From the moment former Dolphins star Junior Seau took his own life last May, many questioned whether brain injuries linked to the dozens of concussions he’d suffered may have contributed to his death at just 43 years old.This morning, scientists at the National Institutes of Health have an answer: Seau…
Up at Florida Atlantic University, communications professor James Tracy has been regaling students for a decade with his thoughts on 9-11, the Oklahoma City bombing and the Kennedy assassination. He’s basically that uncle who spends all week reading Infowars so he can corner you at Thanksgiving to tell you how…
Take a deep breath, Doral, Weston, and every other Venezuelan enclave in Miami: As of Thursday, Hugo Chavez will technically no longer be president of your homeland. Chavez’s allies confirmed this afternoon that he’s not healthy enough to come back from Cuba for his swearing in ceremony on January 10…
With a matchup between Nick Satan and the preachy half of the Catholics vs Convicts rivalry, South Florida would have been perfectly happy if an epic bout of Montezuma’s revenge had cancelled the whole BCS title game last night. Unfortunately for the rest of the country, only one of the…
Experts around the country have raised all kinds of concerns about Florida’s mass orgy of python killing set for this weekend. Would-be snake hunters only have to read a couple of PDFs to qualify, leaving them in grave danger of death by dehydration, snake bite, swamp rot and god knows…
Does slogging around a foreboding, swampy wilderness searching for man-hungry pythons that can grow longer than a city block sound like your idea of a fun weekend? For hundreds of people from around the country, the answer is a resounding yes.More than 400 souls who have apparently never seen cinematic…
When Barack Obama visited the University of Miami a few weeks before the big presidential election, one of the agents in his Secret Service detail decided to go a little buck wild in Brickell. In fact, that agent, Aaron Francis Engler, had so much fun he passed out drunk on…
Up until now, the true dangers of bath salts were a bit hazy. The synthetic drug was blamed for everything from the Miami zombie to the guy in West Virginia who dressed in panties and slaughtered his neighbor’s goat, but the science was much less certain. After all, face-eating killer…
Chances are, when you heard that the GOP-controlled House had finally relented on a deal that kept the nation from plunging Wile E. Coyote-style off a fiscal cliff, you popped a little mental champagne. But even though the compromise prevents huge tax increases and keeps unemployment benefits in place, analysts…
There’s nothing worse than seeing an ex literally sleeping in bed with their new squeeze. OK, there’s one thing worse: Reacting by literally setting that bed aflame while your ex and their new squeeze are still sleeping.That’s exactly what police in Islamorada say 29-year-old Nicole Dobol did. Dobol, who was…
Now we know why George Zimmerman started selling his autograph last month. Turns out, back when he was preparing to leave jail on bond over the summer, he and his lawyers had hired a detective agency run by a former SWAT team member to concoct an elaborate disappearing act: Zimmerman…
If you’re a hated, blood-soaked Middle Eastern tyrant whose nation has been ripped asunder by a devastating civil war that’s about to topple you from power, where on Earth do you flee?In the case of Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad, the answer might just be Venezuela, where Hugo Chavez has remained a…
As the rest of the nation huddled up to some eggnog, crackling fires and repeat viewings of “It’s A Wonderful Life,” Miami baked under tropical skies and celebrated Christmas the best way we knew how: By going bananas with horrific crime sprees.Between Christmas Eve and early Wednesday morning, all these…
Nationwide, the use of the death penalty is in steep decline, with only nine states carrying out any executions at all last year. But in the Sunshine State, sentencing prisoners to die is as in vogue as ever.>In fact, Florida led the country in new death sentences handed down in…
The Miami Dolphins didn’t have the best Christmas week: Despite smothering the Bills on Sunday, they were knocked out of the playoffs yet again when the Bengals later won. But the team can at least take comfort that their holidays weren’t nearly as awful as two former Fins stars.Loudmouth linebacker…
Here at Riptide we do plenty of joking about mugshots and celebrating the sheer insanity that is life in the Sunshine State. But Miami New Times’ staff writers also spend months investigating the kinds of stories that daily newspapers just don’t have the time or resources to focus on any…
After the incomprehensible tragedy in Connecticut last Friday, most Floridians reacted like the rest of the nation: by crying, hugging their kids, and having an honest conversation about mental illness and gun control. Tens of thousands of Sunshine State residents, however, also took the massacre as a cue to head…
Miami awoke this morning to howling winds, eerie, greenish sunlight and skidding clouds, and suddenly remembered, “Oh yeah, today is the Apocalypse, isn’t it?” Then we chugged some whiskey, grabbed our End Times shotguns, logged on for one last Facebook update … and woah, hey, the rest of the world…
Florida voters have pulled a Charlie Crist-esque turnaround on gay marriage one month after several states passed LGBT equality measures. But Sunshine State voters still can’t get behind another big winner in November’s elections — the marijuana legalization measures in Colorado and Washington.That’s what a new Quinnipiac poll out this…
When Henry Bryant and Daniel Mack were caught last year trying to transport a few kilos of cocaine, the arrest sent shock waves well beyond the usual coke bust. That’s because Bryant was a Miami Beach firefighter and Mack was a Miami-Dade cop. Their arrest came in a public corruption…
Miami Artist Busted for Stealing Photographer’s Work at Scope Art Fair
If you tried to click through the Miami Herald’s site this morning, you were in for a nasty surprise: The salad days of riding that Herald gravy train for free are over, you freeloader. Starting today, that Fred Grimm addiction of yours is gonna cost ya, up to $15.99 a…
