In their latest doomed effort to goose ticket sales the Miami Marlins will be hosting a “Legend of Wrestling Night” on August 24. Sixteen former professional wrestlers will be on hand for you to, I don’t know, look at I guess according to Biz of Baseball. There will be three…
On the one hand, we did kick out former Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez in a historic recall election, so at the very least maybe we should let him live his post-public life in peace however he sees fit. On the other hand, the former mayor of the seventh biggest county…
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Yesterday’s rainfall was not normal. In fact, Miami Beach got so much rain yesterday that it shattered three separate records: the most rainfall for July 18th in recorded weather history, the most rainfall for any single day in July ever, and helped push the month to the wettest July on…
Miami-Dade Police started investigating a break-in and robbery last night at a home in Kendall, but it turns out the home the burglars were targeting was actually a grow house. Police found 21 marijuana plants valued at around $50,000 inside…
Two Swedish tourists got more than they bargained for when their antsy cab driver honked at a car in front of him. The drivers of the other car got out, pretended to be cops, patted the tourists and the driver down, and made off with their luggage…
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Granma, the official state newspaper controlled by Cuba’s communist party, has noticed that some Cubans are now obsessed with garden gnomes and they are simply outraged. Journalist Pedro De La Hoz slammed what he sees as the excess of Cuba’s “new rich” in an anti-materialistic screed for the paper. Of…
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has proposed a plan to close 22 of the county’s 49 library branches, and if you’re living either west of the Palmetto Expressway or in a poorer neighborhood, you’re a lot more likely to see your local library branch shuttered…
Police in Collier County say that the Hollywood woman tried to run over her ex-boyfriend near a casino but instead hit a tree.
Daunte Culpepper, one of several players who have been part of the Dolphins’ never ending post-Dan Marino quarterback carousel, has lost his South Florida home in foreclosure court. According to the AP, Culpepper bought the nearly 10,000 square foot Broward County home back in 2006 while he was still playing…
Rachel Jeantel, the Miami Gardens 19-year-old thrust into the spotlight because of her testimony during the George Zimmerman trial, has been making the media rounds this week, and while on CNN’s Pierce Morgan said that she doesn’t believe the word “n*gga” is a racial term, no matter who says it…
Apparently there’s a small but growing effort among Florida Tea Party members to recall their former hero Marco Rubio. There’s just one problem: You can’t actually recall senators in Florida. So first they will try to get a law passed that would allow a recall election in the first place…
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Mike Dee is changing teams, changing coasts and changing leagues. The Miami Dolphins CEO has resigned and will take over as president and CEO of the San Diego Padres…
Ashley Taylor Wright used her own three-month-old baby as her first line of defense against an officer who was trying to arrest her for shoplifting. Instead, she was still arrested and charged with the additional crime of child abuse…
On Monday, Panamanian authorities seized a North Korean ship after they found possible Cuban missiles on board during a bizarre search that involved the captain having a heart attack and trying to commit suicide. Cuba now has issued a statement basically saying, “Oh yeah, those missiles? Guess those are ours…
“Stand Your Ground” may be a problematic law that may actually increase the homicide rate in states that have enacted it, but is it in and of itself a racist law? Activists and journalists calling renewed attention to the case of Marissa Alexander, a Florida woman who unsuccessfully tried to…
If you’ve been having a harder time trying to find a random stranger at the club with an extra bump, there might be a good reason for it. There’s been a staggering 40 percent drop in the number of Americans who use cocaine since 2006. “I’ve never seen such a…
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Despite reports that the Miami Heat would not use the NBA’s amnesty clause this offseason, several Heat beat reporters are tweeting that Mike Miller’s agent has been informed that the veteran would be waived under the rule…
Hearing the words “Cuba,” “Missiles” and “North Korean,” tends to make most Americans uncomfortable, and now international officials are trying to figure out the mystery of why exactly those words all ended up together in this headline…
