Two teens in Hialeah are charged with trying to cover up the accidental shooting death of another teen. [CBS4]Coconut Grove bar owners gear up for a battle to bring back the neighborhood’s 5 a.m. last call. [CBS4]McClatchy, the Miami Herald’s parent company, posted a $25.8 million profit for the fourth…
So, recently inducted Hall of Famer and Miami product Andre Dawson is complaining the Hall of Fame has him wearing the cap of the now-defunct Montreal Expos in his plaque, when he made it clear he wanted to be honored for all baseball-ternity as a Chicago Cub. We’ve just finished…
Lithium from Bolivia could reshape Miami and the world
For dozens of inmates, Miami-Dade County jail has become a permanent home
Elegant Elliot Offen had the bustier, Holiday Inn gave him the boot
Volleyball academy in Miami Beach needs a better place to play
Haitian housekeepers say the Ritz-Carlton South Beach is sweeping them away
Sarah Palin doesn’t have a lot to do now but sit by her Facebook machine all day and have some assistant type out notes on whatever topic will get the most “pokes” or “likes” or whatever. So of course she’s weighed in on the Focus on the Family-sponsored Tim Tebow…
Hanna Giles, the FIU student and local girl who was catapulted to conservative fame by posing as a prostitute in those infamous ACORN sting videos, isn’t standing by her “pimp.”James O’Keffe, who posed as the pimp to Giles’ ho, was arrested yesterday for taking part in an plot to mess…
The first image most people will ever see of Apple’s recently unveiled iPad displays Liberty City’s own Chad Ochocinco. Interesting, but perhaps more important is that the image was party of the New York Times’ app for the new machine. For months, rumors swirled that the iPad would be the…
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Not long ago, Riptide implied — via a Moron of the Week post — that Miami rapper Bow Wow isn’t very smart. Sure, maybe he did announce his own drunk driving — in a “Lambo” — via Twitter. And, yeah, maybe Miami Beach cops did slap him with a DUI two seconds…
Republican Senate opponents Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio spoke one after another this morning at the Associated Press legislative planning session, and while they avoided a face-to-face meeting, they took swipes at one another. It must have been uncomfortable for the two, considering yesterday’s polling showed Rubio in the lead…
On his MSNBC show, Keith Olbermann has this terribly annoying habit of self-righteously addressing, in overly dramatic terms, any criticism directed against him. The Miami Herald’s Glenn Garvin has this terribly annoying habit of filling and shaping his TV reviews with his right-wing political stance. It was only a matter…
Hot on the heels of his announcement he’d file a lawsuit if any health-care legislation passes in Washington that would force people to buy insurance, Attorney General Bill McCollum finds himself with a ten-point lead in the gubernatorial race.According to a new poll from Quinnipiac, Republican Bill McCollum is up 41 percent to…
Another blow to Florida’s gay adoption ban was served as the third adoption since 2008 by a gay parent was approved by a Miami-Dade judge. The ruling follows a decision by Monroe Circuit Judge David J. Audlin in August 2008 to allow a gay lawyer to adopt a boy he…
After an epically long meeting, city commissioners chose Rev. Richard Dunn to replace Michelle Spence-Jones after he pledged not to run for the seat in November. [Herald]Crime rates in unincorporated Dade County are down. [Herald]Sad Ponzi clown Scott Rothstein will plead guilty today. [NBCMiami]Lawyers for Buju Banton claim police entrapped the singer…
Crisis Camp Haiti in Miami, which Silicon Beach previewed in a post here, took place last Saturday at the Miami Herald building. Nearly 100 techies, journalists, and other volunteers showed up, split into groups, and brainstormed ways technology can help Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake.Among the ideas set in…
FIU student Hannah Giles, who won the praise of conservatives and disdain of liberals when she posed as a hooker trying to solicit business advice from ACORN workers, now finds herself targeted by a lawsuit. Katherine Conway-Russell, a worker in ACORN’s Philadelphia office, claims that Giles and her partner James…
A full service casino resort may someday soon find itself on Miami Beach. Ironic considering the lawmaker baking the new gambling rules, Fort Lauderdale Republican State Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff, campaigned on an anti-gambling platform.Bogdanoff, backed by Las Vegas mogul Sheldon Adelson, wants to allow five to seven casino resorts to…
Historic Florida theme park Cypress Gardens, which pre-dated Disney World by 35 years, is officially no more. Merlin Entertainment dumped a bulldozer load of lego blocks on it and officially declared it the future home of Legoland Florida.The park will be the world’s largest Legoland, and aimed at families with…
Let’s get it straight. We love, love, love Trina like any good Miamian should, but we raised an eyebrow when she released a statement recently declaring that she may or may not be adopting a Haitian child.Note Da Baddest Bitch doesn’t state she will be adopting but merely says, “I…
