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How Modern Fortunetellers Pull Off Their Scams

Junk Cars Text Spam: Attorney to Sue Spammers For $500 a Text

In April, we exposed the junk car kingpin who has been sending incessant text message spam to all of South Florida. (Reminder: Gregorio A. Tejera's number is (305) 303-0119. I'm sure he's enjoyed hearing from all of you for the last month.) Now an attorney is preparing a class-action lawsuit again ... More >>

Miami's Five Worst City and County Managers Who Prove Merrett Stierheim Wrong

Over the weekend, Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez revealed he is entertaining the idea of eliminating the city manager's position in favor of the strong mayor form of government. His proposal, which would require voter approval to change the city charter, makes sense because it gives residents one ... More >>

Working at Miami restaurants and food trucks: The inside scoop

Lawyer Sues Tootsie's Strip Club Over Rolex Giveaway

​What is it it with local traffic ticket lawyers and their misadventures at strip clubs? Back in April, Ticket Clinic lawyer Mark S. Gold sued Goldrush strip club, claiming that the establishment got him drunk and made him run up a $18,930 tab. Now, Bret Lusskin, a Ticket Cricket attorne ... More >>

Video: WTVJ Accidentally Airs Criminal Wearing "Fucker" T-Shirt

​Who's stupider? A criminal for wearing a shirt that unmistakably says "Fucker" on it during his first appearance in front of a judge or Miami's NBC station WTVJ for letting the word end up on air for about 30 seconds?

Dave Duerson's secret life and tragic end

Dave Duerson Folded an American Flag on His Bed Before Shooting Self

​Dave Duerson propped a dining room chair against the front door of his Sunny Isles apartment. He neatly laid out documents on the dining room table and on his bed. He also placed two framed certificates, framed medals, and a folded American flag at the head of the bed. Naked except for a gold nec ... More >>

Shock Nightclub Founder Julien Manival Skipped Town Without Paying His Tab

FacebookShock nightclub founder Julien Manival​When Shock nightclub opened on South Beach last November, visitors were treated to quite a show: women in can-can costumes brought customers flaming drinks. Leggy models reclined on kinky red leather couches listening to the club's cutting-edge sound ... More >>

Jon Roberts: Cracked Cowboy

Threats, violence, and kilos of coke are just the start for this cocaine cowboy.

Divorce That Attorney

Is $650K a Deal to dump that dude?

His Satanic Majesty's Request

Close down every church so the true church can begin.

Arriola Resign? Fuhgeddaboutit!

In the wake of Miami's fire fee scandal, the city manager goes nuclear on the Herald, Tomas Regalado, and taxpayers

Letters from the Issue of February 19, 2004

Murder, the Marleys, and Murray’s film dubbers

The Calvo Case

A recently released report suggests that investigators are trying to implicate Denise Calvo in the murder of her husband

Just Friends

If a man is known by the company he keeps, then FBI boss Hector Pesquera has a problem

Is David Caruso Too Good to be True?

That red-haired guy and CSI: Miami put us back on the media map

The Wages of Sin

When Miami's tourist season heats up, the flesh trade flocks to town to satisfy those unbridled urges

Under Suspicion

Despite a history of corruption in its north district substation, the Miami Police Department won't get tough with its own cops

The Un-Teflon Don

After years of popularity, a financial scandal threatens the reign of City Manager Donald Warshaw

Con Kid

Jimmy Sabatino, self-described child of the Mafia, displayed a prodigious talent for confidence games even as a teenager. If he hadn't threatened to kill President Clinton, he'd probably be scamming today.

A South Beach Love Story

A playboy's steamy sexual liaison leads to a tangled investigation and a police feud

Right Out of a Movie

The Trial of Willy & Sal

Smuggling coke by the ton and making money by the bushel. Getting tortured in Panama and eating smoked pork loin in Houston. The courtroom show is riveting, but like Al says, where's the justice?

Swelter 20

The Missing Briefcase: Part 2

A judge begins to scrutinize this tangled attache case, and he finds a lot of disturbing loose ends

A prominent attorney. A briefcase full of cash. A scheming girlfriend. And a severely manipulated legal system. They all come together in the bizarre tale of The Missing Briefcase

Back from Baghdad

Pretrial Services

Of approximately 55,000 people arrested and charged with felonies in Dade County every year, more than 20,000 are released under the aegis of Pretrial Services while awaiting trial