If you’ve been on Facebook in the past 24 hours, you’ve surely noticed the explosion of people using a red version of the Human Rights Campaign’s logo to express their support for gay marriage as the U.S. Supreme Court hears two potentially landmark cases. That’s very nice and all, but…
Ever since Tiger Woods shot a videogame commercial with Miami’s backyard fight king Dhafir Harris, AKA Dada 5000, the planet’s most famous professional golfer is winning again and back on top of the world rankings. Coincidence? We think not. Because all Dada 5000 does is win, win, win, baby.About a…
As the Marlins gear up for what many predict will be their worst-performing, least-attended season ever — just one year after opening a taxpayer-funded ballpark — the wolves are howling outside owner Jeffrey Loria’s door. The latest barrage of bad press comes in Sports Illustrated, where former Miami Herald scribe…
Over the past few days, Miami Springs voters have received a flier urging them to vote by mail in the city’s election on Tuesday. It includes a request form for an absentee ballot and an official-looking envelope. But the P.O. box on the envelope doesn’t correspond to the county’s department…
Regular readers of Mugshots Friday will note that bloodied faces aren’t all that uncommon in Miami-Dade mug shots. Rarely, however, do we see other bodily fluids make cameos. Well, that changed today when Anthony Joseph Calvanese III, 24, was booked into jail for allegedly attempting to abduct a little girl…
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Kathryn Wright apparently couldn’t face the idea chaperoning her grandchild’s elementary school field trip sober, so police say she decided to down two water bottles full of vodka. Predictably, it didn’t end well. According to Florida Today, Wright, 58 of Palm Bay, was chaperoning a school trip to Wonder Works on…
John Stemberger is perhaps Florida’s best-known homophobe. He was deeply involved in Florida’s effort to ban gay marriage and runs the Florida Family Policy Council, a group that opposes just about any bit of legal protection for the LGBT community. Now he’s decided to start a separate group solely to…
Whether you like it or not, the 2014 campaign cycle is officially here. Gov. Rick Scott has unveiled the first ad in his reelection campaign, and while it might be incredibly early, you can’t blame the guy for wanting to get a head start in boosting his poll numbers.The 107-second…
Another night, another Miami Heat win — it’s whatever, bro. The Heat took its 27th straight win Monday night, turning what was a close game late in the third quarter into a ball-stomping 108-94 blowout of the Orlando Magic. Once again without Dwyane Wade, the Heat was able to blow…
Florida Gulf Coast University’s amazing Cinderella story in March Madness is probably the most exciting sports thing to happen to Lee County since, well, its minor-league hockey team the Everblades won the ECHL championship or Dion Sanders used to play high school football there. So, yeah, this is pretty much…
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When Ultra Music Festival announced plans to expand to a second weekend, Commissioner Marc Sarnoff predicted an onslaught of “urinating, defecating … throwing up” kids on “mind-altering drugs” wreaking havoc. Well, Miami police have released their crime stats from the second week of Ultra and the actual results were something…
Clerks at the Kwik King Food Store in Ocala, Florida, locked up for the night on March 19, and returned the next morning to discover that a hole had been cut in the store’s ceiling and that several bottles of Monster energy drink and Four Loko were missing.Turns out they’d…
Miami is trying to revamp itself as a bike-friendly city, but this probably isn’t what we had in mind.This morning a man on a bicycle got into an argument with a pedestrian, shot him, and then peddled off in escape. The victim, meanwhile, stumbled into a nearby post office for…
How often have you seen this headline in Miami? Yet even in Dade, where hit-and-runs are as regular as dubstep floating around South Beach on Ultra weekend, the wreck that killed a cyclist in North Dade yesterday was particularly brutal. After an SUV slammed into the man, the driver stopped twice…
When Shane Larkin drained a game-winning three yesterday with seconds left to secure the U’s second-ever trip to the Sweet 16, Canes fans everywhere went bananas. But no one — repeat, NO ONE — rocked the win as hard as Coach Jim Larranaga.Inside the locker room after the W, the…
On paper, Have a Heart Dog and Cat Rescue sounds like an animal lover’s ideal. Its address on exclusive Hibiscus Island conjures scenes of puppies playing and kittens canoodling in luxury. Several nearby mansions are worth eight figures.But nothing about 79 North Hibiscus Dr. is as it seems. Nowadays, the…
Today the No. 2 seed Miami Hurricanes rolled through the first round of the NCAA tournament by beating the 15th seed Pacific Tigers 78-49.The Hurricanes take their team name from a severe weather system that develops in the ocean. The University of the Pacific is named after an ocean. Can…
Is there really that much difference between a car alarm and your average Skrillex track anyway?Two young men were arrested in Doral on Wednesday for stealing from cars. They later admitted they planned to sell the stolen items in order to buy Ultra tickets…
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The organizers of the Sony Open cannot catch a break. On the men’s side, both Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have pulled out of the tournament, and today one of the best women’s players in the world also announced she’ll skip the event.Victoria Azarenka, ranked third in the world, has…
