Luis Felipe Perez is just the latest South Florida man to see his Ponzi Scheme toppled. The SEC has charged Perez with running a $40 million Ponzi scheme that targeted the local Hispanic community since 2006. Havana-born Perez ran a jewelery and pawn shop business, and promised investors returns of anywhere…
The Miami Dolphins seem hypocritically concerned with whether prospective player’s mothers were ever prostitutes, but seem to not be too concerned that one of their current players stands accused of brutally hitting his pregnant girlfriend. This has lead one Fox Sports columnist to label the Fins “home to NFL bad…
Are there any iconic Miami hotels that aren’t having some sort of financial trouble at the moment? How about the historic Biltmore in Coral Gables? That’s probably doing good, right? Oh, wait, the management companys owes the city of Coral Gables $2.4 million in back rent according to The Miami…
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Miami Living, one of these locally-focused luxury style mags that somehow manages to survive, has accidentally published a penis! Well, the shadow of something that sure looks like a penis.Fox News, of all places, first caught the snafu. The mag’s latest issue, which features the appropriately named Courtney Cox on…
He’s making a list. He’s checking it twice. Gonna find out who’s worth the price. Dwyane Wade is (probably) staying in town.He see’s you when you’re dunking. He knows what shots you make. He knows if you’ve been bad or good, so be good for Dwyane’s second championship ring’s sake…
Jim Greer, the divisive former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, has been arrested and charged with six felony counts stemming from allegations that he siphoned money from the party for his personal use. Greer is the first arrest stemming from a grand jury examining public corruption called for…
Zadesky Vega, a former U.S. Marine, bought a little pug about three years ago and named her Roxy. The precocious pup escaped one day from Vega’s mothers house in South-West Miami-Dade. Neighbors say they saw someone pick her up in a truck and drive away. After putting up flyers and…
A two-year-old boy was found with second and third degree bodies on his neck and torso. Now police suspect child abuse.Police received an anonymous call to check on his well-being early this morning, and went to the home of his 17-year-old mother. The mother and her boyfriend said that the…
A Miami native nicknamed “The Grinder” won the biggest trophy in professional poker early this morning, outlasting a Russian pro in a marathon 14-hour battle at the Poker Player’s Championship at the World Series of Poker. Michael Mizrachi, a 29-year-old from North Miami Beach, finished off Vladimir Schmelev just before…
Everyone’s favorite issue of the year, the Best of Miami issue, is almost here. And as promised, it will be NEW & IMPROVED. The editorial team has spent the last few months turning the Magic City inside out in search of the “best” in over 300 categories. Since April, New…
Trucker Jose Martinez heads to the Port of Miami every day on his 40-foot white Freightliner. By the time he gets downtown, traffic is a breeze. “It’s like going from the bed to the kitchen,” he says.Twenty years ago that wouldn’t have been possible. The port was connected to the…
Nothing’s worse than planning a trip somewhere along the coast, only to arrive to hurricane evacuations. Our local weather forecasters do the best they can, but let’s face it: They dumb it all down for us. Not Hurricane HD. After the torrential downpours experienced on the first official day of…
Tropical Storm Agatha tore through Guatemala over the weekend, leaving hundreds dead and a sinkhole in the middle of Guatemala City that swallowed up an entire intersection. On Tuesday, the country’s main daily reported the foreign minister is going to ask for temporary protected status for Guatemalans living in the…
We’ve seen some coke heads practically descend into a zombie-like state where they become completely devoid of normal human emotion and only fixate on their next fit like they were in a George Romero movie looking for brains (pure, uncut Bolivian marching brains). Well, now coke heads may have rotten…
Miami Heat demigod Dwyane Wade’s life got a bit simpler today when he settled a series of lawsuits with former business partners. The dollar amount of the settlement to the suits, which stem from a thwarted chain of restaurants and a charter school bearing his name, is confidential. Wade, who…
First we had a winter so brutally cold, by our standards anyway, that it literally killed iguanas, and now the warmer months are already shaping up to be record-breaking as well. The Sun-Sentinel reports thermometers at Miami International Airport indicated what your sweat-stained undershirts and air-conditioning bill might have already known: It…
Over the past year, Riptide has established itself as the global leader in Fidel Castro death- measurement technology. Give us a newly released propaganda photo of El Super Supremo, and our lab-coated head scientist, who looks like Jeff Goldblum, will feed it into a giant, whirring computer to determine just how…
Each year, Charity Navigator compiles a list of which American cities’ major local charities perform the best and ensure that donors’ money actually ends up going to the intended cause.Last year, Miami came in first place. This year, the Magic City fell a bit, to sixth out of the 30 metro areas…
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You never know what’s going to happen on South Florida’s roadways. Earlier today, Dolphins’ wide receiver Davone Bess was driving while doing a phone interview with Jorge Sedano on 790 the Ticket when he saw a truck flip three times and had to put the station on hold to do…
Dealing with other people’s crying kids is just a part of life. In the scheme of things, it’s really nothing to get overly annoyed at. Well, a man in a Surfside Publix crossed the line.The man was in an elevator with a mother and her two young daughters. The woman’s…
