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Metro Mover Supervisor Fatally Struck on Rails

A Miami-Dade Transit supervisor was struck and killed by the Metro Mover late Friday night while inspecting the rails, said Miami-Dade police.Joseph Bryant, 54, was on the tracks of the station at 100 Northeast 5th Street when he was hit at 11:49 p.m. Miami-Dade police are still inves ... More >>

Twelve People Shot at B-day Party in Miami's Overtown, Near Cop Shop

Miami police this morning are reporting twelve people shot in Overtown. Details are really vague, but it seems a group of three wearing black clothes shot into a crowd at a birthgday party. In addition, one person was hit by a car. Police chief John Timoney reported AK-47 casings were found at ... More >>

News Roundup

The teen charged with the stabbing at Coral Gables high has confessed, but he didn't even know his victim's name, and the fight was provoked by a 'bad face.' [CBS4]A bicyclist in South West Dade was killed in a hit and run. [Herald]Tonight, MTV's 'The City' comes to Miami. We've never seen an episod ... More >>

News Roundup: SunRail Passes Senate

Miami students got some of the best math scores in the nation for urban schools. [CBS4]The Florida Senate passed SunRail legislation yesterday. Now the bill goes to the governor, who is expected to sign it. [Reuters]A mother of seven was killed in a hit-and-run early this morning. [Herald]Sport ... More >>

Cops Finally Get Us That Hummer Hit-and-Run Stick Figure Drawing We Requested

Click to enlarge.​How unalienable is a man's right to enjoy a delicious Frosty© without getting flattened by two-and-a-half tons of AmericaMobile©? Apparently, pretty freakin' alienable. This week, Riptide brought you the story of the French professor who claimed he was walking across a Miami We ... More >>

Tyrese Involved in Major Traffic Accident in Downtown Miami, Hits the Spa With Other Driver Afterward

Crash pic via TMZ​It's pretty rare that a major traffic accident in the road-rage-prone streets of Miami ends with both drivers heading to the spa together, but most accidents don't involve singer/actor/model Tyrese Gibson. TMZ has photos of the car wreck, which took place on Biscayne Boulevard in ... More >>

Thousands of Bikers Ride to Remember Christophe Le Canne, Killed in Hit-and-Run

Cyclists flooded the Rickenbacker Causeway this past Sunday for a memorial ride in honor of Christophe Le Canne, the 44-year-old biker killed in a horrific hit-and-run accident last weekend. As you can see in the video -- shot by a Riptide reader -- hundreds rode in the memorial, which be ... More >>

News Roundup: Heat Loses to Magic in Overtime

Jackson Memorial Health System was granted an $80 million bailout from the city commission. [WSVN]A 19-year-old mother of two was shot in front of her children. Police are questioning the children's father and her brother. [Herald]South Florida lost nearly a third of its construction jobs ... More >>

Toddler Injured in SUV Hit and Run

​You have to be pretty cold-hearted to hit a pedestrian with a vehicle and speed off, but to hit a little girl and not stay at the scene? Wow. Two-year-old Natalie Garcia was walking with her teenage sister on a sidewalk in Southwest Miami-Dade when an SUV jumped the curb and hit her.A witness tra ... More >>

Carlos Bertonatti's Vehicular Homicide Case Postponed Until August

Carlos Bertonatti will have to wait a few more months to face trial on charges of vehicular homicide and DUI manslaughter after a judge granted his lawyer's motion for a continuance this morning. ​At an 8:30 hearing, Judge David Miller rescheduled Bertonatti's trial to begin on August 2. Polic ... More >>

Nick Rogers, Former Dolphins Player, Dies in Car Crash a Month After Being Married

​Former NFL linebacker Nick Rogers died in a car crash early yesterday morning at the age of 30. The Atlanta Constitution-Journal reports Rogers perished in a one-vehicle accident after his car veered off the road into a power pole in College Park, an Atlanta suburb. It happened around 1:30 a.m. M ... More >>

Three Florida Panthers Killed By Cars in Three Days

Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission photo by Dave Onorato​Florida panthers, the state animal of Florida and one of the most endangered mammals living in the United States, even by the largest estimates don't have a population of much more than 100 individuals. This weekend three breading-age big ... More >>

Hialeah Murder Suspect Related to Two Major League Pitchers

WikiCommons El Duque is related to shooter​Gerardo Regalado, the 38-year old man alleged to have shot and killed four women, including his girlfriend, before turning the gun on himself, is the half brother former New York Yankee pitcher Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez. El Duque, in turn, is t ... More >>

Miami-Dade Ranked Deadliest Florida County for Cyclists and Pedestrians

​Florida has consistently snagged the dishonorable title as the nation's most dangerous state for cyclists and pedestrians. But on Tuesday, it was Miami-Dade that got the crummy prize. Twelve cyclists died in the county in 2009, seven more than the year before, and the most of any county in the st ... More >>

Five Bank Fraudsters Die in Fiery Get Away Car Crash

via CBS4​Other things happened in Miami yesterday besides the arrival of LeBron James. Horrible things like a bizarre car crash that killed five, a fatal shooting in Hialeah, and a plan to bring more red light cameras to Miami Beach.

