danger, but a worker at the Nails 4 U salon on Biscayne Boulevard and 155th Street was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital last night for surgery after being shot in the chest on the job.

Four Hialeah Teens Struck by Out of Control Car While Walking Home from School

via WSVN​Four teenagers walking home from class at Miami Springs Senior High School were struck and injured by a careening, out of control car. The driver of the car lost control when he passed out due to some sort of medical condition. The incident occurred at West First Avenue and Ninth Street i ... More >>

Exploding Pressure Cooker Severs 79-Year-Old Woman's Leg

​Pressure cookers can save time in the kitchen, but also can be extremely dangerous if used incorrectly. The pressure cooker of a 79-year-old woman exploded yesterday after falling on the floor. Scalding hot food was sent rupturing around the kitchen, and a piece of the pot severed the woman's leg ... More >>

Surgeon Caught Stealing Equipment from Jackson Memorial Hospital

​The Jackson Health System has enough money problems at the moment. The last thing it needs is its own surgeons stealing medical equipment from the financially strapped public hospital system. Yet, Nir Hus, a surgeon and post graduate fellow at Jackson Memorial, has been arrested on charges of rep ... More >>

Five Hurt, One Killed In Early Morning Liberty City Drive-By Shooting

via CBS4Bikes are scattered outside the scene of a drive-by.​A sizable crowd was hanging outside a grocery market in the heart of Liberty City a little before 1:30 this morning when police say a white Nissan Maxima rolled up and someone in the car started blasting indiscriminately.When the smoke c ... More >>

Four-Year-Old Boy Shot in Groin by Brother After Playing with Rifle

​It's almost too crass to state, but it remains obvious that nothing mixes worse than kids and guns. Forget oil and water.A four-year-old boy in Little Havana was accidentally shot in the groin after his 17-year-old half brother found and then began playing with a rifle.

Two Drive-By Shootings Claim Two Lives, Three Others Injured

​Two drive-by shootings in Miami this weekend that occurred just block and hours from each other resulted in the death of two people, and the injury of three others. The first critically injured a teenager, while the second claimed two lives and left two others injured.

Drive-By Shooting Outside Churchill's Pub Leaves One Dead, One Injured

​An early morning shooting outside of Little Haiti's iconic punk rock dive bar, Churchill's Pub, has left one person dead and another recovering from a gunshot wound in the hospital. The incident happened around 3:30 this morning, and so far police have released few details.

Jackson Memorial Apparently Only Hospital in the South That Cares About Gay People

​We wouldn't wish a trip to Jackson Memorial Hospital on our worst enemies. Yet according to a new report from the Human Rights Campaign, the public Jackson Health System is the only hospital in the entire southern United States cited this year for providing equal care to LGBT patients. That's a b ... More >>

Twelve-Year-Old Girl Accidentally Shot by Brother

​A 12-year-old girl was rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital last night after she was shot by her brother. The brother, in his early 20s, was carrying a gun when it accidentally discharged and sent a bullet into the girl's leg. She's recovering and in stable condition. Update: The brother has now b ... More >>

Dr. Michelle Ferrari-Gegerson Killed by Neck Massager

​Dr. Michelle Ferrari-Gegerson, a radiologist at Jackson Memorial Hospital, met her untimely end last Christmas Eve. After an eight-month investigation, officials have found that she was killed by a neck massager. The doctor was using a ShoulderFlex deep-kneading shiatsu massager that became twis ... More >>

Club Nocturnal: Seven Shot, One Killed, Hundreds Stampede Out in Fear

Brandon Marquis McGhee​About 3 a.m. this morning, after a beef at Nocturnal in downtown Miami, seven people were shot. So far, only one person has died, but it is the most gruesome attack at a Miami nightclub in years.According to police, the man killed was 26-year-old Brandon Marquis McGhee of No ... More >>

Pileup of Nearly 30 Bicyclists on Rickenbacker Causeway Sends Three to Hospital

via WSVN​Close to 30 bicyclists were involved in an accident this morning on the Rickenbacker Causeway that sent three people to the hospital and injured several others. A large peloton was riding across the Key Biscayne bridge at up to  35 mph when some bikes lost control.

Baby on Life Support After Being Beaten by Father in North Miami

​A four-month-old baby boy was on life support at Jackson Memorial Hospital this morning while his father appeared in court on charges of putting him there. Yosi Mahlab, 30 of North Miami, stands accused of beating his own son on January 21. The child lost brain activity as a result of the attack.

Student Stabbed and Seriously Injured at Barbara Goleman Senior High School

​Details are few and far between at the moment, but a student at Barbara Goleman Senior High School in Miami Lakes has been stabbed and seriously injured. WSVN reports that the student was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital. County police and fire rescue are on the scene investigating. Updated ... More >>

Teen Shot in Liberty City While Walking Home From School

​A 17-year-old boy walking home from school was shot in  Liberty City this afternoon. The student is in critical condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital, while police search the area for the culprit.