Justin Robert Muoio pressured his victim for years to work as a prostitute while he lived off of her profits. When the woman got pregnant, Muoio didn’t relent. Prosecutors now say he advertised her services to fetish clients and made her work for two months while she was with child…
From the get-go, Major League Baseball made no secret that one of the costs of doing business with Tony Bosch was a promise to ask the courts to go easy when criminal charges came down. (You remember Bosch, the Coral Gables steroid dealer who snitched on Alex Rodriguez and more…
For months, gay-marriage activists had circled January 6 as the date when Florida’s ban would finally fall. That’s when a stay striking down the gay-marriage ban was set to expire, empowering clerks around Florida to begin issuing licenses. Well, Miami-Dade jumped the gun and start issuing licenses Monday instead, setting…
We are only a week into 2015, and you’ve probably already broken a few of your New Year’s resolutions; it happens. So why not come up with some new, easier ones while the year is still young? No, I’m not talking about deciding pizza is ok, as long as it’s…
Last week we published an investigation into Taser misuse by Miami police officers. The article unearthed dozens of instances of questionable Taser use, including 11 recent cases in which subjects died after being tasered. Sadly, there is now another name to add to that list. Key Largo teenager Roberto Ornelas…
While Attorney General Pam Bondi is really good at ending her own marriage, she isn’t sure what she’s going to do next to try and end gay marriage in Florida. Bondi tried to keep a low profile during today’s inauguration festivities, but she couldn’t skip her own swearing in and…
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Thanks in part to a miscalculated flu vaccine this year, the flu outbreak has hit epidemic proportions, and Miami-Dade is no exception. Influenza caused 5.9 percent of emergency room visits between December 28 and January 3, according to the Miami Herald. That’s up from 3.6 percent the same time last…
View image | gettyimages.com After four years as head coach of the Miami Hurricanes, Al Golden has a 28-22 record, identical to the record compiled by Miami lifer Randy Shannon in his four years at the helm. Golden gets to stay on for at least another year, while Shannon was…
Sunday-afternoon visitors to Graceland Memorial Park were greeted by an unusually macabre scene. A small fire smoldered under a tree next to the cemetery’s stony entrance on Calle Ocho at SW 44th Avenue. Passing motorists who slowed long enough to look could just make out an all-too-familiar form: a charred…
On Monday, history was made in Florida. Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Sarah Zabel lifted her stay on Pareto v. Ruvin in the morning, allowing same-sex couples in Miami to marry one day before the rest of Florida. The first same-sex couple to marry in the Sunshine State was Catherina Pareto…
On a Sunday evening in November 2012, three teenagers crept up to the sliding glass door at the back of the Palm Beach home belonging to Robert Boody, a Florida highway patrolman they knew was out on the job. On the other side of the glass, a vicious, cantankerous German…
The biggest loser of the day: John Stemberger, director of the Florida Family Policy Council and author of 2008’s Amendment 2, which banned same-sex marriage in Florida. Stemberger called a press conference today in Tallahassee to react to the news that marriage certificates were being issued to gay couples here…
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Remember last year when we reelected Rick Scott as governor? Yeah, crazy stuff. Well, his second term officially begins tomorrow, and it doesn’t seem that many people are that excited about it… including Florida’s former governors. Traditionally, living ex-governors are invited to inaugurations (as is the case in presidential inaugurations…
The University of Miami is the original Nike school. Twenty-seven years ago, the university and the sporting brand signed a partnership that meant Nike would sponsor all of the school’s teams. That kind of arrangement is de facto now, but back in 1987, it was the first of its kind…
Today, Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Sarah Zabel has lifted a stay on her decision to invalidate Florida’s prohibition of gay marriage. The decision, in a case called Pareto v. Ruvin, means Miami-Dade County is the first place in the state to have marriage equality. The first marriage will likely take…
Update: Today, Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Sarah Zabel has lifted a stay on her decision to invalidate Florida’s prohibition of gay marriage, which means Miami-Dade County is the first place in the state to have marriage equality. Friday night, Aaron Huntsman and his partner, William “Lee” Jones, relaxed in their…
This has not been the easiest season for Miami Heat fans — things haven’t gone according to plan thus far. Someone is always injured. The team is fighting just for the last playoff seeds in the East. Birdman keeps spraining things. It’s been a rough first third of the year…
In his day job, Eli Nazario owns a Miami demolition company that grossed almost $1 million in 2014. But Nazario, a Brooklyn native who transplanted to South Florida around ten years ago, also has another longstanding occupation — extraterrestrial fanatic. And now he has self-published a book, Pillars of Fire,…
Apple’s iPhone has come in standard memory sizes for a while now, starting at 16 GB of storage. The problem, according to two Miami residents at least, is that the operating system itself keeps getting bigger and bigger, thus taking up more space and leaving customers with less room to…
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