Miami Police Escorted Heat Assistant Coach on the Taxpayers’ Dime
Miami Police Escorted Heat Assistant Coach on the Taxpayers’ Dime
Miami Police Escorted Heat Assistant Coach on the Taxpayers’ Dime
On August 9, 2011, Benjamin and Madeline Rodriguez sat in the waiting room of a West Palm Beach dental office. The couple’s 5-year-old daughter, Briana, was inside for a cleaning. When the little girl appeared, her eyes were streaming tears. Blood ringed her lips. Instead of a simple brushing, three…
Late last month, Miami Beach Police swept into an $8.3 million mansion perched on the bay. As they climbed a marble staircase looking for the master bedroom, the house seemed empty. But inside a cavernous closet, they found nearly $17,000 in cash next to the bearded and sallow body of…
Well, the possibility of a rival team in Miami wasn’t the only thing that had soccer fans in Orlando booing last night. Rick Scott showed up to the announcement of the new Orlando MLS team and was promptly booed off stage…
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Cultist pointed out that Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade has sold a sitcom to Fox based on his memoirs of fatherhood. It’s a simple family show slated to be titled Three The Hard Way — which if you aren’t aware, is not only the name of a seminal ’70s blaxplotation…
Yesterday, at a rally officially announcing that a Major League Soccer team is coming to Orlando, league Commissioner Don Garber had a bit of bad news for the assembled Orlando fans. “This is the beginning for us in Florida,” Garber told the crowd last night. “We hope to have a…
Back in action Tuesday night, the Heat took on the Atlanta Hawks, a rebuilt team, and by rebuilt, I mean I just watched them play for 48 minutes and I’m still not entirely sure who plays for them. Oh, and the Heat won 104-88, minus a resting Dwyane Wade. After…
Freedom of religion is enshrined in our nation’s founding documents. But every once in a while, someone overdoses on the Holy Spirit and goes way overboard. Like the 22-year-old Tennessee pastor who exposes his congregation to deadly snakes in the name of Jesus. Then there’s the Amish sect leader who…
Florida, usually North America’s go-to source for general bizarreness and political corruption, has been watching the saga of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford unfold with a bit of a smirk on our face. Hey, at least none of our mayors smokes crack. Then Southwest Florida Congressman Trey Radel had to ruin…
Miami Beach cop Reinaldo Casas really wants his job back. He wants it back so badly he’s willing to admit he was once an aficionado of the most embarrassing product ever. Sexual aid cream. On February 27, the Miami Beach Police Department fired Casas — who’s been reprimanded for making…
South Miami is a strange town. So strange, in fact, that Commissioner Bob Welsh seems to fit right in. Around town he’s known as “Bicycle Bob” for pedaling neighborhoods on a girl’s blue cruiser distributing flyers. During the Mariel boatlift, he handed out his own Spanish-language joke books to newly…
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Whenever Brendan Riley and Kyle Ramey attend a Dolphins game in their Speedos, the team wins. The two were caught in a viral photo in which Ramey, clad in just a beard and his Speedo, is seen being confronted by a security guard in the stands of Sun Life Stadium…
How much Red Bull would one need to drink to successfully pull of a heist off half-a-million dollars worth of Red Bull energy? That’s what Medley police are asking after they discovered that about 100 pallets of the wing-giving energy drink were stolen from a warehouse over the Veterans Day…
Miami Heat assistant coach David Fizdale has it all: two championship rings, plenty of money, a stunning fiancée, and a courtside seat every night to the greatest show in the NBA. One thing the 39-year-old definitely doesn’t need is a lift — from anyone, let alone a public servant paid…
David Strecker was returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic this past October 30 when U.S. Customs officials at Miami International Airport told him to line up with six other people and hand over his electronics. The Key West resident dutifully surrendered a laptop computer, two cell phones, and…
Dudes can show up at a football game shirtless in body paint, but apparently if you flash some thigh, you’ve crossed a line. Instinct magazine caught wind of a picture of a Dolphins fan in little more than a teal Speedo getting an earful from security at yesterday’s game. Update:…
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LeBron James and David Beckham are two of the biggest global sports stars of the last decade, and according to a British tabloid report the two may be teaming up. The Mail on Sunday reports that James may become a business partner in Beckham’s long rumored Miami-based MLS franchise…
George Zimmerman certainly hasn’t managed to keep himself on the right side of the law ever since he was acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin, and now he’d heading back to jail. Zimmerman was arrested this afternoon by Seminole County deputies after they received reports of a disturbance…
The Economist Intelligence Unit has released its rankings of the 120 most economically competitive cities in the world [PDF], and Miami, just one of 12 American cities to make the list, shot up 10 spots this year. Miami in fact now ranks 40th overall…