It has been almost 11 months since news of crooked booster Nevin Shapiro’s allegedly turning the University of Miami football team into his own personal best friend service, and the NCAA is still investigating the matter. According to the AP, NCAA investigators spent several days on the Coral Campus earlier…
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Dianelis de la Caridad-Fonseca, a 22-year-old Hialeah woman, and, Jose Martin Perez-Sanchez, a 21-year-old hitman, have been arrested for the murder of teacher, Richard Vasallo. Vasallo was found dead in the street just blocks away from his Cutler Bay home.Vasallo was Caridad-Fonseca’s ex-boyfriend. She’s allegedly admitted to cops that she…
Today, the Miami New Times rolled out a new user profile platform dubbed My Voice Nation. Your voice — and the opinions you voice in our comments section — will now be amplified through a fancy new commenting program called Lifefyre (“live fire”). Read all about it below…
Reina Herrera, a Miami-Dade kindergarten teacher, was sent to adult timeout this week for attempting to burglarize a home. Herrera, a teacher at Earlington Heights Elementary, had also stolen items from the home twice in May and had a previous burglary arrest in 2010. Suspected heroin was also found in…
While 12 people were shot dead at The Dark Knight Rises opening in Denver — and our sister paper Westword has the story — things went smoothly in Miami.At Regal South Beach Stadium 18 on Lincoln Road, it was just past midnight and Juanito was feeling the strain of the hour…
Opa-locka cop German Bosque is Florida’s most troubled police officer. State records show he has been fired at least five times for everything from using excessive force on kids in handcuffs to car theft, keeping seized narcotics in his car, and sexual harassment.But Bosque says the media has got it…
Patrick Murphy, a well-funded Democrat, will likely face off against everyone’s favorite kooky South Florida congressman Allen West in November, but first he has a few Democratic rivals to face off against in the primary. One of those rivals, Jim Horn, is sending out a flyer that heavily implies Murphy…
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Body scanners aren’t just found in airports and apparently crack pipes aren’t just found between your lips (of the mouth variety anyway).Ronnie Ann Richards was being booked into a St. Lucie County jail when a body scan uncovered an object in her lady parts. Turned out it was a crack…
The City of Miami’s Planning and Zoning Board delivered a setback to controversial plans to bring a Walmart to midtown last night by voting 9-0 against an exception to zoning ordinances, according to CBS Miami. The decision was made amid a heated meeting that packed city hall with several local residents…
On July 10, a Venezuelan TV station decided to take the daring intrigue of the telenovela and bring it to the less exciting world of copyright litigation.LaTele is suing Telemundo, claiming that, in 2008, the Miami-based station created a telenovela, “El Rostro de Analia,” whose plot and characters they stole…
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Recently, Morgans Hotel Group finished a $10.8 million renovation of South Beach’s Delano and announced it would be expanding the brand by opening a sister hotel in Marrakesh, Morocco. So reports that the company is putting the original Delano on the market are somewhat surprising…
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In what could be the second-largest trade in Major League Baseball history, reports are flying that the Marlins could be shipping stars Hanley Ramirez and Heath Bell to Boston in exchange for the Red Sox’s Carl Crawford. USA Today is reporting the trade, and apparently the deal may come down…
Senior safety Ray-Ray Armstrong has been kicked off the University of Miami football team for good. The school has not released an official reason why, but the move follows reports that he openly discussed interactions with a booster on Twitter. Apparently he didn’t get the memo that the team is…
A painting by French modernist master Henri Matisse had been missing for more than a decade, but authorities uncovered it yesterday at, of all places, the Loews Hotel in Miami Beach during an undercover sting. The painting, which is estimated to be worth upward of $3 million, is the property…
