Maybe it was the bungled Election Day, or the Stand Your Ground backlash, or the drug testing programs gone awry, or just the fact that he still looks like a cyborg sent from the future to slash entitlement programs. Either way, Gov. Rick Scott continues posting historically bad poll numbers.A…
If your job is to run a department charged with protecting animal welfare, there are a few choice topics best left alone in conversations with your employees. Tijuana donkey shows are definitely on that list.Pinellas County’s Animal Services director, Phillip Morgan, learned that lesson the hard way. He’s resigned after…
Florida’s Stand Your Ground law has been a catastrophe, a Wild West throwback that’s let killers justify everything from shooting an unarmed teenager for playing loud music to murdering a pizza store customer for complaining about a slice taking too long. So really, if there’s one man we should consult…
When Craig Lowe won a run-off two years ago to become Gainesville’s first openly gay mayor, many hailed it as a landmark of tolerance in conservative Central Florida. But not the local county’s GOP chairman. He saw Lowe’s election, he says today, as a victory by a vast liberal conspiracy…
John McAfee, the software guru who fled Belize over questions about his neighbor’s murder, met a gaggle of press outside his South Beach hotel this morning to answer questions about the case and his life on the lam. Then he jumped into a cab with a Miami Herald reporter and…
Troubled anti-virus software guru and murder suspect John McAfee landed in Miami last night after getting deported from Guatemala, where he’d fled from an investigation into his neighbor’s shooting death. McAfee was allowed to go free after landing at MIA, and spent the night at Ocean Drive’s Beacon Hotel.WSVN caught…
With Miami’s luxury market going bananas again and Indian Creek mansions hawking for $47 million a pop, it’s easy to forget that the average Dade homeowner is still deeper underwater than James Cameron’s submarine. In fact, a new report out this morning says Miami now has the fifth highest rate…
Miami TSA Screening Chief Juan Garcia Fired From MPD for Trying to Buy Sex
Congratulations, cocaine smugglers. You’ve successfully moved the War on Drugs from island-hopping airplanes to Caribbean submarines to the most daring transportation method yet: Huge breast implants.A Panamanian woman flying out of Bogota, Colombia has been arrested in Spain after cops became suspicious of her fresh boob job. They eventually found…
Need a perfect illustration of just absurd the fight against synthetic drugs has become? Take a look at the latest legal missive from Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has just banned 22 new synthetic versions of weed and cocaine on sale in the Sunshine State. The document reads more…
The Transportation Security Administration workers who keep Miami International Airport safe from terrorists, criminals, and Solange Knowles’s Afro (no, really, they thoroughly searched her hair last month) earned a dubious distinction in October. According to an analysis by ABC News, the TSA had fired more agents for theft at MIA…
Jason Levesque, a Virginia-based artist, was strolling through Scope Art Fair this weekend, thinking about how much he’d love to be exhibiting there, when suddenly he turned a corner to find two of his images on sale. The only problem was, they didn’t have his name on them. A Miami-based…
As art-bloated partiers wound down the last dregs of Basel Week on Sunday with a final stroll through Wynwood’s murals and galleries, a horrific shooting went down just a few blocks south.At 7:45 p.m. last night, a man and a pregnant woman were shot multiple times in front of a…
The emergency alert text went out to thousands University of Miami students and faculty last night. Here’s what it said, in its entirety: “UMIAMI alert black male on campus wearing black and white tennis shoes with black writing and black shorts.”Black man on campus! Be vigilant! Needless to say, UM’s…
When Florida Highway Patrol officers pulled over an erratically swerving gray Camaro yesterday outside of St. Augustine, they figured they had a standard DUI on their hands. The driver, 63-year-old Leslie Richard Newton, had in fact been boozing and driving, the FHP says — but that’s not the main reason…
In 2009, a gay tourist in South Beach noticed two men in plainclothes roughing up another gay man in Flamingo Park. He called 911 and stayed on the line until suddenly the two men noticed him, approached, demanded an ID and started beating him and yelling that he “looked like…
Rodney Blanchard had already solidified his bid for “Worst Person In Florida” when police came to his mobile home this weekend to find that he’d stuffed four live kittens into plastic bags and trapped them in his freezer. But this is Florida, and Blanchard knew he faced stiff competition.Today, he…
Yunel Escobar promised to be the strip-mined Miami Marlins’ most interesting player next year. The Cuban shortstop had loads of talent, plus an unmatched ability to act incredibly dumb — like last season, when he was suspended for writing the anti-gay slur “Tu Ere Maricon” on his eyeblack.Well, Escobar’s Miami…
Most sportscasters treat off-field tragedies the way Dolphins punter Brandon Fields treated the football on Sunday: like a live hand grenade. But rather than dance around the NFL’s latest gruesome death — Kansas City Chiefs LB Jovan Belcher murdering his girlfriend then killing himself this weekend — Bob Costas took…
Terry Jones is going to have to put off that tour of the pyramids. The firebrand, Koran-burning, riot-inciting minister of hate in Gainesville has been sentenced to death in Egypt over his role in promoting a film tied to deadly protests around the Islamic world this summer.Jones, predictably, used the…
Ever wanted to own the autograph of a man who gunned down an unarmed teenager guilty of nothing more than being black in his own neighborhood? If you agree with that sentiment, probably not. But the legion who think George Zimmerman is a Second Amendment hero who bravely killed a…
Kevin Clash, the puppeteer behind beloved Sesame Street character Elmo, resigned last week after two men claimed he’d sexually assaulted them when they were underaged. Clash denied that he’d abused the men, but said the “personal matters” were distracting him from his work.Now a Florida man has added to the…
