This year’s horrific Boston Marathon bombing sent a clear message to NFL security chiefs: Big public sporting events are still prime targets for anyone looking to wreak havoc with a bomb. Their response? Leave your coolers, large purses, zipped-up seat cushions, and oversize bags at home. Getting into Sun Life…
A soldier wrongly beaten and arrested by Jorge Mercado — the Miami Beach Police officer who Tasered teenage tagger Israel Hernandez before he died — says he and another service member were forced to quash their complaint in order to save their families and careers. Luis Maldonado says he and…
The 1972 Miami Dolphins finally got to see the White House this week, forty years after their undefeated season. President Barack Obama welcomed the players and staff into his home yesterday, making up for the invite that never happened back in 1972, a time when sports teams didn’t automatically make…
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Late last week on I-75 near Naples, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper spotted a blue 2012 Ford Focus going 87 mph in a 70 mph zone, and inside was all the crazy. The driver, Leyla Denise Aykin, realized she was being pulled over and promptly slowed to 40 mph –…
Two people were injured in St. Petersburg last night when a batch of hashish oil they were making exploded. The blast was powerful enough to blow out an exterior wall and cause heavy damage to an interior wall, police said. No arrests had been made as of Monday night, but…
Dyron Dye was dismissed from the University of Miami football team on Monday, ending the collegiate career of the last of 38 Miami players and recruits who had alleged received the improper benefit of partying at the home of Ponzi-scheming booster Nevin Shapiro. Dye, who suffered an Achilles injury that…
After a monthlong sit-in, threats of a national musician boycott, and impassioned pleas from the family of slain Miami teen Trayvon Martin, a legislator has taken the first step toward repealing Florida’s Stand Your Ground law. Rep. Alan Williams, a Tallahassee Democrat, has filed HB 4003, which would overturn the…
The perfume stores on NW 20th Street in Allapattah are typically painted with bright colors. Tucked between discount clothing stores, they beckon with pink and orange exteriors as well as promises of bargains painted on their fronts. Selene Perfumeria is less inviting. With it’s gray façade, it looks like an…
It’s only a matter of time until you see “LeBron James Escort-Gate” as the title of a upcoming topic on Around The Horn. LeBron James was running just a tad late to see his good buddy Jay-Z in concert this weekend at Sun Life Stadium, so he did what any…
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His milkshakes might bring all the boys to the yard, but they don’t draw cops to court. Local chef AJ Constantin is in the clear after Miami Police officers failed to attend a 9:45 court hearing this morning. Judge Andrea Wolfson promptly dismissed the charges against Constantin. He was arrested…
NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport has confirmed today that Miami Dolphins tight end Dustin Keller tore his ACL, PCL, and MCL and also dislocated his kneecap in Miami’s 24-17 loss to the Houston Texans Saturday night, ending his season and putting the 29-year-old’s career in jeopardy…
Taylor Hardy was arrested over the weekend after refusing to stop filming the production of a LeBron James commercial taking place in the Allapattah neighborhood. Hardy, who gave his account of the arrest to Carlos Miller of Photography Is Not A Crime, said he was standing on a public street,…
William Joseph Eitel was recently booked into Okaloosa County Jailon charges of with loitering and prowling stemming from a fire he allegedly set inside a Destin bar called the Freaky Tiki. Eitel had quite an excuse for setting the blaze, though: He was trying to keep the bar up to…
Violence erupted at a rural correctional youth academy on Saturday night over a lost bet, two basketball teams and three Cup Noodles. “It was a full blown riot,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told ABC. “I watched them throw objects at us and our deputies. I watched them break windows.”…
South Florida had to know that booting Allen West out of Congress wouldn’t mean an end to reading about Allen West’s antics. The guy almost immediately landed a gig on Fox News after leaving Washington, after all. Still, dealing with West’s rants about Muslims and Obamacare on Murdoch’s network is…
Remember Occupy Miami? The movement has mostly petered out, but some of its members are keeping its shit-stirring spirit alive. On Friday night, veteran protester Kevin Young was arrested for allegedly defacing one of Francis Suarez’s ubiquitous campaign posters. Young apparently changed the mayoral candidate’s name to read “Fraud” Suarez…
When Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez warned that 22 of the county’s 49 libraries could be closed due to budget cuts, the news was met with loud resistance Dade’s bibliophiles. Well, Magic City readers can breathe a small sigh of relief, as the number of closures has been reduced to just…
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Linda Perez walked into the Coral Gables Cosmetic Center Monday prepared to undergo a routine breast augmentation, a surgery performed over 400,000 times a year in the US — and within hours she was unconscious in Mercy Hospital’s intensive care unit, with likely brain damage. CBS Miami is reporting Linda…
Hunt violated a court order to keep away from the younger girl, committing a litany of offenses that will almost certainly prevent her from getting away free and clear.
