Reggie Bush’s contract with the Miami Dolphins is up at the end of the season, and so far there’s no indication that the team has any interest in resigning the running back. Bush himself is now openly doubting that he’ll be back in aqua and coral next year…
It takes a lot of balls to straight up pack your luggage full of nothing but cocaine. For an unknown drug trafficker that gamble didn’t pay off.Federal customs agents at Miami International Airport uncovered 230 pounds of cocaine packed inside three suitcases yesterday…
Ah, the Battle for Florida.Former Dolphin Chad ‘The Robot’ Henne vs. Ryan ‘Tanny Boyeee’ Tannehill! Revenge for 62-7! Vindication for the loud, smelly fart that 2012 has proven to be! A chance to avoid a fourth losing season in five years! Tough-nosed, physical … zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
Riptide has noticed perhaps the most Hialeah picture of all time floating around Facebook this past week. It appears to show a dead pig riding shotgun in a convertible down a highway in Miami’s redheaded stepchild of a suburb. Words fail us…
For an instant, John McAfee is anonymous. He is haggard, sleep deprived, and a bit unhinged, but anonymous. For the first time in days, there are no cops, guards, or handcuffs. No TV cameras or tape recorders or questions. But he can’t escape them forever. Dressed in the same dark…
John McAfee, the software guru who fled Belize over questions about his neighbor’s murder, met a gaggle of press outside his South Beach hotel this morning to answer questions about the case and his life on the lam. Then he jumped into a cab with a Miami Herald reporter and…
In a bizarre and frightening attempt to save his failing marriage, 49-year-old Robert Ball of Pasco County prove he may be one of the worst husband of all time. Ball invited his estranged wife over to his house, and then forced her at knifepoint on a serious of strange dates that…
Fair not, ‘Canes fans. Despite another round of rumors that a school was interested in poaching head coach Al Golden, the man in the orange tie has once again reconfirmed his commitment to the Coral Gables school. Rumors were floating as early as last week that Golden was being considered in…
Remember that crazy WhiteHouse.gov petition demanding that Florida be let free from the United State of America? Well, it’s been thirty days since the thing went live, and under the petition rules established Obama administration, any petition that gets 25,000 signatures within 30 days must get an official response. The…
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You would think that after all the publicity that the arrest of Oneal Ron Morris, the transgendered woman who was caught injecting substance including Fix-a-Flat into people’s butts (and, seemingly, her own), received, people would know not to go shady people to get their butts enhanced.Yet, Samela Hernandez, 53, of…
Charlie Crist was officially wed to the Democratic party today in a quiet ceremony attended only be close friends and family. The pair had announced their engagement over the weekend at a White House Christmas party.Just kidding. The former Republican governor turned a Pinellas County elections office into a full…
Do Americans have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of sexy times with animals?The lawyers of a Florida man who is being prosecuted under Florida’s relatively new anti-bestiality law after being caught in an intimate situation with his pet miniature donkey claim that the law violates the constitution…
Troubled anti-virus software guru and murder suspect John McAfee landed in Miami last night after getting deported from Guatemala, where he’d fled from an investigation into his neighbor’s shooting death. McAfee was allowed to go free after landing at MIA, and spent the night at Ocean Drive’s Beacon Hotel.WSVN caught…
With Miami’s luxury market going bananas again and Indian Creek mansions hawking for $47 million a pop, it’s easy to forget that the average Dade homeowner is still deeper underwater than James Cameron’s submarine. In fact, a new report out this morning says Miami now has the fifth highest rate…
What is it about an empty stomach that leads to so much crime in the Sunshine State? Regular readers of Riptide already know that Florida is well known for its bizarre, sometimes incomprehensible news stories about bungled robberies, bizarre murders, and drug deals gone bad. But a bizarre number of…
Most Heat fans probably went in to last night’s game thinking we’d make a delicious ass souffle out of the Golden State Warriors but instead the Heat faced a young, feisty, and just very, very good Warriors team looking to go 5-0 on their road trip. OH, HOW THE TABLES…
Balloon Boy 2012: Three Years After Hoax, Falcon Heene Rocks a Metal Band
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Miami TSA Screening Chief Juan Garcia Fired From MPD for Trying to Buy Sex
Manuel Moraga, a Miami Beach police officer who was fired after that now infamous ATV police crash on Fourth of July weekend of 2011, has won his job back. Moraga was not directly involved in the crash, but was supposed to be supervising the two officers who were. Instead he…