Dolphins Receiver's Truck Found Crashed and Abandoned on I-595

​According to the Palm Beach Post, a pickup truck belonging to Miami Dolphins receiver Brian Hartline was found crashed and abandoned on I-595 earlier this month. Authorities say Hartline's truck crashed into another abandoned vehicle that was parked on the side of I-595 in the early-morning ... More >>

Cyclist Identified in Coconut Grove Accident

​The cyclist seriously injured in an accident in Coconut Grove yesterday morning has been identified as 20-year-old Michael Lum. Miami Police say Lum was attempting to cross South Dixie Highway at SW 17th Avenue just before 6 a.m. Tuesday when a car struck him. He remains in critical condition at ... More >>

Save the Dolphins

​The cyclist seriously injured in an accident in Coconut Grove yesterday morning has been identified as 20-year-old Michael Lum. Miami Police say Lum was attempting to cross South Dixie Highway at SW 17th Avenue just before 6 a.m. Tuesday when a car struck him. He remains in critical condition at ... More >>

Congressional Candidate Marleine Bastien Robbed at Gunpoint

In today's roundup of the sins of South Florida: A congressional candidate has her purse snatched after a man points a gun at her head outside a church; some students will spend their first month of class in a fancy hotel; a traffic accident claims one life; and another storm gets a name.

Wendy Mae Chambers: Drunken hit-and-run lands Miami composer in rehab, not jail

In today's roundup of the sins of South Florida: A congressional candidate has her purse snatched after a man points a gun at her head outside a church; some students will spend their first month of class in a fancy hotel; a traffic accident claims one life; and another storm gets a name.

Cedric Williams, Suspect in Weekend's Fatal Car Crash, Arrested

​Police have arrested a man in connection to a horrific car crash early Sunday morning that killed three people and seriously injured a fourth.Cedric Levon Williams, 48, was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident. The crash occurred around 4 a.m. Sunday at NE 82nd Street and 2nd Avenue ... More >>

Julio Iglesias at Hard Rock Live March 6

​Police have arrested a man in connection to a horrific car crash early Sunday morning that killed three people and seriously injured a fourth.Cedric Levon Williams, 48, was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident. The crash occurred around 4 a.m. Sunday at NE 82nd Street and 2nd Avenue ... More >>

Fatal Crash Shuts Down US 1

All of the north and southbound lanes of US 1 in Miami were closed Wednesday morning after a hit-and-run crash left one motorist dead. The driver of a silver-colored Honda, a women believed to be in her seventies, was killed when a white pickup truck struck her vehicle, causing her to crash into a ... More >>

Miami: Third Most Dangerous City for Pedestrians

​Warning: walking in South Florida may be dangerous, as if you already weren't aware. According to a new report by transportation reform group Transportation for America, the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-Palm Beach metro area is the third most dangerous city for pedestrians in the entire county, and Flori ... More >>

Details Slow to Come in Urban Beach Weekend Shootings

via YouTubePolice surround a car in the first of Monday morning's two shootings. The driver was killed.​As the story surrounding the two early-morning Memorial Day police shootings evolves, numerous questions have been raised about the circumstances under which one person was killed and seven peop ... More >>

Sarasota Principal Hypnotized Three Students Before Their Strange Deaths

Remember Dr. George Kenney, the hypnosis enthusiast/principal of North Port High School in Sarasota, who was suspended after a student he hypnotized suffered a fatal drug overdose the next day? Well turns out that isn't the only student Kenney hypnotized who later turned up dead. An investigation fo ... More >>

Florida Judge Awards Custody of Three-Year-Old Girl to Unrelated Sex Offender

​A judge in Baker County, Florida has awarded custody of Miranda Wilkerson, a three-year-old girl, to a registered sex offender who she is not related to. The girl will be removed from her grandmother's house where she has lived practically all of her life after her mother was killed in a car cras ... More >>

Alonzo Mourning Cited by Police for Leaving Scene of Accident

​It's been a strange week for Miami Heat star-turned-executive Alonzo Mourning. He was involved in an alleged hit-and-run accident, with the other driver filing a lawsuit. He then hosted his annual Zo's Summer Grove charity weekend only to have Dave Chappelle involved in a metaphoric on-stage car ... More >>

Woman Run Over, Killed by Her Own BMW SUV at Burger King HQ

A woman was run over and killed by her own BMW SUV in a freak accident yesterday afternoon in the parking garage of Burger King's corporate headquarters in Miami. The woman had hit another car and got out to inspect the damage but forgot to put her car in park.

Miami Beach Firefighter Steven Martonffy Jailed for Crashing City Vehicle While Drunk

​Steven Martonffy, a member of the Miami Beach Fire Department, sits behind bars today after allegedly driving a city vehicle while drunk and then crashing it into a parked car early this morning.

Two Armed Robbery Suspects Shot By Hialeah Police After Car Ramming Rampage

via WSVN​Hialeah police shot two armed robbery suspects last night after the pair tried to ram officers with their Cadillac SUV. A police officer is also in the hospital after being hit by the car. The incident occurred  near West 29th Street and 12th Avenue around 9:30 p.m.

Police Fatally Shoot Man Who Stole Miami-Dade Cop Car After Deadly Crash

​A bizarre series of event early this morning lead to Miami-Dade Police fatally shooting a suspect who had stolen a police cruiser. The incident started after the man fled the scene of a deadly car crash that claimed the life of a cab driver.

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.

Do Not Set Up a Mini-Meth Lab in a Moving Car: Sad Lessons from Actual Floridians

​When police found 36-year-old Clifford Ellison dead inside an overturned car in Lakeland, Florida, they at first assumed he had died in the accident. Turns out that wasn't the case. He actually died because the man in his passenger seat set off a mini-explosions while trying to mix meth in the mo ... More >>