Among the many natural calamities in Florida that are foreign to the average American — killer alligators, Category 5 hurricanes, bath-salts abusing maniacs — sinkholes are perhaps the most quietly terrifying. Think about it: At this very minute, you could be standing on a small layer of swampy dirt ready…
When you’re kicking ass on the court, you can pretty much do whatever you want off of it. The Chicago Bears had the “Super Bowl Shuffle” back in 1986. Now the Miami Heat have made their claim to this year’s meme, the Harlem Shake.And a helluva claim it is, with…
Miami may never host the Olympics, and our hopes of future Super Bowls are in doubt, but don’t worry, we’re still a major destination for international sporting competitions. In fact, Miami Beach just beat out Reykjavík, Iceland, to host the World Outgames in 2017…
Terrence Dwayne Mingo Jr. is behind bars today after allegedly robbing and raping two teenage girls at gunpoint in the streets of Overtown early Sunday morning. The 25-year-old faces two counts of armed sexual battery and two counts of armed robbery…
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Curfew laws targeting minors have been on the books in Miami-Dade for a while, but police actively enforce the ordinance only sporadically. The department announced yesterday that it will enforce the curfew in earnest immediately. Sorry, kids, you’ve got to be off the streets by 11 p.m. on school nights…
The old newsroom saying has it that “dog bites man” isn’t news, but “man bites dog” certainly is. Of course, this is Florida, where both man and dog skip the biting and just go straight to shooting. So, yes, we’re pretty sure “dog shoots man” counts as some sort of…
Last night, CNN’s Chilean affiliate reported that Hugo Chávez is not, in fact, recovering in a Venezuelan hospital because he is dead.The report was based on the claims of Guillermo Cochez, until recently Panama’s ambassador to the Organization of American States. In the hours since it was published, however, the…
Less than 24 hours after sounding national alarm bells that a 22-year-old Miami native with ties to the sex trade might be in danger over her connection to the fiery murder of a rapper on the Las Vegas Strip, police have called off the hunt this morning.Tineesha Lashun Howard is…
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So how much did convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro dole out in impermissible benefits to University of Miami athletes, recruits and coaches? About $170,000, says the NCAA.It sure is easy spending money when it’s not really your own, but it’s notable that the approximate amount listed by the NCAA is…
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Congress has until midnight tomorrow to avoid the threat of a sequester, and Florida’s two most prominent Republicans seem to have different attitudes on the situation. Sen. Marco Rubio, oddly, doesn’t think sequestration is ideal, but doesn’t seem to mind it too much. He told Fox News this morning that…
It might have seemed that Rick Scott’s defeat in the 2014 gubernatorial race was pretty much a done deal a year before the campaigns even really began, but the latest poll shows Scott might not be such a pushover. The poll of 600 registered voters conducted earlier this month shows Scott is in…
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Christopher Sharp, a 37-year-old resident of Spring Hill, Florida, realized his job at Pizza Hut might not be the most impressive vocation in the eyes of his live-in girlfriend. So instead of landing better employment, Sharp stole a Pasco County Sheriff’s deputy uniform and for five months pretended to be…
Last Thursday, a triple homicide worthy of Michael Bay lit up the Las Vegas Strip when a gunman in a black Range Rover peppered bullets into a rapper driving a Maserati, sending the luxury car careening into a taxi, which exploded right in front of Bally’s Hotel. The rapper died,…
It took 79 combined points from LeBron James and Dwyane Wade on this night to keep the Heat’s win streak alive, but the streak lives: 12 straight and counting.LeBron dropped a stat line that hasn’t been seen since the chain-saw scene in Scarface. He finished with 40 points, 18 assists,…
