Just in time for the latest round of Jeb for Prez speculation, the juiciest scandal tied to Florida’s former governor is headed back to court. The courts are revisiting a two-decades old charge that a company Bush cofounded spent millions bribing Nigerian officials with federally loaned money to secure a…
Good news, Miami: Tropical Storm Chantal has already lost some pop, with winds decreasing to 45 mph overnight, and is likely to lose more as Haiti’s mountainous landscape tears up the storm today. The bad news is that the storm looks more likely than ever to ruin this weekend in…
When the Heat signed Chris “Birdman” Andersen in January, Riptide chuckled and called the move a “long shot to fix the Miami Heat’s rebounding woes but… a lead-pipe lock to fix the lack of hilarious people on the Heat.” We Dewey-defeats-Truman’d that one. Birdman re-energized the entire squad, ripped down…
Yesterday, the Department of Justice delivered a 14-page public smackdown to the City of Miami Police Department that shows a pattern of excessive, deadly force, lack of supervision, and suspiciously drawn-out investigations. The feds’ findings mean not only a headache for the city’s top cops but also possible settlements in…
Curmudgeonly old men of Florida, meet your new role model. His name is Richard D. Rice, he’s a sprightly 72 years old, and when the punk kids on the block wouldn’t stop with their damn fireworks, he poured gasoline everywhere and told them: “The party’s over.” Then the coup de…
Even on the slowest of rainy weekday afternoons, getting to South Beach via the MacArthur Causeway requires the Zen patience of a yogi to survive the thousands of tourists gawking at Biscayne Bay and frantically weaving between lanes. It’s about to get much worse. The flyover that deposits traffic onto…
There’s a pissed-off lady named Chantal getting set to ruin your weekend Wynwood Art Walk plans, Miami. No, no, not that Tootsie’s dancer you had a beef with — it’s Tropical Storm Chantal, and it looks to be headed in South Florida’s direction just in time for the weekend. Chantal…
When deputies from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office showed up to arrest Jeff Pollock for trespassing at his ex-girlfriend’s place, the 49-year-old had just one request for them. Could they please bring along his briefcase as well? It was full of valuables. Sounds reasonable enough. Except that the briefcase was…
Last month, Brazilian tourists Apareceda Pata and Denieze Ferreira were stunned to return from breakfast at the Miami Beach Hotel & Spa to find everything they’d taken on their trip to Miami stolen, including $20,000 in designer goods. They were even more shocked when the hotel told them how it…
Every July 5th, Americans wake up to news of Independence Day partiers severely injured when patriotic explosions go wrong; out in California’s Simi Valley, 28 people were hurt when a fireworks show blew up on the ground near a crowd of spectators. The worst accident in Miami on this Fourth…
In March, an illegal gambling ring run out of internet cafés ensnared 57 people on racketeering charges and led to the downfall of Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll. Florida’s legislators quickly jumped into the mess, rushing to pass a bill to outlaw online gambling cafés. Only problem? In their haste to…
The signs were everywhere during Washington Nationals home games last month. One read “ZOMBIE MODE” with red-ink blood dripping from the letters. Another showed a baseball with a chunk bitten out of it and “Eat Face Win!” In fact, drop the hashtag #EatFace into Twitter this second and you’ll find…
The signs were everywhere during Washington Nationals home games last month. One read “ZOMBIE MODE” with red-ink blood dripping from the letters. Another showed a baseball with a chunk bitten out of it and “Eat Face Win!” In fact, drop the hashtag #EatFace into Twitter this second and you’ll find…
While stuck in limbo at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, NSA leaker Edward Snowden has requested political asylum from 21 countries. With Brazil officially rejecting his request earlier this morning, nine of those nations have now said no. Snowden’s last hope might be the Chavista government in Venezuela. President Nicolas Maduro just…
Back in 2011, Bradford County up in north central Florida decided to allow a Ten Commandments monument outside its courthouse. A national atheist group thought the arrangement violated the separation of church and state and filed suit. Rather than spend thousands in court, the county offered the atheists a compromise:…
The Florida legislature arrived in Tallahassee with a historic batch of problems to solve: soaring unemployment, an unstable real estate market, crumbling infrastructure and failing schools. The 2013 session could have been a legendary breath of fresh political initiative. Instead, the Leg punted on medical marijuana, didn’t bother to consider…
The three-pointer that sent Game 6 of the NBA Finals to overtime might be well be the shot of Ray Allen’s career, but that doesn’t mean it will be the last big-game trey he knocks down for the Heat. Allen just exercised a $3.2 million option to stay with the…
It’s been a decade since a University of Miami Hurricane went in the NBA Draft’s first round. But this year’s edition of the Canes made history by winning the ACC outright and rolling into the tournament’s Sweet Sixteen, so it’s appropriate that their star would land higher in the draft…
With the iconic Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald neon sign torn down, the parking lot locked up and barren, and the building abandoned, it’s amazing how quickly 1 Herald Plaza has faded into history. Drive past today and it feels like eons ago that it was the center of Dade’s newspapering…
Sure, Marco Rubio may have pissed off both sides of the political spectrum as the face of the U.S. Senate’s immigration reform bill, which includes a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and millions more in border security measures. But as he builds his case as a national political candidate…
Tuesday evening, an 18-year-old Gainesville resident named Bamboo Flute Blanchard grabbed a pocket knife and idly thought, I wonder what it would be like to take a life? Then he wandered into the bedroom where his dad was lying, opened the knife, and plunged it into his chest…
In a major move toward gay marriage equality, the Supreme Court has ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage Act — which denied federal benefits such as social security survivor payments to gay couples — is unconstitutional. What does that mean for Florida’s gay couples? State law still forbids gay…
