In the worst acted anti-Obama ad released, well, since this little homophobic ditty that came out earlier this week, a new National Republican Committee ad features a pretty, young woman pretending to be a dissatisfied former Obama voter who decides to “break up” with the president. Except the woman in…
ABC affiliate WPLG Local 10’s website has crossed over to the dark side. Apparently, hungry for pageviews, the station posted a slide show featuring photos from a recent Star Wars convention, complete with mocking captions like “Dateless men for as far as the eye can see.” Star Wars fans didn’t…
“Everything that happened today is actually in my dream, and I want to prove it to everybody,” 18-year-old Mark Welch of Volusia County told a 911 dispatcher.It sounds like the beginning of a reality-bending sci-fi movie, but it was actually the beginning of a kid who smoked too much synthetic…
Miami-Dade Police Officer Prabhainjana Dwivedi worked the midnight shift around Key Biscayne, Metrorail stations, and Jackson Memorial Hospital. If what the FBI says is true, woe unto any woman who ran into Dwivedi in the middle of the night. Because the cop had a bad habit of pulling over women…
Read “Hialeah Residents Claim Local Recycling Plant Is Causing Increased Rates Of Cancer”Today, the Miami-Dade County Commission will vote on a resolution on whether to investigate a potential cancer cluster in Hialeah along NW 36th Avenue. Residents have pointed fingers at nearby King Metal Recycling Plant as the reason for…
In a small farming village hidden down dirt roads among shrubs and tall grass, everyone’s sleeping, and the rain won’t stop. It’s early afternoon on a Tuesday near Rosharon, a small town south of Houston, and the downpour has canvassed the paths with deep crevices and pockmarks, making driving all…
It was 9:45 a.m. on October 11, 2009, when Juan Carlos Portieles parked his beat-up Toyota Camry on a quiet side street in Cutler Bay. Tall and heavyset, with close-cropped brown hair and traces of stubble on his jaw, the 30-year-old DJ walked several blocks to a cluster of condominiums…
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Between 1977 and 1978, John Errol Ferguson led a shocking killing spree through Miami-Dade County. A home invasion gone wrong and a rape-murder of a teenage couple left eight people dead.More than three decades later, Ferguson will die for his crimes. Gov. Rick Scott signed his death warrant this afternoon,…
In one our more irresponsible traditions, the media tends to sensationalize any random event that bears a passing resemblance to a bigger tragedy. So today, a man in a Brevard County, Florida move theater was arrested on an outstanding warrant. His hair was dyed red, and he was wearing weird…
So, just in case Mitt Romney fails to deliver, Public Policy Polling decided to jump way ahead of things and conducted a poll asking Republican voters who they’d like to see as their candidate in 2016. Surprisingly, two politicians from Florida took the top two spots: Marco Rubio and Jeb…
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Michael Corleone Blanco was charged with trying to buy five kilos from an undercover detective.
Those of us with access to professional organizations’ Twitter accounts live in fear that we’ll accidentally send a tweet meant for our own personal followers. I for one wouldn’t want the entirety of @MiamiNewTimes’ followers to know that I had a dream that Diplo was dating my mother. Oh, wait,…
After announcing that he was sending his last Tweet ever back in May, Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen is officially back on the social networking and giving his period key a workout. Like, we seriously are wondering if Guillen has forgotten the correct way to type in his months-long Twitter…
So, um, yeah, this seems awkward and kind of emotionally unhealthy. Weeks after being arrested for assaulting his wife, Evelyn Lozada, after which she promptly filed for divorce, former Dolphin Chad Johnson got a giant tattoo of Lozada’s face on his leg…
Also read DJ Seasunz: A Murder Killed a Nightlife Scene.After Juan Carlos Portieles, AKA DJ Seasunz, murdered his teenaged girlfriend, Jaclyn Torrealba, in October 2009, investigators began to comb through the wealth of correspondence the two had amassed in their two-year relationship. Police and prosecutors unearthed dozens of pages of…
Republicans are pros at pandering. When they come to Miami, they always appear at Versailles Café and rage about the Cuban regime. And, of course, they held their convention in Tampa last week in an effort to court curmudgeonly Florida voters.Democrats? Not so much. They are sure to have lost…
Wendy Ruiz was born and raised in Miami. She’s a full U.S. citizen, with a birth certificate, a voter registration and a driver’s license. And until yesterday, the Miami-Dade College student had to pay nearly four times as much for tuition as any other in-state student. Why? Because her parents…
