For this week’s cover story on the soaring murder rate in Puerto Rico, I spent five days on the island. I visited crime scenes still wet with blood, picked up AK-47 shells sprayed around neighborhoods like confetti, and interviewed terrified locals.But at the heart of the Caribbean commonwealth’s killings is…
A life lesson for Miami’s legion of borderline-insane bikers: If you’re going to lead police on a high-speed chase, make sure your buddy isn’t filming the whole thing on his helmet camera. Sure, it makes great YouTube fodder, but if police catch your friend, your own daring escape won’t mean…
What happens when you take the University of Miami basketball team from ACC filler to conference regular season and conference champs, all while under the looming threat of an NCAA investigation? You get named the NCAA coach of the year.See also:- Miami Hurricanes Basketball Moves to NCAA Championship…
Last night, the Miami Heat racked up its 23rd straight win and now stands alone as having the second-longest winning streak in NBA history. The team is ten wins away from tying the record with the 1971-72 Lakers, and 11 from owning it outright.Can they do it? An oddsmaker has…
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Last month saw surprisingly good polling news for Rick Scott. Though it came from a lesser-known polling firm that “leaked” the results after conducting it for a private client, a Hamilton Consulting poll showed that Scott was tied with Charlie Crist in a hypothetical match-up.Well, Public Polling Policy’s new numbers…
It’s relatively rare to spot a great white shark in the relatively warm waters of Florida. It’s even rarer to find an 18-foot specimen lurking in the Gulf of Mexico, but a Canadian tourist got the fishing trip of a lifetime when he hooked such a beast during a chartered…
First the Marlins alienated every taxpayer in Miami with their stadium deal. Then they pissed off every casual fan with a mass offseason firesale. Now the team is burning bridges with the only true-blue Fish fanatics left — longtime season-ticket holders.That’s how Jan and Bill Leon are feeling, at least…
At just 23 years old, Adrien Broner is undefeated in the ring and the current lightweight champion of the world, but his fighting skills outside the ring proved to be a bit dirty yesterday at the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach. The boxing champ was arrested after getting into a fight…
With the game tied at 103 and less than 20 seconds left, the basketball found itself exactly where Miami Heat fans would prefer it never leave: LeBron James’s hands. Game. Blouses. It’s a Miami Heat World right now, ladies and gentlemen, and we are just living in it.James rattled in…
Florida’s economy slowly trudges on to something resembling recovery as numbers released today show that the state’s unemployment rate is now below the national average for the first time in more than five years.Florida’s unemployment rate was 7.8 percent for January. The national average stood at 7.9 percent. A tiny…
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Despite Florida Governor Rick Scott’s idea to drug test people receiving state assistance turning out to be an embarrassing failure on multiple levels, a Republican congressman from Tennessee has decided to take the idea national.Rep. Stephen Fincher of Frog Jump, Tennessee has introduced a bill that would require all states…
Miami-Dade Police announced today that they arrested 58 people during the first weekend of Ultra Music Festival in downtown Miami this weekend. Yep, just 58 out of the estimated 150,000 plus who attended. The exact breakdown of the arrests wasn’t immediately available, but police say drug arrests were minimal…
A man was bending genders and the law this week when he showed up at a PNC Bank in Sebastian, Florida, dressed in women’s clothes accessorized with a purse containing a handgun. While his lace-accented fuchsia sweater and hot-pink fuzzy slippers suggested something casual, the man meant business and demanded cash from…
In a few hours, Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado and Commissioner Marc Sarnoff will announce a mysterious new lawsuit they promise will have a “profound” impact on Overtown, Omni and downtown Miami. What could it be? New regulations for Ultra Music Fest? Stricter controls on police? JETPACKS FOR EVERYONE?Nah, chances are…
Miami Beach is a shallow place. The right car can get you laid. The wrong shoes can get you kicked out of a club. Hell, even the dive bars have dress codes. But can looking poor get you arrested?It did for Dale Picardat. Now the city owes him $100,000…
When police at the University of Central Florida responded to a fire alarm in a dorm early this morning, they found a nightmare scenario: one man dead of a gunshot wound inside a dorm room full of improvised explosives and heavy weaponry.UCF has now canceled classes and evacuated hundreds of…
For a moment on this lazy Sunday afternoon in Toronto, it seemed as though it might all end for the Miami Heat exactly where it began. For a moment. With the game tied at 77 early in the fourth, the Heat turned on, well, the heat, blasting off on a…
Miami Beach Commissioner Jerry Libbin may be behind a recently revived proposal to allow alcohol on the beach, but that doesn’t mean he is in favor of trashing the place.In fact, the mayoral candidate feels so strongly about keeping the sands clean he is going to spend his Saturday picking…
Things are just getting worse for disgraced former Rep. David Rivera. Justin “Lamar” Sternad, a ringer candidate in the Democratic primary against Rivera’s opponent Joe Garcia, pleaded guilty today in federal court. As part of the plea, Sternad has agreed to help investigators build their case against Rivera…
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