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Showing 24421 - 24442 of 31934Key Biscayne Sewage Plant Poisons a Neighborhood
A Key Biscayne Sewage Plant Poisons a Neighborhood
Miami-Dade Property Appraiser Misleads Citizens
Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser Misleads Citizens
Hollywood’s Mickey Mouse Cops, Parts I and II
Hollywood’s Mickey Mouse Cops, Parts I and II
South Florida Store Clerks Go Vigilante
South Florida’s Store Clerks Dole out Vigilante Justice
Ray Sansom Doesn’t Give It Up That Easy
Perhaps if today was a different day this post would include such phrases as “gentle teasing,” “a pinky finger and some spit,” “ky jelly,” and “latex glove and a vat of crisco,” but we simply aren’t in the mood. However, in case you weren’t aware Ray Samson, the former Speaker of…
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More Staff Cuts at the Miami Herald
The Miami Herald makes staff cuts about as regularly as the rest of us get haircuts. Today the paper sent out a memo informing the staff that 16 of them would be sent home today with a pink slip, and 18 other unfilled positions would be eliminated. Of course, the memo…
Florida Inching Ever Closer to Official Blue State Status
Look at this big, bright, blue collection of states we call America. Gallup released their latest report of political party affiliation and it is not looking good for the Republicans. In fact, according to Gallup there’s only 4 real red states left, with one leaning. Democrats meanwhile have huge voter…
305 Photo of the Day: Jaded
Sunny Isles Beach. Don’t get up there much. Thankfully, Flickr user Jikatu does, and took this picture of Jade Beach and Jade Ocean, the Carlos Ott designed towers By the way, if you have a Flickr be sure to join our Miami New Times group. …
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Cold War Alert! Russian Subs Patrolling the Seas Around South Beach
New York Times this morning and had a serious 1962 flashback.The Times reports today that two Akula-class Russian nuclear submarines are patrolling international waters just off the East Coast. Defense Department sources told the Times that one sub remains about 200 miles off the coast somewhere, and that the other…
Miami Beach PAL Vice President Says No Talking About Porn, You Dirty Board Member
Last week, New Times, being the sex-crazed maniacs we are, brought you a story about a muscleman porn star named Bruno Diaz. The Hispanic stud is the manager of the PAL gym and was caught bumping and grinding in some pretty hilarious ’90s gay porn. All of this sent Miami…
News Roundup
The reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for recent horse slaughterings has been raised to $5,000 [NBCMiami]The Heat is fine with the current rooster. Nope, not at all bitter it lost out on Odom. [Herald]Former UM player and current New York Jets defensive end Kareem Brown watched a friend…
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Oops! Cop Car with Assault Rifle, Riot Gear, and Taser Stolen and Then Dumped
This is one story cops don’t like to admit. When Officer Michael Zambrana parked his unmarked dark gray 2004 Dodge Intrepid police car at 11421 S. Dixie Hwy. in Suniland Plaza, he probably didn’t expect it would be stolen. Who in their right mind would jack a cop car?But when he…
Miami Scamster Sentenced to 100 Years in Jail
Remember Edward Hugh Okun? He’s the 58-year-old Miami businessman who tricked hundreds of people out of $126 million through two fraudulent Richmond, Virginia companies that promised to defer capital gains taxes. As scams go, everything was rosy until he married Simone Bolani, a 20-something Miami Beach salon owner. When the two divorced, Okun…
Watch Crispin Porter + Bogusky Interns Rap, Hump Things in Coconut Grove
I never had an internship. No one would have me. (OK, I got offered one at the Miami Herald once, but I was still in my “I don’t think I really want to go into journalism — it’s a dying field” mode. Which turned out to be ironic on so many…
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Obama Is the Joker? Pinellas GOP Chairman Is a Fan
We simply do not get this Obama as the Joker poster that’s making the rounds. What does the joker have to do with Socialism? The Joker = anarchy, right? Which is pretty much the antithesis of socialism. It would pass for something resembling humor if it said “Why So Socialist?”…
Two Florida Men Face Five Years in Jail for Posting Gang Signs on MySpace
Thanks to a law championed by a former Miami-Dade Police officer, two Florida men face up to five years in prison for photos allegedly showing gang signs posted to their MySpace accounts. The whole thing is ridiculous. Taxpayer money could be used to house two guys for five years in crowded prisons because of MySpace? A…
305 Photo of the Day: Biltmore Polaroids
Today’s photos, Polaroids of the Biltmore Hotel, come from SFBNess’s Flickr. …
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Miami Heat 2009-10 Season Unveiled
The Miami Heat’s full 2009-10 schedule was released upon the world today. Dwyane Wade and company will kick off the season with a home game October 28 against the New York Knicks (who are somehow still considered a professional basketball organization). Things get interesting, not to mention challenging, when we meet our ol’…
News Roundup
Attorney General Bill McCollum thinks this idea of sex offenders living under a bridge is just a horrible thing that he’d like to change. [Herald]Doctors who’ve defected from Cuba seem to be filling the primary-care void in Miami. [WSJ]If you are a true Florida patriot, you will eat an iguana…
Charles Perez Apparently Too Gay for WPLG’s Taste
He’s here, he’s queer, but former weeknight anchor Charles Perez says WPLG doesn’t want to get used to it. According to Herald columnist Steve Rothaus, the anchor has filed a complaint with Miami-Dade’s Equality Opportunity Board. In the complaint, he says news director Bill Pohovey told him WPLG would switch to…
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Key Biscayne Man Sues, Says Sewage Plant Is Poisoning His Neighborhood
What’s worse than a rotten-egg-stench-belching sewage plant in your back yard?How about an odiferous shit factory that poisons your family and leaves you with severe neurological damage? That’s exactly what John Rosser, a 58-year-old retired pilot, says happened to him in Key Biscayne. Now Rosser has abandoned his dream home…