305 Photo of the Day: All Along the Water Tower
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Showing 15841 - 15862 of 31924Locals Warned Yet Again Not To Shoot Guns Into The Sky When They See Fireworks
About twice a year the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County team up to remind everyone not to shoot their guns into the air during holidays that include fireworks displays. Every time it gets a little bit more depressing to write about, because, really, have we not all learned yet…
NFL Revises Blackout Policy, But Dolphins Could Still Face Problems
Last year, the percentage of seats filled at Sun Life Stadium for Dolphins games was the second lowest in the NFL. The team still managed to get around the league’s blackout rule, which requires 100 percent of tickets to be sold before the game could be broadcast on local television,…
DCF Worker Jean LaCroix Accused of Having Sex With Foster Child Tries to Flee Country
See also “Four Miami Pimps Arrested For Luring Foster Care Children Into Prostitution.”Though no formal charges had yet been filed against Florida Department of Children and Families worker Daniel LaCroix, the 46-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for trying to flee the country after his name came up in another…
Danell Leyva Will Compete For Team USA In London
See also “Cuban American Gymnast Begins Quest for Olympic Glory” and “Miami’s Olympic Gymnastic Gets Second At VISA Championship.”On Saturday, Miami native Danell Leyva took first place at the Olympic gymnastic trials in San Jose, California. That makes him the first Cuban-American to represent Team USA, which is expected to…
Jumbo’s Car Crash: Two Dead, Legendary Liberty City Soul Food Eatery Mangled UPDATE
In a matter of seconds, the truck bore down on Ken Knight and his friends.It was around 8:30 Saturday night, and Knight was standing outside Jumbo’s Restaurant in Liberty City chatting with two longtime regulars, Wilton Harris and Al Jo Hamlin. Harris, a reverend at St. Barnabas William Church, was…
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Bath Salt Epidemic Bogus? Sweetwater Mayor Manny Maroño Says It’s Real, and It’s Scary
People love a good story. It’s why when Rudy Eugene ate Ronald Poppo’s face beneath the MacArthur Causeway on May 26, the whole world latched onto one cop’s careless explanation: Bath salts drove Eugene insane.Cue public panic. In Miami, media blamed the mysterious compound — often called synthetic cocaine –…
Five Dumb Things To Do Now That Obamacare Forces You To Be Insured
Last Thursday, Supreme Court Justice John Roberts tore off his black robe to reveal a dashiki and bongos. At least, that’s how conservatives are portraying the George W. Bush-appointed judge’s tie-breaking decision to rule President Barack Obama’s health-care mandate constitutional. The upshot: Young folks will have to pay for health…
Video of Rick Scott and Pam Bondi Learning Obamacare Was Struck Down, and Then Realizing It Wasn’t
See also “Obamacare Is American As Apple Pie and Free Speech” and “Obamacare Ruled Constitutional by Supreme Court; Sorry, Pam Bondi.”This is nothing even close to Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) erupting into shrieks of joy upon learning of false reports that the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act was…
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11-Year-Old Girl Electrocuted to Death in Orlando Putt-Putt Golf Course Pond
An 11-year-old girl visiting from New York died on Wednesday in Orlando after being electrocuted while trying to fetch a ball from a pond at a resort’s putt-putt golf course.Ashton Jojo was visiting Orange Lake Resort, just a few miles west of the Disney World parks, with her family from…
305 Photo of the Day: Cardboard Robot
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Snake in Ceiling Closes Miami Beach Post Office
Miami Beach has had it with this mother fucking snake in this mother fucking post office.Yes, a snake crawling around light fixtures has caused the retail area of a Miami Beach post office to remain closed since yesterday…
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Chris Bosh Out of the Olympics, Too
In a perfect world, the Team USA Olympics basketball squad would have just been some super version of the Miami Heat. In reality, this year LeBron James will be the only Heat member to travel to London. A day after Dwyane Wade announced he’d forgo the games to get surgery,…
Chris Bosh Went to Taco Bell Right After Winning Championship
Super Bowl champs go to Disney World, but apparently NBA Champs go to Taco Bell.Chris Bosh was on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, and admitted that his first stop after winning his first ring was the drive through of the Taco Bell. He did however end up at LIV with…
Florida Man Threatened to Beat Neighbor, But Had To Take a Poop First
If you’re neighbor yells at you, “When I get done taking a shit, I’m going to kick your fucking ass,” maybe it’s time to find a new neighborhood.Of course, this started in a Florida neighborhood, and the argument started when one man took exception to the other calling his own…
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Ozzie Guillen Wishes He Was Erik Spoelstra
While the Miami Heat paraded down Biscayne Boulevard on Monday, hoisting their trophy from the top of double-decker buses, all Marlins Manager Ozzie Guillen could do was watch. He’d been there before. Once as a member of the coaching staff of the 2003 Marlins, and again as the manager of…
Eligio Cedeño Slams Hugo Chávez’s Bid to Join UN Human Rights Council
Read the incredible story of how Eligio Cedeño cheated death and Chávez’s security forces to flee Venezuela and start a second life in Miami.Eligio Cedeño finally got his day in court — or as close to it as he can get while Hugo Chávez is still alive. The Venezuelan banker…
Florida Lawyer Asks Off Murder Trial To Compete In Key West’s Hemingway Look-Alike UPDATE
Judges postpone trials across Florida every day for all kinds of reasons — delayed depositions, conflicts with other cases, motions from attorneys, illnesses in the family. (Just ask Carlos Bertonatti — two and half years later, still no trial.)But there’s at least one reason that won’t stick: Wanting to compete…
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Hugo Chavez Plans His Own Disney World: A Libertador Theme Park
Do you love Disney World, but wish Mickey and Minnie were a little heavier on the socialism? Why can’t Space Mountain also educate kids about the glories of Simon Bolivar’s revolution? Don’t worry: Hugo Chavez is on the case.The Venezuelan president announced plans this week to turn the site of…
Dwyane Wade Needs Knee Surgery, Will Skip Olympics
In bad news for the USA Basketball team (but sort of good news for next season’s Miami Heat), Dwyane Wade has announced that he’ll be undergoing knee surgery this summer and will not be traveling with the team to the London Olympics…
Experts Say Pot Didn’t Trigger Miami Zombie Attack and Bath Salts May Yet Be to Blame
Though final toxicology results on Rudy Eugene’s blood turned up only traces of marijuana, experts say there’s no way pot could have caused him to eat a man’s face. Instead, some suggest he might have been under the influence of a bath-salts-like substance that laboratories are not yet equipped to…
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305 Photo of the Day: A Horse, Of Course
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