Debate rages over whether FIU has displaced UM as the best football team in Florida. But legally speaking, the Golden Panthers are pantsing the ‘Canes left and right.FIU sits atop the table for this summer’s bar exam, beating the Florida Gators by half a percentage point. The University of Miami…
Some things are so good they should not be f*cked with: Starsky and Hutch, rum and Coke, mugshots and Fridays.But rules are made to be broken, especially random-ass Riptide rules. So we present you with a special midweek, Gulf Coast edition of Mugshots Friday Tuesday.Today’s version is devoted entirely to…
Fan favorite and self-described “twittaholic” Logan Morrison has filed an official grievance with the Florida Marlins over his demotion to AAA last month, reports ESPN.The Fish, meanwhile, have lost four in a row due to a comedy of errors. They are 31 games back in the division with only 12…
The Port of Miami Tunnel might be a boondoggle, but its construction continues apace. With a giant drill now in place, the big dig begins next month. The debate is now over where to dump the tons of crud. Environmentalists don’t want it on Virginia Key, where a port contractor…
Andrew Marshall: Miami’s Ted Kaczynski
If you have electricity in your house, you have paid FPL $268 million ostensibly to build two new reactors at Turkey Point. You’ll probably pay nearly $200 million more in 2012. Problem is, those reactors may never be built. Last week we warned that the utility’s Turkey Point plant could be under water in…
Download our jellyfish guide in PDF format here.One day you’re floating in the ocean, playing “spot Lady Gaga” among the billowy tropical clouds. The next thing you know, something has enveloped your outstretched hand. It feels like a plastic bag. But when you look down, you realize you’re surrounded by…
Miami freight shipper Robert Matson Conyers was charged with animal cruelty yesterday after a tri-continental shipment of monkeys turned into a cannibalistic simian catastrophe.Guyanese animal supplier Akhtar Hussain hired Conyers to help ship 25 monkeys — 14 marmosets, five white-fronted capuchins, and six squirrel monkeys — to a buyer in…
Well, it took 13 months, but we were right: a top-level US diplomat is visiting Cuba.And although former New Mexico governor and UN Ambassador Bill Richardson is no Hillary Clinton, he’s a proven negotiator who just might be able to talk Cuban dictator Fidel Castro out of holding onto American…
Global warming could put Turkey Point nuclear reactors under water
South Florida can add another feather to its fraud cap: scummiest Medicare scammers in the U.S.SoFla has long been the anus epicenter of health care fraud (see Rick Scott and Columbia/HCA). So it’s no surprise that when prosecutors announced charges today against 91 people in a massive, months-long national investigation into…
“We are the most vulnerable metropolitan area in the world when it comes to sea level rise,” says University of Miami professor Harold Wanless. Sitting in his office, the avuncular geologist paints a bleak picture. Global warming is a fact, and the results are already visible: hurricanes are getting stronger,…
What is it about Miami that makes the mundane seem so… menacing?Take the case of Mauret Curbelo, the manager of Danilo Ranch, where Hialeah peters out into the Everglades. Last year, the United States Department of Agriculture suspected Curbelo of running an illegal slaughterhouse from his ranch. USDA investigators went…
Eligio Cedeno: A banker battles Hugo Chavez
Port of Miami expansion won’t save the city’s economy, experts say
Well, Transparency International ranks Venezuela the most corrupt nation in the Western Hemisphere. Globally, it ranks just behind Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia. Not a promising start.Now an ongoing FBI investigation — outlined in this week’s feature — threatens to ensnare Tomás Sánchez, the head of the Venezuelan Securities Commission and…
The sad, strange saga of Ronald Miranda is finally drawing to an end.Miranda bolted from Los Banos, California, in 1980 after allegedly killing a man he found sleeping with his estranged wife. His face was splashed on “FBI’s Most Wanted” playing cards around the country, but Miranda successfully reinvented himself…
Authorities including Port of Miami director Bill Johnson are betting a three-part, $1.5 billion program to open the Port of Miami to super-freighters that pass through the revamped Panama Canal will mean a boom. But you’d be safer putting your money on the Marlins to make the World Series.A $50 million…
It was a big week for blow here in Miami, with Feds busting both the cocaine supply chain and yet another bank that accepted the illicit proceeds no questions asked.The first case involves fake passports, smuggled radio equipment, and dramatic, multi-ton ocean drops of cocaine. The second involves bankers in…
Dude, for a city that has weathered so much in the past decade — from 9/11 to blackouts, serial killers to the Knicks (the Knicks, for God’s sake!) — New York is acting wimpier these days than LeBron James atop a diving platform.First, there was that itsy, bitsy earthquake Tuesday, equivalent…
Michelle Spence-Jones, the former city commissioner acquitted in March of bribery, now seems free to return to office after prosecutors dropped the final grand theft charge this afternoon.It’s a remarkable turn-around for Spence-Jones, who was arrested in November 2009 just days after her re-election to District 5. It’s also a…
Sharks are the Adolf Hitlers of the ocean, not because they are deranged, but because discussion about them causes people to shout and threaten one another with bodily harm.Or impale themselves on giant fish hooks.That’s what one LUSH cosmetics employee will do tomorrow in San Francisco. The grisly stunt is…
