Despite its never-ending supply of bad PR in the national press, Florida’s tourism business is booming. The state’s tourism officials claim that 23.4 million people visited the Sunshine State in the second quarter of 2013. That’s the largest amount of people to visit Florida during the second quarter ever…
A Florida woman received a suspicious package last month and called police. Though, a bomb expert quickly determined that the item in the package wasn’t so much a weapon of mass destruction, but a weapon of mass pleasure…
Damn, Jeffrey Blanc, let it go dude. Your girl’s moved on. She ain’t coming back, and there’s no sense in lighting her new dude’s car on fire. All that did was land you in jail. According to NBC Miami, Blanc, 32, dated Kristal Brantly for about two years until they…
UPDATE: Hunt was offered a new plea deal this afternoon that would leave her with two misdemeanor counts of battery as well as a felony count of interference in child custody. Under the new deal, Hunt would not face any jail time and would not have to register as a…
Federal agents in Miami played a key role in nabbing two men accused of plotting to finance al-Qaida’s battles in Syria and Somalia. Gufran Ahmed Kauser Mohammed and Mohamed Hussein Said pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges in Miami federal court Tuesday. They were denied bonds after federal prosecutor Ricardo…
Flashing your junk on a public beach is already a dubious way to attract the opposite sex, but a man on Florida’s Space Coast has been taking that losing plan to the next level by leaving notes propositioning his victims. In one posted to Facebook, the man offers women “$200…
Ahhhh Alex Rodriguez, such an easy target these days. Love him or hate him, you gotta admit the hometown slugger just makes poking fun at him so effortless. With A-Rod still dominating every tabloid in the nation thanks to a certain newspaper (ahem ahem) blowing the lid on a certain…
Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, the two killers profiled in Truman Capote’s classic In Cold Blood, have long been suspects in a quadruple murder that killed a Florida couple and their two young sons back in 1959, but DNA evidence carried out more than 50 years later could not make…
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Playing in the Orange Bowl used to send shivers down the spines of opposing teams. The 58-straight games the Miami Hurricanes won at home between 1985 and 1994 still stands unbroken as the longest home winning streak in modern NCAA football history. Of course, the ol’ Orange Bowl was demolished…
You would think that if there’s one thing South Florida has too much of its sand. You end up with at least half a pound of it in your car after every trip to the beach, and yet the great sand shortage of 2013 is upon is. Seriously, we’re running…
A condo association in Florida has found a way to keep out those pesky homosexuals and people shacking up in sin. It only allows single people or those who are legally married as “husband and wife” to buy in the neighborhood. The kicker: it’s completely legal under Florida law…
Apparently, when you’re already the King you decide you don’t want to be president after all. Despite assertions that LeBron James was mulling a bid to run for president of the NBA Players Association, he’s now reportedly decided against the move…
The Perseid meteor shower ended last night, a fact that probably escaped most citizens of Miami. As city dwellers, we have to contend with the omnipresence of electricity, an invention that is anathema to star gazing. In order to take advantage of the once-a-year phenomenon, Riptide had to travel far…
There goes the neighborhood. The City of Miami has approved Walmart’s controversial plans for a 156,000-square-foot store in Midtown. After nearly two years of heated debate, planning director Francisco Garcia officially approved the mega chain store’s architectural plans yesterday. Walmart must still obtain a building permit before starting construction, but…
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LeBron might be the MVP, but Chris Bosh continue to be the NBA’s reigning MemeVP. The Heat third wheel has always been teased for resembling something like a velociraptor ever since his Toronto Raptor days, but has anyone ever bothered to animate him playing basketball as an actual raptor-human hybrid?…
Despite calls from all across the globe for Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law to be repealed, Florida Sheriffs Association voted unanimously last week to support the law exactly as written…
Is that a wiener dog in your pants or are you just happy to see me? Police in Orlando are on the lookout for a man who stole two pure bred puppies from a pet store by shoving them down his pants while no one was looking and walking out…
As the world’s-only claustrophobe/agoraphobe combo, I considered Miami to be a geographic nightmare when I moved here two months ago. Being down here means being down here — it would take double-digit hours of high-risk driving for me to escape from Florida’s trenches. If I took I-75, I would have…
Either Shaquille O’Neal has forgotten how to use a computer, or he’s grown humble with age. On his July application to become a part-time cop for the Golden Beach Police Department, the former NBA star simply scrawled “none” across the three lines for answering the question about what special equipment…
A Florida teenager has become the youngest person in more than 600 years to be called to the Bar in England and Wales. Gabrielle Turnquest of Windemere, Florida, has already made history by becoming the youngest person to earn a BA in psychology at Liberty University in Virginia at just…
