Oh, Heat fans, you thought we were going to at least have an easy-breezy off-season after last year’s conundrum? Think again. It appears Dwyane Wade is thinking longterm with his contract, and is considering the possibility of opting out this year and even possibly testing the open market. Pretty much…
Steve Karro, a 55-year-old Rabbi on Miami Beach, is behind bars today on charges of molesting an 11-year-old girl. The alleged incident happened last month, but Karro told police that he was merely trying to cleanse the girl of her “negative energy.” Karro is a substitute Rabbi for the a…
Marco Rubio, the Republican “boy” wonder, is 44-years-old today! The Presidential candidate will spend the day in Las Vegas, his other childhood home (the Rubio family lived there between 1979 and 1985 before returning to Miami). He’ll celebrate later at a birthday party-slash-fundraiser hosted at the home of Rick Harrison, the…
Jimmy and Hector, two police dogs who served with the Hialeah Police Department were found dead in Davie last night after being left in an officer’s SUV. Both the Hialeah and Police Department are investigating the matter, but Officer Nelson Enriquez, a 13-year veteran of the Hialeah force, has been relieved…
Earlier this month, the Miami Beach Police Department was hanging its head in shame when the State Attorney’s Office announced that two officers had used work accounts to send hundreds of explicitly racist, sexist, and homophobic emails and text messages. When news of the scandal broke, one of the officers, Captain Alex…
For more than a year, FIU physics professor Stephan Linn warned campus administrators and Miami Dade Transit that using the bus to get to and from campus was risky for students. In letter after letter, he complained of bus stops that were inconvenient, unsheltered and unsafe— located too far from…
One day after U.S. federal prosecutors shocked the futbol world by indicting 14 top FIFA executives, the fallout continues for Sepp Blatter — the organization’s embattled president — and for Aaron Davidson, the 44-year-old Miami resident charged with helping to funnel millions in bribes to nab marketing rights to soccer…
Early last month, Eduardo Goudie was set to move into his new home on North Greenway Drive in Coral Gables. He had already moved in his eclectic art collection which featured contemporary painters from all across the world, but when he returned to the him April 3rd he found that five paintings…
Andres Quintanilla, a 33-year-old 16-year veteran of the Miami Springs Police Department, was arrested yesterday for allegedly offering protection and information to an undercover FBI agent who was posing as an international drug trafficker. The investigation began in 2014 when the undercover agent informed Quintanilla that he was in the…
The Miami Dolphins got together for the first time this week and had themselves a little football practice. That’s normal for this time of year, of course, but for some reason it seems more exciting this time around. The last few years, Miami has had their attention on a Miami…
Federal prosecutors struck a stunning blow against FIFA, the world’s soccer organization, late last night with a coordinated raid in Switzerland that netted 14 top executives on corruption charges tied to World Cup bids and sponsorship deals. Among those facing charges is the head of Miami-based Traffic Sports USA, a…
It was supposed to be easy. Edouard Rene Joseph was a combat vet, Desert Storm, so he had trimmed the situation down to simple mission objectives: Get into the country, pick up the kids, leave the country. One day, tops. No big deal. “It’s not,” he would muse years later,…
To hear Marco Rubio tell it, the secular recognition of gay marriage in America is the start of a slippery slope that will one day have all of the teaching of Christianity being dubbed hate speech. That’s his most recent take on gay marriage anyway which he outlined in a…
Relations between America and Cuba aren’t even officially restored, but thanks to a thaw in travel restrictions, tourism on the island nation have soared. From January to May of this year tourism from America is up 36 percent, while travel from everywhere overall is up 14 percent. The numbers were…
Congressman and potential Democratic Senate candidate Alan Grayson is no stranger to saying controversial things and calling others name, and he’s certainly no stranger to not apologizing if he offends anyone. However, Grayson’s office made a rare semi-appology lately to clarify that the Rep. did not indeed mean to tell…
The Dan Jennings era had a good weekend, but is that a good thing? The answer might not be as simple as you think. The Marlins snapped an eight-game losing streak with wins on Saturday and Sunday this weekend, ending their ten game homestand at a pathetic 2-8. The disastrous…
After about a decade of spending part of his time at his North Bay Road mansion in Miami Beach, famed fashion designer Calvin Klein is ready for a change. The man whose name adorns at least some of your underwear is packing up and heading to Los Angeles instead. “Not…
Around 10:30 p.m. on a Monday late last month, Eber Vasquez pedaled north from his apartment on NE 23rd Street and onto the Julia Tuttle Causeway. The 25-year-old, clean-cut Guatemalan immigrant with a neat goatee was still in his work clothes from the day’s painting job. Across his back was…
Florida Republicans haven’t exactly been making headlines for their progressive action on climate change. But a lone Republican has begun to push for action within his party. Representative Carlos Curbelo, who represents Florida’s 26th Congressional District, which stretches from Miami to Key West, says he understands climate change is “a…
It’s been a rough month for the Miami Beach Police Department. First came video of a detective punching a handcuffed woman in the face, followed closely by a press conference announcing that more than a dozen officers had sent or received boatloads of racist and pornographic emails. But don’t be…
Just hours into New Year’s Day this year, Roberto Ornelas, an 18-year-old resident of Key Largo, started acting erratically. So his father, Guadalupe, called police to intervene. Monroe County deputies ended up tasering Ornelas. He would die days later, but the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office claims its not their duty to…
The selfie stick craze has taken Miami by storm, so its no surprise that when four locals were on a road trip from Miami to LA they decided to take one along. In fact, Marco Ferro and his friends were driving along when they decided to breakout the selfie stick…
