It didn’t take a Bolivian cocaine kingpin’s army to bring this Scarface down. Just six canisters of tear gas. After a six-hour standoff, police arrested a man dressed as Tony Montana after he was wielding a machete and threatening to kill his neighbors. Oddly, this did not happen in Miami,…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
Dolphins CEO Mike Dee told reporters today that he’s “open” to the idea of moving the team to Palm Beach County. Which seems ridiculous on so many levels, but threatening to move the team when you’re looking for a public handout is the oldest trick in the book. So it’s…
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Turns out Filomena Tobias, the woman captured in that now-iconic photo flipping off Joakim Noah during last night’s Heat-Bulls game, might be the most bizarrely interesting woman in the world. How bizarrely interesting? Well, this is the nut graph from a 2008 New York magazine story about the death of…
Orlando Llorente, a Kendall-based plastic surgeon, faces charges of kidnapping and attempted murder for allegedly torturing his girlfriend for nearly 16 hours after he read a message she’d posted on Facebook…
Miami is notorious for its bad drivers. We know that it would be futile to try and teach you (yes, you) about things like the “speed limit” and that there is a difference between a yellow light and a freshly turned green light, but we figured someone should at least…
People were left scratching their heads wondering why a man worth more than $4.4 billion was asking tax payers for more than $200 million to renovate his football team’s stadium. But it appears that Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross isn’t a total tightwad. He’s now pledged to give away at…
When a police officer pulled over a speeding red Mitsubishi going 57 in a 35 zone it seemed like it would be a pretty cut and dry speeding ticket situation. The officer turned on his lights to pull the car over. At first the driver turned off his lights and…
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Marlins Park was at the very least supposed to be something of an economic engine for the surrounding Little Havana neighborhood, but like so many other things promised about the deal, that turned out to be a lie, too. The Miami Herald reports this morning that three tenants who were…
A 90-year-old Florida man survived on nothing but snacks while he was trapped in his car for four days. Justyn Ambrozia of New Port Richey slipped and fell inside a grocery store last week, but instead of calling paramedics, the grocery store staff helped Ambrozia out to his car and…
There’s hot new church trend sweeping Orlando’s thriving megachurch scene: pastors sleeping with ladies who aren’t their wives. For the third time in the last six months, a leader of a popular church in Orlando has resigned after admitting to damaging the sanctity of his marriage…
People may call Miami International Airport a lot of nasty things, but apparently “crowded” shouldn’t be one of them. According to a new analysis of airport capacity from Forbes.com, MIA came out as the least crowded major airport in America…
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Olivia Sprauer was teaching high school students English during the day but pursuing some eye-popping extra curricular activities of her own once school let out. The 26-year-old Martin County High School teacher was relieved of duty late last month after the school’s principal discovered she had a side gig as…
The Miami Marlins have recently shocked the sports world by going on a breathtaking run in which the team has not completely sucked. A team that started of the season with just five wins in their first 24 games suddenly can now be described with such high praise as “competent,”…
Miami’s School for Advanced Studies has finally cracked the top ten of Newsweek’s annual America’s Best High School list, coming in at sixth this year. That would make it Florida’s second-best public high school amongst a top ten list that is surprisingly Sunshine State heavy…
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An innocent childhood game turned nearly fatal on Saturday after a 13-year-old boy shot his six-year-old sister during a game of hide-and-go-seek. The incident happened Saturday night around 7 p.m. at the family’s home in Oakland Park…
The plan to steer millions in public money to renovations for Sun Life Stadium is dead. It died Friday in the Florida house. There will be no public vote. No deal with the County. It’s dead. But what about the millions the Dolphins planned to invest in the project? Will…
Was there really any doubt? ESPN reports that league sources confirm Miami Heat superstar LeBron James will officially be awarded his fourth MVP title this Sunday. It’s the King’s second MVP crown in a row, and his fourth in five years…
