Apparently life really does imitate art. Just weeks before the release of Harmony Korine’s beach-babes-with-handguns movie Spring Breakers hits theaters, a woman in Daytona Beach for spring break had a two-hour armed standoff with police inside her hotel room.The problems started on Wednesday when Heather Beaver, who is 21, started…
If Jimmy Buffett hasn’t already written a sappy acoustic ballad about the foibles of Thomas Knight, it’s probably only a matter of time. The 57-year-old Conch had such a strong hankering for another cold one, local police say, that he broke into the Key West Airport to steal a six…
When the dust clears, will Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll be the only Florida politician whose career goes up in smoke over the federal bust of an Internet gaming ring posing as a veterans’ charity? An AP investigation this morning suggests not, because Carroll was far from the only one in…
A stage has collapsed in Bayfront Park during a sound check for this weekend’s Ultra Music Festival, injuring several and sending police cruisers and ambulances swarming to the park. At least three people are en route to local hospitals, and several more are being treated at the scene, Gossip Extra…
Cops in Longwood, Florida, received a report this week that a young blond woman was sitting idly in a car parked outside of a Big Lots. The caller said she looked “stoned out of her face.” When police arrived, they found her clutching a crack pipe and had a 2-week-old…
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Early this morning around 2 o’clock, police discovered the naked, lifeless body of an unidentified man in his 20s on the sands of Miami Beach near 25th Street. Police say there were no signs of trauma, and because no beat cops recognized the body, they don’t believe the man was…
Last night the Miami Heat racked up its 20th straight win, which now puts the team in a tie for the NBA’s third-longest winning streak. They’re just two wins away from taking second place, but can the Heat own the record outright?It’s a tough task. They’d have to win their…
Excited about the first pope from Latin America? Well, apparently you have recently deceased Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez to thank. At least that’s according to his handpicked successor and interim president, Nicolas Maduro.Maduro is theorizing that Chávez went up to Heaven and made arrangements with Jesus himself to ensure the…
Once a year, downtown Miami used to reverberate with the roar of 1,000-horsepower engines, Bayfront Park smelled of burnt rubber, and millionaires’ Lamborghinis were made to look like junkyard jalopies. The Grand Prix of Miami, held from 1983 until 1993, was this city’s brief fling with Formula 1 racing. Now…
Jennifer Carroll resigned yesterday amid scandal. Gov. Rick Scott has announced he will hold off on choosing a replacement until after the current legislative session, at which point the Cardinals of the Republican Party of Florida will convene at the governor’s mansion and meet in secret. Florida will know it…
After last season’s championship, Dwyane Wade famously wore a “Team No Sleep” shirt, referring to the shuteye he intended to get the nights following the Heat’s title win. On Wednesday evening, Team No Sleep took a more literal meaning, as the Miami Heat played like a team that got in…
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Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected today as the 266th Pope and the first from the Americas. Taking the name Pope Francis I, church watchers expect his election to reaffirm Catholicism’s place in Latin America and its role as a missionary church.But Bergoglio’s failed effort in 2010 to stop…
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In a scoop that will surely rival the significance of famed investigative reportage like “Blunts Found at Reggae Festival” and “Cocaine Use Suspected at Studio 54,” the Miami Herald ran a front-page story today informing the community of something that just about everyone already knows: People do drugs at Ultra…
Florida may have a reputation for being the weirdest state in the nation, but apparently our collective taste in porn is pretty damn boring.Porn search engine PornMD.com collected its most-used search terms over the past six months and broke them down geographically by American states and international countries. As it…
John Eugene Enabnit may be homeless, but apparently he found a way to match Ivanka Trump’s jet-setter lifestyle.Enabnit was arrested Sunday at the Trump Doral Golf Resort & Spa after trying to contact the Donald’s daughter. He had just been arrested in February for harassing Trump at a perfume launch…
Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll resigned this morning over ties to a nonprofit busted by the IRS and Secret Service on racketeering and fraud charges. It’s a shocking end to a stormy tenure for Carroll, who managed to turn a lesbian-love-affair scandal into an insult to the LGBT community and…
What started as a simple check into a man suspiciously peering into cars on a residential block in southwest Dade turned into a violent showdown when the suspect jumped into a police cruiser and tried to run down the cops.Before he could strike any police, though, an officer shot and…
