The surprise here is not that a Miami-Dade road was named in the top ten of The Daily Beat’s “75 Worst Commutes” listacle. The real surprise is that there are actually nine commutes in the country that are worse, and that only one South Florida road-way made the cut. Airport…
Former Mayor of Miami Maurice Ferre, who somehow thinks he is running for US Senate even though he is trailing in the primary race for the party that is trailing in the general election race, has announced that he doesn’t support the Democratic healthcare plan. “It is a special-interest plan…
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Florida’s shock jock answer to Howard Stern, Bubba The Love Sponge (who’s been heard on 93Rock since last year) striked up some controversy after some comments he made on air and on his Twitter.”I say fuck Haiti. Why do we have to take care of everybody our country is in…
Miami Beach Police were called this morning to Akoya, the luxury high-rise condo with the familiar crown-like structure on top in Mid-Beach, to face the possibility of a jumper. When they arrived at 7 a.m., they found the dead body of a man on the south side of the building.Inside…
An 80-foot yacht known as the Patron went up in flames Monday at a marina off Alton Road and Third Street in South Beach.According to WSVN, fire crews arrived around 7:10 p.m. and took nearly two hours to extinguish the flames. Luckily, the blaze didn’t spread beyond the boat, and…
A grandmother in Lauderdale Lakes was killed after she refused to give her teenage attacker $5 to buy marijuana. [Herald]A former Miami cop who devised a scheme to steal $15,000 from Crime Stoppers will get only two months in jail. [Herald]A University of Miami doctor who led much of the…
On Riptide’s message boards and across the web, Miami’s bikers have raged about Sunday’s gruesome hit-and-run accident near Key Biscayne that left 44-year-old cyclist Christophe Le Canne dead on the Rickenbacker Causeway. Carlos Bertonatti, a wannabe professional singer and all-around horrific driver — with more than 40 citations in 12…
Haiti is in sheer survival mode right now and technology is helping in ways that will not only benefit earthquake survivors in the coming weeks, but also in the years to come.Geeks have been pondering since last weekend — the first series of Crisis Camps for Haiti took place in…
It’s now two strikes for pugnacious Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones. A Miami-Dade County judge today dismissed her temporary injunction against Charlie Crist’s suspension, setting February 12 as the day when she’ll actually decide if the Governor’s action is constitutional. A half hour later or so at Miami City Hall, Willy Gort…
Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Kendrick Meek traveled to Haiti over the weekend to assist with the Miami-Dade Urban Search and Rescue Team’s efforts. The team rescued a 2-year-old girl who was stuck under debris for five days and reunited her with her father. Meek captured the moment on video from…
After Hurricane Katrina, a group of researchers at Clemson University devloped the SEED Project, aimed at turning shipping containers into temporary housing in the event a similar storm hit the Caribbean. The idea was only a concept, but in the wake of Haiti’s earthquake, the team is working to make the idea a…
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After being turned down by their first two picks, the Miami Dolphins have signed Mike Nolan as their new defensive coordinator, according to FoxSports.com. Nolan resigned Monday from the same position with the Denver Broncos and was previously DC under Bill Parcells when he was general manager of the NY Jets. He…
Sex with animals? Still technically legal in the great state of Florida. State Sen. Nan Rich championed a bill last year that would make bestiality a felony, but the prudish Florida legislature never got around to passing it. Miami Sen. Larcenia Bullard’s “People are taking these animals as their husbands?…
The American Civil Liberties Union has jumped into the ongoing Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones saga on behalf of five voters in her district. Just days after being re-elected in November, Spence-Jones turned herself in on charges of grand theft after accusations she stole money from the county. Gov. Charlie Crist quickly suspended…
Aren’t there enough aspiring swimsuit models in Miami Beach looking for a sugar daddy? So how did one Miami Beach doctor get duped into thinking he was having an online fling with a former Maxim model, only to find out he was actually trading pictures and having phone conversations with…
The “tea party” might be one of the silliest names associated with a political movement, but that hasn’t stopped one Florida group calling itself the Tea Party from taking a similarly named group to court over the rights to the name.The Florida Tea Party, a grassroots movement not affiliated with…
Hundreds of Haitian refugees have begun applying for temporary protected status in Miami. [Herald]Willy Gort will be sworn in as a city commissioner today at 4 p.m. Michelle Spence-Jones won’t be joining him. [CBS4]Twenty-six sea turtles taken in during the cold snap have been released into the wild. [CBS4]A woman trying…
What kind of person drunkenly slams into a cyclist on the Rickenbacker Causeway and then speeds away while the biker bleeds to death on the road?In the case of this Sunday’s horrific crash, according to police, it’s the same kind of person who can rack up more than 40 traffic…
Including an unprecedented surge of text message donations, people have now contributed more than $150 million to earthquake relief in Haiti, according to figures released yesterday by The Chronicle of Philanthropy. That’s five times the amount donated in the days immediately after the 2004 Asian tsunamis, and more than the…
Want to open that family-owned erotic bakery you’ve always dreamed of? How about a boutique that specializes in footwear for dogs? A cleaning service that sends maids dressed as the clients’ favorite Star Wars character? Whatever the small business idea, conditions seem to be getting more favorable to realize it. A Portfolio.com/BizJournals survey ranked the Miami/Fort…
