Fresh off their devastatingly progressive move to legalize rabbit-dyeing, the Florida House passed another landmark law for human rights by banning, at last, state prisons from handcuffing pregnant women during live birth. Next on the agenda: Outlawing forced marathons for disabled veterans in jail and prohibiting wardens from pouring salt…
Think about all those times you were set to dye your pet rabbits pink and blue because it would be hilarious and great, only to look up the Florida state statutes and realize, “No! Dyeing bunnies is illegal in Florida, dammit!” Those dark days, thank God, may soon be over.The…
In South Florida, aka Ponzistan, it takes some serious effort to stand out among the Nevin Shapiros and Scott Rothsteins as the most deranged fraudster in town. Allen Stanford worked hard to earn that title, allegedly building an $7 billion scam from Miami and Houston while using the cash to…
The Sunshine State has a new candidate for its most despicable criminal of the year. Police in Jacksonville have arrested a 35-year-old mother named Dalina Nicholas on charges that she repeatedly sold sex with her six-year-old daughter in exchange for cash and drugs. Two men have also been charged with…
North Miami’s embattled mayor, Andre Pierre, has already survived enough scandals to knock five or six normal politicos off their perch — from the wacky (driving a luxury car gifted from a mysterious “friend”) to the sinister (accusations of wiretapping his enemies offices, corruption probes by prosecutors). So what’s another…
Florida cops, it seems, will do just about anything to find that marijuana plant growing in your closet. The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether Miami police violated the Constitution by routinely sniffing around suspected grow houses with drug-smelling dogs without first getting a search warrant.In Tampa, meanwhile, police…
On family trips back to her grandparents’ town in Chile, Paula Barros spent long nights battling it out with her relatives for penny stakes. She was calling bluffs before she turned 10. Later, as a poor actress trying to land gigs in blustery wintertime Chicago, the recent Florida International University…
A full month before the season kicks off, Mark Buehrle is close to taking his first loss in Miami. The new Marlins ace is celebrity spokesman number one for pit bulls and the activists trying to overturn Miami-Dade’s two-decade ban on the dog breed. Along with his wife, he’s vocally…
Yesterday, WikiLeaks dumped a trove of emails from a Texas-based intelligence firm called Stratfor that includes an insider talking about Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez’s cancer. If the firm’s Venezuelan sources are any good, it’s very bad news for the Bolivarian strongman.Citing a “well-connected (Venezuelan) source,” the analyst writes in December…
Miami is often compared with the Wild West, thanks to our frontier spirit, our home at the very edge of the country and, of course, the fact that the our town is full of crazy people with guns. The 305’s latest Butch Cassidy-esque gunfight went down last night at the…
Somewhere in Florida there is a business named Omeranz & Landsma whose owner, whoever he or she may be, has just the worst sense of humor in all the Sunshine State. Even worse than Connie Mack’s campaign manager!Omeranz’s owner attended a charity auction hosted by Marlins president David Samson where…
Richard Steinberg apparently learned very little from Anthony Weiner’s downfall. Steinberg, a Democratic member of the Florida House from Miami Beach, has admitted this morning to sending a number of “inappropriate” text messages to a married female prosecutor, starting with this cringeworthy opener: “Sexxxy mama?”The prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney Marlene…
Alina Fernandez, Fidel’s daughter, isn’t sure whether Castro has found Jesus
Nevin Shapiro assistant Sean Allen clears Canes football
Never before has America seen a governor so obsessed with forcing other people to pee in cups as our own Rick Scott. Two of the first orders he issued after taking office required welfare recipients and all state employees to urinate into cups — all to make sure drug fiends…
The headlines ripped through Little Havana earlier this month: “Fidel Castro has found Jesus.” The source of this shocking news: Fidel’s Miami-based daughter, Alina Fernandez, who gave an interview to Italian newspaper La Repubblica. The paper also tracked down a Vatican source who said Pope Benedict XVI expects to take…
When police arrested 25-year-old Michele Traverso yesterday on charges that he fatally struck a cyclist on the Rickenbacker Causeway before speeding away, Miami cyclists felt a tragic sense of déjà vu. Just over two years ago, police say another young driver named Carlos Bertonatti ran after fatally hitting another cyclist…
What do a nonprofit hellbent on ending drunk driving and a Miami Gardens shop selling crotchless panties and see-through negligees have in common? Far too much, at least according to Mothers Against Drunk Driving. MADD has filed a federal lawsuit against MaddSexy Lingerie claiming it’s illegally profiting from the anti-DUI…
Jeremy Alters, big-time Democratic fundraiser, fights off legal challenges as he wins big in court
Cell-phone tracking: Miami cops know where you are
A Tallahassee proposal to force Miami-Dade to end its 23-year ban on pit bulls took a major hit last night when a group of county commissioners supported giving Dade voters a say in whether to keep the prohibition. The House bill’s sponsor said he’d withdraw his legislation if the ban…
What did you do this weekend? Unless you masterminded an international art theft caper or got into a fistfight with Mike Tyson over his love of Phil Collins, Jason Wayo can probably beat your story.The 34-year-old Sarasota County native was in court yesterday to answer charges that he went on…
