We live in a place called the “Sunshine State” with about 825 miles of beaches, but instead of taking advantage of those natural resources a whole lot of Floridians appear to prefer to get tan inside a salon. In fact, a new study reveals that there are now more tanning…
Usually texting the wrong number ends up in a bit of embarrassment, but Schquita Alaysha Warren texted the wrong number and ended up behind bars. That’s because she thought she was texting a potential John but instead had the number for a police investigator…
Listen, we all know that Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts sharing the screen in the film adaptation of Tony award winning play August: Osage County is a major event, but there’s no reasons for people to riot over it. Oh, that doesn’t come out in Florida until later today? So…
Well, Miami is about to have a former Armani underwear model as a professional sports team owner, so we guess it only makes sense that some of our current athletes would model some mens’ underthings. It’s not quite Beckham on the beach in briefs, but the Heat’s Chris “Birdman” Anderson,…
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For all those worried that O.J. Simpson is such an upstanding citizen dedicated to civic involvement that he’d try and vote despite his felony convictions and the fact he’s sitting in a Nevada jail cell can finally breathe a sigh of relief. He’s officially been scrubbed from Miami-Dade’s voter rolls…
For Stefanie Lackner, the socialite wife of Fisher Island Club CEO Bernard Lackner, orange was the new red-and-green this Christmas. According to the New York Post, the 46-year-old blonde is serving a month behind bars at New York’s infamous Rikers Island for snatching a $5,000 sweater last year…
A 2006 image of the aftermath of an Everglades showdown between an invasive Burmese python and a native alligator has become oddly iconic in all its gruesome glory. Neither animal survived the encounter. Well, authorities in the Everglades recently discovered a rematch, and let’s just say this time it was…
Dwaynesha White was not about to give her goodies away for free during the holidays. The 22-year-old set up an appointment with 19-year-old David Roberts of Miami at her Hollywood apartment to exchange sex for money. But after the deed was done, White went to the bathroom to clean up…
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On Christmas Day when you’re wearing that ugly Rudolph sweater your great aunt knit LeBron James and the Miami Heat will be wearing something even uglier: basketball jerseys with sleeves. Ever eager to churn out new special edition jerseys to sell, the NBA is having all the teams playing on…
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, himself the son of Cuban immigrants, has promised to champion immigration reform that would pave a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented residents. Though, many are frustrated that the Republican really hasn’t done much of any actual work on the issue, so they decided to send…
More Floridians then ever went through the necessary background check to buy a firearm this year. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has conducted 823,653 background checks in 2013, toppling the previous record from last year of 797,610…
You know when you have a long running weekly poker game and you decide to add a new guy, but then he comes in and starts proposing a bunch of radical rule changes to how you play the game? Yeah, well Syracuse University is being that jerk. Despite being in…
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We don’t mean to impugn the authority of the Miami Beach Police Department, but about an hour-and-a-half ago they told one news station that they were “pretty much 100 percent” certain they had found a live grenade in a man’s garage, and then a little more than an hour later…
A gaming addict is facing aggregated child abuse charges after he broke a baby’s leg because its diaper changing interrupted his Xbox session. Paul Lajeunesse, a 20-year-old resident of Hernando, Florida, lives at home with the child’s mother and his grandmother. His grandmother told WTSP that he rarely leaves the…
Florida’s unemployment levels continue to drop. For this past November the rate was 6.4 percent, down from 6.7 percent in October. It’s the ninth straight month since March that Florida’s unemployment rate has been below the national average. Meanwhile, Miami-Dade’s unemployment rate dropped an astounding 1.5 percent to 7.0 percent…
Over 800 manatees have died this year in Florida waters; the highest number of deaths recorded since records were initiated back in the ’70s. That’s sixteen percent of the state’s total population, and more than twice the number of manatees that died last year…
LeBron James is still the king in the land of NBA jersey sales. Which shouldn’t come as much surprise considering he’s the reigning MVP and is sporting back-to-back rings…
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