With a special permit in hand, Walmart seems to be well on its way to finally plopping a superstore right in the middle of midtown. But now a group of anti-Walmart activists has filed an appeal claiming the City of Miami should have never approved the permit. See also: City…
Have you ever shared your name with a Hurricane? It makes for a rather odd week when Hurricane [Your Name] is churning toward Florida and threatening to destroy it. Well, environmental advocacy group 350.org has come up with a new way to name Hurricanes that would spare people who happened…
Hurricane season starts Friday as the boys in orange and green take on FAU in the season opener, and expectations are already riding high. The ACC media has already picked Miami as the likely winner of the ACC’s coastal division, but now “the worldwide leader in sports,” ESPN, has spoken…
The family of Israel Hernandez, the teenager fatally Tasered by Miami Beach cops August 6, intends to sue the police department. According to the Miami Herald, the family will announce its lawsuit at 2:30 p.m. today on the steps of the Miami-Dade courthouse downtown. The suit is yet another sign…
Flaunt state law by illegally spraying pesticide that destroys millions of bees, threatens a local ecosystem, and costs local beekeepers a quarter of a million bucks? Better think twice! If Florida regulators catch you in the act, you’ll have to cough up, uh, about $1,500. That laughable penalty has environmentalists…
Stand Your Ground isn’t the only state law set to stir controversy in the George Zimmerman case. The lesser-known Florida Statute 939.06 requires the state to pay all of a defendant’s expenses if he/she is acquitted of all charges. Zimmerman’s defense team has been tallying up the cost of expert…
South Beach wasn’t always a stomping grounds for deep-pocketed rappers and popped-collared yuppies. And things were far from family-friendly. Gays built the Beach, and female impersonators were as ubiquitous during the ’90s as palm trees. South Beach Wanda — born Anthony Lee — made her name as one of the…
Well, Tomas Regalado is now all but certain to be Miami’s mayor again for the next four years. According to reports from both The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, his main competitor, commissioner Francis Suarez, is expected to drop out of the race after a turbulent period in his…
For the next four months, rapper Fat Joe will be leaning back in the Federal Detention Center in Miami. He turned himself in today to start his sentence for tax evasion, but the seasonal stay will be quite a bit shorter than the two years he originally faced…
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Most of Miami-Dade is already built on fake land created by draining swamps or dredging up dirt, so maybe it’s not ridiculous to think the next step for expansion is building a floating city on completely synthetic terrain. That’s what one Dutch company has in mind, and execs have already…
Ever desperate to goose ticket sales, the Miami Marlins hosted a “Legends of Wrestling” night on Saturday which gathered some of the most forgotten talent in professional wrestling history. The event saw former WCW and WWE champion Bill Goldberg throw out the first pitch, as well as his first “spear”…
Give the Florida trio of Carlos Rivera and Leandre and Jordan Green credit: They’ve reinvented burglary for the internet age. Instead of busting into a house and taking everything willy-nilly, the crooks broke in, took photos, and then advertised the house’s contents for sale online. When they found a buyer,…
Six weeks ago, Miami-Dade County commissioners refused to touch the property tax rate, knowing that without an increase they’d have to drastically chop services. County Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s solution — shuttering 22 libraries — was met with a rowdy public protest. This weekend, Gimenez told commissioners he’d found a way…
Hafiz Khan, a Miami Imam who was convicted of supporting the Taliban, has been sentenced to 25 years behind bars. It’s much lower than the 60-year maximum he faces, but at 78-years-old it’s likely Khan will spend the rest of his life behind bars regardless. See also: Miami Imam Hafiz…
We’re not sure who would want to live in the home OJ Simpson retreated to after being acquitted of murder charges, but in October it could be yours. After being foreclosed on, Simpson’s Kendall pad is being put up for auction…
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Omar Ventura Blandino Rivera faces charges of sexual battery and video voyeurism after he allegedly recorded himself raping an unconscious woman he had met at a party in Hialeah this past December. Blandino Rivera was at the party with his girlfriend, a friend of the victim. The victim had drank…
Carlos spent his first week of kindergarten sleeping in a hotel, and then in a hallway. He lives with his dad, hulking King of Diamonds employee Alex Velasquez, in the Altos de Miami condo building in Little Havana, near Flagler and SW 22nd Avenue. His unit is one of 47…
A Florida condo association that had recently rewritten their bylines in a way that effectively banned non-married couples from buying or leasing in their neighborhood has retracted the policy after an uproar from gay rights groups. The Casa Di Amici Condominium Association near Sarasota now claims that the policy wasn’t…
How’d you like to be a Pi K A, to bear the Shield and Diamond every day? Wear our colors, the Garnet and Gold, which all with Honor holds since chivalrous days of knighthood old. So goes an old Pi Kappa Alpha song. But now that a sex and drug-filled…
After a jury acquitted George Zimmerman in the death of Miami teen Trayvon Martin, his attorneys went to great lengths to keep his whereabouts secret so he could keep a “low profile.” But Zimmerman, it seems, wasn’t quite as interested in leaving the limelight. Three weeks after speeding through Texas…
