Sunday afternoon shoppers at Flea Market USA had to dive for cover behind their cars yesterday afternoon when Miami-Dade Police opened fire on two robbery suspects they’d cornered in the store’s parking lot. One of the suspects died in the hail of gunfire and another was rushed to Jackson Memorial…
A helicopter ferrying Thanksgiving guests to an uber-exclusive Bahamas resort went into a tailspin yesterday, killing one passenger who was flung from the aircraft and injuring four others in the crash landing.Among the survivors: Jeffrey Soffer, the Miami mega-developer who owns the Fontainebleau Hotel…
When Rydel Deed began biking around Miami in 2006, drivers stared as if he’d wandered off the nude beach in Haulover. When he invited others to join him later that year in Miami’s first Critical Mass ride, fewer than a dozen took him up on the offer. Flash forward to…
The car that changed Aholsniffsglue’s life came out of nowhere on a rainy night in midtown Miami. It sent him flying off his moped and onto the wet pavement, and then it sped away. The hit-and-run in June taught the maverick artist two things: First, it showed he had better…
Somewhere in the Sunshine State, there is a truly bitchin’ Camaro on the road. Every square inch has been covered in gold. The wheels hug 30-inch plates, also blinged out in solid gold. The interior is forest green — or at least the few spots that aren’t covered in subwoofers…
When 13-year-old Lourdes Guzman-DeJesus was shot and killed on a school bus in Homestead yesterday by a classmate, the central question for police was whether another student had deliberately killed her or whether a kid sneaking a gun into school shot her accidentally.This morning, police say it’s the latter. Jordyn…
Well, we don’t have Allen West to push around any more. After two weeks fighting his razor thin loss to newcomer Patrick Murphy, demanding recounts, and calling on fellow Tea Party patriots to battle for his cause, the craziest guy in Congress has finally conceded this morning. And, in vintage…
Hozae Milton’s neighbors in Jacksonville came home last week to a truly disturbing sight: the 43-year-old was skinning a dog right in the front yard of his one-story brick house. When police later came to investigate, they found that poor canine wasn’t alone. Milton had also recently skinned a cat,…
For the second year in a row, the Miami Hurricanes demolished South Florida on Saturday for their sixth win of the year, earning the chance to play in a postseason bowl. And for the second year in a row, the Canes followed the win with a Monday morning announcement that…
In May, cheap chic Swedish furniture giant IKEA was rocked with shocking accusations in the German press: That it had manufactured products using forced prison labor in East Germany in the ’70s and ’80s. Of more interest to Miami, one paper also reported the company had contracted with Fidel Castro…
Attention, computer-buying public of Florida: If a man approaches you in the parking lot of a Best Buy with a convoluted tale about needing money to get home and a strangely discounted iPad for sale, it’s almost certainly too good to be true.A woman in Daytona Beach learned this the…
Ultra Violet Stole Her UR1 Laser Project, Germany-Based Artist Claims
Jeffrey Loria is a liar. This is well documented. After years of claiming poverty while begging for ballpark handouts, leaked documents showed that, nope, the Marlins were actually one of baseball’s most profitable franchises.So why in the name of Conine did anyone believe Loria when he said the new Marlins…
A tanning salon owner in Key West who increasingly blamed his personal struggles on President Obama warned his partner that “I’m not going to be around long” if the president won reelection last week.Two days after the president’s victory over Mitt Romney, Keys police found Henry Hamilton dead of a…
One year after the taxpayers of Miami-Dade gave Jeffrey Loria a brand new, $515 million ballpark, he’s already given up even pretending to field a major league baseball team. In one of the largest salary dumps in the history of baseball, the Marlins are reportedly shipping basically every player on…
When the news broke Friday that Gen. David Petraeus was stepping down from the CIA over an affair, the old adage that “every crazy story has a tie to Florida” seemed like a stretch. What possible link could the Sunshine State have to Petraeus’ unwise liaison with his biographer?Doubt Florida’s…
Who owns the idea of shooting giant laser beams into the night sky? That’s the question at the heart of a simmering dispute threatening a signature project at Miami’s new mega music and art festival, UR1, where Andy Warhol associate Ultra Violet plans to beam a huge laser across Biscayne…
For two years now, William Britt has been subbing in classrooms around the Florida Keys, including inside a handful of local elementary schools. At home, Britt was stockpiling hundreds of images of child pornography.After a landlord spotted the illegal porn and called the police, Britt admitted he was “sick” and…
It shouldn’t be this hard. Really! Voters fill in a little bubble showing who they’d like for president. Elections machines tally them up. And whichever guy gets the most votes wins the state. Everywhere else in America, this simple process works just fine.But this is Miami, where two days after…
All around this great country, voters woke up this morning celebrating their state’s support for Barack Obama or reveling in their red-state backing of Mitt Romney. In Florida, we woke up groggy, confused and more than a little pissed about the seven hours we waited in line. The presidential election…
When a man in Sarasota repeatedly took Obama signs off his neighbor’s lawn, he wanted to let her know it wasn’t just vandalism. See, he was looking out for everyone’s safety by not letting burglars know that weak-kneed, Second Amendment-hating liberals lived there. He even sent her a postcard helpfully…
At 7 a.m. this morning, 829 polling sites opened in schools, storefronts and churches around Miami-Dade County. And despite the fact that almost half of likely Florida voters have already cast ballots, imposing lines quickly formed, snaking out front doors and down sidewalks — and forcing some to abandon their…
