Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has pretty much admitted she values money more than justice. Bondi has come under fire for postponing the execution of a cold-blooded killer and rapist who committed ghastly crimes in Miami-Dade so that she could instead attend a lavish fundraiser meant to kick off her…
Have you noticed there haven’t been any hurricanes this year? It’s hard to miss a palm tree floating down the middle of Collins Avenue, but there hasn’t even been a ‘cane that’s petered out in the middle of the Atlantic. Are you now realizing an alarming absence of those awesome…
George Zimmerman is back in police custody after police responded to a gun-related incident at the Lake Mary, Florida, home of the parents of his wife Shellie Zimmerman. Mrs. Zimmerman had just filed for divorce last week…
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Gov. Rick Scott is pushing for Florida students to get degrees in science and engineering, but when those students graduate they might have to travel far away to actually find employment. A new analysis of census data finds that Florida’s metros have a shockingly low numbers of people working in…
Gossip! Bikinis! ¡Fútbol! Next Wednesday, Hispanic readers will finally get what they’ve been waiting for — or at least that’s what Miami Herald publisher David Landsberg seems to think. In an email sent Friday evening, Landsberg — who declined to comment — announced that 70,000 copies of Caliente, the Herald’s…
So after former Miami Dolphins CEO left the team this summer to replace some guy named Tom Garfinkle as President and CEO of the San Diego Padres, Stephen Ross and Dolphins brass started an exhaustive search to find his replacement. Oddly enough they’ve decided that the very same Tom Garfinkle,…
We’re used to former Miami Hurricanes players setting all sorts of records in the NFL, but the WNBA? Not so much. Well, Riquna Williams, only in her second year of playing professionally after being on the Hurricanes women’s basketball team, just set the record for most points in a single…
Eighty-three-year-old Marian Hill is recovering in the hospital after her grandson, 23-year-old Kenneth Smith, Jr., accidentally shot her in the leg yesterday. The incident happened after Smith argued with his brother, Robert Hill, 28, over his cell phone and decided to pull out a gun in the family residence…
The Miami Hurricanes moved up to number 15 in the AP poll this morning, the best showing in recent history. The University of Florida Gators, who they took down in exciting fashion Saturday — after an epic Tailgate the likes of which probably won’t be seen in Florida for years…
Any college football fan who does a lot of Googling knows that when you search for a team’s name the search engine pulls up a specialized results page that include a header with the team’s latest score and upcoming score as well as a sidebar with general information on the…
Before yesterday, the Dolphins had been 1-6 in season openers dating back to 2006 — but lucky for them, the Browns had been a more dismal 1-12 in season openers dating back to their second go-around as a franchise in 1999. The Dolphins took advantage of this by whoopin’ some…
“I must start out by admitting that I am on a quest for vengeance.” That is not the opening line of The Count of Monte Cristo but the beginning of a recent letter to New Times. With that introduction, we expected a typically Miami tale of murder and malevolence. Instead,…
Officer Eric Guzman’s highlights over his nine years on the Miami Police Department include 30 use-of-force complaints, two dead suspects, and one self-inflicted gunshot wound to the foot. Sgt. Juan Mendez, meanwhile, has killed four suspects and racked up nearly 100 complaints in his 28-year career. Like a recurring migraine,…
If after an entire summer of being subjected to the song non-stop and you’re still not sick of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” then, boy, do the Miami Dolphins have a treat for you! TD the Dolphin teamed with two Dolphins cheerleaders to put their own rendition of the infamous video…
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So you think that Thanksgiving is a November holiday started in Plymouth Rock and celebrated with turkey and mash potatoes? Well, according to Adam Putnam, Florida’s Agriculture Commissioner, you’re wrong. Putnam claims that Thanksgiving really originated right here in Florida more than 50 years before the Plymouth Rock affair. Apparently…
A group of animal rights activists want to send a big message to the Miami-Dade County Commission for not passing an animal welfare plan. They plan on recalling one of the commissioners who voted against the plan. They’re just not sure which one, so they are literally going to put…
Welcome to another Miami Dolphins season, kicking off this Sunday against the Cleveland Browns. Gone is the old logo and uniforms. Gone are many of last seasons players. Enter a lot of expectations for a franchise that has routinely disappointed it’s fans over the past decade, or four. Sunday is…
A West Palm Beach judge has sentenced an illegal butt doctor to eight years in prison. Tamieka Butler was providing silicone injections for $200 a pop inside of a room at El Patio hotel in West Palm before she was arrested in January for “unlicensed practice of health care profession…
Mario Fabricio Ormachea Aliaga’s has one job in his native Bolivia, and it’s a pretty important one. The colonel in Bolivia’s National Police is the Andean nation’s top anti-corruption official. So it’s not fantastic for Ormachea’s resume that he’s currently sitting in Miami’s Federal Detention Center on corruption charges. The…
Until the Gators decided to stick their big scaly tail between their stumpy little legs, the Miami Hurricanes-Florida Gators rivalry was a big deal. Indeed it was the oldest rivalry in the state, and perhaps at times even more heated then the FSU-UM rivalry. As one UM alum once put…
