Is LeBron James planning on packing up those talents and sending them first class back home to Cleveland? Rumors are swirling that the Cleveland Cavaliers are eager to target their old star in 2014 when James has the option to be a free agent again, On ESPN this morning, Chris…
Charles Hurley, the former head of the Miami-Dade Schools police force, has been hit with a lawsuit by two female officers who say the chief sexually harassed them. One of the women claims that Hurley was brandishing his boner around in front of her, while another claims the chief forced…
When the Miami-Dade Police Department acquired two drones in 2010 and then got FAA clearance to fly them, civil rights advocates warned the move was a harbinger of the Blade Runner police state to come when unmanned aircraft would hover outside every window. That privacy nightmare could still come to…
Despite winning it all last year (suck it Thunder), doubts remain about the Miami Heat. The team has lost three of its last four games, Dwayne Wade is currently cranky about playing time, and our most devoted fans remain of the blow-job-giving variety.On top of all that, a local lawyer…
This is barely news anymore, since they’ve been doing the same thing for years, but it appears things haven’t gotten better.Once again, the Miami Herald will force staff members to accept an unpaid weeklong furlough before June 30…
Oksana Gerzon was running late and missed her flight at Miami International Airport last Thursday. Instead of accepting she’d be booked on a later flight, she decided she needed her already checked baggage right then and there. So she did the sensible thing, obviously. She made a bomb threat…
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You know who really likes billionaire Dolphins owner Stephen Ross’ idea to put taxpayers on the hook for half of the $400 million in renovations to Sun Life Stadium? Other rich people!In fact, the Dolphins blasted out a press releases today touting the support of the Trump Brand. Because if…
After weeks of speculation, City of Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez officially announced today that he will challenge Mayor Tomas Regalado. Suarez is only 35, and has spent barely three years on the commission, but his family connections have given him a boost to the top of the city’s political landscape…
Anyone whose headed down U.S. 1 in the Keys has likely stopped at Robbie’s in Islamorada. Its docks are famous for attracting dozens of huge tarpons, and the place sells buckets of bait fish so you can hand feed them.Well, usually they just eat the fish. However one man ended…
People apparently love watching idiots annoy random strangers on You Tube, sure, but it turns out that people don’t actually love being annoyed and assaulted by random strangers for YouTube videos.Charles Ross, 18, has a popular You Tube channel that has racked up close to five million hits in which…
If you were one of the dwindling number of people who still wake up to the physical edition of The Miami Herald you were greeted by news you’ve likely known about for roughly 24 hours now: the Miami Dolphins are asking for tax money to pay for a $400 million…
For two years, a slight, balding man in Miami has hunched over his desk, making dozens of calls a day peppered with phrases custom-built to perk up Secret Service ears: “assassination,” “president,” “John Wilkes Booth.” This week, just days before Obama is sworn in for his second term, his fiendish…
Among all the third rails in American politics — abortion, gun control, Jodie Foster’s Golden Globes speech — there is one truly untouchable area: Messing with cute dogs. Just ask Mitt Romney how the tale of strapping the family pooch to the roof of his car for a cross-country trip…
Much like Finkle and Einhorn, it seems like the Dolphins are the Jets. The Jets are the Dolphins. Seriously, for two sworn enemies, the teams have an odd habit of hiring the other’s left overs.Now that former Dolphins head coach Tony Sparano was fired after only a year in to…
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In Barack Obama’s televised press conference today as he prepares for yet another fight with Republicans over raising the debt limit, the president took aim directly at Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Though, he managed to slam the Tea Party hero without directly mentioning Rubio by name…
This morning came news that the Miami Dolphins were ready to finally officially ask for cool $400 million to renovate the aging Sun Life Stadium. During the official press conference the team unveiled photos of what the face lift would actually look like.Team owner Stephen Ross also made what some…
While talk of the Tea Party dominated coverage of the 2010 election, the group’s influence took a massive nose dive in 2012 and the very term “tea party” just doesn’t carry the same weight it once did. So leaders of the South Florida Tea Party have decided to change its…
The Miami Marlins swindled local taxpayers out of nearly $500 million while lying about team finances. The Miami Heat cook their books every year to pretend American Airlines Arena — home to the world’s greatest basketball team — still isn’t profitable enough to pay rent to taxpayers.So as perpetually mediocre…
Tim Chapman, a veteran news photographer who retired last year from the Miami Herald, had been hunting his whole life, and obeyed one rule above all: Always assume your gun is loaded and ready to fire. In October 2009, it probably saved his life. That’s when Chapman’s Remington Model 700…
It may be the strangest DUI arrest report ever. It lists the male subject as just 5-foot-6 and 137 pounds. Occupation: Miami Killian High School student. And under last meal: “Seasonal/turkey, rice, mashed potatoes/Thanksgiving.”Meet Steven Wilson Duque: 14 years old and charged with driving while high on Turkey Day. Stranger…
