Former University of Miami football coach Randy Shannon has filed a lawsuit against UM in Miami-Dade court, alleging that the school is stiffing him on money he’s owed. After firing the coach in November 2010, the school has tried to pro-rate the cash its still obligated to pay Shannon –…
At the University of Miami, William Joseph was a star of the 2001 national championship team’s fearsome defense, leading the Canes in QB sacks and tackles for a loss. Joseph has since retired from football after an eight-year NFL career, but he’d better hope he’s still got some killer defense…
Dr. Rudy Moise is as colorful a character as you’ll ever find in a congressional race. The millionaire physician has bankrolled B-movies to cast himself as the star and was accused of inserting his face into a memorial statue of Haitian soldiers that he’d paid for. There’s also a very…
Between the front-page Miami Herald story, the endless meteorologists on the morning news and the Facebook and Twitter-choking freakout by basically everyone you know, you’d think hurricane season had officially arrived. Not quite. But it is going to rain for FOUR STRAIGHT DAYS in Miami.It’s the rainpocalypse! Will you and…
The email went out to a group of Miami-Dade cops February 22, just a couple of weeks after they’d busted up Occupy Miami’s downtown encampment. The subject line was in ominous military-speak: “Occupy Miami: Situational Awareness.” Inside, an MDPD Homeland Security detective named Maritza Aschenbrenner passed along her latest intel…
Conservatives tittered like giddy Limbaughs last week when Jeb Bush cracked open the door toward being a vice presidential candidate by telling Newsmax that he’d “consider” Romney’s overtures if they came. Rubio may be the rising star, but some in the GOP still dream lustily about a return to the…
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Fire up those spliffs, DMV workers of Florida: A Miami federal judge has ruled that Gov. Rick Scott’s plan to randomly drug test all state employees is unconstitutional. Judge Ursula Ungaro ruled today that random tests of 85,000 state employees would be an unreasonable search and seizure and issued a…
Is Mitt Romney surging ahead of Barack Obama in Florida? Has the Sunshine State officially joined Mitt Nation? Did Obama really get zero bump by slow-jamming the news with Jimmy Fallon?Uh, no. It’s only April, so we probably shouldn’t pay attention to any presidential polls yet. Still, a new nonpartisan…
The Miami Beach Police Department’s brass probably winces anytime they hear the words “You Tube” these days. After this past year — when their cops were caught on tape killing a Memorial Day Weekend visitor and speeding recklessly around South Beach — amateur video is a recipe for MBPD heartburn.The…
As if Marco Rubio’s attempts to moderate the GOP’s immigration stance weren’t difficult enough: A Washington Post reporter has released part of a biography revealing that Rubio’s grandfather ignored deportation orders from a Miami immigration court — a detail that, combined with Rubio’s own call for immigration reform, is sure…
Motorcycle Thefts Spike in Downtown Miami’s Condo Garages
NBC’s national Today show deservedly caught loads of flak last month after airing an audio clip of George Zimmerman’s 911 call that had been falsely edited to sound as if Zimmerman was saying he found Martin suspicious because he was black. But where did the bogus sound clip come from?The…
Massive semi-truck crashes can run the gamut from the comical — liquor everywhere! and milk! — to the bizarre — like that Chinese truck that spewed live fish all over the highway — to the profitable, when a bank truck overturns and spews millions of coins. It’s hard to think…
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In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s killing, even Dennis Baxley — the original sponsor of Florida’s Stand Your Ground law and among the most pro-gun legislators in the whole country — has distanced himself from the law by saying it shouldn’t apply to George Zimmerman. Gov. Rick Scott has bowed…
Marco Rubio at the moment is trapped in that strange limbo — let’s call it the Biden Zone — where half of America assumes he’s going to be a vice presidential nominee but nothing is official yet. That means despite daily national press and a starring role this week sharing…
For months, savvy residents at downtown and Brickell high-rises have been on the lookout for the “White Van Gang.” The criminals get their nickname from their favorite method: driving a white van into condo parking garages, loading up as many motorcycles as they can fit into the back, and then…
Carlos Miller isn’t shy about his M.O. — he believes photographers have the right to photograph police on the job, and he’s more than willing to get arrested to prove his point. So it’s not necessarily a surprise that cops are well aware of the 305’s most rabble-rousing photog. Yet…
This morning, just as George Zimmerman was asking a judge in Sanford to grant him bail as he awaits trial for killing Miami teen Trayvon Martin, Good Morning America aired a bloody new photo they claim shows Zimmerman’s injuries sustained during his fight with Martin. An ABC news reporter says…
Attention residents of North Miami: Would you like to learn how to prevent your home from going into foreclosure? Your esteemed mayor, Andre Pierre, would like to teach you how to avoid the pain and mounting legal costs of fighting a bank trying to take away your home, so he’s…
Somewhere in Key West, a diver with a seriously sick sense of humor is laughing his ass off right now. A sponge fisherman diving near the Conch Republic on Monday presumably spit out his snorkel when he spotted a nearly intact human skeleton eerily strapped to the captain’s chair of…
