Like most families in South Florida, Edy Martinez Lezcano’s clan in Key Largo had a weird mid-week holiday to fill thanks to the Fourth of July. How to best make some family bonding happen on a weird Wednesday off work? A day fishing? A road trip to Sloppy Joes?Nah, Lezcano’s…
Also read “Cuban Baseball Agents: Risks and Lies.”Last time around, the U.S. really couldn’t have picked a worse moment to send a baseball team down to Havana to take on Cuba’s best bats. The year was 1996, and Fidel’s fighter pilots had just shot down a pair of planes operated…
The internet is scornful again. This time, it’s a music video called “Booty Pop”, in which a 6-year-old South Florida aspiring rapper named Albert Roundtree, Jr. uses a super soaker to hose down gyrating chicks in bikinis, which has made the world wide web very angry. Vibe thought about calling…
Today’s most controversial viral video comes with the following description: “This is a Music Video we did called “Booty Pop” by Albert. Albert is a 6 year old rapper from South Florida.” If the idea of a 6-year-old singing a song called “Booty Pop” isn’t immediately skeezy to you, then…
David Lee Sinnett, a 32-year-old Bartow, Florida man, sits behind bars for beating a two-year-old boy with a wire clothes hanger for mispronouncing his sister’s name. Even worse, the boy suffers from a speech impediment. Police, however, did not immediately release the relationship between Sinnett and the boy…
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George Zimmerman could find himself out on bail once again, if he can make his new $1 million bond. After being arrested on charges of second-degree murder for the death of Miami Gardens teen Trayvon Martin, the Sanford, Florida man was released in April on $150,000 bail. That bail was…
It wasn’t a happy Fourth of July for the the Pilgrim Evangelical Church in North Miami. The place of worship caught fire and was practically gutted by fire yesterday, and kids playing with fireworks on the church’s roof might be to blame…
There are a lot of reasons why you might tote your BB gun to the neighborhood 7-Eleven and demand all the cash in the drawer — financial desperation, serious drunkenness, Big Gulp hatred. Though none of those is a good excuse per se, they’re certainly better than James Seehaus’s reasoning.The 25-year-old told…
To the rest of the world, everything in Miami-Dade County is known as simply “Miami,” but the actual City of Miami is one of the smallest main municipalities of a major American metro area by both size and population. That’s because historically the area has a flair for incorporating new…
A Miami woman is suing airport luggage cart company Smarte Carte after a bizarre and bloody accident at Miami International Airport. It was the day before Thanksgiving of 2009. Fidelina Cordero was traveling to see family when she spotted a Smarte Carte kiosk promising to “maximize the experience of travelers…
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This Fourth of July, a collection of America’s most race-baiting off-their-meds pizza-gropey prominent right-wingers will beam from Las Vegas the sure-to-be-epic “Defeat Barack Obama Telethon.” Think “We Are the World, but without all the talk about saving Africa, and a whole lot of talk about how our president is from…
The fireworks on the center table were kids’ stuff, I was told. If I really wanted something with some power, I had to get the military-grade equipment. It was the afternoon before Independence Day, and my goal was simple: Find the loudest, biggest, most impressive firework I could (semi) legally…
The Dolphins’ Chad Ochocino may be a bit of an oddball, but you can’t say his heart isn’t in the right place. After receiving a Twitter message from a fan in Ohio who had recently lost her husband of 30 years, the wide receiver decided to invite her to his…
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Enemas are decidedly something no one should buy secondhand, yet customers at a Jacksonville CVS might have done just that unknowingly. Employees at the store caught a man who repeatedly returned used boxes of enemas. The probe, no pun intended, is now being led by the federal Food and Drug…
