Five suspected narcotraffickers from the Dominican Republic are en route to the Miami Federal Detention Center for allegedly smuggling cocaine across the Caribbean.In a strange twist, their arrest seems connected to $4 million — nearly 500 pounds — of yayo discovered on Tuesday inside a house belonging to well-known Puerto…
Nicole Krauss will break your heart. You’ll be reading one of her novels and suddenly the pages will be damp. Confused, you’ll check the page number — 12 — and swear to yourself that you couldn’t possibly be weeping before even learning the narrator’s name. But you are. Don’t worry. It’s…
Nicole Krauss will break your heart. You’ll be reading one of her novels and suddenly the pages will be damp. Confused, you’ll check the page number — 12 — and swear to yourself that you couldn’t possibly be weeping before even learning the narrator’s name. But you are. Don’t worry…
It would be easier to begrudge Téa Obreht’s extraordinary success at such a young age if her writing weren’t so damn good. Her debut, The Tiger’s Wife — published last year when she was just 24 — is the hauntingly beautiful tale of Natalia, a young Yugoslavian doctor, struggling to…
It would be easier to begrudge Téa Obreht’s extraordinary success at such a young age if her writing weren’t so damn good.Her debut, The Tiger’s Wife — published last year when she was just 24 — is the hauntingly beautiful tale of Natalia, a young Yugoslavian doctor, struggling to understand…
Dailin Pico Rodriguez was sentenced to 50 months in prison yesterday after a judge ruled that she had falsely accused Miami Federal Detention Center correctional officers of repeated sexual assault.Her claims fell apart when DNA analysis proved the spunk on her jail uniform didn’t belong to FDC guards but to…
Hugo Chavez is no stranger to conspiracy theories. Shortly after a January 12, 2010 earthquake destroyed much of Haiti, one of his spokesmen claimed the disaster was the result of the United States testing a secret weapon ultimately intended to destroy Iran.On Wednesday, Chavez announced that his navy had spotted…
NBA commissioner David Stern may be the most hated man in Miami these days. After all, the lockout means that us Heat fans have been trying to scrub the shitty aftertaste of that catastrophuck of a final out of our mouths for five long months. Luckily, a local rapper has…
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez had one crappy week.First, reports surfaced that he is, in fact, not cancer-free but rather has only a few months to live. Then the kidnapping of Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos drew attention to the horrible insecurity in Venezuela just as Chavez gears up for next…
Today is supposed to be the big day for the newly re-named Miami Marlins. Tonight the team unveils its new uniforms and, perhaps, a new blockbuster signing.But at least five players on the 40-man roster probably won’t be celebrating. Their fellow countryman and ballplayer Wilson Ramos was kidnapped on Wednesday…
While several anti-Wall Street sit-ins around the country have devolved into violent stand-offs between police and protesters, Occupy Miami has been as peaceful as can be.Now, however, Miami-Dade County is revoking the protesters permit for Government Center.”The city is trying to get us to move camp tomorrow,” Occupy Miami organizers…
Occupy Miami: County hall isn’t the only Miami institution that needs protesting
A rare war of words is raging in Cuba.An hour after joining Twitter, Mariela Castro — president Raúl Castro’s daughter and possible successor — promptly got into an all-out digital girl fight with Cuban dissident Yoani Sánchez.Castro called Sánchez and other opposition bloggers “despicable parasites,” but Sánchez didn’t back down…
A leftist former guerrilla retains his grip on power while an ex-general promising mano dura sweeps into office.Yesterday was election day in two Central American countries. In Nicaragua, early results show Hugo Chavez ally and current president Daniel Ortega easily winning re-election. Meanwhile, in Guatemala, ex-general Otto Perez Molina took…
Not so enthused with the job market? Go hang yourself… upside down from 40-foot silk scarves, that is.Victoria Pike! — exclamation intended — isn’t even out of high school, but she’s already setting her sights on an untraditional career path: the circus. The quirky 16-year-old has spent the past two…
Ever wonder what’s in the back of all those Ryder trucks?Your tax dollars, apparently.According to a new study by Citizens for Tax Justice, the Miami-based Fortune 500 company paid -7.3 percent federal income tax from 2008-10. That’s negative 7.3 percent. Kinda makes you want to torch the nearest moving van,…
”Occupy Miami is hidden,” one woman randomly complained to us over the phone earlier this week. “No one even knows that they are there!”To be fair, she may have a point. Tucked behind the Stephen P. Clark Government Center like a cozy small-town college tailgating party, Occupy Miami has proved…
South Florida is the adopted home of all types of international men and women of mystery: from Latin American strongmen to drug runners, movie stars to criminals on the lam. It’s where people go to disappear until the charges are dropped or the checks have cleared. Then bam! they reemerge like…
A small plane crash at a private airfield in Redland killed two people this morning.Miami-Dade police recieved a 911 call reporting a downed plane at 10:22 a.m. When officers arrived in Redland, they found a bright yellow single-engine fixed-wing aircraft smashed into the ground about 1,000 feet from the Richards…
A week ago, the Washington Post slammed Florida’s freshman Sen. Marco Rubio for “embellishing” his family story by claiming his parents arrived in Miami after Fidel Castro took over Cuba when, in fact, they arrived three years earlier.Well, it didn’t take Democrats very long to recognize the opportunity.American Bridge 21st…
Tony Sparano is downsizing.Not just his ambitions for the Dolphins’ season. Those went out the window weeks ago. No, he’s downgrading his personal grandeur as well. The buzz-cutted-est coach in the NFL is selling his $1.7 million mansion in Davie.While many critics have gleefully taken it as a sign of…
Florida has a knack of bringing out the best in people.Take the Sikkenga family from Gillete, Wyoming. In all-American fashion, 31-year-old Nathan Sikkenga had driven his wife and 9-year-old son cross-country to see Disney World.But the ‘rents were on vacation too. And when they got sloshed, they handed the minivan…
