In November 2012, Michael Dunn, a white man, got into a confrontation with four black teens at a gas station over loud music playing in their SUV. Dunn ended up pulling out a gun and firing several shots into the vehicle. One of the bullets struck and killed 17-year-old Jordan…
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi just got a big, fat $25,000 contribution to her reelection PAC from one of Donald Trump’s foundations. Which is sort of odd, because many feel Bondi’s office should follow the lead of New York’s attorney general and investigate Trump’s shady online “Trump University.”…
When the Miami Herald company announced they’d be producing a free Spanish-language tabloid called Caliente, they got tons of criticism for announcing they’d be including a picture of a weekly bikini babe. That’s pretty standard for tabloids across the globe, but let’s give Caliente credit for breaking new ground in…
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It’s an understatement that LeBron James is no stranger to heavy criticism for ditching one team for another, and as the team prepare to play a preseason game against the Brooklyn Nets it appears he’s still exercising some of those demons. He called out the hypocrisy of Kevin Garnett and…
University of Miami is top ten material, and we’re not talking about the football team. The Daily Beast compiled the stats on America’s sexiest colleges, and ol’ Suntan U came in at number eight…
A South Miami teacher is out of a job after she tried to make sure her students had a little too much fun after prom. Isabel Diaz-Almaraz, a teacher at South Miami High, allegedly rented a $1,000-a-night suite for students to party after prom and provided them with booze and…
Apparently when it comes to the government shutdown battle over the implications of Obamacare, all Senator Marco Rubio has to offer is lame pop culture jokes. In the same day that Rubio said he will not vote for a deal to end the shutdown and raise the debt limit, he…
Less than a year after gaining seats and ending the Republican’s supermajoirty in the state house, Florida Democrats picked up another seat last night in a bit of a special election upset. Despite being out-funded by a near 3-to-1 ratio, first time candidate Amanda Murphy beat Republican Bill Gunter in…
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The Miami Heat dropped a preseason away game to the Washington Wizards last night, but perhaps the Verizon Center’s crab dip had just as much to do with it as the team. Mario Chalmers was pretty much a non-factor last night, and he blames his poor performance on downing the…
Everyone in Miami has theories about what happened after the closing credits of Scarface. Was Elvira pregnant? Did Tony somehow survive? Was it all a dream and then Elvira, Tony, Manolo, and Chi-Chi move to New York City, where they complained about everything and nothing and found odd, very particular…
Miami Beach might be underwater in 100 years, but good things never last long. Livability.com has ranked Miami Beach fifth in America on its 2014 list of 100 best places to live…
Burger King is one of the largest companies with global headquarters in Miami-Dade. Which is, in theory, great for the local economy, but BK’s practice of paying its restaurant employees low wages may not be so great for the American economy. A new study estimates that Burger King employees might…
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Bill Edwards is one of Rick Scott’s top individual donors. He wrote a $500,000 check to Scott’s Let’s Get to Work re-election PAC. Ironically, almost 500 of Edwards’ employees will not get to work soon. One of his companies, Mortgage Investment Corp. (MIC), abruptly announced yesterday it’s laying off 476…
A naked man running around a Miami neighborhood ended up impaling himself on a gate while trying to escape cops earlier this morning. The incident happened around 2 a.m. Police received a call from a screaming woman who claimed she had been assaulted. When they arrived at the scene, the…
There’s still tons of people who actually live in Miami Beach who have no idea who they’re going to vote for in the November 5th election for Miami Beach’s next mayor, but apparently ex-President Bill Clinton has made up his mind already. Clinton turns out is buddy-buddy with multi-millionaire candidate…
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Betty Pino, the popular radio DJ who could be heard on Univision’s Amor 107.5 FM, died in August at Jackson Memorial Hopsital due to a bacterial infection. Now El Nuevo Herald reports that Pino contracted the infection after a botched procedure to implant silicone into her buttocks and died during…
Disney World wasn’t the happiest place on earth Saturday. Austin DeVan Hill, 24, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, was arrested after he went on what appeared to be a drunken rampage and injured three cast members at Epcot…
Thirty weekend revelers and a dog were pulled from the waters off Miami yesterday after a catamaran they were on began taking on water and capsized. There are no reports of death or serious injuries, but the rescue effort was intense, and the unlicensed captain might face charges…
