Tremaine McMillian, the 14-year-old boy who was forced to the ground and head-locked by Miami-Dade Police because, among other things, they claimed he was giving them “dehumanizing stares,” had his day in court this morning. McMillian was also facing two unrelated charges, but all charges will be dropped on the…
LeBron James is going to get a second ring this summer. This one will be of the wedding variety. TMZ reports that invitations to the September wedding between James and fiancée Savannah Brinson have gone out to guests, but the invites are low on details. In fact, guests are instructed…
“Just because you’re shaped like some combination of a gun and a dick doesn’t mean you have to act that way,” said Daily Show guest host John Oliver during the show’s recap of the George Zimmerman case. He also suggested that Florida change its nickname from “The Sunshine State” to…
Right or wrong, the rest of the nation has been side-eyeing Florida ever since the George Zimmerman verdict came down. Even though the controversial “Stand Your Ground” law was not ultimately used as part of Zimmerman’s defense, a new petition is circulating online in which signees claim they’ll boycott Florida…
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Monty Ray Grow spent two years in the NFL with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Kansas City Chiefs, and spent his college years with the Florida Gators. He spent last night in jail. The former footballer was arrested after leaving a three-year-old girl in a car while he went into the…
Just two days after delivering the verdict, a juror in the George Zimmerman trial has already signed with a literary agent in order to write a book. But the juror, known publicly at the moment only as “Juror B37” isn’t exactly a big fan of reading. She says she uses…
If you’re a Miami Beach resident who, say, has a job on the mainland, coming home from work tonight will be the last time you can use the flyover that connects the MacArthur Causeway to Alton Road for about a month. As part of the Alton Road reconstruction project, the…
The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office likes to post a “Fugitive of the Day” on their Facebook page. The posts tend to get a few dozen comments, but usually not from the person actually pictured in the mugshot. Well, Matthew Oliver saw his pic up on the page and started commenting…
Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old boy from Miami-Dade County, and tonight several high-profile members of the community took to Twitter to express their reaction to tonight’s verdict. Many sent their prayers to the Martin family and expressed grief over the results. See also: George Zimmerman Verdict: Not Guilty…
George Zimmerman has been found not guilty in the shooting death of Miami Gardens teenager Trayvon Martin. After sixteen hours of deliberation, including 12 today, the six-person, all-female, all-white jury delivered the unanimous decision at 10 p.m. tonight. Apparently the jury could not remove all reasonable doubt that Zimmerman was…
The jurors of the George Zimmerman trial are now well into their 12th hour of deliberation, and have remained silent until now. Minutes ago the jury broke their silence for the first time to ask the lawyers on both sides for a clarification of the manslaughter charges. Zimmerman is facing…
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You’re always at your most vulnerable when you’re asleep. You never know who is going to come along and try to set you one fire. Jose Gonzales, 52, of Homestead, was taking a siesta in his truck while it was parked outside the Dog House bar in Marathon Key last…
Corey Eubanks, the man who was alleged to have assisted Oneal Ron Morris, the unlicensed transgendered woman accused of injecting all sorts of unholy substances into the rear ends of patients seeking a bigger booty, has taken a plea deal. He’ll get off with just a year of probation…
Grant Everett apparently thought he was in some even more twisted version of Grand Theft Auto. After crashing into a pole, he drove away then stopped to let his passenger out — a 7-year-old girl — and continued on his way only to crash into more things…
The verdict in the murder trial of George Zimmerman could come as early today, so in anticipation, the Miami-Dade Police Department has set up two “First Amendment zones” to try to corral protests and public gatherings. Never mind, of course, that all of America is technically covered by the First…
After more than 20 years of sitting in disrepair, Miami Marine Stadium is now closer than ever to returning to its former glory after the City of Miami Commission voted yesterday to give control of the stadium’s renovation to a nonprofit group. Now they just need $20 million…
Police routinely use Tasers as a (usually) non-lethal alternative to guns, but they can occasionally lead to potential lethal problems like heart attacks and cardiac arrest. People with pre-existing health problems may be more at risk. Well, sitting before the City of Miami Commission today, Miami Police Chief Manuel Orosa…
If police have an X-ray machine, there’s really no place you can attempt to hide contraband. No, not even there. Cynthia M. Scholes of Gainesville was caught trying to smuggle not one, but two crack pipes into jail by hiding them in her vagina…
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Every incoming University of Miami freshmen must either pledge their allegiance to the studious kingdom of Stanford where they will be surrounded by intellectual nerds who do nothing but study or the wild land of Hecht which is home to drunken hedonists. Just kidding. Their identical (and quite ugly) pairs…
