Another year down. Thousands more blog posts committed to Riptide’s digital page. So what better way to look back at the previous year than to look at the posts that racked up the most page views on this here humble blog. Of course, that makes the year of 2012 look…
The father of a 13-year-old girl who was shot and killed while riding a school bus in Miami last month has committed suicide just over a month after the original tragedy. Armando Guzman’s body was found dead inside a car near Fort Lauderdale on Thursday…
Sunday’s action featured the incredible story of an extraordinary athlete’s return from a horrific injury to come back against all odds, put his team on his back and lead that now playoff-bound team to victory just as the hero himself nearly broke one of the most coveted records in NFL…
The world didn’t end after all on December 21, so now we all gotta make amends for our bad behavior in 2012. Our New Year’s resolutions last year all failed, of course, whether it was taking abuelita to church every Sunday or deleting our Facebook accounts because Mark Zuckerberg is…
With another tax season descending on us, you might want to secure your W-2 or 1099 a little tighter. Over the past 12 months, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami has uncovered more than a dozen rackets involved in stealing tax refund checks using stolen identities of social security applicants,…
Not only was Rick Scott’s zeal for drug testing just about anyone he could laughably bad policy, it’s also been quite costly to the state. In the four months a program to drug test welfare recipients was in practice it ended up costing that state just over $118,000. Then it…
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Here at Miami New Times we publish one in-depth, 5,000 word feature a week. We’re one of the few publications in Miami that does so regularly. It’s kind of our thing.Of course, some tend to resonate more with others. Here are our ten most popular features of the year, as…
Adri Anna Stewart, the principal of Key West Collegiate Academy, committed suicide yesterday at a Pembroke Pines gun range. The incident happened at about 2 p.m…
There’s only one person who is supposed to eat your cookies without explicit permission during the Christmas season and that’s Santa. Not Shuwana.Shuwana Horne, a Homestead woman who worked at a UPS warehouse in Islamaroda, has been arrested for opening and eating an undelivered tin of cookies and pocketing an…
Dwyane Wade will sit out one game without pay after the NBA reviewed an incident in the Heat’s game against the Charlotte Bobcats in which Wade apparently kicked Ramon Sessions in the nuts. Wade will serve the suspension tonight while his team takes on the Detroit Pistons…
There’s nothing worse than seeing an ex literally sleeping in bed with their new squeeze. OK, there’s one thing worse: Reacting by literally setting that bed aflame while your ex and their new squeeze are still sleeping.That’s exactly what police in Islamorada say 29-year-old Nicole Dobol did. Dobol, who was…
Now we know why George Zimmerman started selling his autograph last month. Turns out, back when he was preparing to leave jail on bond over the summer, he and his lawyers had hired a detective agency run by a former SWAT team member to concoct an elaborate disappearing act: Zimmerman…
Revelry turned to tragedy this past Halloween at Taverna Opa in Mary Brickell Village when a man in a red devil mask punched another man so hard it eventually lead to his death. Two months later, Miami police have now arrested Sagy Shachar for the deadly attack…
What the what? LeBron James, perhaps the most recognizable athlete on the planet, won his first NBA championship after two years of non-stop media and public scrutiny. But, America didn’t think it was that big of a deal. According to a new Marist poll of sports fans, the Heat’s win…
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Swag: What is it? Where did it come from? Who invented it? How do you know if you have or not? These are some of the greatest mysteries of our brave new YOLO era.Well, LeBron James has answered at least one of these questions. He claims professional wrestling Ric Flair…
The Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade isn’t known for his dirty play, but last night he may have delivered one of the lowest blows known to man. Not just in sports, but in general.Because it kind of looked like he kicked the Charlotte Bobcats’ Ramon Sessions square in the nuts last…
Another Pro Bowl, another year in which the Miami Hurricanes have more former players selected than the Miami Dolphins had current players selected.The ‘Canes had six alumni selected to the star-studded game, which ties with Tennessee for the most from any college program…
Oh, girl, hope you’re not getting your hair did soon, because Miami has experienced what we imagine must be one of the biggest hair care heists of all time.Thieves struck a warehouse in West Kendall on Sunday night and wiped the business clean of $80,000 worth of fancy hair products…
If you’re a hated, blood-soaked Middle Eastern tyrant whose nation has been ripped asunder by a devastating civil war that’s about to topple you from power, where on Earth do you flee?In the case of Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad, the answer might just be Venezuela, where Hugo Chavez has remained a…
As the rest of the nation huddled up to some eggnog, crackling fires and repeat viewings of “It’s A Wonderful Life,” Miami baked under tropical skies and celebrated Christmas the best way we knew how: By going bananas with horrific crime sprees.Between Christmas Eve and early Wednesday morning, all these…
