If you’re not familiar with the “Thanks Obama” meme, it pokes fun at some people’s tendency to blame the president for just about anything. Well, a man in Florida who was arrested for pushing his pregnant girlfriend went on a rambling outburst in which he tried to blame Obama…
Oneal Morris, the backstreet unlicensed “doctor” who injected substances like Fix-a-Flat and cement into her patients’ back sides, has plead guilty. In January she’ll surrender and serve 366 days for one count of practicing medicine without a license. Of course, Morris still faces far more serious charges, including one for…
Porn star Mary Carey, whose resume also involves a candidacy for Governor of California and a stint on Celebrity Rehab, was reportedly kicked off a plane in Miami today by police after she refused to leave the landed aircraft. According to TMZ, she was drunk at the time…
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In Alfred Hitchock’s classic The Birds, Tippi Hedren’s characters runs around everywhere getting attacked by crazy birds. Apparently if Dwyane Wade starred in a sequel to movie he’d just sit safely inside all day quietly taunting the birds for not being able to get at him through his reinforced windows…
Here in Florida we’re still not quite sure who to arrest for shooting people with actual guns, but don’t you even think about shooting someone with a squirt gun. Your dry ass may be going to jail if you dare make anyone else’s soggy. For example, Giovanna Borge, 19, of…
The last thing anyone wants to do while doing their grocery shopping if suddenly find themselves in the middle of a police shooting, yet that’s exactly what happened last night to shoppers at a Publix in Hialeah. A police officer working security detail at the Publix Sabor at 1290 West…
While Miami fans were practically celebrating after the NCAA announced this morning that they’d only add on a few relatively light penalties to the ones the Hurricanes had already self-imposed, fans of another storied college football team at a private school in a major subtropical city across the map were…
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You know how Donald Trump keeps threatning to run for president? Well, Paraguay’s version of Donald Trump, Horacio Cartes, actually did and won. So of course he has a partying son who lives in Miami who gets arrested after a drunken fight after a party at his ritzy condo. Of…
It’s over, folks. It’s finally over, and the fact that Twitter is full of gloating jokes about the end of the messy NCAA investigation into the University of Miami athletics department tells you everything you need to know…
Florida sometimes gets treated like the dong of America. The rest of the country is constantly laughing at us, but do you all not realize how much we have given you? You start your day by drinking our orange juice and then dare to poke fun at us during the…
Republican Attorney General Pam Bondi has been doing a lot of fundraising lately, but she hasn’t drawn a Democrat opponent yet. Well, George Sheldon, who most recently was an undersecretary in President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services, has announced he’ll run, setting up a duel that could focus…
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Will the University of Miami finally learn its NCAA fate tomorrow? The Miami Herald tweets that according to a source the team’s sanctions could come down tomorrow…
After several delays, Eric Rivera, one of Sean Taylor’s alleged killed finally faces trial starting today. In the opening statements, prosecutors painted Rivera as an incompetent criminal whose plans with four friends to “score some easy cash” by burgling Taylor’s home went awry when they found the former Miami Hurricane…
Police work doesn’t get much luckier then when a suspect literally falls to your feet. That’s what happened to Alex David McBride when he attempted to break into a CVS in Melbourne, Florida this morning…
No one is claiming that last nights win over North Carolina was pretty for the Miami Hurricanes, but the ‘Canes became the first team to maintain their undefeated status in week 8. Yet, ESPN’s ACC football blogger Heather Dinich wasn’t impressed, and in a bit of throwaway shade she called…
Today, Ernesto Perez is the president of for-profit Dade Medical College, but back in the early ’90s Perez was known as “Rhett O’Neil,” an almost-rock star. Perez has twice been appointed by governors to serve on the Commission on Independent Education, but in both cases failed to disclose his conviction…
The Miami Hurricanes basketball team walked away with an ACC tourney championship and a ride to the sweet sixteen last season, but expectations have been considerably lowered this season. The ACC media has picked the ‘Canes to finish 12th out of 15 in the conference. Which is what happens when…
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Floridians have a bit of a reputation for being weirdo hot heads. Just check out our WTF Florida archives, but ACCORDING TO SCIENCE most Floridians are actually pretty chill folks. A new study lead by Peter J. Rentfrow, Ph.D., of the University of Cambridge, identified three distinct personality clusters in…
