Marco Rubio swept into the Senate with more hype than any politician since, well, Barack Obama. The then-Tea Party wunderkind promised he wouldn’t let the hype go to his head and would concentrate on the job he was elected to do. So much for that. Turns out, of every single…
Miami International Airport catches a lot of flak, but you can’t complain too much about your flights being delayed — at least compared to most of the other large airports around the globe. According to a new analysis from the Official Airport Guide, MIA ranks ninth among large airports in…
Florida politics is a chain of dominoes right now as everyone waits to see whether Sen. Marco Rubio will go forward with a run at the White House. Well, Politico reports that some insiders are saying South Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee, might run…
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Paddling as a disciplinary measure in school may seem archaic, but it’s still practiced widely in certain Florida counties. Though the practice is outlawed in 31 states, Florida leaves it up to each individual school district to make the call. Turns out 28 of Florida’s 67 school districts are still…
For years, Republicans in certain circles have been salivating over the possibility of a Jeb Bush presidential campaign, except for one notable exception: Jeb’s own mother, Barbara Bush. America’s favorite blunt Republican matriarch has spent the better part of the past two years saying there’s already been enough Bushes in…
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Seasalt and Co. is a Florida-based company that creates custom Photoshop tool packages for graphic designers. That should be a relatively controversy-free business, but yesterday the company took to Facebook to announce an upcoming package of tools. It’s called “The Hanging Tree” and was advertised with a chilling image of…
The rest of the country sure likes to make fun of Florida, but that hasn’t stopped tourists from visiting the Sunshine State in record numbers. Earlier today, Gov. Rick Scott and state tourism officials unveiled tourism data from 2014 that estimates 97.3 million people visited Florida last year, a record…
Steve Montador played three seasons of his decadelong NHL career with the Florida Panthers, including his career-best year during 2007 and ’08, when he scored eight goals and racked up 15 assists. The former defenseman was found dead early Sunday morning at this home in Mississauga, Ontario. Montador, who was…
Lincoln Road is basically a suburban mall in the middle of South Beach, and every suburban mall has that wing full of odd, sort of depressing stores. So it only makes sense that Ross Dress for Less is moving on to the strip…
In one of 2014’s most chilling local stories, a homeless man scavenging for food in the dumpster outside of a U-Gas station in North Miami found a box with the remains of a deceased newborn inside a dumpster. Now the child’s family has filed a lawsuit against a mortuary that…
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro doesn’t quite have the same knack for constantly antagonizing America in all the attention-getting ways as his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, but he does occasionally like to make claims that the U.S. is behind some sort of supposed coup or another. Just yesterday, Maduro claimed that an…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. We’re here every Friday morning to give you the week’s weirdest…
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When President Barack Obama announced that he’d begin normalizing relations with Cuba in December, it seemed that the end of the Cuban embargo might not be far away. However, the president doesn’t have the power do that by himself. First, Congress must pass legislation reversing the nearly 55-year-old policy. Well,…
Once again, Florida has lead the nation in shark attacks. What? Did you think Utah or Nevada were going to pull out a surprise victory? The Sunshine State saw 28 shark attacks in 2014, which made up more than half of the nation’s total 54 shark attacks, according to the…
Miami-Dade County has banned residents from owning pit bulls for more than 25 years, and voters reaffirmed the ban in 2012 with an overwhelming 63 percent vote. Despite controversy surrounding the law, politicians and citizens alike have time and time again shown that Miami is comfortable with breed-specific legalization regarding…
Last Friday, Miami Beach police responded to a call about a young woman’s unresponsive body floating in Biscayne Bay by the seawall behind Mount Sinai Hospital. A boater who spotted the body tried to perform CPR to no avail. The woman was taken to the hospital where she was later…
A small plane with a capacity to hold up to 20 people crashed into trees this afternoon after engine problems near the intersection of Krome Avenue and SW 144th Street. Authorities have now confirmed that four people died in the plane crash. The identities of the victims have not been…
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