Across the Everglades, all our Western neighbors in Naples are talking about is a purported UFO sighting this week at a condo building pool. Because if advanced life forms traveled from billions of light years away, their first stop would undoubtedly be a condo building pool in Naples…
Following the death of teenager Israel Hernandez, the City of Miami Beach has called for an independent review of the case. Hernandez, 18, was caught tagging an abandoned building by police and then chased down. An officer deployed a Taser which lead to Hernandez’s death. See also: Teenager Israel Hernandez…
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Earlier this week the Princeton Review named, of all colleges, the University of Iowa as America’s most party happy school. While Florida State and University of Florida made the top 10, the University of Miami, once the undisputed party school champion of the world back in the ’80s, was no…
In the murder confession he published on Facebook shortly before posting a picture of his wife’s lifeless body, Derek Medina claimed his wife was punching him and he was “not going to stand anymore with the abuse.” This morning, the Miami Herald reported Medina is “likely to claim self-defense.” See…
Keep Floridians away from their fast food at your own peril. A case of cutting in line at a Tampa McDonald’s led to a knife in a man’s butt. However, because this is Florida, the person who got a knife in the butt wasn’t even the one trying to cut…
Derek Medina, the South Miami man who ended his marriage and his wife’s life this morning and then posted photos of her dead body on Facebook, once wrote an e-book titled How I Saved Someone’s Life and Marriage and Family Problems Thru Communication. Medina was a prolific publisher of self-help…
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Derek Medina, 31, fatally shot his wife, Jennifer Alfonso, at their South Miami townhouse this morning and then posted a confession and a picture of her dead, bloody body slumped on their kitchen floor before he went to a police station and admitted to the murder. See also: Derek Medina,…
Well, we guess he’s kept his official residency in Ohio, because LeBron James is serving jury duty in Akron today. Yep, not even the NBA’s MVP can get out of jury duty…
Aereo, the cloud-based streaming service that lets your watch and record local television stations from your computer, smart phone, tablets and even your television, is headed to Miami on September 2. This is great news for people looking to kick their cable company to the curb, and bad news for…
A small dead shark was found riding a subway car in New York City this week. The New York Post literally began its story with the cliche “Only in New York.” Seriously. That was the lead. Umm, dead sharks riding public rail transit is like soooooo four years ago…
Before you get too excited, remember an important tool of the British tabloid journalist is pulling things out of thin air and basically churning out fan fiction, but it’s fun to think about anyway. So, yes, the UK’s Now magazine is claiming that Posh and Becks are reportedly thinking about…
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Girls star and generational lighting rod Lena Dunham made her big debut in New York City politics yesterday by speaking at a fund-raiser for comptroller candidate Scott Stringer (her real-life BFF works for Stringer’s campaign, natch). Apropos of nothing she decided to throw some major shade at Tampa…
Well, that Rolling Stone article about rising sea levels and freak weather did theorize that eventually Miami would be damaged so badly that the federal government would decide it would just be more cost effective to cut its loses and let it be destroyed. We just didn’t think it would…
A man claiming he had a “way with the ladies” and a firm grasp on the Florida legal system probably didn’t have either, and ended up getting arrested a popular waterside restaurant in Fort Pierce after causing a scene and riling up his “haters.” Robert Rock, 50, was acting obnoxious…
Ebony magazine has produced a powerful series of covers for its September issue in the wake of George Zimmerman’s “not guilty” verdict. Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade and other celebrities appears in gray hoodies with their sons behind the headline “We Are Trayvon.” The Martin family also appears on the…
Hunger Games, a popular media franchise that focuses on a dystopian future where children are forced to kill each other for the enjoyment of the ruling class, has inspired a themed week at summer camp in Largo, Florida, where campers pretend to kill each other for their own enjoyment. That…
It wasn’t just major MLB players Tony Bosch was supplying to from his Biogenesis clinic. There’s new allegations that he might have counted high school athletes as clients. So now the Florida High School Athletics Associations promises to review its rules related to PED use and may even institute random…
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FBI agents stopped by two city halls of Miami-Dade towns today and left with their mayors in handcuffs. Both Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi and Sweetwater Mayor Manuel “Manny” Maroño were apprehended on bribery-related charges this morning. Update: Former North Bay Village Mayor Jorge Forte and attorney/lobbyist Richard Candia have…
