While New Times detailed evidence that several MLB stars were clients of the PED-pushing Biogenesis clinic, our original source Porter Fischer has since claimed that other athletes, including mixed-martial arts fighters, were amongst the clinic’s clients. Though, UFC President Dana White says he doesn’t really care that much to investigate…
On Tuesday South Miami police chief Orlando Martinez de Castro announced that he had taken the first step toward suing the city after a commissioner publicly disclosed that the chief had undergone weight loss surgery. On Wednesday night he was fired…
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Miami Fraternal Order of Police President Sgt. Javier Ortiz has come out roaring against those who are criticizing police in the wake of the death of teenager Israel Hernandez. After City of Miami commissioner and mayoral candidate Francis Suarez released a flyer condemning police violence, Ortiz replied with his own…
Last night during an argument in the parking lot of a Hialeah convenience store, a man pulled a machete and slashed his opponent in the face. Police are now searching for the suspect while the victim recovers in the hospital…
More than 25 years ago, Anita Bryant led her infamous campaign against Miami-Dade County’s gay rights amendments. Now an amendment to that same ordinance granting basic rights to transgender individuals is in danger of being derailed even after it passed on its first reading with an 11-1 vote…
BREAKING NEWS: Someone in Miami sort of hates their job and tweets about it. The Miami Herald has been all over the story of Christina Haramboure’s Twitter complaints about constituents. She’s the 24-year-old administrative assistant who sits at the bottom rung of Miami commissioner and mayoral candidate Francis Suarez’s staff…
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Despite its never-ending supply of bad PR in the national press, Florida’s tourism business is booming. The state’s tourism officials claim that 23.4 million people visited the Sunshine State in the second quarter of 2013. That’s the largest amount of people to visit Florida during the second quarter ever…
A Florida woman received a suspicious package last month and called police. Though, a bomb expert quickly determined that the item in the package wasn’t so much a weapon of mass destruction, but a weapon of mass pleasure…
Damn, Jeffrey Blanc, let it go dude. Your girl’s moved on. She ain’t coming back, and there’s no sense in lighting her new dude’s car on fire. All that did was land you in jail. According to NBC Miami, Blanc, 32, dated Kristal Brantly for about two years until they…
Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, the two killers profiled in Truman Capote’s classic In Cold Blood, have long been suspects in a quadruple murder that killed a Florida couple and their two young sons back in 1959, but DNA evidence carried out more than 50 years later could not make…
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Playing in the Orange Bowl used to send shivers down the spines of opposing teams. The 58-straight games the Miami Hurricanes won at home between 1985 and 1994 still stands unbroken as the longest home winning streak in modern NCAA football history. Of course, the ol’ Orange Bowl was demolished…
You would think that if there’s one thing South Florida has too much of its sand. You end up with at least half a pound of it in your car after every trip to the beach, and yet the great sand shortage of 2013 is upon is. Seriously, we’re running…
A condo association in Florida has found a way to keep out those pesky homosexuals and people shacking up in sin. It only allows single people or those who are legally married as “husband and wife” to buy in the neighborhood. The kicker: it’s completely legal under Florida law…
Apparently, when you’re already the King you decide you don’t want to be president after all. Despite assertions that LeBron James was mulling a bid to run for president of the NBA Players Association, he’s now reportedly decided against the move…
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LeBron might be the MVP, but Chris Bosh continue to be the NBA’s reigning MemeVP. The Heat third wheel has always been teased for resembling something like a velociraptor ever since his Toronto Raptor days, but has anyone ever bothered to animate him playing basketball as an actual raptor-human hybrid?…
Despite calls from all across the globe for Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law to be repealed, Florida Sheriffs Association voted unanimously last week to support the law exactly as written…
Is that a wiener dog in your pants or are you just happy to see me? Police in Orlando are on the lookout for a man who stole two pure bred puppies from a pet store by shoving them down his pants while no one was looking and walking out…
A Florida teenager has become the youngest person in more than 600 years to be called to the Bar in England and Wales. Gabrielle Turnquest of Windemere, Florida, has already made history by becoming the youngest person to earn a BA in psychology at Liberty University in Virginia at just…
