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Dude, Where’s My Schlong?: Coral Gables man Enrique Millas loses penis after penile implant surgery performed by urologist Paul E. Perito

Burned Out: Arsonist destroys Michael George’s Performing Arts Network in North Miami. Haitian chef Yvon Dorvil arrested.

Baby Got Fatback!: Miami-Dade budget cuts affect lower-level employees, not well-paid executives

Peace, Love, and Terror: The investigation into a cop killing leads to a former Weather Underground member who helped launch Barack Obama’s political career

A spanish radio station has exposed what some are labeling as a teen fight club taking place in the courtyard on Coral Gables High School, with a few of the fights being posted on YouTube.The fights caught on camera seem to be more for the entertainment of other students than…

Today’s photo comes from Michelle Eve’s Flickr…

In January, Shirley Richardson got canned as executive director of the Civilian Investigative Panel, the voter-created group that polices the Miami Police Department.According to panel members, she rarely showed up for work and was a terrible manager when she did. To top it off, Richardson demanded an 8 percent raise…

After admitting to the crime, 17-year-old Andy Rodriguez has been charged with one count of second-degree murder following yesterday’s fatal stabbing at Coral Gables High. Students will return to school today, many wearing black. [WSVN]The Herald’s Myriam Marquez wrote a column that was basically, “Yo, Carlos Alvarez, I’m really happy for…

It keeps happening in Miami Beach. Cops pull up, tell demonstrators to put away their bullhorns, and to stop banging those drums. Then an officer whips out a small pad of paper and writes a noise code violation. That’s how it went on three occasions in front of Loews Miami…

Last night, Kimbo Slice made his debut in the Random Things Fighting Against Each Other to Advertise Other Things League against a Caterpillar. The Caterpillar defeated Slice by technical slicing-his-arm-off-with-laser-vision knockout 14 seconds into the first round of the bout.”The promoters kinda hinted to me and they gave me the money…

Today’s photo comes from Sporadic’s Flickr. We’ll just pretend it’s our tribute to The Guiding Light, whose final episode airs this Friday, after 72 years. …

CSI: Miami’s producers have finally realized who the true star of the show is: Horatio Caine’s sunglasses. In a perfect world, the sunglasses would talk (preferably voiced by Mo’Nique or Emo Philips), helping Horatio solve his cases, but they’re doing the next best thing in the show’s eighth season premiere: giving…

I don’t know if Vince Shlomi — the ShamWow pitchman who met a hooker at Louis at the Gansevoort and took her to his room at the Setai, where she promptly tried to bite his tongue off and he responded with a few blows to her face — ever really…

The U.S. embargo on Cuba has been extended for at least one more year. [NBCMiami]A student was stabbed to death this morning at Coral Gables Senior High. Another student is in police custody. [Herald]Heat staff will take pretty sizable pay cuts to avoid layoffs. The team will also not have a full…

Last week, I wrote about a coalition of scientists trying to stop the next dangerous exotic invader from taking over the Everglades. Dennis Giardina, a botanist who co-chairs the group, took me on a hunt for nile monitor lizards, wily seven-foot-long monsters that he rates as the biggest emerging threat…