The year was 1935. The Great Depression was tailing off, Miami hosted the inaugural Orange Bowl, and Little Havana’s Ball & Chain opened its doors. For the next two decades, the club became among the Magic City’s most popular venues, a place where legends Billie Holiday and Chet Baker crooned…
Last month, Ohio newspapers refused to take The Dan LeBatard Show’s money for a simple “You’re Welcome” message to LeBron James in their publications; it appears they have chosen poorly. Thwarted in their first bet to poke fun at LeBron’s lack of thanking Dade County fans on his way out…
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Miami-Dade police have arrested Yurianne “Elvin” Hervis-Gonzalez, 34, and charged him Tuesday with 30 felony counts of animal cruelty in connection with an illegal West Miami-Dade slaughterhouse where pigs were brutally killed — some via sledgehammer attacks, some with gunshots and others boiled alive. At the time of his arrest…
If a South Florida group has their way, Miami is about to get a whole lot greener. The Greenlink Project would create the largest linear park ever, one that would stretch 10 miles long from Brickell to Dadeland right underneath the Metrorail. “The vision is to connect eight transit stations…
When local developers Alex Mantecon and Guillermo Vadell bought the property at 123 SW North River Dr., they realized they had something of a logistical problem: The property had a prime location along the Miami River, but it was also sandwiched between massive, looming freeway bridges. “We kind of analyzed…
When LeBron James headed back home to Cleveland, he forgot to pack something Heat fans hoped he’d take with him — namely, the national hate for Dade County’s fans. Before LeBron came to Miami, no one really had a problem with Heat fans, but while he was here, Heat fans…
One year ago today, Miami Beach cops caught a tall, skinny teenager spray-painting the side of an abandoned McDonald’s. A phalanx of police officers chased the curly-haired kid for seven minutes: Israel “Reefa” Hernandez clambered over fences and atop cars until he finally found himself cornered in front of a…
The Florida Medical Association, which represents about 20,000 physicians in the state of Florida, has come out strongly against a proposed amendment that would legalize medical marijuana in the state. Among the group’s concerns are that medical professionals without proper training could end up handling medical marijuana. We hate to…
One year after Anthony Bosch’s roster of Major League Baseball clients — including hometown star Alex Rodriguez — received a record round of suspensions for buying performance enhancing drugs from Biogenesis, his Coral Gables clinic, Bosch himself is finally facing the music. Federal agents have reportedly arrested Bosch and some…
Authorities are still trying to piece together the puzzle after they found three bodies inside a home near NW 55th Court and 193rd Lane early this morning. According to unconfirmed reports, Charlie Davis is suspected of killing his wife and his 20-year-old stepson before turning the gun on himself…
The law office of Raúl Recoba is located on Calle Ocho across from a liquor store and above a discount beauty-supply store. Here, the sidewalks are stained dark with discarded gum and cortaditos. Recoba works inside a small, clean room down a long, white hallway. His window provides a sweeping…
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Always a little late to the party, but still ahead of the rest of Florida, Broward County has joined the movement to strike down Florida’s ban on same sex marriages. A judge in Broward this afternoon has ruled that Florida’s ban is unconstitutional, a judgment that follows two similar opinions…
Absentee ballots have been sent out for this year’s primary, which means it’s officially election season in Miami-Dade. Of course, every election season here ends up with someone getting busted for voter fraud. Well, the Miami-Dade Police Benevolent Association is at least hoping to make someone a little richer off…
This weekend saw yet another death in a summer of tragedy on Biscayne Bay. Around 4:45 p.m. yesterday 39-year-old Jose Daniel Napoles was killed after the boat he was driving crashed into a pier at a small island across from Pelican Harbor then catapulted into a seawall, Florida Fish and…
Dwight Eisenhower still holds the record for the most hamfisted attempts to oust Fidel Castro, thanks to alleged plots like the CIA’s exploding cigar caper. But Barack Obama is giving Ike a run for his money. First came the “Cuban Twitter” fiasco, when news leaked that the US Agency for…
Kim Kardashian: Hollywood has taken the app world by storm. The addictive game has become so massive that bloggers are chronicling their experiences spending hundreds of real life dollars on it. The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Water accidentally sent out a tweet about it. High minded writers are churning…
The year was 1935. The Great Depression was tailing off, Miami hosted the inaugural Orange Bowl, and Little Havana’s Ball & Chain opened its doors. For the next two decades, the club became among the Magic City’s most popular venues, a place where legends Billie Holiday and Chet Baker crooned…
Kevin Olson hasn’t even taken a single snap for the Miami Hurricanes yet, but he’s already finding himself in heaps of trouble. The redshirt freshman has been suspended for one game after failing a drug test. He was also suspended during last year’s bowl game while redshirting…
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Cases of chlamydia and syphilis have more than doubled in Miami-Dade in recent years, and more than half of those infected last year were between the ages of 18 and 25. And we wonder what happens when MTV stops airing PSAs reminded kids to wrap it up every commercial break,…
