Landlord Fatally Shoots Bat-Wielding Tenant in Hialeah
A confrontation early this morning in Hialeah between a tenant with a baseball bat and a landlord with a gun ended with the tenant shot through the chest and left dead…
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Showing 13663 - 13684 of 31953Miami Beach Memorial Day Weekend 2013: Prepare For More Traffic Loops, DUI Stops, and License Plate Scans
Memorial Day is here again, Miami, leaving beach residents and visitors alike wondering what the city has planned. According to Miami Beach police chief Ray Martinez, the holiday weekend will look a lot like it did last year: traffic loops, cops scanning license plates along the bridges, and regular DUI…
LeBron Layup at the Buzzer Gives Heat 103-102 OT Win, Series Lead
LeBron James cordially invites you to a huge helping of his clutch gene, located on his gigantic clutch manliness. Staring down the barrel of a heartbreaking game one overtime loss, LeBron James drove to the hole with 2.2 seconds left and hit the game-winning layup to propel your Miami Heat…
Michelle Braun: Notorious L.A. Madam’s South Florida Adventure
Michelle Braun: Notorious L.A. Madam’s South Florida Adventure
Thomas Kramer’s South Beach Story Ends With $200 Million Court Judgment
Thomas Kramer’s South Beach Story Ends With $200 Million Court Judgment
UR1 Festival Still Hasn’t Refunded Ticket-Holders
For a week last October, Hurricane Sandy spun a trail of destruction through cities in seven countries. From Jamaica to New Jersey, the superstorm killed 285 people and caused more than $75 billion in damage. One place it didn’t touch, however, was Miami. So it was a bit strange when…
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Miami Chiropractor Forced Scientology on Employees, Feds Allege
Miami Chiropractor Forced Scientology on Employees, Feds Allege
Florida Members of “Crazy White Boy” Gang Arrested for Bragging About Gang Membership on Facebook
How crazy is that Crazy White Boy gang? So crazy members brag about being in gangs on Facebook and, get this, they don’t even give a fuck. Whatever. Whatever. They do what they want. Or they did until they got arrested…
Marlins Park Could Host College Bowl Game
Marlins Park is already home to one troubled sports organization, so why not another? The American Athletic Association, more popular known as the sad, tattered remains of the football schools in the former Big East, is considering putting together its own college bowl game and is eyeing Marlins Park as…
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Florida Woman Arrested for Leaving U-Haul Full of Animals Outside Publix
When Hernando County Sheriff’s deputies came out to investigate an abandoned U-Haul left outside a Publix in Spring Hill, Florida, they could already hear screaming before they opened the door. Once inside they found 50 cats and three dogs inside the simmering hot metal truck. The animals were individually stored…
305 Photo of the Day: Lightning Strikes
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Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi Takes Aim at Urban Outfitters for Drug Merchandise
Don’t expect Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to make a shopping spree at Urban Outfitters anytime soon. Bondi has joined 22 other state AGs in criticizing the entry-level hipster clothing chain (which has three locations in Miami-Dade) for selling merchandise that they feel makes light of prescription drug abuse, a…
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Family of Raymond Herisse, Man in 2011 Memorial Day Shootout, Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Nearly two years to the date of his death, the family of Raymond Herisse has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against both the Miami Beach and Hialeah police departments. Back in 2011, during Miami Beach’s Urban Beach Weekend, Herisse was shot at more than 100 times and struck with 16…
Swedish Architects Want to Build Gigantic, Sun-Shaped Casino Right In Front of Bayfront Park
Remember that massive, sail-shaped casino that Malaysian gambling giant Genting wanted to build downtown before it was rejected as an all-around terrible idea? Well, those designs now look pretty restrained next to the outlandish plans of a pair of Swedish architects. Anders Berensson and Ulf Mejergren of the firm Visiondivision…
Miami Heat vs. Indiana Pacers: Eastern Conference Finals Preview
A year ago the Indiana Pacers gave the Miami Heat quite the scare. The Heat found themselves down 2-1 and without Chris Bosh, who left with an abdomen injury early in game 1, in addition to a banged up Dwyane Wade — things looked bleak. The Heat would go on…
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Miami Loses Both Super Bowl L and LI Bids
This had been pretty much all but guaranteed after the Dolphin’s aggressive plans to secure public money to renovate Sun Life Stadium fell through, but now it’s official. Miami has lost both its bid to host the historic 50th anniversary Super Bowl and the follow up, Super Bowl LI. They’ll…
305 Photo of the Day: Big Boats, Bigger Buildings
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Florida Man Arrested for Pretending to Be Cop to Get Into Strip Club for Free
If a man is pretending to be a cop in a strip club it’s usually because he’s scheduled to perform on a stage à la Magic Mike. But when Darren Philip Walker showed up at a Florida strip club with fake cop gear it wasn’t because he was there for…
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Dwyane Wade on Marriage: “I Was Probably a Terrible Husband”
Dwyane Wade’s ongoing custody battle has been one of the most glum personal stories in the NBA, and one that has largely been played in public through court records. Wade however recently opened up about his failed marriage to ex-wife Siohvaughn Funches-Wade in Jet magazine, and admits he was “probably…
Ronald Poppo, Miami Zombie Victim, Releases Video Message
It’s been almost exactly a year since Ronald Poppo literally had his face eating off near the MacArthur Causeway in Downtown Miami. Since then doctors at Jackson Health System have done their best to reconstruct Poppo’s face and get him back to health. Poppo has now released a video in…
Occupy Miami’s Overtown Safehouse Now Owned By Non-Profit, But Neighbor Complains Conditions are “Worse Than Ever”
Miami is full of strange structures with odd stories, from foreclosed upon mansions to ancient burial grounds — not to mention $2 billion baseball boondoggles. No building boasts a bio as bizarre as 540 NW 7th Street, however. Once bought by a Colombian politician for $1.6 million, the Overtown apartment…
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305 Photo of the Day: Storms a Brewing
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