For more than a decade, Gus Lopez ran Miami Beach’s procurement department, directing bids for multimillion projects. It’s a vital job in a development hub like South Beach — and a job rife with opportunities for collusion and corruption. Earlier this year, Lopez was investigated for allegedly giving in to…
Remember how the City of Miami made some controversial plans to allow protesters to gather in the Orange Bowl when Fidel Castro dies? Yeah, well, the city has never updated those plans even though the Orange Bowl was demolished and replaced with the Marlins Stadium.Don’t expect the city to make…
As most South Florida neighborhoods have sprouted unseemly subdivisions like toadstools in the shade, the Village of Palmetto Bay has remained a sleepy, middle-class enclave.That could all change on November 6, however, when residents go to the polls. Up for a vote: two spots on the City Council and an…
So, maybe you know that a man decided to run onto the field during the University of MIami-Florida State University football game this Saturday, but if you were watching the game on ABC you didn’t see what happened afterward.Well, the dude ended up getting tackled hard by security…
Wow, what opportune timing.After weeks of the rumor mill churning out reports of Fidel Castro’s ailing health, the retired Cuban dictator has reportedly made an appearance at Havana’s famed National Hotel and talked to hotel workers for about half an hour…
Meat had not passed the lips of Jacksonville City Council member Don Redman for thirty-five years. That’s not even a euphemism. Dude has been a solid vegetarian for three-and-a-half decades. Proving, however, that not all vegetarians are bleeding heart hippies, he decided to break his long-standing no meat policy by…
In 2008, the editorial boards of Florida’s four biggest newspapers all through their support behind President Obama. Well, in the past two days, the state’s two biggest papers offered their endorsements. The Saint Pete Times is sticking with President Obama in an endorsement that highlights his economic successes. In contrast,…
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Yesterday, ESPN ran a weird little piece of speculative fan fiction imagining the possibility of LeBron James ditching the Heat in 2014 to replace Kobe Bryant on the Lakers. It was a piece designed to cause controversy, more than, you know, report actual facts. …
We know that if you threaten the safety of a local police officer, they will probably shoot you. If you instruct your dog to attack them, they will probably shoot the dog. So it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise by now that a bizarre traffic stop that…
For two decades, Boy Scouts of America leaders kept exhaustive, secret lists of men banned from volunteering, mostly because they’d been caught molesting boys. Many of the thousands of men in the so-called “Perversion Files” were never charged with a crime, as the Scouts fought to keep the records private…
Hugo Chavez scored a resounding win in Venezuela’s October 7 presidential election. His 11-point victory ensured that — barring a sudden surrender to the cancer he has been battling for more than a year — he will mark 20 years in power by the end of his term in 2019…
Every year there are a handful of Halloween costumes that you just know everyone is going to wear. Look at recent Halloweens and recall just how many Amy Winehouses, Sarah Palins, and Twilight character costumes you saw.Dressing up as the cliche Halloween costume of the year almost ensures someone else…
LeBron James is only guaranteed to be a member of the Miami Heat for the next two seasons — after that, he’s got two year of player option left on his contract. So, of course today brought us a dramatic ESPN report that the Los Angeles Lakers are getting ready…
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ABC, one of Spain’s largest newspapers, ran a story earlier today claiming that Fidel Castro had suffered a massive brain aneurysm and is slowly dying. Their source: a doctor who lives in Naples, Florida. The Cuban Government apparently decided to combat the rumors by releasing a letter today congratulating recent medical…
U.S. Marshals are holding an auction out in Opa-locka today of cars seized from various convicted drug dealers through out South Florida. About 50 vehicles are up for grabs, including antiques, muscles cars, and Italian sports cars. Riptide has browsed through the inventory and picked our 10 favorites. Update: Sorry,…
Vernon D. Jones, 21, and Jacques Saintil, 19, of East Naples were recently arrested on suspicion of a home burglary, and didn’t seem too upset once they found themselves in the back of a police car. The two lit up some marijuana in the cruiser and discussed the robbery while…
No one denies that John Errol Ferguson is insane. Ferguson’s been having psychotic visions for more than four decades, and for years has firmly believed that he’s the “Prince of God” who will ascend directly to the right hand of God when he dies. The last judge to consider his…
They can be truly hard to find in Miami, always lost between the film crews chasing Kardashian sisters to their next luxury club, the Russian oligarchs loudly racing Brazilian expats in souped up Lotuses, and the parade of art-collecting billionaires snapping up property in Fisher Island.But Miami does have a…
Attention Miami residents: Next time you’re out and about, having a perhaps animated discussion near some cops, be careful. You might find yourself on the receiving end of a surprise flying tackle.That’s what Elsa and Gustavo Martinez say happened to them two years ago outside a Kendall lounge. The siblings…
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