305 Photo of the Day: Threes Company
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Showing 12189 - 12210 of 31974Here’s Your Yearly Reminder Not to Shoot a Gun Into the Air on New Year’s Eve
At this point, our favorite Miami New Year’s Eve tradition is the annual public reminder to not shoot your guns off into the air when the clock strikes midnight. Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado, Police Chief Manuel Orosa, and Miami-Dade Commissioner Audrey Edmonson along with civic and religious leaders have bound…
Are Beyoncé, Tom Cruise and Kobe Bryant Buying Into Beckham’s MLS Team?
The official deadline for David Beckham to exercise his option to own a Major League Soccer team is tomorrow, and yet there’s still been no official announcement. Until then we’re just relying on rumors, leaks, unofficial chatter and tabloid reports. At least Britain’s the Daily Star is carrying an amusing…
Two Family Members Dead, Two Injured in Horrific Domestic Rampage in West Perrine
Miami-Dade Police are still trying to figure out what happened yesterday afternoon that sent two members of a family to the hospital and another two to their graves. Police arrived to the scene at 5940 SW 103rd Place at about 4 p.m. yesterday to find a man and a woman…
Miami Cops Escape Charges After Shooting Man Armed With Box Cutter 27 Times
On November 14, 2009, two officers pulled over a 38-year-old man at the corner of Northwest 22nd Street and Fifth Avenue in the middle of the day. At some point over the next several minutes, a tussle occurred, and Corey McNeal withdrew a box cutter. Police then shot him 27…
The 12 Craziest Things That Happened in Florida in 2013
Only in Florida. Every week, so many Americans mutter those words while marveling at the latest insanity to come from our state that Tallahassee really ought to put the phrase on license plates. At Miami New Times, at least a third of our work is done by those crazies. Although…
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Jeff Ireland Should Get Fired After Dolphins Collapse Against the Jets
Welp. That about wraps ‘er up. On Sunday, the Dolphins completed one of the most disappointing, weirdest, deflating and confounding seasons in Dolphins history (no small achievement, all things considered) by once again coming out largely flat and lifeless against a division rival. The Dolphins fell to the Jets 20-6…
Hooters Suing Florida Escort Service For Suggesting Its Waitresses are Hookers
We all know Hooters’ trademark waitress uniforms are designed with aerodynamic and performance issues in mind to ensure that your wings are served in the most efficient way possible. Nothing imprudent going on there. So now Hooters is suing a Florida escort service that decided to use the slang “Hooters…
305 Photo of the Day: The Key
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Jermaine Dupri Pulled Over on South Beach, Searched For Drugs
Jermaine Dupri was cruising South Beach with his boys when cops noticed the black Lincoln Navigator’s tint was so dark that they couldn’t identify the race, sex, or number of passengers inside the SUV. Police pulled over the party to see who was headed north on Washington Avenue at 3:24…
Tanning Salons Now Outnumber McDonald’s in Florida
We live in a place called the “Sunshine State” with about 825 miles of beaches, but instead of taking advantage of those natural resources a whole lot of Floridians appear to prefer to get tan inside a salon. In fact, a new study reveals that there are now more tanning…
Florida Prostitute Accidentally Texted a Police Officer Believing He Was a Client
Usually texting the wrong number ends up in a bit of embarrassment, but Schquita Alaysha Warren texted the wrong number and ended up behind bars. That’s because she thought she was texting a potential John but instead had the number for a police investigator…
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600-Person Brawl Erupts in Florida Movie Theater Parking Lot
Listen, we all know that Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts sharing the screen in the film adaptation of Tony award winning play August: Osage County is a major event, but there’s no reasons for people to riot over it. Oh, that doesn’t come out in Florida until later today? So…
The Unlikely Cause Behind Florida’s Bee Holocaust: The U.S. Government
On a gray October day in 2011, a disheveled man in a camouflage baseball cap plunged his hands into the mounds of dead bees, pulling free a handful of the corpses. “I’m a pretty tough guy, but this is heart wrenching,” he said from his Brevard County bee farm. “We…
Tyler Hadley Killed His Parents Because Port St. Lucie Is So Boring, Rolling Stone Says
It’s tough to grow up in Florida. Things seems alright until you hit 16 and realize that shuttling between stucco strip malls leaves a little to be desired. But for Tyler Hadley, living in Port St. Lucie was so boring that he would do anything for a good time. At…
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Yes, the Dolphins Can Still Make the Playoffs on Sunday; Here’s How
Last week, the Dolphins pooped on the lechon of every fans hopes and dreams that the team would control their own destiny on the way to making the playoffs for the first time in five years. The Dolphins still have a decent chance of getting in with some help, but…
Heat’s Haslem, Birdman and Miller are Now Underwear Models
Well, Miami is about to have a former Armani underwear model as a professional sports team owner, so we guess it only makes sense that some of our current athletes would model some mens’ underthings. It’s not quite Beckham on the beach in briefs, but the Heat’s Chris “Birdman” Anderson,…
305 Photo of the Day: On Guard
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O.J. Simpson Officially Purged From Miami-Dade Voter Rolls
For all those worried that O.J. Simpson is such an upstanding citizen dedicated to civic involvement that he’d try and vote despite his felony convictions and the fact he’s sitting in a Nevada jail cell can finally breathe a sigh of relief. He’s officially been scrubbed from Miami-Dade’s voter rolls…
Fisher Island Club CEO’s Wife Spent Christmas at Rikers Island for Grand Theft Sweater
For Stefanie Lackner, the socialite wife of Fisher Island Club CEO Bernard Lackner, orange was the new red-and-green this Christmas. According to the New York Post, the 46-year-old blonde is serving a month behind bars at New York’s infamous Rikers Island for snatching a $5,000 sweater last year…
Alligators Prevail in Rematch Against Pythons (Photo)
A 2006 image of the aftermath of an Everglades showdown between an invasive Burmese python and a native alligator has become oddly iconic in all its gruesome glory. Neither animal survived the encounter. Well, authorities in the Everglades recently discovered a rematch, and let’s just say this time it was…
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Dwaynesha White Chased Down and Shot Miami Man for Refusing to Pay for Sex
Dwaynesha White was not about to give her goodies away for free during the holidays. The 22-year-old set up an appointment with 19-year-old David Roberts of Miami at her Hollywood apartment to exchange sex for money. But after the deed was done, White went to the bathroom to clean up…