If you think Florida is a crappy place to live now, well, bad news, it’s not going to get any better any time soon. Gallup recently culled together data across 13 metrics to decide which U.S. state will be the best to live in the future. Florida came in 45th…
A carpenter employed by the City of Miami Beach is behind bars today after attacking a co-worker with a machete and nearly severing his arm. The incident happened yesterday when 63-year-old Baez Del Castillo got into an altercation and then attacked Marcos Fojon, 59…
It’s not Friday yet, but there’s no such thing as too many mugshots right? Miami attracts celebrities like moths to a light bulb, but unfortunately for some of them what happens in Miami doesn’t stay in Miami. Miami-Dade’s jail camera, AKA the in-house Paparazzi, has caught several celebrities checking in…
A red Honda Prelude went airborne early this morning and crashed right through the wall of a North Miami Beach nursing home. The driver, Enrique Linares, died and four others were injured. Just after 1:30 a.m., Linares was speeding down US 1 when he hit an elevated curb, police say…
What the hell is going on in the Homestead Police Department? A couple months ago, three Homestead cops were charged by prosecutors after beating and macing people outside a nightclub — a series of assaults caught on surveillance video.Now, another HPD officer has been canned after investigators say he asked…
Read the New Times investigation: “Cheaters Prosper at Calder Race Course”American horse racing has recently been rocked by allegations of widespread doping and cheating. The New York Times revealed the sport’s deadly toll on jockeys and thoroughbreds. A horse in contention for the Triple Crown was scratched after scrutiny of…
Just because they can’t vote apparently doesn’t mean that Florida’s children shouldn’t be able to donate as much as an adult can to state and local campaigns. A Miami federal judge essentially lifted the two-decade old ban that limited the amount of campaign contributions minors could make, saying that the…
A newly built mansion in the posh Indian Creek neighborhood has reportedly sold for $47 million. That would make it the most expensive single-family residential sale in Miami-Dade history. The name of the buyer is unknown, but they’re foreign, of course…
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Who is Justin Lamar Sternad? The local Democratic establishment doesn’t seem to know, but he is running in the District 26 Democratic primary for the chance to take on controversial Republican Congressman David Rivera. Though, Sternad has nothing bad to say about Rivera. Oddly, he’s using right-wing talking points to…
When Miami’s Metrorail finally reached the city’s airport last week via a half-billion dollar expansion, our town’s leaders weren’t exactly humble. The 2.4 miles of track now make Miami “one of the great cities,” County Mayor Carlos Gimenez crowed. But the long-overdue expansion can’t cloud a bigger problem: The train…
Crystal Rusaw, a New Port Richey woman, decided to leave her three young kids, all under the age of four, home alone while she snuck over to her neighbor’s house for a bit of sex. The kids however decided they didn’t want to wait around and went for a stroll…
Alfonso Gerard Lucas went on a murderous rampage last night in Miami Gardens, police say, leaving his 42-year-old ex-girlfriend, Terrilyn Gray, and her dog dead. Lucas also stabbed his ex’s 22-year-old daughter, but the daughter was able to escape and call for help…
What’s the most despicable way you can imagine a hospital chain trying to make extra cash? Short of kidnapping people to harvest their organs, it might be performing loads of unnecessary heart surgeries, putting patients at serious risk of death. That’s exactly what HCA, the hospital chain founded by Gov…
Picture this: A flight with passengers from Uganda just touched down at Miami International Airport. As the visitors inch toward the terminal, one pauses in the aisle and wipes a speck of blood from his earlobe. Suddenly sweat runs down his cheeks; his eyes are inky red. He lets out…
Marco Rubio introduced the the Olympic Tax Elimination Act, which aims to end the taxing the winnings and medal value of Olympians, with a bit of old fashioned, conservative anti-tax zeal.”Our tax code is a complicated and burdensome mess that too often punishes success, and the tax imposed on Olympic…
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A woman who attempted to snatch a purse this weekend at the ritzy Bal Harbour Shops ended up falling from the mall’s second story while trying to escape. The victim, who had $20,000 in cash in the purse, had attempted to chase after the would-be burglar…
Police in Orange Park, Florida, a Jacksonville suburb, are on the lookout for a man they believe was trying to trade a child for food. On Saturday night, the man went door to door at a motel and asked several people if they’d like to make the despicable deal…
Despite its reputation as America’s premier retirement destination, a new study shows that South Florida actually isn’t the smartest place for the elderly to retire. The Milken Institute’s “Best Cities for Successful Aging” rankings put the South Florida tri-county area at 37th out of America’s 100 largest metro areas for…
Jose L. Alberto, the former lead code compliance inspector for Miami Beach, was scheduled to be honored by the city on April 11. Instead, that same day he found himself behind bars on charges that he had extorted a South Beach nightclub. Now, according to the Miami Herald, Alberto will…
Ladies: If you want to surprise your boyfriend by popping into their house topless, by all means, don’t let us stop you. There’s a proper procedure to pulling off such a surprise, however, and that’s to remove your upper garments in a hallway, on a front porch, or perhaps behind…
